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SOUTHWINDS<br />

News & Views for Southern Sailors<br />

Nelson/Marek Morgan 45<br />

Boat Review<br />

Gunkholing the Peace River<br />

Fishing for Cruisers<br />

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News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS November 2008 3


SOUTHWINDS<br />

NEWS & VIEWS FOR SOUTHERN SAILORS<br />

8 Editorial: Wreckers Race; More Boating Rules<br />

By Steve Morrell<br />

12 Letters<br />

19 Southern Regional Monthly Weather & Water Temperatures<br />

20 Bubba Has Solution to Ratings Disparities<br />

By Morgan Stinemetz<br />

22 Short Tacks: Sailing News and Events Around the South<br />

29 St. Pete Boat Show and Strictly Sail, Dec. 4-7<br />

34 Our Waterways: FWC Proposals for Changes;<br />

New Rules and Fines Proposed at Boot Key Harbor<br />

36 Carolina Sailing: Two Traditional Sailboats Sail Home<br />

By Dan Dickison<br />

38 Sail to Southampton<br />

By Robbie Moore<br />

44 Travels with Angel: Fishing for Cruisers, Part II<br />

By Rebecca Burg<br />

The Nelson/Marek Morgan 45 boat review. Photo by<br />

Harmon Heed. Page 40.<br />

46 Dismasted Off Nicaragua<br />

By Monty and Betsy Morris<br />

48 Installing a Holding Tank<br />

By Joe Corey<br />

50 Gunkholing on the Peace River<br />

By Ina Moody<br />

52 The Wreckers Race<br />

By Rebecca Burg<br />

53 Southern Racing: News, Upcoming Races, Race Reports,<br />

Regional Race Calendars<br />

78 No Particular Place to Go<br />

By Susan Ochs-Conrad<br />

30-33 Marine Marketplace<br />

63 Boat Brokerage Section<br />

69 Classifieds<br />

76 Alphabetical Index of Advertisers<br />

77 Advertisers’ List by Category<br />

Gunkholing the Peace River. Photo by Ina Moody.<br />

Page 50.<br />

COVER:<br />

GYA 10th Annual Multihull Championships.<br />

Photo by Julie Connerley. Page 59.<br />

Each issue of SOUTHWINDS (and back issues since 5/03) is available online at www.southwindsmagazine.com<br />

6 November 2008 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com


FROM THE HELM<br />

STEVE MORRELL, EDITOR<br />

The Wreckers Race<br />

When I first heard about the Wreckers Race in Key West a<br />

few years ago, I figured it fit right in with the Key West life;<br />

a town of great diversity of people, an outlaw dislike-ofrules<br />

mentality, free-thinking, a tolerance of different<br />

lifestyles, treasure-seekers, and a haven for those escaping<br />

the regular routine.<br />

So what is the Wreckers Race (Rebecca Burg writes<br />

about the Wreckers Race in this issue on page 52). It’s a<br />

whole bunch of sailboats just racing without ratings, rules<br />

(basically), flags, signals and all the other paraphernalia<br />

that go along with a conventional sailboat race. Boats of all<br />

sizes and shapes race—from a 20-footer to a 150-footer. The<br />

boats have a start; they race out to a marker, round it and<br />

return. First one to finish wins. Race over. Period.<br />

Then there’s Bubba. By coincidence (always be suspicious<br />

of those), in this issue we have a story where Bubba<br />

talks about the opposite of the Wreckers Race idea—a new<br />

type of PHRF ratings system where every boat has its own<br />

class, solving lots of problems, like ratings equality. When<br />

you race with PHRF rules, your boat gets rated in an<br />

attempt to level the playing field with all the other boats, so<br />

that in the final judgment, it is the skill of the sailors on<br />

board and not the boat that made the win. It is all set up<br />

with the best of intentions.<br />

There couldn’t be two races more different. In PHRF, it<br />

seems like there are more and more classes and finer and<br />

finer distinctions for the ratings in an attempt to level that<br />

playing field. You earn a minute here and there for having a<br />

folding prop or a barbecue on board—or whatever. If there<br />

was a race to see who got their race off the ground first, the<br />

Wreckers Race would be out and back at the finish line,<br />

while the PHRF race was still back at the dock discussing<br />

the rules and ratings.<br />

You could carry this over to life. You could be either a<br />

Wreckers Race sailor or a PHRF race sailor.<br />

Of course, let’s not forget the one-design race. That’s<br />

like we are all born as clones of one individual—born at the<br />

same place and time with the same physical qualities. And<br />

what we do with our lives after that is a one-design race.<br />

Fair enough.<br />

I think that, for some reason, everyone would like to<br />

race in a Wreckers Race every now and then. I think we all<br />

know why.<br />

Of course, I believe that comparing life to these races is<br />

a simile, not a metaphor—and there’s an important difference<br />

there. It’s the rat race I’m wondering about.<br />

More Rules for Florida Boaters<br />

In the “Our Waterways” section, we have an article by<br />

Harmon Heed reporting on the public hearing in<br />

Clearwater in September where the FWC heard public<br />

input on proposed changes in laws that will affect boaters.<br />

The big one is the proposal that allows municipalities the<br />

power to prohibit anchoring outside of established mooring<br />

fields for more than three consecutive days or 10 days<br />

cumulatively in any calendar year. Currently, state law<br />

prohibits them from doing this, and there were legal<br />

fights waged and won by cruisers in both Marco Island<br />

and Stuart.<br />

I had one boater tell me that he believes that if the FWC<br />

had its way, cruisers could only go from one mooring field<br />

or marina to another in Florida, and overnight anchoring<br />

would come to an end. That seems like their intent; strict<br />

rules. Keep an eye on us.<br />

On another note (also covered in “Our Waterways”),<br />

the city of Marathon wants to impose fines and possible<br />

arrest for anyone in Boot Key Harbor who leaves his boat<br />

for more than 24 hours, unless he gives written notice to the<br />

marina staff. If you want to leave for more than a week, you<br />

have to get permission. I make a pretty good case for how<br />

stupid this rule could be. By the time you read this, it could<br />

be law down there.<br />

Will these rule-makers never stop<br />

8 November 2008 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com


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LETTERS<br />

“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”<br />

H.L. Mencken<br />

In its continuing endeavor to share its press,<br />

SOUTHWINDS invites readers to write in<br />

with experiences & opinions.<br />

E-mail your letters to editor@southwindsmagazine.com<br />

MORE RULES AND REGULATIONS FROM THE FWC<br />

Three cheers for the editor of <strong>Southwinds</strong> magazine and<br />

every American with the courage to remind all of us that<br />

America is NOT a police state, and that the U.S. Constitution<br />

still rules supreme. In the August 2008 issue, reader Adron<br />

Joyner chastised editor Morrell for what he thinks is a bias<br />

against the FWC’s law enforcement tactics, and that it is statistically<br />

unjustified. In his response, editor Morrell acknowledged<br />

that statistically the number of abusive enforcement<br />

incidents may seem small, but that does not make them any<br />

less tolerable. If I follow Mr. Joyner’s statistical reasoning in<br />

his letter to editor Morrell, he would hold harmless a wife<br />

beater if he only beat up his wife 10 of the 365 days in a year.<br />

I believe most of us would say that no matter how few times<br />

a man beats his wife, he is guilty of spousal abuse. One beating<br />

is enough to justify the accusation.<br />

Despite Mr. Joyner’s testimony that he has only two<br />

acquaintances who have ever been boarded by the FWC,<br />

and that all he has ever received personally was “a friendly<br />

wave,” the body of evidence collected over the years is simply<br />

too overwhelming, the incidences too frequent, and the<br />

pattern of the FWC’s oppressive enforcement behavior too<br />

consistent to be ignored. Besides, it is not a matter of percentages.<br />

One abusive FWC officer is one too many; one<br />

incident of heavy-handed enforcement is more than to be<br />

endured. The oath of office that every “sworn” officer takes<br />

before he straps on his pistol is that he will “preserve and<br />

protect the Constitution of the United States.” The unhappy<br />

truth is that all too many law enforcement officers break<br />

that trust, and the history of judicial decisions in our state<br />

and federal courts more than adequately documents the all<br />

too frequent misconduct of the police. Forming up in teams<br />

of three, four or five officers, all dressed in black SWAT gear,<br />

displaying weapons, accompanied by a police dog and<br />

coming upon a solitary sailboat at night to enforce an<br />

anchoring light issue is abusive in the extreme, totally out of<br />

context with the recreational boat environment, and contrary<br />

to the reasonable execution of their enforcement<br />

responsibilities.<br />

Mr. Joyner says we need a “modicum of rules and regulations,<br />

and we need an organization to enforce them and<br />

protect us all from ourselves.” What a bunch of hogwash! I<br />

would suggest to Mr. Joyner that the current quantity of<br />

rules and regulations governing our recreational use of<br />

Florida’s waters far exceeds any definition of “modicum,”<br />

and the FWC is at the forefront of efforts to enact even<br />

more rules and regulations to control our recreational use<br />

of our boats and the waters of Florida. In its zeal, the FWC<br />

has even encouraged Florida municipalities to enact<br />

anchoring laws that are in direct contradiction to both<br />

state of Florida and federal laws, all in the bogus name of<br />

“safety” and “environmental protection.” If the FWC has<br />

its way, every boat would either be in a marina or a des-<br />

See LETTERS continued on page 14<br />

12 November 2008 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com


LETTERS<br />

ignated mooring field, and if in transit from one location<br />

to another, would not be allowed to anchor for more than<br />

72 hours. And if a boater wants to sail his boat from one<br />

point to another, he will first file a “float plan” with law<br />

enforcement detailing the time of departure and estimated<br />

time of arrival.<br />

The only way to peacefully fight this growing cancer of<br />

oppressive law enforcement is active citizenship. The editor<br />

of <strong>Southwinds</strong> magazine is fulfilling the time-honored<br />

responsibility of a free press to fully inform the public; that<br />

he has a personal bias against the FWC which he feels is justified<br />

by dozens and dozens of incidences reported to him<br />

over the years by recreational boaters is well within the<br />

journalistic purview accorded all editors, from the Wall<br />

Street Journal to the Washington Post. All those boaters<br />

reporting the abuses of the FWC can’t be liars, and it’s only<br />

common sense to give some credence to them and share<br />

their experiences with the boating readership. Kudos to<br />

you, editor Morrell. We are all in your debt.<br />

Robbie Johnson<br />

S/V Tahiti Rover<br />

Robbie,<br />

Thank you for your kind words of support. It appears to be an<br />

uphill battle against more and more rules and regulations, and it<br />

is a battle not unlike many others that have occurred over the<br />

years in other walks of life. We are facing several forces. One is the<br />

tyranny of the majority where the majority constantly wants to<br />

rule over the minority, thinking that democracy is the ultimate<br />

utopia, forgetting that the United States is a republic where we<br />

have majority rule with protection and respect for the rights of the<br />

minority. In our case, it is the landlubbers over the boaters.<br />

Then we have the tendency of American society to create<br />

more rules and regulations in every aspect of life, not just to protect<br />

others but to protect us from ourselves. I am all for rules and<br />

regulations concerning products on the market, because the world<br />

is too complex for everyone to know about everything out there.<br />

And I believe in the laws requiring safety equipment and sanitation<br />

on boats, like life jackets, flares, MSDs, etc., but I am totally<br />

against this tendency we face where we are constantly getting<br />

inspected on boats with no reason of suspicion whatsoever. It is<br />

against the law to stop a car just to inspect it and its occupants.<br />

The police cannot pull a car over just to inspect it for registration,<br />

insurance, lights, brakes, etc. The police cannot enter a home just<br />

to inspect it, you, your family, your dog, your cat, etc. Those<br />

actions are illegal in the United States, but in Florida, the water<br />

cops can pull you over if they don’t like the length or color of your<br />

hair or whatever else they choose and inspect you and your boat.<br />

They can pull you over for any whim they want. I wonder if some<br />

of those who become FWC officers are jumping up and down with<br />

joy that they have so much power. I heard where the FWC has been<br />

setting up in some locations and pulling over every single watercraft<br />

and inspecting it. If this is our future, then boating as we<br />

have known it in Florida in the past—and as I have known it for<br />

the last many decades in this country—is facing a bleak and scary<br />

future. Beware all; you can be stopped at any time for any reason.<br />

Make sure you and your papers are in order. The FWC doesn’t<br />

need a reason to stop you. If you want to move around without<br />

fear of getting inspected for no good reason, stay on land—and<br />

even that is coming to an end in many places.<br />

The bigger problem is that there are many police out there<br />

who will say, in defense of inspecting you whenever they want, “If<br />

14 November 2008 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com


you have everything in order and are legal,<br />

then you have nothing to be afraid of.”<br />

Yes, I do. I have that attitude to be afraid<br />

of.<br />

But it is not just the FWC who is all<br />

for more rules and regulations. It is also<br />

these communities who want to keep the<br />

boaters all in line with more rules and regulations.<br />

<strong>Read</strong> in the “Our Waterways”<br />

section this month about more rules the<br />

city of Marathon is trying to impose on<br />

boaters in Boot Key Harbor—with huge<br />

fines (which I believe are contrary to state<br />

law). We also have an article on more rules<br />

the FWC is proposing.<br />

Our governments and agencies just<br />

can’t seem to pass enough rules. It’s the<br />

tyranny of the majority rearing its ugly<br />

head again—along with a police state<br />

mentality to control everyone’s actions as<br />

it sees fit.<br />

Editor<br />

SARASOTA MOORING FIELD<br />

EMPHASIS NEEDS CHANGING<br />

In its endeavor to build a mooring<br />

field in scenic Sarasota Bay, the city of<br />

Sarasota is planning on spending over<br />

$650,000 of already allocated taxpayers’<br />

money, perhaps another $80,000 a<br />

year of taxpayers’ future money and<br />

pay Jack Graham, Inc. (Marina Jack<br />

marina) another $450,000 for “upland<br />

amenity” improvements. On top of<br />

this, the city will be liable for 90 percent<br />

of any financial shortfall incurred<br />

and has already spent an untallied<br />

amount of taxpayers’ money on<br />

administrative costs for consulting<br />

time spent by the offices of the city<br />

manager, city auditor, city engineer<br />

and city attorney. This money is being<br />

spent to clean up and control the use<br />

of the bay. Some people question the<br />

necessity and wisdom of such spending.<br />

What would happen if someone<br />

parked a recreational vehicle (RV) on<br />

the street, especially a street like<br />

Gulfstream Avenue in front of<br />

Sarasota’s posh, condo row, and took<br />

up living in that vehicle It would be<br />

tagged by the police almost immediately.<br />

If it were not soon moved, it<br />

would soon be ticketed. Not long<br />

thereafter, it would be towed. And the<br />

time cycle would be considerably condensed<br />

if the inhabitant were flushing<br />

the toilet onto the street or if the vehicle<br />

were an abandoned derelict.<br />

There are laws at all levels of government—state,<br />

county and city—that<br />

regulate what vehicles can be parked<br />

where and when. There are more laws<br />

that regulate the enforcement of parking,<br />

when a vehicle can be tagged,<br />

ticketed, towed, by whom and the<br />

financial liability of the owner of the<br />

vehicle. Do we see many people living<br />

in RVs and flushing stinky stuff onto<br />

our streets Do we see many abandoned<br />

vehicles on our miles of streets<br />

Why not<br />

There are similar laws regulating<br />

the parking of vessels on the water.<br />

They are explicit on registration,<br />

anchoring in many places, head<br />

requirements, pumping overboard and<br />

abandonment of derelicts. There are<br />

more laws that regulate the enforcement<br />

of vessel registration, anchoring,<br />

safety and abandonment. Do we have<br />

liveaboards pumping poop into<br />

Sarasota Bay Do we have derelict<br />

boats abandoned on the bay Why<br />

See LETTERS continued on page 16<br />

News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS November 2008 15


LETTERS<br />

If the laws presently on the books were enforced, the<br />

city of Sarasota would save the taxpayers well over<br />

$1,000,000. The Bay would be cleaner, the city would be in<br />

control, and the law-abiding boaters would be happy. The<br />

police department hasn’t been idle. Since 2004, they have<br />

removed approximately 160 derelict boats at a cost of<br />

approximately $160,000. (According to Assistant City<br />

Manager Peter Schnieder, most of that money came from<br />

the West Coast Inland Navigation District.) At that rate it<br />

would take 25 years to spend $1,000,000.<br />

Last year at this time there were about 100 boats<br />

anchored in the bay. Now there are only about 70. It is difficult<br />

to determine exactly how many of those boats house liveaboards,<br />

but it appears to be the same as last year, about 20.<br />

At least 20 of the boats are obviously derelict. How difficult<br />

can it be for the police to enforce laws in a place as open yet<br />

as confined as Sarasota Bay How difficult can it be to enforce<br />

laws on 40 boats in one small area that do not move<br />

Difficulty is not the problem; emphasis is. The city used<br />

to have two officers working marine patrol. Now there is<br />

only one on weekends and holidays. The marine patrol<br />

office, whatever is left of it, doesn’t even have the time or<br />

manpower to answer the five telephone calls I made to it. If<br />

the Sarasota City Commissioners placed more emphasis on<br />

enforcement of present laws and less emphasis on spending<br />

taxpayers’ money on new projects, there would be no need<br />

for a mooring field.<br />

The best, and perhaps only way to change the city’s<br />

Board of Commissioners’ emphasis to budget and fiscal<br />

responsibility and boating is for the residents of Sarasota<br />

and the Bay boaters to let the Commissioners know what<br />

they want. This is a government of the people, but it can<br />

only be by the people and for the people if the people get<br />

involved.<br />

Harmon Heed<br />

S/V TRVTH<br />

Sarasota, FL<br />

Harmon,<br />

More rules and regulations. It doesn’t surprise me. See my comments<br />

above.<br />

I would be for more police out there enforcing the current<br />

rules, but I hesitate to advocate for more police on the water considering<br />

the case of Chris Lindsey. Chris was boarded and arrested<br />

by the Sarasota police shortly after speaking out against the<br />

mooring field in public. He was harassed and singled out by the<br />

police several times in a rude manner, spending some time in jail.<br />

He eventually won his case in court and charges were dropped,<br />

but even after that, he was treated poorly on several occasions. He<br />

was punished through intimidation and prosecution—a typical<br />

government tactic of getting what it wants even if it knows it<br />

can’t win in court. I have friends who know Chris personally and<br />

don’t believe that he acted, or would act, improperly. It was very<br />

obvious that the police harassed him intentionally, but what is<br />

more disturbing is that no one in city government spoke out<br />

against these police actions. They should all be fired.<br />

The police just don’t like anchored boats out there and the<br />

people on them, but I would rather have a filthy bay and derelict<br />

boats everywhere than police harassment of innocent people.<br />

How about on-the-water“code” enforcement inspectors who<br />

See LETTERS continued on page 18<br />

16 November 2008 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com


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44 Hunter DS 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Scott . .$259,000<br />

44 Spencer CC 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Al . .$139,000<br />

43 Beneteau 432 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joe . . .$99,900<br />

43 Morgan CC 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Al . .$116,000<br />

42 Hunter Passage 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . .Joe .PENDING<br />

42 Catalina 2-Cabin 1997 . . . . . . . . . . .Bill . .$148,000<br />

41 Hunter DS 2008 #405 Warranty . .Massey . . .$239,900<br />

41 Lord Nelson 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brad . . .$129,500<br />

41 Morgan Classic 1988 . . . . . . . . . .Scott . .$109,000<br />

40 Beneteau CC 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Al . .$139,000<br />

39 Pearson 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bill . . .$76,900<br />

38 Catalina 390 3-Cabin 2001 . . . . . . . .Al . .$129,900<br />

38 Hunter Limited Edition 2004 . . . . .Bill . .$138,000<br />

37 Bavaria 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Scott . .$104,900<br />

36 Hunter #354 2007 . . . . . . . . . . .Massey . .$127,865<br />

36 Hunter 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bill . .$100,000<br />

36 Catalina 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brad . . .$79,855<br />

36 Westery Corsair 1986 . . . . . . . . .Scott . . .$79,900<br />

35 Shannon Shoalsailer 2006 . . . . . . . .Al . .$355,000<br />

35 Shannon Shoalsailer 2005 . . . . . .Brad . .$289,000<br />

35 Hunter 356 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Scott . .$115,900<br />

35 Hunter 356 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Scott . .$135,900<br />

35 Island Packet 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Al . .$109,900<br />

34 Hunter 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Scott . . .$85,000<br />

34 Cabo Rico 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brad . .$119,500<br />

34 Tartan 34.2 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Scott . . .$64,900<br />

33 Hunter 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Al . .$109,900<br />

31 Catalina 310 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bill . . .$79,900<br />

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LETTERS<br />

don’t carry guns, spotlights, police uniforms<br />

and sirens, but do know the U.S.<br />

Constitution, are courteous and respect<br />

people from all walks of life If people<br />

don’t follow the laws after a code enforcement<br />

visit, then send in the police.<br />

Editor<br />

REGISTER KAYAKS AND OTHER<br />

SMALL CRAFT IN FLORIDA<br />

I met some kayakers recently who<br />

were annoyed that so many powerboats—even<br />

our little dinghy with the<br />

motor we use as a tender for our sailboat—are<br />

polluting the water, making<br />

noise, creating wakes and just overpopulating<br />

our waters in Florida. I<br />

was offended, as I have always supported<br />

protecting the environment<br />

and felt our sailing life had a minimal<br />

impact on the waterways. I told the<br />

kayakers that they should be thankful,<br />

as they don’t even have to register<br />

their boats, and that we boaters,<br />

through registration fees, pay for<br />

much of what they enjoy. I almost<br />

wonder if we shouldn’t support registration<br />

for these small craft.<br />

Frank Benjamin<br />

Frank,<br />

There are many kayakers like that who<br />

want to preserve the waters only for themselves<br />

and get rid of all powerboats and<br />

motors, as though the kayakers are somehow<br />

“pure.” It is impossible to be “pure”<br />

and “clean” in this modern world. How<br />

many of them drove to the water with their<br />

kayaks on their cars But I agree. There is<br />

a certain purity about kayaking in waters<br />

without the sounds of a motor, and there<br />

are many places you can find that—and<br />

we should preserve places for just that. I<br />

am all for it, but I also have had several<br />

small powerboats and understand their<br />

place in this world, too. I wonder how<br />

many of these “purists” have cars and/or<br />

even homes, which are a large imprint on<br />

a once barren landscape. You cannot<br />

escape your impact while being on this<br />

earth. But there are other people out there<br />

who don’t see it this way, and we all have<br />

to live together and—share.<br />

Even still, I am completely against<br />

registering these small watercraft. These<br />

“purists”—dangerous as they are—are<br />

the minority, and I believe most kayakers<br />

have a more balanced view, come from all<br />

walks of life where they might not be so<br />

“pure” in their impact and have a little<br />

more humility. Many kayakers are sailors,<br />

too. But we just don’t need to be registering<br />

every single little craft, just like we<br />

don’t need be creating laws—and fees—<br />

for every single activity.<br />

We should be supporting most kayakers,<br />

just not these supposed self-absorbed<br />

“purists.”<br />

Editor<br />

E-mail your letters to the Editor: editor@southwindsmagazine.com<br />

18 November 2008 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com


Southeastern U.S. Air & Water Temperatures<br />

and Gulf Stream Currents – November<br />

WIND ROSES: Each wind rose shows the strength and direction<br />

of the prevailing winds in the area and month. These<br />

have been recorded over a long period of time. In general,<br />

the lengths of the arrows indicate how often the winds came<br />

from that direction. The longer the arrow, the more often the<br />

winds came from that direction. When the arrow is too long<br />

to be printed in a practical manner, a number is indicated.<br />

The number in the center of the circle shows the percentage<br />

of the time that the winds were calm. The lengths of the<br />

arrows plus the calms number in the center add up to 100<br />

percent. The number of feathers on the arrow indicates the<br />

strength of the wind on the Beaufort scale (one feather is<br />

Force 1, etc.). Wind Roses are taken from Pilot Charts.<br />

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EVENTS & NEWS OF INTEREST TO SOUTHERN SAILORS<br />

To have your news or event in this section, contact editor@southwindsmagazine.com.<br />

Send us information by the 5th of the month preceding publication. Contact us if later.<br />

Changes in Events Listed on SOUTHWINDS Web site<br />

Go to www.southwindsmagazine.com for changes and notices on upcoming events. Contact us to post event changes.<br />

■ RACING EVENTS<br />

For racing schedules, news and events see<br />

the racing section.<br />

■ UPCOMING SOUTHERN<br />

EVENTS<br />

Go to the SOUTHWINDS Web site for our list of youth sailing<br />

programs in the southern coastal states, www.south<br />

windsmagazine.com. The list was printed in the April 2006<br />

issue.<br />

EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING<br />

Monthly Boating Safety Courses 2008 Schedule<br />

in Ft. Pierce, FL<br />

Boating Safety Course designed for the recreational boater,<br />

to encourage safety on the water. This one-day boating<br />

course emphasizes safety on the water to<br />

enhance the boating experience and to increase<br />

confidence on the water. The course is state of<br />

Florida approved for those 21 and under to obtain<br />

their Florida State Boaters License. Dates in 2008<br />

are Oct. 18, Nov. 15. Classes are usually very full,<br />

call and reserve space on the preferred program<br />

date. $36 (+ $10 for each additional family member).<br />

Courses are held from 8:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the<br />

Flotilla 58 Coast Guard Auxiliary Building 1400 Seaway Dr.,<br />

Fort Pierce FL. (772) 579-3395 Stephanie, or (772) 321-3041<br />

Gary, or e-mail stephcgaux@hotmail.com.<br />

Coast Guard Auxilliary Boating Courses, Jacksonville, FL<br />

Safe Boating Saturdays. Captains Club, 13363 Beach Blvd.,<br />

Jacksonville. Nov. 15.<br />

Meets Florida legal requirements for boater education.<br />

Most insurance companies offer discounts to program<br />

graduates. Mike Christnacht. (904) 502-9154. www.uscg<br />

ajaxbeach.com/boatsafety.html.<br />

Ongoing – Boating Skills and Seamanship Programs.<br />

St. Petersburg, FL<br />

Tuesday nights, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Satisfies the<br />

Florida boater safety education requirements. Eleven lessons,<br />

every Tuesday. Boating Skills and Seamanship<br />

Programs, 7:30-9:30 p.m., 1300 Beach Dr. SE, St. Petersburg.<br />

Lessons include: which boat for you, equipment, trailering,<br />

lines and knots, boat handling, signs, weather, rules, introduction<br />

to navigation, inland boating and radio. (727) 823-<br />

3753. Don’t wait until next summer to have your children<br />

qualify for a state of Florida boater safety ID, possibly lower<br />

your boaters insurance premium or just hone your safe<br />

boating skills.<br />

Boating Safety Courses, St. Petersburg, FL<br />

St. Petersburg Sail and Power Squadron. Six-week Public<br />

Boating Course begins every Monday. Includes safety information<br />

plus basic piloting; charts, course plotting, latitude/longitude<br />

and dead reckoning. Satisfies Florida’s<br />

under age 21 boater requirements. (727) 867-3088. Other<br />

courses continuously offered. (727) 565-4453. www.boatingstpete.org.<br />

CORRECTION<br />

Last month, an ad by Sailboats Florida of St. Petersburg<br />

listed the company as a dealer for Beneteau yachts. That<br />

was incorrect. Sailboats Florida is the dealer for<br />

Jeanneau yachts. Murray Yacht Sales is the dealer for<br />

Beneteau in the area.<br />

22 November 2008 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com


Clearwater Coast Guard Auxiliary<br />

(Flotilla 11-1) Public Boating Programs<br />

Boating Skills and Seamanship (7 lessons).<br />

Class Days: November 3, 6, 10, 13, 17, 20, 24<br />

For more information on upcoming education<br />

programs or to request a free vessel safety check<br />

call (727) 469-8895 or visit www.a0701101.<br />

uscgaux.info. Click on Public Education Programs.<br />

America’s Boating Course and other courses regularly<br />

posted on the Web site.<br />

North Carolina Maritime Museum, Beaufort, NC<br />

Ongoing adults sailing programs. Family sailing. 2-6<br />

people; 2-6 hours. Traditional skiffs or 30’ keelboat.<br />

$50-$240. www.ncmm-friends.org, mailtime@ncmail.<br />

net, (252) 728-7317. Reservations/information: call<br />

The Friends’ office (252) 728-1638<br />

Ruskin, FL, Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 75<br />

Offers Home Study Safe Boating Course<br />

The Ruskin flotilla each month offers a boating safety course<br />

in Ruskin, but has found that many boaters do not have the<br />

time to attend the courses, so they are now also offering a<br />

home study course at $30. Additional family members will<br />

be charged $10 each for testing and certificates. Tests<br />

will be held bimonthly. Entry into the course will also<br />

allow participants to attend the classes. To apply, call<br />

(813) 677-2354.<br />

Intermediate Marina Management Course.<br />

West Palm Beach, Nov. 16-20<br />

Seminars and training for marina staff. Association<br />

of Marina Industries/International Marina Institute.<br />

(401) 247-0314. www.marinassociation.org.<br />

Electrical Certification Course, Miami Beach,<br />

Nov. 18-21<br />

American Boat and Yacht Council.<br />

www.abycinc.org. (410) 990-4460<br />

Knots, Bends & Hitches, St. Petersburg,<br />

Nov. 19<br />

St. Petersburg Sail & Power Squadron. Wednesday, Nov. 19,<br />

7-9 p.m. St. Petersburg Sailing Center, 250 2nd Ave SE,<br />

Demens Landing, St. Petersburg. Instruction Free, Materials<br />

$30. Additional family member without materials $5.<br />

Maximum of 20 students; pre-registration required. Go to<br />

www.boating-stpete.org, or ca;;(727) 525-0968.<br />

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Advanced Marina Management Course.<br />

West Palm Beach, Dec. 8-13<br />

Seminars and training for marina staff.<br />

Association of Marina Industries/International<br />

Marina Institute. (401) 247-0314.<br />

www.marinassociation.org.<br />

US SAILING Small Boat Sailing Level 1<br />

Instructor Course, Orange Park, FL, Dec. 27-30<br />

The US SAILING Small Boat Sailing Level 1 Instructor<br />

Course, approved by the U.S. Coast Guard, is designed to<br />

teach sailing instructors on-the-water group management<br />

and instruction techniques for dinghies, multihull and small<br />

daysailing keelboats. It is a 40-hour course conducted in<br />

four days.<br />

For more information go to the US SAILING Web site at<br />

www.ussailing.org, then go to “Education” and then<br />

“Instructor Training.”<br />

The course will be held at The Rudder Club of<br />

Jacksonville, Orange Park, FL. Contact Dick Allsopp at dallsopp@ussailing.net,<br />

or call (904) 278-0329.<br />

BOAT SHOWS<br />

Nov. 13-16. Fort Myers Boat Show. Harborside Convention<br />

Complex and City Yacht Basin, Fort Myers, FL. John Good<br />

Co. (954) 570-7785. www.swfmia.com.<br />

St. Petersburg Boat Show and Strictly Sail,<br />

Dec. 4-7 See page 29.<br />

SEAFOOD FESTIVAL<br />

Oct. 31-Nov 1. Florida Seafood Festival. Apalachicola, FL.<br />

The state’s oldest maritime exhibit. The three-day event<br />

annually draws thousands of visitors to this scenic historic<br />

town at the mouth of the Apalachicola River. The festival<br />

features delicious seafood, arts and crafts exhibits, seafood<br />

related events and displays under the shady oaks of<br />

Apalachicola’s Battery Park. Some of the notable events<br />

include oyster eating, oyster shucking, a parade, a 5k<br />

Redfish Run and a Blessing of the Fleet. (888) 653-8011.<br />

www.floridaseafoodfestival.com<br />

■ OTHER EVENTS<br />

One Design Sailing Symposium,<br />

Acworth, GA, Nov. 15-16<br />

US SAILING. At the Atlanta Yacht Club<br />

(www.atlantayachtclub.org). www.ussailing.org/odcc.<br />

The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway<br />

Association’s 9th Annual<br />

Conference, Jacksonville, FL,<br />

Nov. 19-21<br />

The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association (AIWA)<br />

will hold its 9th annual conference in Jacksonville, FL on<br />

Nov. 19-21 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1201 Riverplace<br />

Blvd., Jacksonville, FL 32207. (904) 398-8800. Non Member<br />

$250. AIWA Member. $200. Government $150.<br />

Topic at this year’s conference will be “Can<br />

Regionalism Save the Waterway” The AIWA is recognized<br />

as the “Voice of the Waterway” by Congress, industry leaders,<br />

the U.S. Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers.<br />

REVIEW YOUR BOAT<br />

SOUTHWINDS is looking for boaters to review their own<br />

boat. We found readers like to read reviews by boat owners.<br />

If you like to write, we want your review. It can be<br />

long or short (the boat, that is), a racer, a cruiser, new or<br />

old, on a trailer or in the water. Photos essential. If it’s a<br />

liveaboard, tell us how that works out. Or—is it fast<br />

Have you made changes What changes would you like<br />

Contact editor@southwindsmagazine.com for more<br />

specifics and specifications on photos needed. Articles<br />

must be sent by e-mail or on disc. We pay for the<br />

reviews, too.<br />

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The mission of the AIWA is to encourage the<br />

continuation and further development of<br />

waterborne commerce and recreation on<br />

the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway<br />

(AIWW) and advocates for regular dredging<br />

and adequate maintenance to promote safe, costeffective<br />

navigation.<br />

AIWA members include shippers,<br />

towing companies, marinas, local businesses,<br />

government representatives, organizations and<br />

recreational boaters.<br />

For more information and to register, go to<br />

www.atlintracoastal.org, call (877) 414-5397 or e-mail rosemary@atlintracoastal.org.<br />

Seven Seas Cruising Association<br />

33rd Annual Meeting in<br />

Melbourne, FL. Dec. 5-7<br />

The Seven Seas Cruising Association (SSCA) will again host<br />

its annual convention and general meeting (formerly called<br />

a “gam”) at the Eau Gallie Civic Center, 1551 Highland Ave,<br />

Melbourne, FL, Dec. 5-7. All SSCA events are open to both<br />

members and non-members alike. Admission is $20 for<br />

members and $25 for non-members.<br />

This year, the schedule will be very different from previous<br />

years due to member feedback.<br />

There will be seminars starting on Friday starting at<br />

9 a.m. and running all day Friday and Saturday. The full<br />

list of seminars is available at on the SSCA Web site. The<br />

vendors’ show and sale where businesses are offering their<br />

products and services will be on Friday and Saturday in<br />

the gymnasium.<br />

There will be a Friday night cocktail party. On Saturday<br />

evening, there will be the Island Buffet party with a steel<br />

band. The annual awards presentation will also be held<br />

Saturday evening.<br />

The nautical flea market will be held on Sunday morning<br />

in the gymnasium. Roundtables on cruising destinations<br />

and other topics will also be held on Sunday morning.<br />

On Sunday afternoon, there will be the annual meeting and<br />

awards ceremony.<br />

Cruisers who come by boat generally anchor off the<br />

Pineapple Pier near the event site. The Web site has more<br />

information including special hotel rates for SSCA members<br />

and a map of the area, including hotels, anchorages, restaurants<br />

and more.<br />

For more information and for registration, go to the<br />

SSCA Web site, www.SSCA.org.<br />

Florida. Peck Lake is directly on the ICW and is<br />

easy to get to. Those coming by boat from the<br />

north are advised to be sure to leave #19 to port<br />

to avoid very shallow water. It has good holding<br />

and is a well-protected anchorage. A local<br />

park provides free and safe overnight<br />

parking. A dinghy service from the park<br />

to the boats will be provided.<br />

There is room to assemble and put in<br />

Wharrams at the local park ramp. Free<br />

overnight parking of cars and trailers is also available.<br />

All Wharram catamaran owners are welcome as well<br />

as lovers of Wharram catamarans and others who would<br />

just like to show up and see them and talk about them.<br />

Bring your pictures if you can’t bring your boat. If you can’t<br />

bring a boat or pictures, then just bring yourself! We have<br />

even been known to welcome “half boats” (monohulls).<br />

The Polynesian Catamaran Association (PCA-<br />

SeaPeople) is the event sponsor.<br />

For more information, call Gene Perry (Tiki 26) at home<br />

at (772) 545-9312 or on his cell at (561-427-8323, Dan Kunz<br />

(Tangaroa 36) at home at (305) 664-0190, or Ann and Neville<br />

Clements’ (Tiki 46) on their cell at (401) 261-7816. You can<br />

also send a note to this e-mail: floridawharramrendezvous@hotmail.com.<br />

E-mails will be monitored up to<br />

about Nov. 21. After that, use the phones.<br />

2008 Wharram Catamaran<br />

Rendezvous, Dec. 5-7,<br />

Hobe Sound, FL<br />

The 2007 Florida Wharram Catamaran Rendezvous is<br />

scheduled for Dec. 5-7 on Peck Lake in Hobe Sound,<br />

FL. Hobe Sound is near Stuart on the Atlantic coast of<br />

News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS November 2008 25


■ NEWS<br />

Fifty-Knot Sailing<br />

Barrier Broke<br />

Three kite surfers who recently broke the<br />

50-knot barrier. From left to right, Robert<br />

Douglas, Alexandre Caizergues and Sebastien<br />

Cattelan. Photo by Robert Hislop, courtesy<br />

Luderitz Speed Challenge.<br />

On Oct. 3, French kite surfer Sebastien<br />

Cattelan broke the 50-knot sailing speed<br />

barrier at the Luderitz Speed Challenge in<br />

Luderitz, Namibia. Cattelan reached 50.26<br />

knots when he broke the 50-knot mark.<br />

Winds were in the 35- to 40-knot range<br />

and gusting to more than 45 knots.<br />

Cattelan’s maximum speed was 58 knots,<br />

with an average speed of 54.5 knots over<br />

the 200-meter run. But Cattelan did not<br />

hold the record for long. The next day, Frenchman<br />

Alexandre Caizergues again broke the 50-knot barrier but<br />

attained a new world record of 50.57 knots. Before the event<br />

ended, American Robert Douglas also broke the 50-knot<br />

mark, reaching 50.54 knots, and now holds the number two<br />

record behind Caizergues. Cattelan ended up in the third<br />

spot, later reaching 50.52 knots (note these differences are<br />

all two-hundredths of a second apart).<br />

All the speeds must still be ratified by the World Sailing<br />

Speed Record Council (WSSRC), but the event was sanctioned<br />

by the organization and verification looks likely.<br />

For more information, go to www.luderitz-speed.com.<br />

Students Rally to Support the<br />

Spirit of South Carolina<br />

Articles Wanted About Southern Yacht Clubs,<br />

Sailing Associations and Youth Sailing Groups<br />

SOUTHWINDS magazine is looking for articles on individual<br />

yacht clubs, sailing associations and youth sailing<br />

groups throughout the Southern states (NC, SC,<br />

GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX (east Texas). Articles wanted<br />

are about a club’s history, facilities, major events and<br />

general information about the club. The clubs and associations<br />

must be well established and have been around<br />

for at least five years. Contact editor@<strong>Southwinds</strong>mag<br />

azine.com for information about article length, photo<br />

requirements and other questions.<br />

Students at Ashley Hall, a private school for girls, in<br />

Charleston, SC, recently raised over $4000 to contribute to<br />

repairs on the Spirit of South Carolina. The money was raised<br />

from contributions from the students and teachers. Some of<br />

the students asked their parents to access their savings<br />

accounts to raise the funds.<br />

The ship was struck by lightning this past summer and<br />

is need of funds to do the repairs. Many of the students<br />

sailed aboard the ship during the 2007-08 school year and<br />

feel a certain affinity to it. When the ship was struck in July<br />

off the coast of Block Island, it lost all electronics and engine<br />

controls. The ship was hauled out for the repairs. The captain<br />

found worm damage in the hull, and several planks<br />

had to be replaced.<br />

For more information on the ship, go to www.scmar<br />

itime.org.<br />

BoatU.S. Advises on How to Steer<br />

Clear of a Hurricane-Damaged Boat<br />

After several hurricane seasons, BoatU.S. recently published<br />

information on protecting the buyer from buying a<br />

hurricane-damaged boat. The article cites an example of<br />

someone who bought a nine-year-old, $35,000, 24-foot fishing<br />

boat and approached the BoatU.S. Consumer Affairs<br />

Department for help. It was too late. The boat had suffered<br />

structural damage from a hurricane.<br />

BoatU.S. advises people to follow several key guidelines<br />

in purchasing a boat, particularly since there are so<br />

many boats out there that suffered hurricane damage in<br />

recent years.<br />

First recommendation is to always hire an independent<br />

surveyor—not just one recommended by the broker, dealer<br />

or seller. In the above-cited example, the buyer used a surveyor<br />

recommended by the dealer. After receiving the boat,<br />

the buyer became suspicious and hired his own surveyor<br />

who revealed the problems.<br />

Another thing to watch out for is boats that cross into<br />

another state. Unlike automobiles, there are only a few<br />

states that require titles to label junked or salvaged boats.<br />

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On top of this, only 36 states require boats to be registered<br />

at all. Boats are often brought to another state to<br />

sell to hide their salvaged and/or damaged status.<br />

BoatU.S. even warns that the Web sites that say they<br />

can do a background check on a boat often do not—<br />

or even cannot—do a complete check on where a<br />

boat has been, and then there are the states<br />

that don’t name them as salvaged or damaged<br />

boats anyway.<br />

BoatU.S. also warns against boats<br />

that are sold “as is,” since this limits a buyer’s protection in<br />

buying a boat. It recommends stating in the sales contract in<br />

these transactions that the seller has revealed everything he<br />

or she knows about the boat’s repairs or existing damages.<br />

For more information on boat buying or to get a free<br />

copy of the “BoatU.S. Guide to Buying and Selling a Boat,”<br />

go to http://my.BoatUS.com/consumer.<br />

Got a TWIC Coast Guard Requires<br />

All License Holders to Obtain One<br />

by April 15<br />

By Morgan Stinemetz<br />

A what TWIC Sounds like a facial tic that Elmer Fudd was<br />

trying to describe.<br />

It’s more serious than that, however.<br />

If you are a Coast Guard-credentialed mariner with an<br />

active Merchant Mariner’s Document, License and/or a certificate<br />

of registry (COD), you must also hold a valid TWIC<br />

(Transportation Worker Identification Credential). In its<br />

subtle way of putting things, the Coast Guard has written:<br />

“Failure to obtain and continue to hold a valid TWIC may<br />

result in suspension or revocation of your mariner credential.”<br />

That’s the bad news. The good news is that the original<br />

deadline for holding a TWIC of September 25, 2008, has<br />

been extended until April 15, 2009. My suspicion is that the<br />

deadline was extended because not many people had even<br />

heard of a TWIC. I hadn’t until I was notified of the deadline<br />

extension. Someone employed by the defense contractor<br />

who is in charge of this program, Martin Marietta, said<br />

the reason no one heard about the TWIC when they should<br />

have is because the TSA didn’t manage to notify anyone.<br />

To get a TWIC, here’s what you have to do. Get your<br />

documents together—passport or another gilt-edged proof<br />

of citizenship, merchant marine license, credit card (VISA or<br />

MasterCard only) and call up the phone number to schedule<br />

an appointment at a TWIC enrollment site near you. The<br />

sites for the United States are available on the Web at<br />

www.tsa.gov/twic. The first paragraph (as this is being<br />

written) will have a click here location for the sites.<br />

Figure out what site works for you. Call 1-866-347-8942<br />

to schedule an appointment. My appointment was scheduled<br />

through Dallas, even though I went to a site on Tampa<br />

Bay. The appointments take about 30 minutes. You’ll fill out<br />

a form in which you state that you are not insane, not wanted<br />

for treasonous acts, have not plotted and do not endorse<br />

the violent overthrow of the federal government and have<br />

not done anything really terrible since that time you picked<br />

your nose in third grade.<br />

Then you sit down in front of a person who has<br />

computer screens, keyboards, credit card registers, a<br />

camera, a passport reader, a couple of electronic fingerprint<br />

takers and some other gee-whiz devices<br />

that defy description. You’ll be asked your current<br />

address, phone number, DOB and other<br />

data, which will be entered into a computer<br />

database in either Virginia or West Virginia.<br />

In my case, there were problems with the<br />

electronic fingerprint takers. We took about 10 minutes<br />

on that one.<br />

Frankly, it’s all a bit confusing and the cost is $132.50,<br />

but some discounts may apply. If you have a Coast Guard<br />

license, the TWIC is a must-have document. Mine will be<br />

shipped to the site where I applied. They will call me to tell<br />

me it’s in. I’ll get in my car and go up there again, and they<br />

will check my fingerprints electronically to make sure they<br />

match the ones biometrically entered on the TWIC that has<br />

my picture already on it.<br />

The process is not quite as bad as a root canal, but it’s a<br />

lot less fun than buying your first issue of Playboy, if you get<br />

my drift.<br />

Boatsmith Becomes Authorized<br />

Builder of Wharram Catamarans<br />

David Halladay, owner of Boatsmith, Inc. in southeastern<br />

Florida, has recently entered into an agreement with James<br />

Wharram Designs to be the authorized builder of Wharram<br />

catamarans in the United States.<br />

The agreement was signed after James and Hanneke<br />

Wharram met Halladay at the 2008 Wooden Boat Show in<br />

Mystic, CT, and were able to personally inspect Abaco,<br />

Boatsmith’s outstanding example of a Tiki 30.<br />

James and Hanneke were very satisfied with the quality<br />

of the workmanship and the enthusiasm of both David<br />

and his wife, who works closely with him. They had<br />

brought the brand-new Tiki 30 all the way from Florida by<br />

road and launched her for the first time in Mystic. Many visitors<br />

showed an interest and were impressed by the high<br />

quality of workmanship and materials.<br />

Until now, if you wanted a Wharram cat built in the<br />

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The Wharram Tiki 30 under construction at Boatsmith.<br />

United States., you had to build it yourself or hope to find a<br />

good home-built example for sale. Halladay is a yacht carpenter<br />

and shipwright with over 20 years experience in varied<br />

boatbuilding projects, ranging from historic large-ship<br />

restoration for the United States National Maritime<br />

Museum, to building ultra-light small craft. He has long<br />

been fascinated with Wharram catamarans and just this<br />

year decided to have his shop build a Tiki 30. He believes<br />

that compared to the fiberglass production multihulls available,<br />

a ply/epoxy Wharram design can be built at an economical<br />

price in any given size. Halladay’s first Tiki 30 was<br />

built in under five months. Boatsmith, Inc. has the space<br />

available for multiple large projects and a large, highlyskilled,<br />

motivated crew.<br />

For more information and photos, go to www.boat<br />

smithfl.com, or call (561) 744-0855.<br />

(See “Upcoming Events” in this section for information<br />

about the Wharram Rendezvous in December in Florida.)<br />

BoatU.S. Launches Online<br />

Professional Captains<br />

Locator Service<br />

BoatU.S. has launched the Professional Captains Locator<br />

service on the Internet to connect boat owners seeking onthe-water<br />

transportation services with U.S. Coast Guardlicensed<br />

delivery captains. The service is to help boaters<br />

find captains whether for long deliveries or short ones, like<br />

hauling a boat to a hurricane hole.<br />

The service allows boaters to search by region, and<br />

includes credentials such as USCG licenses held as well as<br />

any special endorsements, knowledge of familiar waters or<br />

types of boats, locations served, full contact information and<br />

the types of delivery services offered, including instruction<br />

and hurricane hole deliveries.<br />

Go to www.BoatUS.com/procaptains. for more information.<br />

New Marina Opens In Manteo, NC<br />

A new marina, Marshes Light Marina, recently opened in<br />

Manteo, NC, just 10 miles from the ICW. The marina has 45<br />

full-service slips completed with another 113 approved for<br />

future expansion. The marina is a five-minute walk from<br />

downtown Manteo and is welcoming transient boaters<br />

heading north or south along the ICW, or those who just<br />

want to come visit. The transient boat slips are available by<br />

the day, week or month. Some of the slips are available for<br />

sale. The marina can handle boats up to 70 feet and has full<br />

power and other slip utilities available.<br />

For more information about the marina, call (252) 327-<br />

9803, or e-mail marinainfo@marsheslight.com, or go to<br />

www.marsheslight.com.<br />

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St. Petersburg Boat<br />

Show & Strictly Sail<br />

Dec. 4-7<br />

Mahaffey Theater Yacht Basin & Albert Whitted Park<br />

400 First St. South, St. Petersburg<br />

A few blocks south of downtown St. Petersburg<br />

(Mahaffey Theater is located at what is formerly known<br />

as the Bayfront Center complex)<br />

DIRECTIONS:<br />

Take Interstate 275 into St. Petersburg. Exit on Interstate 175-<br />

Exit 22 and continue to its end at the traffic light. Proceed<br />

forward four traffic lights. The fourth light is First Street.<br />

Turn left on First Street. The Mahaffey Theater and the show<br />

grounds will be on your right-hand side. Plenty of on-site<br />

parking is available at the municipal parking garages and<br />

airport surrounding show grounds. The parking fee is $5.<br />

Visitors can also ride the Downtown Looper Trolley with<br />

convenient stops on First Street alongside the Mahaffey<br />

Theater. Visit www.loopertrolley.com for schedules.<br />

Visitors can also come by boat and dock for free at the<br />

show’s “Come by Boat Dock”<br />

Event Web site: www.showmanagement.com<br />

Thurs. Dec 4 — 12 noon-6 p.m.<br />

Fri. Dec 5 — 10 a.m.-7 p.m.<br />

Sat. Dec 6 — 10 a.m.-7 p.m.<br />

Sun. Dec 7 — 10 a.m.-5 p.m.<br />

There will be a large section for outside exhibitors<br />

showing both sailing products and services and trailered<br />

boats. This is besides the dozens of trailered powerboats<br />

that will also be on display outside in the powerboat area.<br />

Sailing seminars, run by Sail America, in the same format<br />

as the ones at the previous Strictly Boat shows, will be<br />

held in air-conditioned seminar tents. A seminar schedule<br />

(not available at <strong>Southwinds</strong> press time, but it will be in the<br />

December issue) will be available at www.strictlysail.com at<br />

the St. Pete Web page and through Show Management Web<br />

site, www.showmanagement.com. There will also be an<br />

authors tent area outside.<br />

For kids, there will be free fishing clinics on Saturday<br />

and Sunday with free fishing gear to be given away as long<br />

as supplies last.<br />

Discover Sailing will also be offering free sailboat rides<br />

on a variety of boats in Tampa Bay.<br />

Adults $10<br />

Children (6-15) $5<br />

Under 6 FREE<br />

$2 off each ticket purchased online<br />

GENERAL SHOW INFORMATION<br />

This year, the St. Petersburg Boat show and Strictly Sail<br />

merged to create one large show for all power and sailboats<br />

in downtown St. Petersburg. Show Management puts on<br />

this show and has been doing so for many years—along<br />

with many other boat shows throughout the South. There<br />

will be docks dedicated to sailboats only, and Latitudes and<br />

Attitudes magazine will be putting on their traditional<br />

Cruisers Bash on Saturday evening after the show at 7 p.m.<br />

In-the-water sailboat displays will have dockage for 50-<br />

plus boats. Brokerage sailboats will also be on display. This<br />

is besides the many on-land sailboat displays. Along with<br />

these boats will be over 200 in-water powerboats and more<br />

on land.<br />

Over 200 exhibitors will be in the main tent, and one<br />

section will be devoted to sailing exhibitors, although many<br />

exhibitors have both sail and powerboaters as customers.<br />

SOUTHWINDS will be at the boat show and<br />

sharing a double booth with West Florida PHRF<br />

at booth #175-176 in the main tent.<br />

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OUR WATERWAYS<br />

FWC Proposal to Allow<br />

Municipalities to Impose<br />

3-Day Anchoring Rule:<br />

E-mail FWC NOW<br />

By Steve Morrell<br />

The FWC is proposing many changes to Florida law<br />

affecting boaters for the coming new year.<br />

Unfortunately, it appears we have a policing agency<br />

doing most of the proposals for how our waterways<br />

are managed and that comes along with a policing<br />

mentality. Personally, I don’t want our waterways—<br />

or any place—managed by a policing mentality. And<br />

anyone who thinks the FWC doesn’t have a policing<br />

mentality isn’t paying attention. All police have it. It<br />

comes with the territory. We want the police out there.<br />

We just don’t want them running the government.<br />

Harmon Heed in the below article does a good job<br />

of reporting on the Sept. 9 public hearing in<br />

Clearwater the FWC held on their proposals. I recommend<br />

readers go to the FWC Web site and review the<br />

documents and e-mail your opinion.<br />

Florida Anchoring and Mooring<br />

Rules are Being Revised:<br />

FWC Proposes Allowing<br />

3-Day Anchoring Rule<br />

By Harmon Heed<br />

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is<br />

drafting revisions to the state Anchoring and Mooring (Vessel<br />

Management) rules that regulate who can anchor where and<br />

for how long in state coastal waters.<br />

On September 9, the first draft of the proposed revisions<br />

were presented at a public hearing held at the Clearwater<br />

Hilton. The listening panel was chaired by Maj. Paul<br />

Ouellette of the FWC Section of Boating and Waterways. Also<br />

on the panel were Capt. Alan Richard, general counsel for the<br />

FWC; Bud Vielhauer, deputy general counsel for the Florida<br />

Department of Environmental Protection; and Melanie King<br />

from the University of Florida Levin School of Law<br />

Conservation Clinic.<br />

Approximately 200 people from all over the state attended.<br />

Among those attending were boat owners, waterfront<br />

property owners, club flag officers, marina management, the<br />

marine industry and individuals from county or city governments.<br />

Each was given a copy of the proposed revisions.<br />

Maj. Ouellette opened the hearing by saying, “We want<br />

the public’s help. We cannot do this without you.” He then<br />

politely set the rules of order, and the panel listened for over<br />

two hours as people, one after another, went forward and<br />

voiced their concerns, opinions and wants. Five items of consensus<br />

arose among the various attendees.<br />

First, as Guy Colson put it, “Local ordinances and mooring<br />

fields come about because of frustration with derelicts.”<br />

Jim O’Reilly, the acting city manager of Gulfport, said,<br />

“Gulfport has the most aggressive derelict boat removal in<br />

the state. We will get a mooring field.”<br />

Second, there are rules now in effect to take care of the<br />

derelict boats if those rules are enforced. Wayne Marshall of<br />

the Seven Seas Cruising Association said, “We need enforcement<br />

of current rules, not new rules.” Chris Lindsey, who<br />

lives aboard his trimaran, Stray Turtle, in Sarasota Bay,<br />

agreed: “Enforce the present rules, drag out the derelicts,<br />

don’t punish those of us on sound boats with sound anchoring<br />

by making us pay for a mooring.” Mark Lesley from the<br />

Titusville Municipal Marina: “Don’t infringe on the good<br />

boaters. Go after the unoccupied derelict vessels instead of<br />

the maintained occupied vessels.”<br />

Capt. Richard commented that presently a derelict boat<br />

can be pulled five days after it is deemed derelict and the<br />

owner (if one can be identified and located) subjected to fines<br />

of up to $50,000. State rules have the removal of derelict vessels<br />

(DVs) under the Boating and Waterways Section. The<br />

FWC Division of Law Enforcement contracts with local governments<br />

that have been awarded grants for the removal of<br />

DVs in their jurisdiction. Grant applications for derelict vessel<br />

removal go through the Florida Boating Improvement<br />

Program (FBIP). In recent years approximately $1,600,000 of<br />

grant money has been awarded.<br />

Third item of consensus was that Florida needs<br />

statewide, uniform waterway, anchoring and mooring laws<br />

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for counties and cities to follow. Bud Worthington, Gulfport<br />

city councilman, said, “The lack of uniform laws is a definite<br />

problem for cruisers, even local ones who go only from<br />

city to city or county to county.” Harry Schell of the Seven<br />

Seas Cruising Association expanded: “Local restrictions<br />

have an adversary impact on cruisers. We can’t know all of<br />

the laws of all of the counties and cities.” Margaret<br />

Poddling from BoatUS agreed: “We need a state solution.”<br />

Jim O’Reilly from Gulfport said of his city’s pending mooring<br />

field, “We want standard state guidance to prevent a<br />

local constable from enforcing a ‘Barney Fife’ rule such as<br />

recently happened in Stuart, FL.”<br />

Fourth item of consensus was the removal from the rules<br />

of the proposed “Three-Day Rule,” allowing municipalities<br />

to prohibit anchoring outside of established mooring fields<br />

for more than three consecutive days or 10 days cumulatively<br />

in any calendar year. Manatee County Commissioner Joe<br />

McClash argued, “The restriction isn’t right. The public<br />

won’t support it. Eliminate it.” Jeff Butzer, from the Fort<br />

Myers Beach anchoring committee, said, “Three days here, 10<br />

days there . . . time limits is the easy way out.“ Lee Olderson<br />

agreed: “The three- and 10-day rule should be stricken.” John<br />

Tocar from the Davis Island YC pointed out, “A three-day<br />

rule is against safety. Sometimes cruisers need more than<br />

three days waiting for a weather window, like when waiting<br />

in Punkin Key before crossing to the Bahamas.” Donald<br />

Himes corroborated and added a legal factor: “The three day<br />

limit has liability issues if a ‘Barney Fife’ sends a boat out into<br />

a storm after three days.”<br />

Fifth item of consensus was that kayakers and canoeists<br />

should also pay to have their vessels registered. Cindy Davis<br />

remarked, “Kayakers and canoers use the waterways, and I<br />

think they should pay their fair share.” Al Davis, a waterfront<br />

property and boat owner agreed: “I’m in favor of universal<br />

registration including kayaks and canoes. These people may<br />

not like engined boats, but they use the water, too. We need<br />

uniformity.”<br />

One of the final speakers was Lisa Marie Phillips from<br />

the municipality of Bradenton Beach. “We will have a mooring<br />

field with no time limits. No profit. We are putting it in<br />

because of fecal matter and derelict vessels. We have no<br />

intention to chase out the liveaboards.”<br />

The proposed changes to the state anchoring and mooring<br />

rules can be seen at myfwc.com; click on boating. The<br />

topics are in blocks so the sections pertinent to readers can be<br />

easily found among the legalese. Comments, recommendations<br />

and solutions are welcome and can be e-mailed to the<br />

drafting board at anchoring.mooring@myfwc.com.<br />

There will be one more public hearing held before the<br />

board presents its draft to the FWC commissioners in<br />

November. In December, the final draft will go to the state<br />

legislature which will either find sponsors for the bill or<br />

return it to the FWC for more revision.<br />

boat overnight. (The law was to be given final consideration<br />

on Oct. 14, too late for this issue).<br />

In its effort to define and prevent “wet storage” of boats<br />

in the harbor (which is prohibited), the city is considering<br />

strict rules and stiff fines.<br />

The proposal would require that anyone who leaves his<br />

boat for more than 24 hours must, in advance, notify the<br />

marina staff in writing. If the boater wants to leave for a<br />

week or longer, he must get written permission. If an individual<br />

breaks this law, he would be subject to arrest and a<br />

fine of $500.<br />

This means that even in the case of someone who goes<br />

ashore and spends an unplanned night with his girlfriend,<br />

he better make sure he doesn’t stay a second night as he better<br />

get back to his boat within 24 hours—or face arrest. This<br />

would also hold for someone who had every intention of<br />

going back to his boat but met a new girlfriend and decided<br />

to spend the night with her (a one-night stand) and then<br />

hang out with her for a second night (a longer-term relationship).<br />

He can’t do that as he could face arrest and a $500 fine<br />

if he doesn’t get back to his boat.<br />

There’s also no staying over at your friend’s place<br />

because you were too drunk to drive home or even dinghy<br />

to your boat, because we know that the FWC can pull you<br />

over for any reason they want—even if you are dinghying<br />

home at two knots in your inflatable with the proper lights<br />

and driving safely—and if you are over the alcohol limit,<br />

you are in deep shit. It is either that or the $500 fine.<br />

One boater who called me said someone on the marina<br />

staff said not to worry about it, as they wouldn’t really enforce<br />

it anyway. That clears that up. I suggested he get it in writing.<br />

Boat owners in Boot Key Harbor are already always<br />

responsible for their boats and are under agreement to not<br />

use the area for wet storage. There’s already punishment for<br />

breaking these rules. They don’t need more ridiculous laws<br />

to limit and control their behavior by demanding they give<br />

notice to “stay over.” In fact, I don’t believe this would<br />

stand up to the U.S. Constitution, but we all know that<br />

municipalities don’t always care about the law when they<br />

pass an ordinance. Look at the Stuart case (SOUTHWINDS,<br />

Oct. 2008) where they passed laws blatantly against federal<br />

and state law—and they have city attorneys. When they were<br />

sued, the city knew right off the bat they were wrong, backed<br />

down immediately and settled the case. But they got away<br />

with it for a few years until someone had the guts to sue them.<br />

Marathon Considering New Laws<br />

and Fines at Boot Key Harbor<br />

By Steve Morrell<br />

The city of Marathon is considering a new law that will<br />

limit the freedom of a boater in Boot Key Harbor to leave his<br />

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CAROLINA SAILING<br />

Homecoming in the Low Country—<br />

Two Traditional Sailboats Sail Home<br />

By Dan Dickison<br />

Adventure II under construction in Rockport, ME. Photo<br />

by Allison Langley.<br />

Below decks on the Adventure II showing the beautiful framing.<br />

Photo by Allison Langley.<br />

It’s now fall in the Carolina Low Country, a treasured time<br />

of year for sailors because the beastly summer temperatures<br />

decrease, but a dreaded time, as well, because hurricane<br />

activity increases. So far this season, most stretches of<br />

the Carolina coast have been spared the brunt of Mother<br />

Nature’s havoc, and it’s these quieter spans of time between<br />

severe storms that allow one’s mind to wander toward less<br />

pressing concerns.<br />

Lately, I’ve been pondering the maritime heritage of<br />

this region, and this fall looks to be an exceptional time for<br />

those who share an interest in traditional sailing craft and<br />

the lore that surrounds them. Not only will some 5,000<br />

wooden boat enthusiasts descend upon Georgetown in a<br />

few weeks for that city’s annual celebration of wooden vessels—the<br />

Georgetown Wooden Boat Show—but two important,<br />

historic vessels will soon be homeward bound for<br />

Charleston. The first, The Spirit of South Carolina tall ship,<br />

will be returning after its summer sojourn, having spent the<br />

past four months in the coastal waters of the mid-Atlantic<br />

states and New England. Less than two years old, that ship<br />

is relatively well-known, but the second—the Adventure II—<br />

is not. That’s because this vessel is brand-new, and thus<br />

headed for an altogether different kind of homecoming.<br />

Adventure II, a 53-foot ketch, was just launched this fall<br />

in Rockport, Maine. At the time, her bulbous topsides shone<br />

with a new paint job, and her hand-hewn spars rose proudly<br />

up above her pristine decks. The fact that she would soon<br />

be heading south to her Low-Country home on Old Towne<br />

Creek was no small miracle. Only eight short months before,<br />

her oaken keel had been laid, and her frames were then lofted<br />

on the shed floor at Rockport Marine. It took a workforce<br />

of 18 to ensure that this ship would be ready by early fall to<br />

make her inaugural passage south. When that trip ends,<br />

Adventure II will take up residence as one of the feature<br />

attractions at Charles Towne Landing, a South Carolina historical<br />

park dedicated to exhibiting aspects of Southeastern<br />

colonial life.<br />

Dawn Dawson, a spokesperson for South Carolina’s<br />

Parks, Recreation and Tourism office (SCPRT), which manages<br />

Charles Towne Landing, explained that “our programs<br />

promote living history, and we’re doing that in this case by<br />

building an authentic 17th century cargo ship, the Adventure<br />

II. It is extremely important to re-create this history in order<br />

to educate current and future generations about our ancestors’<br />

struggle in the new world.”<br />

This stout little ship was designed and built to mimic<br />

the 17th century coastwise traders that proved so integral to<br />

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Adventure II shortly after launch in the waters off Rockport, ME. Photo by Allison<br />

Langley.<br />

the successful English settlements between Jamestown in<br />

Virginia and St. Augustine in Florida. Though slow and<br />

cumbersome by today’s standards, those vessels conveyed<br />

crucial supplies—even livestock—from colony to colony<br />

between New York and Barbados.<br />

This ship was modeled to some extent on the original<br />

Adventure, which was an adaptation of colonial-era ships<br />

and was rendered by shipwright and maritime historian<br />

William Avery Baker. His design was built in 1970 to celebrate<br />

the tricentennial of the initial English settlement at<br />

Charles Towne Landing. But over the years, that vessel fell<br />

into disrepair. The caretakers of the park attempted to<br />

build a replacement on location a few years ago. For a<br />

number of reasons, that project was aborted, but the parts<br />

that were built ended up being repurposed as an exhibit of<br />

colonial-era shipbuilding, which is still on<br />

display. A short time later, SCPRT commissioned<br />

Rockport Marine to build a replica of<br />

the original.<br />

Marty Allwine, a Rockport employee, who<br />

served as the project manager for the construction<br />

of Adventure II, explained that his<br />

company did everything it could to ensure<br />

that the ship be authentic. “For the most part,<br />

we built this ship the same way that it might<br />

have been constructed over 300 years before.<br />

Yes, we employed power tools, but we<br />

sourced most of the wood from either North<br />

Carolina or South Carolina, using Atlantic<br />

white cedar to plank the hull and white oak<br />

for the keel, backbone, and frames. The deck is<br />

laid with white pine, and we used yellow pine<br />

for the cabin soles. Creating a 17th century<br />

cargo ship is really more like building a work<br />

truck, but this vessel probably has a little bit<br />

finer finish than what it’s modeled after.”<br />

Allwine claimed that the construction<br />

methodology was generally faithful to the<br />

methods that colonial shipwrights would<br />

have employed, but he admitted that more<br />

enduring materials were used for fastening<br />

(bronze). Additionally, an engine was added<br />

for safety and expediency. “This ship won’t<br />

need a tug to move her about and tow her to the boatyard<br />

when occasional maintenance is required.”<br />

Though the Adventure II was expected to make much<br />

of its passage south under sail, Dawson claims that the<br />

ship will rarely use those sails after arriving in Charleston.<br />

In contrast to the The Spirit of South Carolina, which spends<br />

a great deal of its time conducting educational day sailing<br />

trips—under sail—the Adventure II will be mostly a static<br />

exhibit, moored dockside in Old Towne Creek for the<br />

majority of its days. That will be a disappointment to some<br />

who might prefer to see this ship cast off its lines and<br />

unfurl its sails from time to time. Still, it’s hard to be disappointed<br />

by the fact that the Low Country now has two<br />

authentic tall ships that can teach us all a little bit more<br />

about the lives of those who came before.<br />

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Repair on the Way to<br />

Southampton from Florida<br />

14-Year-Old Sailor Tells<br />

His Side of the Story<br />

By Robbie Moore<br />

Robbie Moore at the helm of Hope<br />

and Glory.<br />

This is my story about an incident on my sailing trip across<br />

the Atlantic with Uncle Joe on his Island Packet 420, Hope<br />

and Glory, and the crew; Scotty, Bill, and Rocky. We left<br />

Sarasota, FL, on May 17, and arrived in Southampton,<br />

England, June 30. We sailed through the good and the bad,<br />

and these are just a few of the great times we had. I loved<br />

every minute of it.<br />

It was on our fifth or sixth day out from Sarasota—<br />

while I was sitting in the cockpit with the rest of the crew—<br />

when Uncle Joe—while checking that everything on board<br />

looks good—found a problem that needed fixing.<br />

“There’s an overturn on the reefing screw,” he says.<br />

Hope and Glory has in-mast mainsail furling, and the reefing<br />

screw is the screw in the mast that a line winds around<br />

when you’re pulling the sail out, and it needs to be right so<br />

you can reel it back in, but at the very beginning when<br />

you’re pulling the sail out, the line going into it is at a very<br />

steep angle, so if there is a lot of pressure, an overturn<br />

results. Well, I can’t just do the repair, so Rocky gets up and<br />

we start taking instruction from the Cap.<br />

“Pull that in. Let that out.You know.” Uncle Joe says.<br />

We start pulling it out. Bad move. We’re putting a lot of<br />

pressure on the sail—because it will not pull out because of<br />

the overturn. Whatever. So all of a sudden, POP!—and the<br />

sails fly everywhere. We ripped it. Great. So now, everyone<br />

on deck must put on their harnesses.<br />

Cap’s at the helm, and me and Rocky are taking the sail<br />

down. Scotty’s on the halyard and me on the port side.<br />

Rocky’s on starboard pulling the sail down. Thank God, we<br />

got the sail out before it broke, because one of the drawbacks<br />

of in-mast furling (I particularly like boom furling<br />

and this is why) is that if the sail’s not all the way out, you<br />

can’t drop it if there’s a problem. And this is a problem. A<br />

big one. So we’re hand over hand yanking the sail down.<br />

Fun. Ugh. But it’s excitement. So when the whole thing’s<br />

down—STAY ON THE WINDWARD SIDE, because if you<br />

don’t and the sail catches the wind, you’re gone with it over<br />

the side. Not fun. No getting back on the boat. Probably not<br />

ever see land or anything again. So when we get to the problem,<br />

it’s the clew, the thing on the end of the sail that the line<br />

attaches to that you pull the sail out with. A very necessary<br />

part. No clew. No sail. Ugh, great. No sail. We can’t go all<br />

the way across the Atlantic with no mainsail. So we must<br />

secure the sail and regroup. But we can’t: The sail must<br />

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Hope and Glory, the Island Packet 420<br />

Robbie Moore sailed on across the Atlantic.<br />

come off and down into the cabin.<br />

So Rocky and I shove it through the dodger to Scotty,<br />

who’s pulling it through and passing it into the cabin. Bill is<br />

in the cabin pulling. Okay—sail’s down, in and secure. Now<br />

we can regroup. One hundred and fifty miles to Florida.<br />

Great repairs there. It’ll be quick, and we’ll know it was<br />

done right. Two hundred and fifty miles to Bermuda. Don’t<br />

know if the repairs will be so great, and it’s a lot farther. Yes.<br />

Florida’s a four-day detour, but this is a month-and-a-half<br />

trip. What’s four days And it would save us from Rocky’s<br />

bitching, because he says Bermuda. But hey!—the Cap’s<br />

decision is final. Done. Florida, here we come again. Ugh.<br />

We turn around. Bam! Bang! Wham! 1, 2, 3—and up<br />

and over. The boat pointed at a 45-degree angle up in the air.<br />

And now I hope you’re seeing where my enthusiasm’s<br />

going. Hmmm. Would it have been a good idea for someone<br />

to LOOK AT THE SEAS BEFORE WE TURNED<br />

AROUND Quick! Grab the wheel, turn 180 degrees<br />

THE OTHER WAY. Okay. Everything’s good now. Phew!<br />

Well, we can’t go that way. We’d make three knots, and it<br />

would be hell. Nope. Here we come, Bermuda. Ugh! Why<br />

did I agree to this<br />

Now I’m on watch, but the Cap’s got an idea for us to<br />

fix the sail. Here we go. First it’s plywood. PLYWOOD This<br />

sail pulls the whole damn boat. It’s the MAINSAIL. Not<br />

plywood. But what did I say about the Cap’s decision being<br />

final Yes. It’s fixing time. Or wait. Now he wants to use<br />

bolts.<br />

The Cap wants to help and advises us, kind of. “I’m not<br />

going to emphasize this one for you. You can do it yourself.<br />

I’ll give you some time…you better be doing this…I’m not<br />

going to wait forever...okay, that should be good.”<br />

So it’s me and Scotty looking for bolts and washers<br />

like…this one…here’s a pair…there’s another. This is going<br />

to be a while. Wait. What are they doing down there. See ya,<br />

Scotty. Why does Bill have an awl Why is it over the stove<br />

Getting red hot What’s that all about This can’t be<br />

good. Oh, shoot! Maybe I should have mentioned us cutting<br />

our jack lines up before. I didn’t think that’d be a big deal.<br />

Well, they’re cutting into the sail now. Yes. We ripped the<br />

old strapping out and have pieces of jack line in their place.<br />

YIKES! MOVE! MOVE! MOVE! Here comes Bill with a redhot<br />

awl. So they have the jack lines strapping through<br />

where the old straps used to be, the ones that ripped out,<br />

and they’re putting bolts in the place of sewn thread. But<br />

hey, it’s done, and since they just finished the fifth set of<br />

them, there’s no going back.<br />

I go up into the cockpit to clean up everything we took<br />

out of the toolboxes like the screws. Then we put the sail up<br />

to see if it works. Up she goes. Okay. Now—where’d we put<br />

that line for holding the sail in place Okay. Got it. Now we<br />

have everything together, and we’ll see if it holds.<br />

Now this is the part you will not believe. They actually<br />

think it’s stronger now! But hey—it’s a sail repair and it’ll<br />

do better then no sail.<br />

Fast-forward to after I take a million pictures and a couple<br />

days sailing. We’re 100 miles off Bermuda and we’ve<br />

been here like two days. We’ve had to tack back and forth<br />

and still aren’t getting any closer, but the sail’s holding and<br />

we are making a little—ever so little—progress towards our<br />

target, and it looks like we’ll make it in safe and sound.<br />

And we did.<br />

At age 14 Robbie Moore is an experienced sailor who has made<br />

several long passages prior to crossing the Atlantic.<br />

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BOAT REVIEW<br />

The Best of Both Worlds:<br />

The Nelson/Marek Morgan 45<br />

By Harmon Heed<br />

LOA 45’<br />

LWL 36’9”<br />

Beam 13’4”<br />

Draft, fixed keel 8’<br />

Centerboard 5’9’<br />

Mast Clearance 63’<br />

Displacement 22,500 lbs.<br />

Ballast<br />

10,000 lbs.<br />

Fuel<br />

100 gallons<br />

Water<br />

200 gallons<br />

Auxiliary Universal 40 hp<br />

Sail Area, tall rig (sq. ft.):<br />

Fore: 516.25;<br />

Main: 411.34;<br />

Total: 927.6; SA/Disp: 19.75<br />

“BIG!”, “Fast!”, “Beautiful!”,<br />

“Strong!”, “Sea-kindly!” Those are<br />

terms inevitably used when describing<br />

the popular and enduring Nelson/<br />

Marek-designed Morgan 45 sloop.<br />

I’ve crewed on Bill Senske’s Hallelujah<br />

for three years, and personally, I<br />

think they’re understatements.<br />

She is a very big boat for a 45-footer, mainly because of<br />

her 13’ 4” beam, almost flush deck, 6’ 6” headroom<br />

below, queen-size aft berth and room for a racing crew<br />

of 10. She’s beautiful to look at, both inside and out. Her<br />

swept stem and stern with the cabin slowly rising over a<br />

straight sheer give her a profile of forward motion. Down<br />

below, there’s teak everywhere. She’s fast for a boat of her<br />

size and displacement, with a PHRF rating of around 96,<br />

depending on spinnaker and prop type. Both times that we<br />

raced her from St. Pete to Isla Mujeres, Mexico, we won our<br />

spinnaker-fleet class. She’s strong with a solid FRP hull,<br />

double spreaders and rod rigging. Bill has ridden Hallelujah<br />

through 20- to 30-foot seas with no fear. And she’s sea-kindly<br />

with her wide beam, midships tankage and almost half of<br />

her weight in the keel.<br />

In 1982, when Morgan Yachts was near the pinnacle of<br />

its success, it asked the team of Nelson/Marek in San Diego,<br />

CA, owned by Bruce Nelson and Bruce Marek, to design a<br />

cruiser that would be very competitive in the Southern<br />

Hallelujah under sail.<br />

Ocean Racing Conference (SORC). “It was a very interesting<br />

project,” Bruce Marek told me. “There were very few production<br />

cruisers over 40 feet then. We designed a big, fast<br />

one. When it first showed at the 1982 Annapolis boat show,<br />

the crowds were wowed. Morgan sold 15 of them right<br />

there.”<br />

Morgan went on to build 178 of these big “performance<br />

cruisers.” Of the first 45, seven were pure racers, the “Grand<br />

Prix“model. They had “minimal, but adequate, below-decks<br />

amenities,” meaning pipe berths, mini shower, icebox, one<br />

head and tankage of under 40 gallons, combined. But on<br />

deck, they had a forest of 16 winches. The other 38 that were<br />

built, the 45-3 model, were fast but had complete belowdecks<br />

comfort.<br />

The second iteration, model 45-4 (that completed the<br />

production run), completed the amenities and made some<br />

changes in the spars. That’s the boat we see the most of, and<br />

there are quite a lot of them around the South.<br />

Being big and relatively heavy, the Morgan 45 isn’t a<br />

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light-air boat. At 13-15 knots, she starts<br />

moving, and at 18-20 knots, with a single<br />

reef and a blade up front, she really<br />

starts to strut. In heavy seas, her narrow<br />

bow cuts through waves, but her<br />

wide beam makes her a bit squirrelly<br />

sliding down the back sides. In any<br />

good head wind, she gets wet on deck<br />

because there is no flare to her forward<br />

top sides. Her spade rudder is hung<br />

well aft so she can turn sharply, and<br />

she can tack in less than 90 degrees.<br />

Nelson/Marek designed the boat<br />

to meet the International Offshore<br />

Rules (IOR) that were in effect at the<br />

time. Her solid hull is wide in the middle<br />

and pointy at the ends, which<br />

extends her static LWL of 36.75 feet<br />

considerably when going upwind. Ten<br />

thousand pounds of her 22,500-pound<br />

displacement is down in the lead keel, which gives her very<br />

good stability. Some boats have fin keels with an eight-foot<br />

draft, and others have modified fins with centerboards. On<br />

the latter, the draft with the board up is only five feet, which<br />

allows good Gulf, Keys and Bahamas cruising. Draft with<br />

the board down is nine feet, which gives her good leeway<br />

up wind.<br />

Hallelujah at the dock, showing the deck and cockpit.<br />

On Hallelujah, the centerboard is an active tool in racing.<br />

It is up when working slower head currents and back eddies<br />

near shore and when going down wind to reduce drag. It is<br />

down when going upwind when depth allows, like offshore.<br />

With it up we could cruise into and anchor at Useppa<br />

Island and Cabbage Key down in Pine Island Sound. On<br />

cruisers Bill and Carol Betts’ Evening Tide, a Morgan 45<br />

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BOAT REVIEW<br />

based in St. Pete, the centerboard is also active. It is up in the<br />

shallow Bahamas, Keys and Tortugas and down for stability<br />

when reaching their favorite cruising areas.<br />

The mast is keel-stepped, aluminum with double<br />

spreaders. The earlier 1982, 45-3 model, has a tall rig with<br />

927.5 sq. ft. of sail area and a sail area to displacement ratio<br />

(SA/Disp) of 19.5. The 1983 and later, 45-4 model, has a<br />

slightly shorter mast with 901 sq. ft. sail area and a SA/Disp<br />

of 18.17. The transition was not distinct, and some of the 45-<br />

4s have the tall rig. Both models fly spinnakers of around<br />

1,000 sq. ft. That’s big! The base of Hallelujah’s mast is surrounded<br />

by winches and blocks for the main halyard, two<br />

jib halyards, two spinny halyards and a block for the topping<br />

lift. The extra winches allow for inside/outside headsail<br />

changes and the use of a blooper. On the mast, at eye<br />

level, are spinnaker halyard stoppers.<br />

To hold all of that sail up, most Morgan 45s are rodrigged.<br />

That’s strong! Many of the boats used for racing, like<br />

Bill’s, also have removable baby stays, running back stays<br />

and adjustable backstays. Hallelujah has a hydraulic backstay<br />

and vang adjuster.<br />

The foredeck is quite flat with no doghouse for the foredeck<br />

crew to stumble over. There is no windlass on most of<br />

the boats used for racing. There is a flush, double-door<br />

anchor locker that uniquely holds a Danforth-type anchor<br />

horizontal or a plow-type vertical. Beneath that locker is a<br />

large anchor locker that will hold a lot of cruising rode,<br />

The Nelson/Marek 45 has an abundance of beautiful wood down<br />

below. The nav station is to the left, galley to the right, along with<br />

the passage to the aft cabin.<br />

chain or rope. Along the perforated toe rails lay the spinnaker<br />

and whisker poles and reaching strut.<br />

There is a hatch in the middle of the foredeck large<br />

enough to pass sails through and to dowse a spinnaker<br />

through. In the center of the boat, behind the mast, is another<br />

large hatch. There are small, vent hatches above the galley<br />

and aft cabin. In the forward two corners of the salon<br />

and above the galley and aft head are Dorade boxes in<br />

which Bill has installed solar vents. Surrounding the cabin<br />

are six opening port lights and above the galley and aft head<br />

are prisms. This gives plenty of light below, but the aft cabin<br />

can get quite warm with the engine running.<br />

Being a true blue-water boat, the Morgan 45 has a<br />

strong, three-foot wide deck bridge separating the companionway<br />

and the cockpit. Winches for the centerboard, topping<br />

lift and downhaul are on either side of the companionway<br />

opening. The width of the deck bridge shortens the<br />

cockpit length where things can get crowded. So, the mainsail<br />

and jib trimmers stay in the cockpit, and the grinders<br />

straddle the seat backs with one foot on the rail. The big #48<br />

primaries and #52 spinnaker winches are within reach of the<br />

helmsman. There is room beside the helmsman—behind the<br />

four-foot wheel—for a tactician to sit.<br />

When I signed on to crew for Senske, he told me<br />

Hallelujah was a physically demanding boat. If all of the 14<br />

Lewmar winches weren’t self-tailing, it certainly would be.<br />

He didn’t tell me the rails and foredeck were wet, but that’s<br />

refreshing to me in the Florida heat. Bill and Carol’s Evening<br />

Tide has far fewer winches, and they say it is easy for the<br />

two of them to cruise alone. So easy, in fact, that they often<br />

go out just for day or short sunset cruises from their home<br />

in St Pete. They stay very dry in the cockpit.<br />

When you go below, you really see how big and beautiful<br />

a Morgan 45 is up close. Almost everything is teak—<br />

even the battened overheads are stained teak color. Her 13‘<br />

4“ beam and 6’ 6” salon headroom make for a lot of cubits!<br />

The interior layout is, for the most part, traditional. To port<br />

is an L-galley with big sink(s), deep ice box/fridge and<br />

stove with oven. The boats were made for CNG and not<br />

LPG. The Bettses have retained the CNG on Evening Tide for<br />

safety reasons, even though it means a trip across Florida to<br />

get the tank filled. To switch to LPG, the tank would have to<br />

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The galley.<br />

The main salon, looking forward on the starboard side. A lee berth<br />

is above and outboard of the settee.<br />

be stored on deck or in a locker that is sealed off from the<br />

interior and vented to the outside. (This inconvenience may<br />

soon be removed, as there is a movement to make CNG<br />

readily available statewide for automobiles.)<br />

To starboard of the companionway is the nav station<br />

with a swivel chair. There is plenty of room for chart plotter/radar,<br />

SSB, VHS, sailing instrument repeater and more.<br />

The station wall folds down for easy access to the myriad of<br />

wires and connections behind the instruments. On the<br />

athwart ship bulkhead is the electrical panel with breakers<br />

and gauges galore.<br />

Behind the nav station is a head with shower and doors<br />

fore and aft. The aft door leads into the owner’s stateroom<br />

that has an island berth. Cabins beneath aft cockpits were<br />

very rare in the early ’80s. Nelson/Marek figured out how<br />

to do it and included a hanging locker, small settee and even<br />

sea berths above and outboard of the main berth. On an<br />

ocean race, with lee cloths up, two crew can sleep separated<br />

back there.<br />

On the port side of the main salon is a settee long<br />

enough for 6’ 4” Senske to sleep on. It pulls out into a double<br />

berth. To starboard is another long settee, and above and<br />

behind that a berth suitable for a 5’ 6” person. Lee cloths can<br />

be roped up all around making all three berths safe sea<br />

berths. In the middle is a fold-over leaf, adjustable-height<br />

table that can be easily removed for racing. Sails on the teak<br />

and holly sole then make for another sea berth. When we<br />

did the Isla Mujeres races, we had crew of nine and plenty<br />

of room to sleep and store racing, safety and personal gear.<br />

Ahead of the salon, amidships, is the door to the forward<br />

cabin and V-berth. To port of that, before and after the<br />

bulkhead, are hanging lockers. To starboard is a head with<br />

shower and doors leading to both the salon and forward<br />

cabin. Thus, both heads have entrees to their cabins and the<br />

salon. Carol Betts has taken advantage of that “two head,<br />

four door” configuration by turning the forward head into<br />

a large pantry. She does like to cook! She and Bill sleep in<br />

the forward cabin. When they have guests, they all share the<br />

aft head and still retain privacy. In stormy weather, one<br />

head can be a wet locker.<br />

Tankage on the Morgan 45 is also big. Most boats hold<br />

100 gallons of diesel and 200 gallons of water. The tanks are<br />

under and behind the settees allowing a lower sole, higher<br />

headroom and lower freeboard. Holding tanks were rare<br />

from the factory so most of them are small and in varied<br />

locations.<br />

Morgan 45 sail power varies with each owner and his<br />

boat use. The Bettses have a Dacron main, jib, storm jib and<br />

spinnaker. Senske has a Dacron cruising main, a Kevlar racing<br />

main, a Kevlar #1, Dacron #2, battened nylon #3, a blast<br />

reacher, a well-used spinnaker and heavy Dacron storm<br />

sails. The auxiliary powers vary, too, but the most common<br />

is the 40 hp Universal four cylinder that was original to the<br />

boat. In open water, it glides the boat along at an easy 6 1/2<br />

knots using 3/4 gallons an hour.<br />

Battery power varies greatly, too, from a starter and two<br />

12-volt house batteries to a starter and a bank of six 6-volt<br />

house batteries. Somewhere in between leaves room for an<br />

aft air conditioner. The interior is so big, that in Southern<br />

summers, fore and aft A/C units are necessary for comfort.<br />

Some folks, like the Bettses, have added Gensets, usually in<br />

the transom lazarette by the radial wheel.<br />

Prices for this big, performance cruiser vary, as always,<br />

depending on the condition of the boat. Low end may be<br />

$99,000 and a Bristol boat like Senske’s may fetch $139,000.<br />

Even at the high end, that’s a lot of big, beautiful, fast,<br />

strong and sea-kindly boat for the buck!<br />

News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS November 2008 43


TRAVELS WITH ANGEL<br />

Fishing For<br />

Cruisers,<br />

Part II<br />

By Rebecca Burg<br />

In October, part one of this two-part series<br />

discussed constructing a trolling rig, good<br />

lures and using a reel. The rig consisted of a<br />

spoon lure, wire leader, swivels, a weight and<br />

40-pound monofilament spooled to a Penn<br />

reel that’s clamped to Angel’s stern rail. With<br />

tips from pro fishing guide, Captain Bill<br />

Robinson, Angel’s trolling rig is put to the test.<br />

The hot sun glared over calm seas during<br />

a run across Little Bahama Bank. Motoring at<br />

5.5 knots, I deployed the trolling rig. I wasn’t<br />

sure what piscine species, if any, lurked in<br />

the sandy-bottomed expanse of shallow<br />

water. As if reading my thoughts, Bill, motoring<br />

Defiant nearby, radioed, “I doubt there’s<br />

much out here.” Nevertheless, he offered<br />

some trolling advice for this type of area. If<br />

there were any small islands or underwater<br />

features like rocks, hills, holes or wrecks not<br />

too far out of the way, I should troll alongside<br />

them. Fish gather in and around underwater<br />

structures. Avoid dragging the lure directly over shallow<br />

reefs and sensitive corals.<br />

As Angel motored along, I alternated between staring at<br />

the motionless fishing reel and at my fingernails, which I<br />

was sure were growing longer. I’d just lost my nail clipper<br />

over the side when using it to trim fishing line. That was not<br />

a lucky start to the day. When I ducked below to retrieve a<br />

snack, something grabbed the lure and briefly spun the reel.<br />

I eased Angel’s throttle and cranked in a catch that wasn’t<br />

putting up much of a fight. “What is it” Bill radioed. I had<br />

Rebecca pulling up a fish off Angel’s stern.<br />

no idea. Wearing gloves, I raised the leader and gawked at<br />

the oddity dangling from the lure. The pop-eyed creature<br />

was five inches long, not much larger than the lure. Its cavernous,<br />

trap-like mouth, lined with needle-like teeth, managed<br />

to fit over the hook. The fish’s slimy body was pale.<br />

“It’s probably some kind of lizardfish,” Bill suggested after<br />

I described it to him. “I wouldn’t eat that.” A pliers or dehooking<br />

tool is handy for hook removal. I released the fish<br />

and resumed trolling speed. Later, when the sixth lizardfish<br />

attacked the lure, this one fatally injuring itself on the hook,<br />

I felt squeamish and put the rig away. It was apparent that<br />

these active creatures would just keep biting and needlessly<br />

ruining their oversized mouths, no thanks to me.<br />

Trolling across the Gulf Stream offers a chance to catch<br />

blue-water species. For the best luck, troll along weed lines,<br />

current changes and past floating debris. Fish, hoping to<br />

ferret out food, congregate around the flotsam found in<br />

weed lines. Diving seabirds is another sign of fish activity,<br />

and the pros always head for the hovering frigate birds.<br />

Midday, something unidentifiable and snake-like squirmed<br />

off the lure when I reeled it in. I’d retired the rig to fret over<br />

Angel after she began to choke and labor over a failing fuel<br />

pump. The wind was diminishing, and I’d been motorsailing<br />

to maintain reasonable speed. Angel’s yellow hide was<br />

saved by having a fuel system with dual pumps. With one<br />

dead, she was at least able to feebly motorsail with the<br />

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A small pinfish caught on a jig.<br />

One of the six lizard fish caught on a spoon.<br />

remainder. Near landfall, Angel was randomly picked for a<br />

Coast Guard boarding. After contending with a sickly sailboat<br />

for several hours, it was comforting to know that<br />

they’re out there. Unapologetically viewed through my particular<br />

gender’s perspective, a boatload of sexy, action-figure-like<br />

men in uniform is far more interesting than catching<br />

fish.<br />

After repairing Angel’s fuel system and resuming travel<br />

mode with buddy cruiser Defiant, I dropped the spoon<br />

along Florida’s east coast. Trolling speed varied from 5 to 6<br />

knots under full sail. The lure frequently caught floating<br />

weeds. (Rubber skirts, when assembled correctly with the<br />

hook’s tip just hidden by the skirt’s fringe, are less apt to<br />

snag weeds.) When Angel sailed past an underwater ridge,<br />

the line whizzed off the reel. I eased the main and staysail,<br />

but left the Yankee pulling. Angel slowed to a crawl, the<br />

autopilot still keeping her on course. I cranked in some line<br />

and the fish, a barracuda, yanked it back out. This tug of<br />

war continued and I grew tired before my quarry did. With<br />

the potential of ciguatera poisoning, large ’cudas aren’t on<br />

the menu. A “lip grip” tool, found in tackle shops, holds the<br />

wriggling fish so you can use pliers to safely remove the<br />

hook from its boney, razor-edged jaw. After only two-and-ahalf<br />

days of use in various locations, the trolling rig caught<br />

six lizardfish, a snake thing, three barracuda and numerous<br />

nibbles from unseen fish lips. Still intent on catching something<br />

edible, I used a minnow-shaped jig baited with bread<br />

while resting at anchor in Florida’s shallow backwaters. A<br />

tiny pinfish was brought aboard and released. When a larger<br />

grunt hit the jig, I finally had a keeper and a long-awaited<br />

fish dinner.<br />

A net is good for boating small fish, while a gaff is used<br />

for larger fish. A dash of cheap booze, delivered to the fish’s<br />

mouth or gills with a turkey baster or squirt gun, will subdue<br />

a fish of any size. This is less traumatic than trying to<br />

club the poor bugger on the head while it struggles and<br />

crashes against its surrounds. When a larger fish is caught<br />

while trolling, most cruisers find it easiest to gaff the fish,<br />

knock it out with booze, gut it and let it drag in the water<br />

behind the boat to minimize the mess. This is likely to<br />

attract sharks, so one must be diligent. I scaled and cleaned<br />

my modest catch inside a bucket. Helpful gear includes<br />

gloves, long-handled net or a gaff, de-hooker, needle-nose<br />

pliers, a bucket, cheap booze and a method to deliver it,<br />

plastic cutting board and fillet knives. By employing the<br />

basics covered in this two-part fishing series, industrious<br />

cruisers can add extra interest, and possibly fresh dinner, to<br />

their travels.<br />

News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS November 2008 45


COOKING<br />

Dismasted Off<br />

Nicaragua<br />

By Monty and Betsy Morris<br />

On his fourth voyage in 1502, Columbus sailed eastward<br />

along the Honduran coast. In his own<br />

words:<br />

“It was one continual rain, thunder, and lightning.<br />

The ships lay exposed to the weather, with sails torn, and<br />

anchors, rigging, cables, boats and many stores lost. The<br />

people exhausted and so down in the mouth that they<br />

were all the time making vows to be good, to go on pilgrimages<br />

and all that; yea, even hearing one another’s<br />

confessions! Other tempests I have seen, but none that<br />

lasted so long or so grim as this.” *<br />

At last, after covering only 200 miles in a month of beating,<br />

he rounded the cape at the eastern end of what is now<br />

Honduras and was able to turn south and ease sheets. He<br />

named the cape Cabo Gracias a Dios. “Thanks be to God,” and<br />

so it is called to this day.<br />

Almost 500 hundred years later my wife, Betsy, and I also<br />

rounded Cabo Gracias a Dios, and although we had the<br />

advantage of going west with the trade winds, the weather<br />

had not improved.<br />

We were homeward bound after a two-year clockwise<br />

circuit of the Caribbean on our Pearson 35 yawl, Little Haste.<br />

We prefer coast hopping to long passages and had managed<br />

to get all the way around the Caribbean with no hop longer<br />

than 90 miles. By the time we reached Panama, however, we<br />

had received reports of hostile officials and expensive port<br />

fees in Nicaragua. The alternative was going 250 miles offshore<br />

to the Colombian islands of San Andres and<br />

Providencia, off the Nicaraguan coast, and from there 200<br />

miles to the uninhabited Vivario Keys north of Cabo Gracias<br />

a Dios and finally 150 miles to the Honduran Bay Islands.<br />

Reluctantly, we chose this alternate route. The first hop was<br />

uneventful. Before leaving Providencia, we told new friends<br />

aboard Janine and Allegiance that we would meet them in a<br />

few days at the Vivarios. Off we sailed in brisk northeasterly<br />

trades, under jib only. That afternoon we were visited by a<br />

huge school of curious blunt-nosed dolphins, later identified<br />

as Risso’s dolphins. It turned out not to be a good omen.<br />

Although the wind was fair and not dangerously strong,<br />

we were periodically hit by squalls that we could see coming<br />

in time to reef. This pattern continued after dark, but it<br />

became difficult to see the squalls coming. The moon was<br />

only a sliver and soon set, leaving inky darkness. At 2 a.m.<br />

while Betsy was below sleeping, we were hit by another<br />

Little Haste as she was before<br />

the dismasting as a yawl.<br />

The guilty turnbuckle<br />

and cause of<br />

the dismasting.<br />

squall, which put the lee rail under.<br />

Betsy popped up in alarm and suggested<br />

shortening sail. I began to ease<br />

the jib as gently as I could, but the wet<br />

sheets tended to slip in jerks.<br />

Suddenly, the jib collapsed, and the<br />

boat righted. I was dumbstruck and<br />

could not grasp what had happened,<br />

but Betsy called out, “We’ve lost the<br />

rigging.” I grabbed a flashlight and<br />

shined it forward. The mast had<br />

snapped off cleanly at the spreaders.<br />

The lower half was still supported by<br />

the lower shrouds, but the upper half<br />

was swinging dangerously over our<br />

heads, supported only by the internal<br />

electrical wires. I began wrestling with<br />

the dangling mast to try to secure it<br />

and called out to Betsy to rig the<br />

mizzen halyard as a forestay. Too late.<br />

As I spoke, the mizzenmast, having<br />

lost the support of its triatic stay from<br />

the main mast, collapsed over the transom.<br />

Within a moment, the upper mainmast chewed<br />

through the electric wires and luckily fell clear of the boat.<br />

It was clear that we would have to cut away the dangling<br />

mass of rigging before we dared start the engine for<br />

fear of fouling the prop. I set to work with my bolt cutter,<br />

which was rated to cut up to 1/4-inch shrouds. No way. I<br />

worked on the smaller shrouds and lines, and then switched<br />

to hacksaw for the uppers, forestay and backstay. I have cut<br />

1/4-inch cable with a hacksaw before, and it’s not easy, but<br />

the adrenaline was flowing, and they cut like butter. Before<br />

letting the forestay go, I tried hauling the jib aboard, but the<br />

*Christopher Columbus, Mariner, Morrison, S. E., Little Brown, Boston, 1942<br />

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Little Haste with the shortened mast after the top broke off.<br />

furling gear was bent and perhaps the halyard was fouled. I<br />

couldn’t budge it. In calm seas, I probably could have salvaged<br />

the jib and the furling gear, but masts don’t fall overboard<br />

in calm seas. Between the violent rolling motion and<br />

increasing exhaustion, I reluctantly decided to dump it all.<br />

Once the debris was clear, we started the motor and continued<br />

our journey, rolling miserably. Before resting, however,<br />

I tracked down the source of the failure. The starboard<br />

upper shroud turnbuckle had burst apart. Although stainless,<br />

it was visibly corroded both inside and out. We should<br />

never have left Panama without inspecting the rigging.<br />

We were about midway between Providencia and the<br />

Vivario Keys. Forty miles ahead was Bobel Key, part of the<br />

Media Luna reef, east of Cabo Gracias a Dios, and reportedly<br />

an adequate anchorage. We continued through the night,<br />

getting little sleep and arrived at Bobel late the following<br />

morning. The key proved to be only a few uninhabited acres<br />

with a slightly rolling anchorage, but we were very glad to<br />

be there. I still don’t know whether we were in Nicaragua or<br />

Honduras, but customs and immigration niceties were not<br />

on our minds at the time. We spent part of the day clearing<br />

more wreckage and pondering how to set up a jury rig; we<br />

had more than 200 miles to go. We still had a mainsail, since<br />

it was furled on the boom when the mast and jib went over,<br />

but no way to hoist it. The first step was getting to the top<br />

of the 20-foot mast stub. We had a sail track mast ladder,<br />

but without a halyard, it was useless. We spent hours trying<br />

unsuccessfully to rig ratlines on the lower shrouds, but<br />

they kept slipping when any weight was applied. We then<br />

tried throwing a monkey fist over the top of the mast. After<br />

endless tries, success! We were able to hoist our sail track<br />

ladder. By this time, it was late in the afternoon, and we<br />

were both shaking with exhaustion. We collapsed and slept<br />

around the clock.<br />

The following day we rigged a forestay<br />

and backstay out of rope, two halyards and a<br />

topping lift for the boom. After much thought<br />

on how to rig a main, we hit on the simple solution<br />

of winding the existing sail around the<br />

boom until the appropriate amount was left to<br />

hoist. We had a spare main and jib, but both<br />

were much too large for our reduced fore triangle.<br />

Our single remaining sail, a lightweight<br />

mizzen staysail, proved to fit perfectly. We<br />

were a sailboat again.<br />

All this took most of another day. We<br />

decided to get another night’s rest and push on for the<br />

Vivarios the next morning. The wind was still strong and<br />

fair; we hoisted our new rig and set off. To our amazement,<br />

we sailed at five knots! Late in the day, the Vivarios hove<br />

over the horizon, and we spotted the masts of two boats,<br />

which reassuringly proved to be our friends from<br />

Providencia. They were leaving the next morning for the<br />

Bay Islands, and although we would like to have rested<br />

there at least one more day, we decided to accompany them<br />

for safety’s sake. We arrived at Guanaja, the easternmost<br />

Bay Island, the following morning. No sailors have ever<br />

been happier to make landfall.<br />

We subsequently spent two-and-a-half pleasant months<br />

in the Bay Islands locating, ordering, and installing a new<br />

mast, shipped from the States. The Pearson 35 was designed<br />

to be either sloop- or yawl-rigged. We chose to omit the<br />

mizzen and continued happily on to Guatemala, and eventually<br />

back to Florida, as a sloop.<br />

LESSONS LEARNED:<br />

Inspect your rigging regularly.<br />

Rig a method of climbing mast without halyards.<br />

Think about jury rig beforehand.<br />

Carry sufficient fuel for unexpected motoring passages.<br />

We’ll never make a passage again without close inspection<br />

of the rigging. We’ve learned that lesson expensively.<br />

Other than that, we didn’t do too badly. It was traumatic,<br />

but we’re not discouraged, and we’ll continue<br />

cruising, keeping one eye on the rigging.<br />

News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS November 2008 47


Holding<br />

Tanks<br />

By Joe Corey<br />

Dealing with sewage on any boat can be an issue.<br />

Newer boats are built with this in mind and generally<br />

come equipped to deal with it. On older boats,<br />

however, the problem can become more complicated.<br />

Our old boat, a Cal 36, was built before any sort of MSD<br />

was required. The designer made no provision for the space<br />

needed for the necessary tanking. A previous owner had<br />

installed a six-gallon holding tank under the starboard settee,<br />

making the boat minimally compliant. Effluent from the<br />

head went directly to the holding tank. On the discharge<br />

end, waste was routed via a Y-valve either overboard via a<br />

macerator pump or to a deck pump-out fitting. The original<br />

through-hull fitting for direct overboard dumping was<br />

capped off.<br />

We encountered a few problems with this set-up. The<br />

six-gallon tank was insufficient for anything more than a<br />

two-person, two-day sailing adventure. Once the tank was<br />

full, we either had to be pumped out or travel outside the<br />

The new installed flexible holding tank.<br />

no-discharge zone and rely on the electricity-hungry and<br />

temperamental macerator. The tank was constructed of<br />

polyethylene, and the sanitation hose was low-grade series<br />

101. Both began to get permeated with sewage gas and subsequently<br />

stank. The 5/8-inch vent line was mere nylon<br />

hose.<br />

Our first step to upgrade the system was to include the<br />

original through hull so as to be able to bypass the tank altogether.<br />

This was done by adding a vented loop and a second<br />

Y-valve. We were now able to dump direct when offshore.<br />

Next, we got rid of the old tank, which, by the way, was no<br />

longer capable of holding six gallons thanks to a concreted<br />

sludge that took up about two gallons of capacity. We chose<br />

a 14-gallon flexible tank that fit neatly in the leftover space<br />

under the settee. We’ve found that by availing ourselves of<br />

shoreside facilities when possible and judicious flushing,<br />

we can now go seven days between pump-outs. Adding<br />

new series 148 hose not only reduced the odor, it was much<br />

easier to bend, and we were able to get rid of elbows that<br />

restricted flow.<br />

After the upgrade, I thought we were home free. Not so.<br />

After a couple of weeks, we started to notice a very disagreeable<br />

sewage odor throughout the boat. I doublechecked<br />

all the hose clamps and found them to be tight. I<br />

also found, however, a section of vent hose that had a slight<br />

decline on its way to the deck-mounted vent. A small<br />

amount of water had found this sag and effectively made a<br />

water seal blocking the vent. It wasn’t too hard to eliminate<br />

the sag and have the vent line make a slight but continuous<br />

incline.<br />

Now we were venting! We were venting so well, in fact,<br />

that any wave action that agitated the tank or anyone flushing<br />

the head caused people to look for the one who cut the<br />

cheese! My first idea for a solution was to add a stand pipe<br />

at the vent and run it 10 feet or so high. Our pump-out boat<br />

operator begged me not to do it. He reasoned that if the tank<br />

was to overfill and back up into the vent, the head pressure<br />

would cause a geyser when he opened the deck fitting cap.<br />

I found the solution by incorporating a filter in the vent line.<br />

Taking a length of 1.5-inch PVC and adding end caps with<br />

5/8-inch nipples, I put a wad of aquarium filter material at<br />

each end and 12 ounces of activated charcoal in the middle.<br />

Both the filter material and the charcoal are available at pet<br />

stores. One end cap is left unglued to make changing the filter<br />

material possible. The home-made filter works great and<br />

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The home-made water filter cost less than $20 to make. You can<br />

see it installed in the photo of the holding tank.<br />

The Y valve at the head.<br />

cost less than $20. It seems to last about 45 days before it’s<br />

time to change the charcoal.<br />

Some helpful tips learned the hard way when working<br />

on any part of the system: Make sure the holding tank is<br />

empty before breaking any hose connections!; Wear disposable<br />

gloves!; Place rags under the hose connections when<br />

working on them (disposable diapers work great).<br />

Our system now meets our needs, is versatile, and most<br />

important, doesn’t stink.<br />

A basic trolling rig set up.<br />

See the<br />

Catalina Dealers<br />

for BOAT SHOW SPECIALS at<br />

the St Pete Boat Show, Dec. 4-7


Cruising on the Peace River.<br />

Gunkholing on the Peace River<br />

By Ina Moody<br />

The word “gunkholing“ is securely<br />

embedded in my unofficial<br />

nautical dictionary. To me, it<br />

means the opposite of “blue water<br />

sailing,“ i.e., instead of heading out<br />

toward the blue horizon, you head in<br />

toward land and explore the inland<br />

rivers and estuaries. If you are on a<br />

pleasure cruise, without a particular<br />

schedule to adhere to, there is plenty<br />

of opportunity to go gunkholing. In<br />

our case, we were going for the Peace<br />

River, with our 44-foot Gulfstar, Sea<br />

Wind. Peace River empties out into<br />

Charlotte Harbor, just north of Punta<br />

Gorda on Florida’s west coast.<br />

The success of gunkholing<br />

depends on the height of your mast,<br />

the depth of your keel, and a little bit<br />

of horse sense. To give you an example:<br />

We once took our previous boat, a<br />

Morgan OI 33, up the Barron River in<br />

the Everglades. We bypassed the more<br />

sophisticated Rod and Gun Club, and<br />

eventually came to a halt by a stationary<br />

bridge too low to pass under. We<br />

spent the night there, tied up at a local<br />

marina where we were treated like<br />

members of the family. Unable to go<br />

any farther, we headed back down the<br />

river the next morning. At one point,<br />

I just happened to look up in time to<br />

shout a warning to my skipper. There<br />

were some low overhead wires spanning<br />

the river. It took a quick reaction<br />

and some fancy maneuvering on<br />

Richard’s part to keep our 45-foot<br />

mast from getting tangled in the<br />

wires, but once he had the situation<br />

under control, we did some head<br />

scratching. How did we get up river<br />

the previous day<br />

We decided it must have been a<br />

tidal situation. We dropped the hook<br />

and waited for low tide. After about<br />

an hour, a park ranger came by in a<br />

motorboat. We hailed him. “How long<br />

before the tide goes out”<br />

He looked at us with a funny<br />

expression and said, “We don’t have<br />

any tide here.”<br />

We pointed to the overhead wires<br />

and asked, “Then how did we get up<br />

to the bridge yesterday”<br />

He nodded toward the mangrove<br />

on the far bank and said, “You probably<br />

followed the markers on the other<br />

side of that island there.”<br />

Needless to say, we felt a little stupid<br />

as we backtracked around the<br />

island and found the markers that<br />

took us all the way down the river to<br />

the Indian Key Pass, past Cape<br />

Romano Shoals and back into the Gulf.<br />

But this little episode was not on<br />

our minds as we headed for the Peace<br />

River. We had spent a couple of nights<br />

tied up at Fisherman’s Village in Punta<br />

Gorda, which is a nice place to get off<br />

the boat, do a little shopping, perhaps<br />

get some laundry done or get your<br />

tanks either emptied or filled. We had<br />

spoken with the dockmaster about<br />

going up the river, and he had<br />

advised against it. But we also spoke<br />

with the captain of Good Times Too, a<br />

small excursion boat that took passengers<br />

up to a little fish restaurant<br />

called the Navigator. He advised,<br />

“Just hug Green “23” and you get into<br />

plenty of water with places where<br />

you can anchor, within a mile and a<br />

half of the Navigator.”<br />

That sounded good to us. We had<br />

a depth finder and enough power to<br />

pull us off if we got stuck, and once we<br />

left the protection of the marina, some<br />

pretty choppy waters gave us a further<br />

incentive to head up the Peace River.<br />

There are two stationary bridges<br />

(45 feet vertical clearance) guarding<br />

the entrance to the river. With our<br />

antennas down, we had no problem.<br />

There is a little three-foot shoal which<br />

you clear by heading north and rounding<br />

Red “6” and “8” on your starboard<br />

side (you are off the ICW so it’s red<br />

right returning); then head back east<br />

to clear Green “9” and “11” and you<br />

are in the channel. By the time we<br />

crossed under a third 45-foot bridge,<br />

the choppiness of the water had<br />

smoothed out completely, and we<br />

began to get the feel of the peace<br />

whence the river got its name.<br />

We followed the markers, first<br />

eastward and then in a northerly<br />

direction. We came to “22,“ then sighted<br />

“23” to starboard. Heeding the<br />

advice of the Good Times Two skipper,<br />

we hugged this marker closely. We<br />

held our breath as our depth gauge<br />

went from 6 feet to 5 feet to 3 feet and<br />

then to -——, but Sea Wind chugged<br />

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along seemingly unaffected<br />

by what we thought was<br />

mud. We passed “23” and<br />

our depth gauge sprang<br />

back to life, registering a<br />

healthy seven feet of water.<br />

We anchored some 10 miles<br />

up the river in eight feet of<br />

water. The river had narrowed<br />

considerably, but<br />

there was still plenty of<br />

room for the occasional<br />

fisherman to pass on either<br />

side of us.<br />

Although the wind<br />

was blowing somewhere<br />

overhead, the water on the<br />

river was almost like a mirror<br />

and the silence complete<br />

except for the inaudible murmur<br />

of water against the hull<br />

as the river flowed on its<br />

relentless journey toward the<br />

sea. The lush greenery on<br />

either side reflected in the<br />

quiet waters, and you heard<br />

the occasional cry of a bird or<br />

the plop of a fish jumping. You<br />

can’t help but feel awed by the<br />

grandeur, the harmony and<br />

the peace of the river. In silent<br />

majesty, it takes care of its<br />

own. It’s as if time stands still,<br />

and you forget there is a world<br />

out there, where people rush around<br />

like mad to get from nowhere to<br />

nowhere in record time.<br />

Then our stomachs reminded us<br />

that we had planned on lunch at the<br />

Navigator, so we launched our dinghy.<br />

We were reluctant to break the spell of<br />

the primeval beauty around us, but<br />

the idea of rowing against the current<br />

for a mile and a half prompted us to<br />

crank up our little four-hp Mercury,<br />

and off we went.<br />

From our previous experience up<br />

Barron River, we should have known<br />

that part of the charm of this type of<br />

river is the many little glens, lookalike<br />

sloughs and indistinguishable<br />

mangrove islets that make up its<br />

banks, but the Good Times Two skipper<br />

had told us that from the anchorage,<br />

we should just follow the left bank and<br />

we would get to the Navigator.<br />

Apparently, we had anchored a little<br />

farther down river from his direction,<br />

for as we put-putted along, the river<br />

began winding more and more, and<br />

became narrow, so narrow that here<br />

Sign to the Nav-A-Gator restaurant on the Peace River<br />

The Nav-A-Gator restaurant.<br />

and there, we came under vines hanging<br />

down into the water. Richard<br />

checked his watch and said, “Surely<br />

we have gone a mile and a half by<br />

now.”<br />

I shrugged and looked at the<br />

chart. “See, it shows a real big loop to<br />

the right here. I think maybe that was<br />

the loop we just came around.”<br />

Richard ducked under another<br />

low-hanging vine and remarked, “I<br />

can’t believe there is enough traffic<br />

coming up this way to keep a restaurant<br />

in business.”<br />

I agreed. “If we don’t see the<br />

restaurant when we come around this<br />

next curve, let’s turn around.”<br />

We came around the curve into<br />

open water and saw something, but it<br />

wasn’t a restaurant! It was our own<br />

boat, Sea Wind, peacefully at anchor,<br />

exactly where we had left her.<br />

A fisherman was fishing a short<br />

distance away. We hailed him and<br />

asked for directions. He pointed up<br />

the river. “See that little mangrove islet<br />

there Go right around it, and then follow<br />

the left bank.”<br />

We did! Within five minutes,<br />

we saw a sign. It didn’t<br />

read the expected<br />

“Navigator,” but “Nav-a-<br />

Gator,” a name so much<br />

more befitting the location.<br />

And the restaurant fit its<br />

name. It had thatched<br />

roofs, and Cypress stump<br />

tables, old-timey barrels<br />

and kegs, and rough-sawn<br />

timber. There was plenty of<br />

space outside, with canoe<br />

rentals and a little gift shop<br />

with Indian artifacts and<br />

gator hides, and there were<br />

places for people to walk<br />

around and take pictures. It<br />

wasn’t quite as rustic as it<br />

appeared though, for the<br />

inside was air-conditioned<br />

and the menu, although mainly<br />

fish, was more sophisticated<br />

than what could be expected<br />

by a little backwoods fishing<br />

camp. In other words, a place<br />

to get away from it all and still<br />

have it.<br />

The Nav-A-Gator is closed<br />

Mondays, but this was Friday,<br />

and we thought we’d stay at<br />

anchor for another day and<br />

make a return visit. However,<br />

the next day was Saturday, and suddenly<br />

our serene anchorage came alive<br />

with activities. There were roaring<br />

motorboats pulling water-skiers,<br />

buzzing SeaDoos spouting rooster<br />

tails, hollering youngsters on inner<br />

tubes or boogie boards. It’s nice to see<br />

the younger generation enjoying<br />

themselves out in nature instead of sitting<br />

in front of the boob tube, but<br />

when one monster wake knocked over<br />

one of our lamps, we decided to pull<br />

the hook and make it back to Charlotte<br />

Harbor and continue our trek southward.<br />

But a trip up Peace River and<br />

lunch at the Nav-A-Gator is sure to be<br />

on the schedule for our return trip.<br />

After 40 years of sailing, Richard and Ina<br />

Moody switched from their Morgan 33 to<br />

their trawler, a Gulfstar 44, Seawind.<br />

Ina, a freelance writer, lives onboard with<br />

her husband in southwest Florida, where<br />

they cruise Florida’s west coast, the Keys<br />

and the Eastern Seaboard. Visit Ina’s Web<br />

site at www.StressRelief-Tips.org, or<br />

www.Yogina.org.<br />

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The Wreckers Race:<br />

Racing With Only Three Rules<br />

By Rebecca Burg<br />

Gathered on the upper level of Schooner Wharf Bar, the<br />

crowd of sailors hung onto every word. Jeff continued,<br />

“Rule two, no complaining or whining. Rule three…see<br />

rules one and two.” While the group hooted and clapped in<br />

enthusiastic approval, Jeff reminded them that maritime<br />

safety and navigation rules still applied. A question and<br />

answer session followed before the Wreckers Race captain’s<br />

meeting morphed into a party. This annual, four-race winter<br />

series in Key West is surely one of the most enjoyable and<br />

unusual regattas in existence.<br />

To get involved, sailors can crew, race their own boats or<br />

secure a seat aboard one of the participating local schooners.<br />

Grouped in several classes, boats of all sizes compete for<br />

prizes donated by West Marine, Schooner Wharf and Pussers<br />

rum. From the harbor’s start, it’s a seven-mile drag race to<br />

Sand Key Light. The competition is serious, yet playful.<br />

Rivals have been seen raising Jolly Rogers, throwing bread<br />

and mooning each other. Before the start of one race, I was<br />

sure I’d spied a blow-up doll hanging in one boat’s rigging<br />

and Moonspinner was towing his traditional inflatable shark.<br />

“If we have high wind, there’s some really kick-ass sailing,”<br />

says Harry Bowman, the race’s official videographer.<br />

Working around bouncing waves and salt spray, Harry<br />

records the action from the committee boat. The video settles<br />

bow-to-bow finishes and is played during the awards party.<br />

“People love the photography because they get to see their<br />

own boats sailing,” Harry notes.<br />

One can’t join the Wreckers Race without becoming<br />

acquainted with its most remarkable progenitor, Schooner<br />

Wharf Bar and Galley. “The race started as a pissing contest<br />

between two boats,” explains bar owner Evalena<br />

Worthington as she shared the story. Born and raised in<br />

Sweden, her exotic accent and flawless, movie star looks<br />

turned the heads of passersby. Mariners from way back,<br />

Evalena and husband Paul sailed into Key West on their<br />

engineless 83-foot wooden schooner, Defiance, in 1984.<br />

(Originally used as Joseph Pulitzer’s private yacht, Defiance<br />

was born in 1926.) Key West bight was an undeveloped<br />

working waterfront, full of shrimpers and commercial fishing<br />

vessels. Defiance sheltered in a slip leased from Singleton<br />

seafood, and the Worthingtons earned a living by chartering<br />

her. Soon, they added the schooner Diamante to the fleet and<br />

An assortment of boats gathering off Key West just before the start of the Wreckers Race.<br />

“Rule one,” announced Captain Jeff Stotts, thrusting an index finger in the air. “No protesting.”<br />

served beer and wine from her when docked. People sociably<br />

mingled and drank the beverages on the future site of<br />

today’s Schooner Wharf Bar.<br />

It was only natural that Defiance and Diamante would feel<br />

an irresistible urge to challenge each other to a speed duel.<br />

Flexing their great sails and strutting proudly about the harbor,<br />

the two schooners instigated a drag race to Sand Key. A<br />

few other local sailboats caught wind of this friendly contest<br />

and joined the sport. Defiance won the first round and the<br />

Wreckers Race was born. Evalena named the event in honor of<br />

Key West’s maritime history where a “wrecker” would earn a<br />

living by being the first one to race out and salvage vessels<br />

grounded on the area’s many reefs. Over time, both the race<br />

and Schooner Wharf Bar evolved and gained in popularity.<br />

With its rich history and island location, Schooner<br />

Wharf is an authentic nautical experience. Overlooking the<br />

waterfront, the open-air establishment is surrounded by<br />

active schooners and small boats. The slender bowsprits of<br />

Liberty Clipper and Island Belle point at the activity inside the<br />

bar. Historic wooden schooner, Western Union, rests nearby.<br />

The bar is constructed from parts of old shrimp boats, and<br />

an armrest along one side of the bartop is a boom from the<br />

schooner Hindu. Diminutive vessels hang from the ceiling,<br />

winners of the annual Minimal Regatta, another tradition<br />

started by Evalena and Paul. This event draws TV crews<br />

and must be seen to be believed. A host to countless activities,<br />

from the famed Holiday Lighted Boat Parade to a<br />

pirate-themed New Year’s celebration to an outdoor arts<br />

festival, Schooner Wharf helped put Key West on the map.<br />

The aroma of coconut shrimp from the enclosed kitchen<br />

wafted overhead, and I eyed the menu. Nearby, a man with<br />

a parrot on his shoulder ordered a drink and a bandannawearing<br />

terrier sniffs my foot before locating her owner. An<br />

on-site cigar stand, a card-playing magician, artists and live<br />

music are distinguished Wharf traditions. More heads turn<br />

when Evalena walks over to the bar, greeting the bartenders<br />

and checking on things. In between managing this valuable<br />

portion of the island’s community, Evalena makes time to<br />

sail and race her J/24, Freya. Joining one of the bar’s events,<br />

like the upcoming Wreckers Race series, is one way to experience<br />

this original piece of the real Key West. For details,<br />

visit www.schoonerwharf.com<br />

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SOUTHERN RACING<br />

THE MELGES EXPERIENCE:<br />

Learn to Sail a Melges 24,<br />

Davis Island Yacht Club, Tampa, FL<br />

Have you ever felt a twinge of envy while watching a 24-<br />

foot boat blow by you on a plane Have you ever wondered<br />

what it would be like to be at the helm of a 24-foot boat<br />

doing 15, 20, 25 knots you will have that opportunity Dec.<br />

13-14 at Davis Island Yacht Club, Tampa, FL, at the<br />

MELGES EXPERIENCE.<br />

You may do so for a $200 tax-deductible donation to<br />

Davis Island Youth Sailing Foundation (DIYSF) (plus insurance<br />

deposit). To crew, you may do so for a $100 donation.<br />

On Saturday, Dec. 13, there will be a demonstration of<br />

how easy it is to go from road-ready to sail-ready. You will<br />

be invited to a seminar featuring local experts showing you<br />

the proper way to sail a Melges 24. After lunch at the new<br />

DIYC clubhouse, you will have a chance to practice sail the<br />

Melges 24. There will be on-the-water coaching, videotaping,<br />

plus instruction from the owner seated next to you who<br />

will see that you don’t lose your $500 insurance deductible<br />

Sunday, Dec 14, will feature a three-race, four-leg windward/leeward<br />

regatta to show you what sailing the fastest<br />

monohull under 35 feet is all about.<br />

Come join us. Help Melges Fleet 31 grow and make a<br />

donation to Davis Island Youth Sailing Foundation. Contact<br />

King Purton at kpurton@verizon.net or (813) 760-0177 to get<br />

an application and secure a spot. Openings are limited.<br />

US SAILING Small Boat Sailing<br />

Level 1 Instructor Course,<br />

Orange Park, FL, Dec. 27-30<br />

The US SAILING Small Boat Sailing Level 1 Instructor<br />

Course, approved by the U.S. Coast Guard, is designed to<br />

teach sailing instructors on-the-water group management<br />

and instruction techniques for dinghies, multihull and<br />

small daysailing keelboats. It is a 40-hour course conducted<br />

in four days.<br />

For more information go to the US SAILING Web site at<br />

www.ussailing.org, then go to “Education” and then<br />

“Instructor Training.”<br />

The course will be held at The Rudder Club of<br />

Jacksonville, Orange Park, FL. Contact Dick Allsopp at dall<br />

sopp@ussailing.net, or call (904) 278-0329.<br />

■ UPCOMING MAJOR REGATTAS<br />

32nd Clearwater Challenge,<br />

Clearwater Yacht Club, Nov. 1-2<br />

This will be the 32nd year of the Clearwater Challenge, a<br />

keelboat competition in the Gulf of Mexico off Clearwater.<br />

Cookouts, live bands and dancing will be on the patio<br />

Friday and Saturday nights with an hour of complimentary<br />

rum punch each night.<br />

The Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker boats race windward-leeward<br />

on one course north of Clearwater Pass and<br />

the Racer-Cruisers, True Cruisers and Multihulls race various<br />

courses with reaching legs south of Clearwater Pass.<br />

Each class (and any one-design fleet of five or more boats)<br />

will have a separate start.<br />

For more information, and to register online, go to<br />

www.clwyc.org, or call (727) 447-6000.<br />

Cocoa Invitational Match Race,<br />

Cocoa, FL, Nov. 7-9<br />

Indian River Yacht Club and Brevard County Parks and<br />

Recreation are sponsoring another ISAF, internationallysanctioned<br />

sailboat event, the Cocoa Invitational Match<br />

Race. The event will be held at the Indian River Yacht club<br />

in Cocoa, FL. The Catalina 22 will be the match racing boat.<br />

Prior to the Cocoa Invitational Match Race, a review of<br />

match racing rules and tactics will be conducted on Friday<br />

evening, Nov. 7, and Saturday morning, Nov. 8 by Bill<br />

Gladstone of North U. The racing will begin at noon on<br />

Saturday and continue through Sunday.<br />

Contact Jerry Butz of IRYC for more details at (321) 638-<br />

0090, or at Jerry@BoatersExchange.com.<br />

9th Annual Sarasota Yacht Club<br />

Invitational Regatta, Nov. 8<br />

This regatta will be a 12-mile pursuit race in the Gulf of<br />

Mexico west of Big Sarasota Pass. The SYC Invitational<br />

Regatta is open to all Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker,<br />

Racer/Cruiser, True Cruiser, Pocket Cruiser and Multihull<br />

boats holding a current West Florida PHRF handicap rating.<br />

Five or more boats may make a class. The random leg<br />

course rating will be utilized.<br />

Registration, a pre-race party and skippers meeting will<br />

be held Thursday evening, Nov. 6. A Docktail party will be<br />

held Friday evening. Tickets are $25 purchased before Nov.6<br />

and $35 at the door. A continental complimentary breakfast<br />

will be available Saturday morning, and racing will begin<br />

around 11 a.m. (see NOR). An after-race party with dinner<br />

and awards presentations will be held Saturday evening.<br />

The NOR is available online at www.sarasotayacht<br />

club.org and online registration is available. For more information,<br />

call (941) 365-4191 or cindy.swan@verizon.net.<br />

2nd Annual Decanter Challenger,<br />

Rat Island Yacht Club, Palatka, FL,<br />

Nov. 15<br />

On Nov. 15, the Rat Island Yacht Club of Palatka, FL, will<br />

host the 2nd Annual Decanter Challenge, a 22-mile distance<br />

race that runs from the north side of Memorial Bridge<br />

to the Outback Crab Shack on Six Mile Creek. This is for<br />

monohulls only and boats of all sizes are welcome. There<br />

will be an awards party at the Outback Crab Shack after the<br />

race. Free overnight docking is available. Camping nearby<br />

is also available.<br />

For more information, contact info@ratisland.com,<br />

tkight12@bellsouth.net, or call (386) 546-9290. www.ratis<br />

land.com.<br />

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SOUTHERN RACING<br />

2008 Melges 24 Davis Island Yacht<br />

Club Regatta Named as Replacement<br />

Event for King’s Day Regatta/Atlantic<br />

Coast Championship, Nov. 22-23<br />

The 2008 Melges 24 Davis Island Yacht Club Regatta has officially<br />

been named as the replacement event for the King’s<br />

Day Regatta/Atlantic Coast Championship. The docks at<br />

the Florida Yacht Club in Jacksonville were damaged by a<br />

tropical storm recently and the event was moved. As many<br />

as 40-plus boats will compete. More information is available<br />

at the Melges 24 Web site at www.usmelges24.com. You can<br />

also find more at the Davis Island Yacht Club site at<br />

www.diyc.org.<br />

Lipton Regatta Update—<br />

Postponed to Nov. 22-23<br />

By Kim Kaminski<br />

It wasn’t enough that Hurricane Gustav messed up the<br />

Labor Day weekend plans for the Lipton Cup in Bay St.<br />

Louis, MS, but also, on the re-scheduled date two weeks<br />

later, Hurricane Ike forced another postponement and it is<br />

now set for Nov. 22-23. The regatta will now be held over a<br />

two-day period instead of the original three days.<br />

A new schedule and amended NOR will also be posted.<br />

For more information, go to www.bwyc.org/lipton_2008.htm.<br />

52nd Annual Wirth M. Munroe<br />

Fort Lauderdale to Palm Beach Race,<br />

Sailfish Club, Dec. 5<br />

This year’s 52nd Annual Wirth M. Munroe Fort Lauderdale<br />

to Palm Beach Race and celebration is scheduled for Friday,<br />

December 5. The race will begin at the Lauderdale Yacht<br />

Club in Fort Lauderdale and finish just outside the Lake<br />

Worth inlet in Palm Beach. The Sailfish Offshore Challenge<br />

is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 6, with short offshore buoy<br />

races outside the Lake Worth inlet. For more information or<br />

to enter, contact Samantha Dover at the Sailfish Club at<br />

samanthadover@sailfishclub.com, or (561) 844-0206.<br />

Additional information can also be found at<br />

www.sailfishclub.com.<br />

7th Annual Kettle Cup Regatta,<br />

Lake Monroe Sailing Association,<br />

Sanford, FL, Dec. 5-7<br />

Lake Monroe Sailing Association is hosting the 7th Annual<br />

Kettle Cup Regatta benefiting the Salvation Army. Racing<br />

will be Saturday and Sunday. Registration will be held Friday<br />

night and Saturday morning with the skippers meeting following<br />

registration. Regatta activities include a chili dinner, a<br />

raffle and silent auction, Sanford’s Christmas parade on<br />

Saturday evening and the awards ceremony after racing on<br />

Sunday. Boat ramps, trailer parking and accommodations are<br />

available. Proceeds from last year’s event enriched the holidays<br />

for 50 disadvantaged central Florida families. For more<br />

information, go to www.flalmsa.org or contact Andy Forrest<br />

at (407) 302-8041. All sailors are welcome.<br />

■ RACE REPORTS<br />

21st Annual Lost Bay Regatta, Point<br />

Yacht Club, Josephine, AL, Sept. 14<br />

By Kim Kaminski<br />

Jeff Hunt and his crew aboard Reach Around earned first place in<br />

the Spinnaker class, first place in the Spinnaker fleet and won the<br />

perpetual Paul Schreck Trophy at the 2008 Lost Bay Regatta.<br />

Photo by Kim Kaminski.<br />

On Sept. 13, Hurricane Ike hit the Galveston, TX, area. Prior<br />

to landfall, Ike churned up the waters of the Gulf, sending<br />

high storm surges and heavy winds as far away as 250 miles<br />

from the center of the system.<br />

John Bozeman, fleet captain for the Point Yacht Club in<br />

Josephine, AL, not only had to deal with this storm but also<br />

had to deal with running his club’s largest regatta of the<br />

year. Arrangements were made months ahead of time. This<br />

event welcomes a large number of out-of-town skippers,<br />

boats and crews, and with Ike’s strong winds storm surge,<br />

travel, to say the least, was a challenge.<br />

Everyone also had to deal with the high storm surge<br />

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that completely submerged various areas around the club,<br />

including boat docks, boat ramps, roads and even parts of<br />

the clubhouse as well.<br />

The storm also postponed the race from Saturday to<br />

Sunday, since the winds were predicted to be more manageable<br />

on Sunday. The social schedule and parties remained<br />

the same, except the trophy party was changed to Sunday.<br />

Forty-one boats competed in four Non-Spinnaker classes<br />

and one Spinnaker class, which sailed on a triangle<br />

course around Perdido Bay with the Spinnaker class having<br />

an additional windward/leeward leg. This course set-up<br />

created a 6.8-mile racecourse for the Non-Spinnaker class<br />

and a 10.2-mile racecourse for the Spinnaker class. Winds<br />

were steady and consistent at 11 to 15 knots initially out of<br />

the south, changing to the south-southwest throughout the<br />

rest of the day. Skies were sun-filled and the temperatures<br />

were mild, making for an ideal day following an intense<br />

weather week.<br />

The Point Yacht Club offers two perpetual trophies; the<br />

Paul Schreck Trophy is awarded to the first-place boat in the<br />

Spinnaker fleet and was named to honor the long-time<br />

Perdido Bay resident who was a legendary sailor, sailmaker<br />

and friend to many in the Pirates Cove area. The second trophy<br />

is the Paul Mueller Trophy, which is awarded to the<br />

winner in the Non-Spinnaker fleet. Paul Mueller was the<br />

proprietor of the Pirates “Cove” Marina.<br />

Jeff Hunt and crew aboard Reach Around received the<br />

Paul Schreck Trophy, and Phil Turner and crew aboard<br />

Horse With No Name received the Paul Mueller Trophy.<br />

RESULTS (TOP THREE): Spinnaker, 10.2 Miles (Class A):1, Reach<br />

Around, Jeff Hunt, PBYC, 1:14:44;2, Atlantic Union, Paul Gillette, PYC,<br />

1:16:54;3, Dinah Mo Hum, Rick Zern, PYC, 1:17:29;Non-Spinnaker,<br />

6.8 Miles(Class B):1, Caribbean Soul Too, Bob Kriegel, PYC, 0:50:40;2,<br />

Cannon Ball, Jo Hood, PtYC, 0:53:28;3, Shaman, Don Williams, PBYC,<br />

0:53:46; (Class C):1, Unstable, Dianne Godwin, PBYC, 1:02:11;2,<br />

Bajan, Paul Sykes, PtYC, 1:08:32;3, SoulMate, Kathy Choate, PtYC,<br />

1:09:54; (Class D):1, Gypsy Wind - Jack Ardrey, FYC, 0:51:39;2, Caddy<br />

Wampus, John Bozeman, PtYC, 0:57:23;3, Heather, Jim & Joanne<br />

Matthews, NYCP, 0:59:00; (Class E):1, Kokomo, Grant Brummett,<br />

Kokomo YC, 0:57:55;2, Windy City, Bob McDonald, PtYC, 1:03:38;3,<br />

Church Lady, John Bystrickey, 1:05:40; (Class F):1, Horse with No Name,<br />

Phil Turner, PtYC, 0:50:39; 2, New Day, Peter Grayson, MYC, 0:<br />

53:41;3, Clewless, Brett Holk, PtYC, 0:56:23.<br />

Porter Survives Drama in Melges 24<br />

Nationals, Charleston Yacht Club,<br />

Charleston, SC, Sept. 18-21<br />

By Dan Dickison<br />

Forty-four boats ultimately materialized in Charleston in<br />

mid September to compete in the 2008 OSASailing.com<br />

Melges 24 National Championships, and they arrived from<br />

all over the United States, along with three entries from the<br />

U.K. Just over half the fleet registered as professionals,<br />

meaning the competition was destined to be heated. After<br />

three days and a total of eight races that were contested in<br />

customarily strong currents and winds ranging from 5 to 28<br />

knots, the competition came down to the final race.<br />

Defending national champ Brian Porter of Winnetka, IL,<br />

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SOUTHERN RACING<br />

Scott Nixon sailing in the Melges 24 Nationals. Photo by Dan<br />

Dickison.<br />

and his “factory” team (which included his brother John,<br />

Melges company president Harry Melges and vice president<br />

Andy Burdick) on board Full Throttle, managed to prevail<br />

by just one point, but their victory was anything but<br />

certain until the final beat of the final race.<br />

Porter and company began the regatta in customary<br />

fashion, with scores of 2 and 1 in the first two races while<br />

northerly winds built throughout the day. But they faltered<br />

in Race 3 when a temporary malfunction in the cockpit put<br />

them in dead last just as the race started. This was probably<br />

the most demanding contest of the entire regatta, with a<br />

now-easterly wind pumping in the vicinity of 26 knots and<br />

a strong outgoing tide stirring up the seascape. Staring at<br />

every transom in the fleet is an extremely unfamiliar position<br />

for Full Throttle’s professional crew, so no competitor<br />

was surprised when this quartet worked its way back to salvage<br />

a 17th in that four-leg contest.<br />

Though few observers were aware at the time, that<br />

comeback embodied Full Throttle’s theme for the regatta.<br />

Despite winning Race 4 in very light air the following morning,<br />

Porter and his crew managed to stay under the radar<br />

for much of the regatta. Instead, Simon Strauss from New<br />

York and his crew on board Simplicity stepped into the limelight.<br />

Strauss’ team led in the overall standings at the end of<br />

the first and second days..<br />

Going into the final day of racing, each of the nine top<br />

teams had a reasonable shot at winning overall honors, but<br />

not if Porter had anything to say about it. He and his<br />

Midwestern brethren seized control from the get-go. They<br />

grabbed a bullet in Race 7, which put them just one point<br />

out of first place behind overall leader Strauss. In the final<br />

race—a five-leg contest finishing upwind—a near match<br />

race ensued. Strauss, Larson, Simpson, and Porter led the<br />

charge upwind. Larson got around the top mark first, followed<br />

by Simpson and Stuart McNay on GBR-620. As the<br />

leaders neared the leeward gate, the wind subsided rapidly.<br />

Larson managed to stretch his lead by choosing the favored<br />

right hand mark. Simpson followed in second with McNay<br />

third. But Strauss was right where he needed to be for the<br />

overall win, in fourth place, just ahead of Porter. When<br />

Strauss opted for the right-hand mark, Porter went left, and<br />

for the next two legs, the order stayed very much like that.<br />

On the beat to the finish, Larson managed to maintain<br />

his lead over Simpson while Strauss, who was third around<br />

the bottom mark, looked certain to secure the overall win.<br />

He went left while Porter—just moments behind—went<br />

right. As fate would have it, the dice favored Porter and his<br />

team, and they crossed the line in third place to snag the<br />

overall victory. Strauss’ decision to go left was costly, and he<br />

slipped to sixth place, which meant he’d have to settle for<br />

third in the overall scoring.<br />

The top 11 places at this regatta went to boats with pros<br />

on board, but Charlestonian Reggie Fairchild and his crew<br />

on Wireless put on an admirable performance to finish 12th<br />

overall. And his wasn’t the only local boat that fared well.<br />

John Lucas and Marcus Durlach’s Spray and Steve Kopf’s<br />

Blurr/Pacific Energy Ventures also finished in the top 20. Not<br />

bad for local boys.<br />

For full scores and additional information, log onto<br />

www.m24charleston.com.<br />

2008 30th Annual Mermaid Regatta,<br />

Melbourne Yacht Club,<br />

Melbourne, FL, Sept. 27-28<br />

By John Fox<br />

In 1978, Rachele Ross had the idea for an all-women’s regatta.<br />

At the time it was a hard sell convincing men to turn over<br />

their boats to the girls, but anyone who knows Rachele will<br />

tell you that she just doesn’t take NO for an answer. When<br />

Rachele was asked to plan and host a dinner at Melbourne<br />

Yacht Club, she agreed, under the condition that the men of<br />

the club run a race for women only — and that after the race<br />

they cook and serve the dinner and do the cleanup. They<br />

agreed! And so the MYC Mermaid Regatta was born! Thirty<br />

years later, Rachele is still running the Mermaid Regatta, and<br />

it’s still going strong. A not-to-miss party goes along with it.<br />

On Saturday, 13 boats ranging from 22 to 37 feet, with 84<br />

women as crew, came to sail in the PHRF Division that consisted<br />

of Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker classes. While the<br />

rules allow one male observer to be aboard, some of the<br />

crews are past that including overall winner Mouse with<br />

Rochelle Yates at the helm.<br />

The winds were light from the southwest to begin with<br />

and at times died completely, leaving the boats drifting<br />

motionlessly. That it took an hour and a half for some of the<br />

Non-Spinnaker boats to sail the 2.9-mile course says it all. For<br />

the two class winners, Rochelle Yates in Mouse and Pam Worth<br />

in J&R, patience paid off, and they led from start to finish.<br />

Thankfully, the dinner and party were up to Rachele’s<br />

usual high standards with cuisine and entertainment supplied<br />

by the club’s male members. The club gave her a special<br />

honors ceremony, and it’s really fitting that last month<br />

Rachele won this year’s Walter Erban Memorial Award for<br />

all her hard work to promote sailing in Brevard County.<br />

Nine women came back for Sunfish racing on Sunday<br />

in easterly winds that filled and died many times. The race<br />

committee shortened the course in two of the three races. In<br />

the first race, Cindy Taylor had a clear lead only to sit several<br />

minutes becalmed within five feet of the finish line. She<br />

could do nothing but watch as Mindy Stauley ghosted in on<br />

a puff to beat her. Mindy managed three firsts to win the<br />

day, but Cindy and Marlene Sassaman had a real neck-andneck<br />

horse race to finish tied on points. Cindy took second<br />

place on the tiebreaker.<br />

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RESULTS (FULL RESULTS AT WWW.SAIL-RACE.COM):<br />

Class A, Spinnaker: 1st, Mouse, Rochelle Yates; 2nd, Bad Penny, Cheryl<br />

Schmitz; 3rd Purr-fect, Amy Lacy: Class B, Non-Spinnaker: 1st, J&R,<br />

Pam Worth; 2nd, Sleighride, Rachele Ross; 3rd, Rocket Science, Bridget<br />

Cooper; Sunfish: 1st, Mindy Strauley; 2nd, Cindy Taylor; 3rd, Marlene<br />

Sassaman.<br />

Bradenton YC Kick-Off Regatta<br />

Draws 62 Boats, Tampa Bay,<br />

Sept. 27-28<br />

By Morgan Stinemetz<br />

With 62 boats competing in eight classes, the Bradenton<br />

Yacht Club’s annual rite of fall passage drew about what it<br />

ordinarily draws, so there were no big surprises in the<br />

turnout numbers. The regatta kicks off the racing year for<br />

the Tampa Bay and Sarasota Bay sailboat racing contingent,<br />

meaning that any skipper who is looking for Tampa Bay<br />

Boat of the Year or Sarasota Bay Boat of the Year honors had<br />

better show up for this one.<br />

The class that has taken the biggest hit in entries over<br />

the past several years is the Non-Spinnaker class, as a number<br />

of non-spin boats have apparently shifted into the cruising<br />

classes, either True Cruising or Pocket Cruiser.<br />

Racing took place on lower Tampa Bay, west of the<br />

Sunshine Skyway. The Multihull, Spinnaker, Non-<br />

Spinnaker and Melges 24 classes raced windward/leeward<br />

courses both days, with two races on Saturday and one on<br />

Sunday. The Racer/Cruiser and Cruiser classes raced the<br />

same course both days, a 13.4-mile course.<br />

There was slightly more wind on Saturday than<br />

Sunday. Saturday saw 10-12 with an easterly component.<br />

Sunday had about the same wind direction, but as the<br />

morning wore on, the wind dropped out a bit for the cruising<br />

boats, with the surface of Tampa Bay starting to get an<br />

oily look for late finishers.<br />

Jim Masson, who skippered a 1975 Ericson 35-2 to third<br />

in Cruiser A, said he pulled out a good start on Saturday’s<br />

race and finished third. He had a lot more company and<br />

some very dirty air when he started on Sunday, but managed<br />

another third, passing a C&C on the final reach to<br />

leave that boat’s skipper scratching his head and wondering<br />

how it all happened. Had Masson not passed the C&C,<br />

he would have finished 3-4, and the C&C would have finished<br />

4-3 and bagged third place on the tiebreaker.<br />

In the Multihull class, it was Evolution, a Corsair 28R<br />

skippered by Katharyn Garlick of Terra Ceia, FL, that<br />

showed the guys which way was up. She posted three bullets.<br />

Peter Wormwood’s Stiletto 27, Deuce Coupe, was second<br />

with three second-place finishes. Wormwood is from<br />

Palmetto, FL. Mike Speth of Sarasota had another Stiletto<br />

27, Swim Mart, that had three thirds in a row.<br />

Spinnaker A went to Wired, a Farr 395 SD, raced by<br />

Allen Thomas of Tampa. Wired won first on a tie-breaker<br />

with Mad Cow 2, a B-32, co-owned by David German and<br />

Ed Ruark of Tampa. Wired had a line score of 4-2-3. Mad<br />

Cow had a line score of 2-3-4. Third in class went to XS, a<br />

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custom 41 owned by Doug Fisher of Sarasota. Fisher, who is<br />

generally in the hunt in every race he’s in, had a 7 in the first<br />

race and then 1-2, but that first race cost him.<br />

Renegade, a Carrera 290, skippered by Jamie Myers of<br />

Tampa, took Spinnaker B with a line score of 2-1-1. Bob<br />

Armstrong’s J/92, Mischief, a Bradenton yacht, nailed second<br />

with a line score of 1-3-4, taking the tiebreaker away<br />

from third-place finisher Celebration, Michael Kayusa’s<br />

Olson 29 from Fort Myers. Celebration finished with 4-2-2.<br />

In the 10-boat Non-Spin class, first went to Doug<br />

Dearden’s Impulse 26, In Tune. The boat is from Sarasota.<br />

Dearden had three straight bullets. See Ya, a Capri 30 from<br />

Inverness, FL and skippered by Steve Grote, took second<br />

with a line score of 2-2-4. Greg Knighton’s Tartan 37-2,<br />

Weather Girl, took third in class with finishes of 3-7-2.<br />

Knighton is from Bradenton.<br />

The following three classes sailed one race each day.<br />

Racer/Cruiser was won by Wing-It, Michael Doyle’s<br />

Irwin 39. Doyle sails out of Tampa and had a line score of 2-<br />

1. Second went to Relativity, a Beneteau 53 First owned by<br />

Hall Palmer of St. Petersburg. The line score was 1-3.<br />

Richard Gress of Sarasota brought home his O’Day 40,<br />

Mother Ocean, in third. Line score was 3-4.<br />

Tops in Cruiser A was the largest boat in the class,<br />

Seraphim, a Mason 53 owned by Tom Rose of Palmetto.<br />

Seraphim had two firsts. Cool Change, a Tartan 37 belonging<br />

to Martin Zonnenburg of Tampa, was second with identical<br />

second-place finishes. The Ericson 35-2, Calypso, mentioned<br />

earlier, had two thirds.<br />

In the Cruiser B class, Solitude, a Hunter 30 belonging to<br />

David Wilson of Bradenton, won the class with a 2-1 score.<br />

The win on Sunday gave Solitude the tiebreaker over Antea,<br />

a Yankee 30 MKII, skippered by Stan Svoboda of Tampa,<br />

which had a 1-2. Third in class went to Forever Young, a<br />

Catalina 350 skippered by Ron Greenberg of Sarasota.<br />

Complete results for the remaining class in the regatta,<br />

the Melges 24 one-design class, were not available at<br />

press time.<br />

2008 Snipe U.S. Team World<br />

Championship Qualifier,<br />

Florida Yacht Club, Jacksonville, FL,<br />

Sept. 27-28<br />

By Hal Gilreath<br />

Augie Diaz and Morgan Commette captured the World<br />

Championship Qualifier over local sailor Hal Gilreath and<br />

Clayton Dixon. Doug and Melanie Broeker of Miami finished<br />

up in third. Augie was prequalified for the Worlds, so Hal and<br />

Doug clinched the two remaining spots on the U.S. team.<br />

A high-quality fleet came to Jacksonville over a beautiful<br />

weekend to contest the Worlds Team Qualifier. The 2009<br />

Worlds are scheduled for San Diego, and as such the competition<br />

for these spots has been very high. The fleet of<br />

World, Western Hemisphere, National and North American<br />

Champions, along with numerous former and current All-<br />

Americans, Olympians and Pan Game representatives battled<br />

it out on the St. Johns River.<br />

After a delay on shore, the fleet went out on the St. Johns<br />

to sail in strong current and light winds. These conditions<br />

proved challenging as the fleet went through several recalls<br />

and postponements prior to getting off on a good start.<br />

Steve Stewart and Gus Wirth, San Diego, led Brian Bissel<br />

and David Hughes at the first mark. Steve and Gus held onto<br />

first with the positions behind them changing constantly in<br />

the oscillating breeze. Augie and Morgan clawed back<br />

through the fleet along with Chris and Antoinette Klotz from<br />

St. Pete. By the end, Augie nipped Steve and Gus, followed<br />

by the Klotzes and then Hal and Clayton.<br />

The first race proved staying in the pressure and<br />

searching for the next shift were imperative. The second<br />

race was similar to the first. This time Ernesto Rodriguez<br />

and new super crew, Lisa, led from start to finish. Lee<br />

Griffith and Andrea Nilsen followed around in second.<br />

Convergence was the word at the leeward mark as the<br />

places 2-12 came together in a bunch. Up the second beat<br />

Doug and Melanie Broeker, and Hal and Clayton broke out<br />

from the pack to round the weather mark second and third.<br />

Ernesto and Lisa held on up the last beat to win. Brian Bissel<br />

and David Hughes went up the left side and squeezed<br />

ahead of Hal and Clayton for second. Augie and Morgan<br />

sailed steadily throughout the race moving from eighth to<br />

fourth, just edging out Doug and Melanie.<br />

Sunday dawned sunny, warm, and clear.<br />

Unfortunately, there was not a breath of air. After waiting<br />

the RC cancelled further racing. Despite limited sailing the<br />

sailors enjoyed a great weekend in Jacksonville. The U.S.<br />

Worlds team is now set for the Worlds in San Diego in 2009.<br />

FYC will host its annual St. Johns Tea Party next spring.<br />

RESULTS, TOP 10 (PLACE, SKIPPER, CREW, HOME, TOTAL POINTS):<br />

1, Augie Diaz, Morgan Commette, Miami, 4.75; 2, Hal Gilreath,<br />

Clayton Dixon, Jacksonville, 7; 3, Doug Broeker, Melanie, Miami, 10; 4,<br />

Chris Klotz, Antoinette, St. Pete, 13; 5, Brian Bissel, David Hughes,<br />

Newport Beach, 14; 6, Peter Commette, Megan Place, Ft Lauderdale,<br />

14; 7, Steve Stewart, Gus Wirth, San Diego, 18; 8, Eric Reinke, Merrill<br />

Varn, Annapolis, 22; 9, Lee Griffith, Andrea Nilson, Surf City, 23.<br />

43rd Summerset Regatta,<br />

Fort Myers Beach, FL, Oct. 4-5<br />

By Steve Romaine<br />

Due to tropical storms, the 43rd Summerset Regatta in Fort<br />

Myers Beach, usually held on Labor Day weekend, was<br />

twice postponed. Finally, on October 4-5, the regatta was<br />

held with 33 sailboats racing. The event is sponsored by the<br />

Caloosahatchee Marching and Chowder Society (CMCS)<br />

and is the premiere sailboat racing event in southwest<br />

Florida each year..<br />

Boats raced in five classes in the Gulf off Fort Myers<br />

Beach. There was buoy racing on the first day under gray<br />

skies and strong winds. Spinnaker boats got in three races<br />

under good winds. The after-race party was held at Bonita<br />

Bill’s dockside restaurant. Buoy racing this year was sponsored<br />

by Porsche of Naples.<br />

The second day of racing was a distance race of 14.3 nautical<br />

miles, sponsored by West Marine. This race, held under<br />

good winds, headed south along the coast from Fort Myers<br />

Beach pier, rounded a buoy and returned north to the finish.<br />

Racers in this year’s Summerset Regatta earned points<br />

in three different regional Boat of the Year competitions.<br />

This is also the first year of the Caloosahatchee Boat of the<br />

Year challenge.<br />

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Robert Libby took first in the Multihull class on his<br />

Corsair F27, Anhinga, followed by Paul Perisho on Aquila, a<br />

Corsair 24 MKII. Ned Christensen took third on his TRT<br />

1200, Passion III.<br />

In Spinnaker A, it was a first for Forrest Banks in<br />

Midnite Rider, a Tartan 4100, who came from behind after<br />

taking fifth in race two and winning the other three races.<br />

Second went to Tom Gore on Judy, a Henderson 30, and<br />

third was Joel Andrews on Macushla, a Beneteau 10.<br />

In first place in Spinnaker B was Art Monahan’s Sun<br />

Runner, a Morgan 27. He was followed by Jason Richards’ T-<br />

Bone, a S2 7.9. Third went to Mark Beaufvois on Winward, a<br />

Cape Dory 22. Winward won the coastal race in the division,<br />

despite being the highest rated boat and also the smallest.<br />

In Non-Spinnaker A, first was Steve Romaine on Air<br />

Supply, a Jeanneau 35. Second was Paul McDill on Essence, a<br />

Pearson 35, and third went to Kim Brown on a C&C 35,<br />

Trust Me!!<br />

Don Prohaska took first in Non-Spinnaker B on Sand<br />

Dollar, a C&C 27. Second went to Tom Sayers on Enterprise,<br />

an O’Day 30, and third went to Tom Homer on his<br />

Endeavour 32, Bentley.<br />

In the Cruising A class, it was Rex Good in first on Jabu,<br />

a Sabre 40. Bob Duff on Chase the Clouds, a Catalina 42, took<br />

second. Third went to Diane Fowler on Windy City, a<br />

Catalina 36.<br />

Gerald Pim took first in Cruising B on Gopher Baroque, a<br />

Pearson 35. Roger Horton was second in the class on Wicked<br />

Wicked Ways, a Seward 31. Third went to Mel Rudd on Sea<br />

Puppy, a Hunter 34.<br />

An awards ceremony was held on Oct. 10 at the Terrace<br />

Hall in Cape Coral. Although last year’s regatta raised over<br />

$4700 to give to youth sailing organizations in the area, this<br />

year’s event, because of the postponements, had a smaller<br />

participation, but Regatta Chairman Forest Banks said that<br />

a large cash contribution will still be able to be made.<br />

For complete results, go to www.cmcs-sail.org.<br />

Top competitors at GYA 10th<br />

Annual Multihull Championships,<br />

Pensacola Beach Yacht Club, Oct. 4-5<br />

By Julie B. Connerley<br />

When you combine a former Worrell 1,000 champion, a<br />

Hobie 14 World’s champion, a Nacra national champion<br />

and add a few Corsair national champions in for good<br />

measure, you know some serious racing will be taking<br />

place. Assistance was provided by Key Sailing, owned by<br />

Kirk Newkirk, on the shores of Santa Rosa Sound where the<br />

five-race series was held.<br />

The regatta was also the inaugural Discover Pensacola<br />

Bay Sailing Festival title event for Celebrate Pensacola, an<br />

organization commemorating the 450th anniversary of the<br />

founding of Pensacola – by Don Tristan de Luna who first<br />

sailed into what is now known as Pensacola Bay in 1559.<br />

Twenty-three boats competed for first through third<br />

honors in one of three classes plus one of three individual<br />

perpetual trophies. And they could compete for the Lewis<br />

B. Pollak Perpetual Trophy, which is awarded annually to<br />

the club whose team attains the best competitive score.<br />

Bob Curry, Fort Walton YC, Kirk Newkirk, Pensacola Beach YC, and<br />

Don Wigston, Fort Walton YC, display the perpetual trophies they<br />

won. Photo by Julie Connerley.<br />

Classes were divided into Class A, Portsmouth under<br />

64, Class B, Portsmouth over 64.1, and Class C, PHRF.<br />

Saturday’s schedule planned for three races. It took<br />

over an hour and a half for the last boat to finish the first<br />

race. The sea breeze never materialized, and after race two,<br />

PRO Goodall wisely abandoned the third race.<br />

Sunday’s weather provided ideal multihull conditions<br />

and three races were completed in under three hours.<br />

Kirk Newkirk, sailing his Nacra 20, won the J. R.<br />

Lundquist Perpetual Trophy for the skipper with the fastest<br />

elapsed times for all races. Kirk recalled that it wasn’t all<br />

smooth sailing. “I won the first race. But by the time the second<br />

race started, the winds got shifty and I found myself at<br />

the back of the pack. I managed to climb back up in the fleet<br />

and finished sixth.”<br />

By Sunday, he had his head back in the game and finished<br />

the series with a first, then two more second-place finishes,<br />

to end up with a score of 12 for first in Portsmouth<br />

under 64 and the Lundquist Trophy. Newkirk sailed for<br />

PBYC.<br />

Bob Curry, of Fort Walton Yacht Club, blew his competition<br />

away in the Portsmouth over 64 class, taking first and<br />

the Jim Tucker Perpetual Trophy in the Portsmouth Fleet.<br />

Curry is also a member of the US SAILING Portsmouth rating<br />

committee and a well-respected member of the multihull<br />

sailing community.<br />

In 2006, Olympic sailor Randy Smyth donated a trophy,<br />

the Smyth Sails Perpetual Trophy, to be awarded “to the<br />

winning skipper in the PHRF class.” Competition was a<br />

dueling tack-for-tack two-man tiebreaker for this trophy.<br />

Sailing his Corsair Sprint 750, was Don Wigston, Fort<br />

Walton Yacht Club, and a former Corsair national champion.<br />

Bert Rice, former Nacra national champion, was sailing<br />

for Pensacola Yacht Club aboard his Corsair 24. After four<br />

races, Rice was in the lead with 7 points, Wigston trailing by<br />

one point. By the final race, their scores were tied with 9<br />

points each.<br />

According to the racing rules, the skipper who had the<br />

most first-place wins broke the tie. Wigston won the final<br />

race and won the Smyth Perpetual Trophy.<br />

Rice placed second in the final race and in PHRF class.<br />

“It came down to just seconds between winning the Smyth<br />

trophy,” Rice said later. “Where could I have made up those<br />

seconds” he smiled.<br />

The Pollak Perpetual Trophy went to Fort Walton Yacht<br />

Club’s team of Curry (Hobie 14 World’s champion),<br />

Wigston, and Brian Lambert (Worrell 1,000 winner), a tough<br />

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team to beat by any standards!<br />

However, there are always up-and-coming sailors who<br />

are the future champions, and we may have just had an<br />

opportunity to meet one of them after the awards ceremony<br />

Sunday afternoon.<br />

Thirteen-year-old Taylor Reiss aboard an F-18 was quite<br />

noticeable on the racecourse. His surfer-style towhead was<br />

one thing, but his size was something else. Definitely head<br />

and shoulders below the rest of the competitors, he scrambled<br />

around the boat as if he was born on it. Saturday’s light<br />

air was an advantage for the lightweight. But Sunday he was<br />

right back out there, handling everything capably.<br />

Little did I know that his crewmember was just 15 years<br />

old himself! Matthew Whitehead was skipper on the Reiss<br />

boat. Taylor’s dad, George, well, he was “transportation<br />

coordinator” since somebody had to get the boat to<br />

Pensacola Beach from Panama City. The Reiss family<br />

belongs to St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club.<br />

Ask Taylor about his sailing experience and (thanks to<br />

his dad) he will tell you, “I learned how to walk on a heeling<br />

boat.” Seriously though, he has been racing two to three<br />

years now, but this was his first multihull championship.<br />

These remarkable young men placed fourth overall in<br />

Portsmouth under 64, missing third by just 3.5 points!<br />

Matthew, Taylor and George will be back for the F-18<br />

North American Championships October 13-17 (again at<br />

PBYC and Key Sailing).<br />

Go to www.gulfsailing.com for photos and more about<br />

the GYA Multihull Championship.<br />

RESULTS: Portsmouth under 64 Class A: 1, Kirk Newkirk; 2, John<br />

Macdonald; 3, Charles Harp: Portsmouth over 64.1 Class B: 1, Bob<br />

Curry; 2, Kevin Smith; 3, Stuart McMillian: PHRF Class C: 1, Don<br />

Wigston; 2, Bert Rice; 3, Bob Hodges.<br />

■ REGIONAL RACING CALENDARS<br />

Regattas and Club Racing—<br />

Open to Everyone Wanting to Race<br />

For the races listed here, no individual club membership is<br />

required, although a regional PHRF rating, or membership<br />

in US SAILING or other sailing association is often<br />

required.<br />

To list an event, contact to editor@southwindsmag<br />

azine.com. Send in the name of the event, date, location,<br />

contact info, possibly a short description. Do not just send a<br />

link to this information.<br />

Since race schedules and venues change, contact the<br />

sponsoring organization to confirm.<br />

NOVEMBER<br />

Charleston Ocean Racing Association.<br />

www.charlestonoceanracing.org<br />

Local races 9/13 and 9/27, every other Saturday.<br />

8 Doublehanded Race<br />

15 Charleston YC Big Boat Regatta.<br />

29 Turkey Regatta<br />

Neuse Yacht Racing Association www.nyra.org<br />

See Web site for local club races<br />

8 Winter Race #2<br />

22 Turkey Trot. NC Championship.<br />

Lake Lanier. Lake Lanier Sailing Club (LLSC) www.llsc.com<br />

See Web site for weekly local club races<br />

1-2 Miss Piggy. Regatta. One-design. J/22, J/24, Soverel. LLSC<br />

2 Bill Sears #3. SSC.<br />

9 Fall #3. SARC.<br />

South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. www.sayra-sailing.com<br />

1-2 Bloody Mary Regatta. Thistles WCSC.<br />

1-2 Fall 48. Flying Scots. LNYC<br />

1-2 No More Turkey. Lasers. AYC.<br />

1-2 Miss Piggy. Regatta. One-design. J/22, J/24, Soverel. LLSC<br />

8-9 Carolina Keelboat. Open. LNYC<br />

9,16,23,30 Frost Snipe Series. Laser. AYC<br />

www.longbaysailing.com<br />

See Web site for local club races<br />

DECEMBER<br />

Charleston Ocean Racing Association.<br />

www.charlestonoceanracing.org<br />

See Web site for local club races<br />

Neuse Yacht Racing Association www.nyra.org<br />

Check Web site for club races.<br />

6,20 Winter Race #3, #4<br />

Lake Lanier. Lake Lanier Sailing Club (LLSC) www.llsc.com<br />

See Web site for local club races<br />

13 Fall race #4. LLSC hosts.<br />

South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. www.sayra-sailing.com<br />

www.longbaysailing.com<br />

See Web site for local club races<br />

NOVEMBER<br />

1 Women on Water Regatta. Rudder Club<br />

1 Turkey Trot Regatta. Halifax SA<br />

2 Commodore Cup Race #11. Halifax River YC<br />

2 Fall Race #6. Indian River YC<br />

2 Small Boat Sunday. Melbourne YC<br />

1-2 3rd Annual Florida Inland Lake Championship Regatta.<br />

Lake Eustis Sailing Club<br />

8 King’s Day Regatta. Effingham Forest YC<br />

8-9 Cocoa Invitational Match Race. Indian River YC<br />

8-9 Long Distance Regatta. Port Canaveral YC<br />

9 Big Boy’s Race. Halifax SA.<br />

9,23 Winter Rum Race #1, #2. Melbourne YC<br />

9 Fall Race #5. Titusville Sailing Center<br />

15 2nd Annual Decanter Challenge. Rat Island YC.<br />

15 Fall Series #4. Rudder Club<br />

15-16 15th Annual MC Scot & Melges 17 Southeast<br />

Regional Championship Regatta. Lake Eustis SC<br />

15 Treasure Coast Laser Series. Sebastian Inlet State Park<br />

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16 Women’s Fall Race #5. East Coast SA –Women’s<br />

22 Fall River Race. North Florida Cruising Club<br />

22 Fall Series #4. East Coast SA – Racing<br />

23 Race of Champions. Indian River YC<br />

23 Fall Make Up Date, optional. Titusville Sailing Center<br />

29-30 Sunfish Fleet 669 No Frills Regatta. Melbourne YC<br />

DECEMBER<br />

6 Single-Handed Race. East Coast SA – Racing<br />

7,21 Winter Rum Race #3,4. Melbourne YC<br />

7 Big Boy’s Race. Halifax SA<br />

6-7 Club Races. Lake Eustis SA<br />

6-7 Gator Bowl Regatta. Rudder Club<br />

13-14 Catalina 22 Florida State Championships. Indian River YC<br />

13 Grand Canal Parade East Coast SA<br />

13 Cruise to Grand Canal Parade. East Coast SA –Cruising<br />

13 Single Handed Regatta. Bull Bay Cruising Club<br />

14 Women’s Fall Race #6. East Coast SA –Women’s<br />

14,28 Small Boat Sunday. Melbourne YC<br />

20 Double-Handed Race. East Coast SA –Racing<br />

20-21 Club Races. Lake Eustis SA<br />

JANUARY 2009<br />

1 Blessing of the Fleet & Fun Run. Titusville Sailing Center<br />

1 Small Boat Hangover Regatta. Melbourne YC<br />

3-4 Club Races. Lake Eustis Sailing Association<br />

Key West Sailing Club. Every Saturday – Open House at the<br />

Key West Sailing Club. 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (305) 292-5993.<br />

www.keywestsailingclub.org. Sailboat Lane off Palm Avenue in<br />

Key West. Come by the club to sail. Non-members and members<br />

welcome. Wednesday night racing has begun for the summer<br />

season. Skippers meet at the clubhouse by 5:00 p.m. and boats<br />

start racing at 6:00 p.m. in the seaplane basin near the mooring<br />

field. Dinner and drinks afterward.<br />

Upper Keys Sailing Club (UKSC).<br />

www.upperkeyssailingclub.com. Go to the Web site for regular<br />

club racing open to all.<br />

NOVEMBER<br />

1-2 MSYSP Fall Championship. Bayside<br />

8-9 Dockmaster’s Regatta. Bayside. Portsmouth Sat., PHRF<br />

Sun.<br />

15 LUKI Regatta. Bayside<br />

22 Fall Series #3. Portsmouth. Bayside<br />

DECEMBER<br />

6-7 Key Largo Regatta. Melges 24. Oceanside<br />

21 Flail and Sail. PHRF. Bayside<br />

27 St. Nick’s All Comers. Bayside.<br />

Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association. www.bbyra.net<br />

Go the Web site for local club races<br />

BBYC Biscayne Bay YC<br />

BBYRA Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association. www.bbyra.net<br />

CGSC Coconut Grove Sailing Club. www.cgsc.org<br />

CRYC Coral Reef YC. www.coralreefyachtclub.org.<br />

KBYC Key Biscayne YC. www.kbyc.org.<br />

MYC Miami YC. www.miamiyachtclub.net.<br />

NOVEMBER<br />

1 CRYC Annual Regatta. BBYRA PHRF #11<br />

2 CRYC Annual Regatta. BBYRA OD #11<br />

8 J/24 Biscayne Bay Series. Flat Earth Racing<br />

8-9 Star Schoonmaker Cup. CRYC<br />

15-16 PHRF SEF PHRF Championship<br />

22 KBYC 42nd Round the Island Race<br />

DECEMBER<br />

5 Wirth Monroe Palm Beach Race. www.sailfishclub.com<br />

6-7 Star Commodore Cup. CRYC<br />

6 BBYRA OD. BBYC<br />

7 BBYRA PHRF KBYC<br />

13-14 Etchells Piana Cup. BBYC<br />

20 J/24 Biscayne Bay Series. Flat Earth Racing<br />

26-30 Orange Bowl Regatta. CGSC. CRYC.<br />

SOUTHWINDS Annual Online West Florida Race Calendar<br />

Posted Sept. 1<br />

SOUTHWINDS magazine posts the annual race schedule/calendar<br />

(9/1/08 — 8/31/09) on its Web site for all racing in the central<br />

west Florida area from just north of Tampa Bay south to Marco<br />

Island. The calendar includes all scheduled races of the West<br />

Florida PHRF organization (www.westfloridaphrf.org), plus club<br />

races in the area and any others that boaters in the area would<br />

like to post. The Boat of the Year races are listed for all the areas<br />

of the West Florida PHRF organization.<br />

The race calendar can be accessed through the racing pages<br />

link at www.southwindsmagazine.com. It is also the race calendar<br />

link at the West Florida PHRF organization<br />

(www.westfloridaphrf.org) and many other sailing associations<br />

and yacht clubs in the area.<br />

Contact editor@southwindsmagazine.com to list your race,<br />

make corrections, or changes. Sorry, but we cannot list every single<br />

weekly club race.<br />

Club Racing<br />

Boca Ciega YC. Gulfport. Third Sunday each month. 10:00 am,<br />

PHRF racing. (727) 321-7295 or www.sailbcyc.org. One-design,<br />

dinghy racing every Wednesday at 5:30 pm. May through<br />

September. (727) 458-7274.<br />

Bradenton YC. Races April through October. Thursday evenings.<br />

Races at 6:30 p.m. PHRF racing on Manatee River. For info, call<br />

Susan Tibbits at (941) 723-6560.<br />

Clearwater Community Sailing Center. The center holds regular<br />

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SOUTHERN RACING<br />

weekend club races. For dates and more information, go to<br />

www.clearwatercommunitysailing.org.<br />

Dunedin Boat Club. Monthly club racing. For more information,<br />

contact saraherb@aol.com.<br />

Edison Sailing Center, Fort Myers. Sunfish and dinghy racing<br />

once a month, year-round<br />

john@johnkremski.com<br />

Port Charlotte. Third Saturday of month, year-round.<br />

pbgvtrax@aol.com.<br />

Punta Gorda Sailing Club. Charlotte Harbor. Fall Series Sunday<br />

afternoon racing begins Sept. 9 through Nov. 18.<br />

www.pgscweb.com.<br />

Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Friday evening races start in April.<br />

www.sarasotasailingsquad.com.<br />

Venice Sailing Squadron. Saturdays. First Saturday of each<br />

month, PHRF racing. Start at mouth of Venice Inlet.<br />

www.venice-sailing-squadron.org<br />

BOAT OF THE YEAR RACES (BOTY) — LEGEND<br />

Below are areas from Tampa Bay going south to greater Fort<br />

Myers area (Southwest Florida). For a list of the BOTY races for<br />

each area, go to the West Florida online race calendar at<br />

www.southwindsmagazine.com/westfloridaracecalendar.html.<br />

Suncoast Boat of the Year Races (SuncoastBOTY)<br />

This is the Tampa Bay Area.<br />

Sarasota Bay Boat of the Year Races (SBBOTY)<br />

Sarasota Bay Motley Fleet Boat of the Year Races (MBOTY)<br />

Charlotte Harbor Boat of the Year Races (CHBOTY)<br />

Southwest Florida Boat of the Year Races (SWFBOTY)<br />

Ft. Myers/Marco Island area<br />

Caloosahatchee Boat of the Year Races (CBOTY)<br />

Ft. Myers/Cape Coral area<br />

NOVEMBER<br />

1-2 Lake Eustis Sailing Club. Florida Inland Lake Junior<br />

Championship<br />

1-2 Clearwater YC. Clearwater Challenge, PHRF.<br />

(SuncoastBOTY-S,NS,RC,C)<br />

1-2 Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Flying Scot Team Race<br />

1-2 Naples Sailing & YC. Commodore’s Cup. PHRF<br />

8 Caloosahatchee Marching & Chowder Society Turkey Cup<br />

8 St. Pete Sailing Assoc. Commodore’s Cup, PHRF<br />

8 Sarasota YC. Invitational, PHRF (SBBOTY)<br />

8-9 Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Flying Scot Regatta<br />

8-9 St. Petersburg YC & Sailing Center. High School District<br />

Sloop Champs<br />

TBD Naples Community Sailing Center. Kid’s Regatta & Lasers<br />

14-16 St. Petersburg YC. America’s Disabled Sailors Regatta<br />

15-16 Lake Eustis Sailing Club. MC Scow SE & M-17<br />

Championship<br />

15-16 Clearwater Community SC. Carlisle Classic, Cats,<br />

Dinghies, Portsmouth<br />

15-16 Marco Island YC. Fall Regatta, PHRF (SWFBOTY)<br />

16 Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Motley Fleet Race. (MBOTY)<br />

21-23 St. Petersburg YC, Sailing Center. College Sloop<br />

Championship<br />

22 Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Drumstick Regatta & Laser<br />

Regatta<br />

28 Davis Island YC. Old Shoe, PHRF<br />

29-30 Davis Island YC. Thanksgiving Regatta, All classes,<br />

Windmill Southerns<br />

DECEMBER<br />

4-7 St. Pete Boat Show & Strictly Sail St. Pete.<br />

www.showmanagement.com.<br />

6 Caloosahatchee Marching & Chowder Society<br />

Commodore’s Cup. (CBOTY)<br />

6-7 Punta Gorda SC. Fall Regatta. (CHBOTY)<br />

6-7 St. Petersburg YC, Green Bench J/24 Regatta<br />

6-7 Edison Sailing Center. Sunfish Challenge Cup Regatta<br />

6-7 Lake Monroe Sailing Assoc. Kettle Cup Regatta, PHRF<br />

13 St. Pete Sailing Assoc. PHRF<br />

13 Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Commodores Cup, PHRF<br />

13-14 Davis Island YC. Melges 24 Training Sessions<br />

14 Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Motley Fleet Race. (MBOTY)<br />

27 Davis Island YC. Winter Couples Race, PHRF<br />

For northern Gulf coast race calendars and more information, go<br />

the Gulf Yachting Association Web site, at www.gya.org.<br />

PLEASE note the dates listed for various events may have been<br />

re-scheduled or changed due to damages from Tropical Storm Fay<br />

and Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. Check the yacht club or event<br />

websites for any updates or cancellations.<br />

LEGEND<br />

BWYCBay Waveland YC, Bay St. Louis, MS<br />

FYC Fairhope YC, Fairhope, AL<br />

JYC Jackson Yacht Club, Jackson, MS<br />

LPRC Lake Pontchartrain Racing Circuit, New Orleans, LA<br />

NOYCNew Orleans YC, LA<br />

PelYC Pelican Yacht Club, New Roads, LA (Baton Rouge)<br />

PYC Pensacola YC, FL<br />

PBYC Pensacola Beach YC, FL<br />

SYC Southern YC, New Orleans, LA<br />

SABYC St. Andrews Bay YC, Panama City FL<br />

TYC Lake Tammany YC, New Orleans, LA<br />

NOVEMBER<br />

1 Single-Handed Regatta. FYC<br />

1-2 US Sailing Area D South Eliminations (multihull). PBYC<br />

1-2 Southern Soiland Cup. SYC<br />

1-2 LPRC. SYC/NOYC/TYC/PontYC<br />

8 Double-Handed Regatta. FYC<br />

8 Great Oaks Regatta (youth). SYC<br />

8-9 Individual Flying Scot. PYC<br />

8-9 Jubilee Regatta (one design). PYC<br />

8-9 Southern Soiland Team Racing. SYC<br />

15 Cruising Couples #2 & Double-Handed Regatta. PYC<br />

15-16 Shearwater Regatta (one design). OSYC<br />

15-16 Mississippi State Opti Championships. BWYC<br />

22 FSSA Cajun Country Championship. PelYC<br />

23 Turkey Regatta. JYC<br />

28-30 Opti Midwinters. SYC<br />

29-30 Lagniappe Regatta. SYC / NOYC<br />

DECEMBER<br />

6 GMAC Regatta, FYC<br />

6 PHRF #6, SABYC<br />

7 2009 Frosty Nipple #3, FWYC<br />

7 Sugar Bowl Regatta, SYC<br />

13 Santa Claus Regatta, PYC<br />

27 Race of Champions, SYC<br />

27 Sugar Bowl Board Boats, SYC<br />

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21’ Custom C/B sloop. Excellent sailing vessel<br />

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CLASSIFIED ADS<br />

1976 Cape Dory 25. 2005 Tohatsu 6 hp 4-<br />

stroke. New batteries, porta-potty, halyards.<br />

Roller furling. Newer sails. Good condition,<br />

ready to sail. Needs some TLC. $3,500 OBO.<br />

Must sell. In Sarasota (941) 345-2617.<br />

(12/08a)<br />

28’ Telstar Trimaran, 2007. Nearly new. Her<br />

owners have ordered a larger vessel. She is seriously<br />

for sale, very realistically priced. If you are<br />

looking for speed, performance, and simplicity,<br />

all in a trailerable 28-footer. call us today!<br />

$79,000, Call Rick @ 727-422-8229, Edwards<br />

Yacht Sales, Quality Listings, Professional<br />

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1972 Columbia 30. 30hp Yanmar replaced in<br />

’04. William Tripp design, sails good condition,<br />

AP tiller, GPS, AM,FM CD stereo, shoal<br />

draft. Many upgrades both interior and exterior.<br />

A must see! Great weekend cruiser or club<br />

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Cape Dory 25-D. 1982. Classic Carl Alberg<br />

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1987 Catalina 30 with Universal diesel, Harken<br />

RF, lazy jacks, Bruce and Danforth, Lemar STs,<br />

Bimini, Data Marine instruments, Grill, GPS,<br />

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Catalina 27 1979, Tiller, Std Rig, Elec Start<br />

9.9 Mercury O/B, 50% roller furling jib.<br />

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Located Palmetto, FL. Contact Jim (941)<br />

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28’ Corsair F-28R Trimaran ‘97. ‘07 Carbon<br />

sails, ‘07 - 9.8 OB, overhauled trailer. Turn-key<br />

condition. $71,000. Palmetto, FL. Write for<br />

particulars to TrimaranFast@aol.com. (941)<br />

538-8540. (11/08a)<br />

31’ Southern Cross, 1985, New Yanmar,<br />

Cutter rigged, Blue water cruiser. Staylocs,<br />

Loaded! $37,900, Call Roy S. @ 305-775-8907,<br />

Edwards Yacht Sales, Quality Listings,<br />

Professional Brokers,<br />

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32’ Watkins 1983 Ideal for cruising or liveaboard,<br />

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www.kollmann-marine.com/Loreli.htm or call<br />

(954) 583-7215. (11/08a)<br />

35’ Catalina 350, 2003, This 350 shows like<br />

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upgraded refrigeration, a four-function tender,<br />

and much more! The owners have purchased<br />

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you sail away in this one! $139,000, Call Tom<br />

@ 904-377-9446, Edwards Yacht Sales,<br />

www.SailboatsInFlorida.com<br />

1980 O’DAY 37’ Center Cockpit. New to<br />

market with Universal 37 HP diesel, 10/07<br />

barrier coat bottom, Awlgrip mast & boom,<br />

rebuilt transmission, A/P, VHF depth, Wind<br />

gen, bimini, BBQ, roller furling. $28,500<br />

(305)731-7464 (888)840-7937<br />

www.gcyachts.com.<br />

Beneteau 331, 2002, 27 hp Yanmar, perfect<br />

mid-size cruiser, exc. condition, new sails,<br />

cruising chute, Pro-Furl, 5’5” draft, fully<br />

equipped, 2 anchors, windlass, Garmin chartplotter,<br />

autopilot, VHF, stereo, $81,000. (954)<br />

303-5310. jadams222@aol.com. (12/08)<br />

1995 Hunter 35.5 loaded, Yanmar diesel, low<br />

hrs, Roller Furling 150% and 130, 2 mains,<br />

Dutchman, two GPSs, SSB radio, VHF, Auto Pilot,<br />

solar, like new dodger, Bimini, dinghy w/OB<br />

and crane, boom vang, new running rigging,<br />

manual windlass, full galley, head w/shower,<br />

Marine air. Must see. Asking $65,000.<br />

www.cortezyachts.com. (941) 792-9100.<br />

37’ Island Packet, 2007, Yanmar 54 hp. Very<br />

clean, shows like new. Color Chartplotter, radar<br />

and Auto. Bow Thruster, Full Canvas, Like New.<br />

Priced below ’05 boats. This is a steal, call today!<br />

$338,500, Call Leo @ (941) 504-6754, Edwards<br />

Yacht Sales, www.SailboatsInFlorida.com<br />

2004 Catalina 34 MK II, loaded and ready.<br />

This boat is equipped for the discriminating<br />

sailor for pure pleasure or the competitor for<br />

pure enjoyment. Everything you need in a<br />

boat. Two complete sets of sails, one to cruise,<br />

another to race. Everything is like new.<br />

$127,500. www.Cortezyachts.com for listing<br />

or call (941) 792-9100.<br />

Jeanneau 37. 1978. Very fast center cockpit<br />

cruiser/racer. Lots of room below. Excellent<br />

offshore sailing vessel. Hawk’s Flight is a<br />

proven design. Built in France. Fast and safe<br />

passage making or very comfortable liveaboard.<br />

She is sound, large inventory of<br />

spare parts and recent improvements. Priced<br />

to sell, owner very motivated. $37,900. Stew<br />

(727) 415-0350 (727) 560-0901.<br />

www.sciyachtsalesinternational.com<br />

1985 BABA 35 - full keel Blue Water cruiser.<br />

Lots of gear with manuals and records. VHF,<br />

SSB, GPS, windlass, wind gen, life raft and<br />

more. Needs some exterior teak work and<br />

some blisters. On the hard for your inspection.<br />

A fantastic offer @ $59,000. Call Cortez<br />

Yacht Sales (941) 792-9100 or visit<br />

www.cortezyachts.com<br />

ADVERTISE YOUR BOAT<br />

STARTING AT $25 FOR 3 MO<br />

BROKERS:<br />

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Text & Photo Ads:<br />

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O’Day 37, 1984.. Center cockpit performance<br />

cruiser/racer offers speed, comfort & privacy.<br />

Very well maintained and clean “in and out,”<br />

with long list of constant improvements and<br />

upgrades, shows pride of ownership. Maintenance<br />

records available. Well cruise-equipped.<br />

$44,900. Stew (727) 415-0350 (727) 560-<br />

0901. www.sciyachtsalesinternational.com<br />

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CLASSIFIED ADS<br />

2003 Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 37. (New 2007:<br />

Yanmar engine, 3 Optima batteries, Garmin<br />

440 at helm.) Interphase Chart Plotter at<br />

Navigation Station. 12 Volt Refrigeration<br />

System. Stereo w/4 speakers (2 cockpit), 25<br />

AMP Battery Charger. New cruising spinnaker.<br />

Custom hard dodger/bimini. Forward cabin<br />

w/optional sink and vanity. Master stateroom<br />

w/king-sized berth. Walk-through transom<br />

w/swim ladder. $136,900. (941) 365-9095.<br />

(12/08a)<br />

38’ Nantucket Center Cockpit, 1985. Just<br />

completed a major refit. NEW Diesel (not<br />

rebuilt), NEW Generator, New Hydraulic<br />

Steering System, New Hydraulic Auto Pilot<br />

System New Air Conditioning New Seafrost<br />

Refrigeration, New GARMIN GPS Chart plotter,<br />

New AGM Gel batteries (8), New Hart<br />

Freedom-30 Inverter/Charger. New Maxwell<br />

Windlass, New Bimini/Dodger And MORE!<br />

$129,000, Call Jeff @ 954-224-8291, Edwards<br />

Yacht Sales, www.SailboatsInFlorida.com<br />

1984 Hans Christian 38 Cutter w/ Yanmar<br />

diesel, full keel double-ended, blue water cruiser<br />

known for its sea-keeping ability and sturdy<br />

construction. Owners completed Caribbean<br />

cruise and now offer you this unique opportunity.<br />

This is a chance of a lifetime to purchase a<br />

proven well-equipped and maintained sailing<br />

vessel just waiting to go again. $99,000<br />

www.cortezyachts.com. (941) 792-9100<br />

37’ Gulfstar<br />

Sloop, 1977,<br />

everything on<br />

the vessel has<br />

been upgraded:<br />

mechanical, electrical<br />

components,<br />

electronics,<br />

16000BTU<br />

A/C, autopilot,<br />

sails and running<br />

gear, Bimini and<br />

canvas, new bottom<br />

paint and<br />

running gear and<br />

she had no<br />

blisters and he has also added a NEW dodger,<br />

$54,900, Call Roy S.@ (305) 775-8907, Edwards<br />

Yacht Sales, Quality Listings, Professional<br />

Brokers, www.SailboatsInFlorida.com<br />

38’ William Baylock Custom Gaff Rigged<br />

Cutter, 1982, Climb aboard this one of a kind<br />

beauty. From her hand-carved bowsprit to her<br />

custom cockpit locker, you will be amazed by<br />

her old world charm and craftmanship. This is<br />

a once in a lifetime chance to own a head<br />

turning, great sailing, one of a kind boat!<br />

$46,000, Call Leo @ 941-504-6754, Edwards<br />

Yacht Sales, www.SailboatsInFlorida.com<br />

39’ Horizon Ketch, 1982. 12V & 110V Electrical<br />

systems, Portable Coleman Generator,<br />

Cruiseair thru hatch Air Conditioner, Kubota<br />

V1902 installed 1995 has less than 400 hours,<br />

Staysail Ketch rig with keel-stepped aluminum<br />

masts, S/S Standing Rigging, Harken Roller<br />

Furling, (7) Lewmar winches, Mizzen, Main,<br />

Staysail and 130% Genoa sails, $44,900, Call<br />

Rick @ 727-422-8229, Edwards Yacht Sales,<br />

Quality Listings, Professional Brokers,<br />

www.SailboatsInFlorida.com<br />

Tayana 37 Pilothouse Cutter. 1985. Magic<br />

Dragon Robert Perry’s best! <strong>Read</strong>y to cruise &<br />

makes a great liveaboard. New Yanmar 4JHE<br />

diesel engine. New sails. Full galley, A/C;<br />

watermaker; generator; navigation equipment<br />

& much more….Meticulously maintained<br />

and upgraded with quality. Hauled<br />

12/07. Composting toilet or will replace with<br />

regular toilet. Berthed in St. Pete. $89,900 or<br />

Make an Offer. (305) 923-6556. (11/08)<br />

Privilege 39 1988 Cat. 4 cabin, 2 head.<br />

Yanmar 27 hp. Major refit 2005. New UK sails,<br />

AC/heat, Onan genset 6.5 kw, Autohelm<br />

7000, new interior, Corian counters, teak sole,<br />

Bimini/dodger $148,000. (321) 917-5863.<br />

palexy@cfl.rr.com. (12/08)<br />

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New ads: $20/mo<br />

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STARTING $38/MO<br />

1998 CATALINA 40’ SLOOP. Twin helms,<br />

roomy cockpit, huge owners cabin, Air, custom<br />

refrigeration/freezer, wind gen, A/P,<br />

Radar, GPS, dinghy & OB, elect. windlass,<br />

BBQ grill, cockpit shower & more. $133,000<br />

– offers! (727)560-0001 (888) 882-5516<br />

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72 November 2008 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com


CLASSIFIED ADS<br />

1997 Catalina 40, Cruise ready, AC, 4K<br />

Generator, 10” color Garmin GPS, ST6000<br />

AutoPilot, watermaker, TV/DVD/CD/Stereo,<br />

10’ Zodiac w/9.9 4-stroke Yamaha, Davits,<br />

and much more. Longboat Key Moorings.<br />

$149,900. (407) 810-5621 (12/08a)<br />

TransWorld CT 41. 1979. Proven full-keel blue<br />

water cruiser. Perkins 4-108 diesel. 46’ LOA<br />

with bowsprit. Ketch-rigged Center Cockpit<br />

with walk thru to aft cabin. Complete Awlgrip<br />

paint. Custom stainless steel rails and davits.<br />

10’ 6” Caribe RIB with 15hp OB. Full galley.<br />

Beautiful teak interior with lots of storage.<br />

Maxwell electric windlass. Much more. New<br />

sails and rigging. As is - asking $69,000. North<br />

Carolina. (941) 792-9100<br />

42’ Tayana 1980,<br />

New engine, solid<br />

bluewater cruiser,<br />

Just back from<br />

islands, Priced right<br />

@ $79,900, Call<br />

Jeff @<br />

954-224-8291,<br />

Edwards<br />

Yacht Sales,<br />

Quality Listings,<br />

Professional<br />

Brokers,<br />

www.SailboatsInFlorida.com<br />

Bayfield 40 Hull # 34 full keel 5’ draft, cutter<br />

ketch designed by H.T.Gozzard built in 1984.<br />

Exceptional condition with lots of new gear.<br />

Harken roller furling on all sails. Marine air,<br />

WS, WD, depth, VHF w/remote, SSB,<br />

cd/radio, autopilot, chartplotter, radar,<br />

dinghy, life raft. $109,500 Call Major Carter or<br />

visit www.Cortezyachts.com.(941) 792-9100.<br />

40’ Hunter 40.5,<br />

1997. Was a fresh<br />

water boat, Gelcoat<br />

shines, lightly used,<br />

in much better<br />

shape than expected.<br />

A/C, Good<br />

Electronics, Shoal<br />

Draft, $124,900,<br />

Call Jeff @ 954-224-<br />

8291, Edwards<br />

Yacht Sales, Quality<br />

Listings, Professional<br />

Brokers,<br />

www.Sailboats<br />

InFlorida.com<br />

Hans Christian 41, 1985, Blister-free bottom,<br />

Showroom Interior, World cruising equipment<br />

list. This a beautiful yacht, A real must SEE!,<br />

$189,000, Tom @ 904-377-9446, Edwards<br />

Yacht Sales, Quality Listings, Professional<br />

Brokers, www.SailboatsInFlorida.com<br />

Tayana 42 Cutter, 1988, Original owner has<br />

babied her! Total refit in ’03, A/C, Most of her<br />

life was lightly used in the Great Lakes. This<br />

one is Bristol! $194,900 Call Roy S. @ 305-<br />

775-8907 Edwards Yacht Sales, Quality<br />

Listings, Professional Brokers,<br />

www.SailboatsInFlorida.com<br />

45’ Jeanneau Sun Odyssey, 2002. Upgraded<br />

100 HP Yanmar, Tall rig, 3 cabin/2 head layout,<br />

NEW 2008 Northern Lights 6 KW generator,<br />

two reverse cycle heat & A/C units, five batteries,<br />

Max-Prop, a spinnaker pole, NEW 2008<br />

Staysail. 2KW radar, chart plotter, auto-pilot,<br />

inverter, electric flush head and a 17” flat screen<br />

TV, NEW XM satellite radio, $269,000, Call Bob<br />

@ 239-877-4094, Edwards Yacht Sales,<br />

www.SailboatsInFlorida.com<br />

46’ Antigua Center Cockpit, 1987. Major refit<br />

in ’07! New Volvo engine & transmission, New<br />

sails/rigging, new interior refit w/mahogany<br />

floors, & Cabinets, New galley, & electronics<br />

package: chart plotter, radar, autopilot, wind &<br />

speed, sonar sounder, SSB radio, $134,900, Call<br />

Jeff @ 954-224-8291, Edwards Yacht Sales,<br />

Www.Sailboatsinflorida.Com<br />

40’ Norseman Catamaran, 1993. updated<br />

interior, spacious and elegant. Four private double<br />

staterooms, two private head compartments,<br />

a new paint job, Electric Anchor Windlass,<br />

Mainsail was replaced in 2005 that included<br />

Doyle Stak Pak Sail Cradle & Lazy Jacks,<br />

$220,000, Call Rick @ 727-422-8229, Edwards<br />

Yacht Sales, Quality Listings, Professional<br />

Brokers, www.CatamaransInFlorida.com<br />

42’ Cheoy Lee Clipper, 1970, Diesel,<br />

Topsides, deck and cockpit Awlgripped in ‘05,<br />

Teak decks removed, Solid Cruiser, $105,000,<br />

Call Joe @ 941-224-9661, Edwards Yacht Sales,<br />

Quality Listings, Professional Brokers,<br />

www.SailboatsInFlorida.com<br />

47’ Vagabond Bluewater Cutter Ketch, 1982,<br />

An IMRON painted hull, Awlgripped cabin<br />

house, varnished teak accents, and newly finished<br />

(natural) teak decks make Black Swan an<br />

impressive sight. Trimble Navigation NAC<br />

TRAC XL GPS, Raytheon RL9 LCD radar,<br />

$224,900, Call Jeff @ (954) 224-8291, Edwards<br />

Yacht Sales, Quality Listings, Professional<br />

Brokers, www.SailboatsInFlorida.com<br />

News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS November 2008 73


CLASSIFIED ADS<br />

Used Boat Gear for Sale. CQR 25 & 45#, Bruce<br />

16 & 66#, Hookah by Airline, 55# Folding<br />

Fisherman anchor, Para-tech 15 w/Rode, Edson<br />

rack & pinion steering w/ wheel, new awning<br />

w/side curtains. Nautical Trader, 110 E. Colonia<br />

Lane, Nokomis, FL. Shop online at<br />

www.nauticaltrader.net. (941) 488-0766<br />

47’ Vagabond Ketch, 1986, Heavy displacement<br />

cruiser, Refit in ’03 with new spars and<br />

sails, Genset, A/C, 3KW inverter, Radar, GPS,<br />

Big ground tackle, windlass, $159,000, Call<br />

Roy S. @ 305-775-8907, Edwards Yacht Sales,<br />

Quality Listings, Professional Brokers,<br />

www.SailboatsInFlorida.com<br />

1979 Albin 33 Trawler. Traditional with no<br />

teak decks. 120hp Lehman diesel with excellent<br />

range. Navigate from either the fly bridge<br />

or below out of the elements. 16000 BTU<br />

Marine Air, fwd cabin with head, aft cabin<br />

w/head. Galley up with main salon. Swim<br />

platform. Recent bottom paint. $32,500<br />

wwwcortezyachts.com. (941) 792-9100<br />

50’ Hunter 2003. Hunter’s Child. This HC 50<br />

is the ultimate offshore racing machine.<br />

Custom built for Warren Luhrs and Steve<br />

Pettengill. This is a WINNER …Only<br />

$445,000. St Augustine Yacht Sales (866)<br />

610-1703. www.sayachtsales.com<br />

Schucker 440. Safe harbor for shrinking dollars,<br />

a real liquid asset, the best motorsailer,<br />

trawler ever built and a floating tropical<br />

condo you can escape in. Cruise down island<br />

to South America, or do Cuba, Bahamas, the<br />

Great Loop, European canals. Complete information<br />

& photos on www.Luperon<br />

Cruising.com, or call (809) 821-8239. (1/09)<br />

BOATING SERVICES<br />

_________________________________________<br />

Exquisite Interior & Weatherdeck coatings,<br />

brightwork, varnish by Shipwrights.<br />

sailmykeys@pocketmail.com.<br />

St. Petersburg area only (11/08)<br />

_________________________________________<br />

55’ Lagoon Catamaran, 1991. 4 cabins,<br />

New Engines and genset, New Sails and<br />

Standing rigging, SSB, Dive Compressor,<br />

Washer/Drier, A/C, 2 inverters, 2 autopilots,<br />

Great Electronics, Call Bob @ (239) 877-<br />

4094, Edwards Yacht Sales,<br />

www.CatamaransInFlorida.com<br />

BOAT GEAR & SUPPLIES<br />

_________________________________________<br />

Mainsail and Mast. 19’ 6” mast. Shortened<br />

off 18’ Catalina. Complete with Spreaders,<br />

lights, etc. Mainsail: 16’ luff. 8’ 4” foot.<br />

Powerhead. 1 reef point. Will separate. $150<br />

each or OBO. (352) 728-0098. (2/09)<br />

_________________________________________<br />

POWERBOATS<br />

_________________________________________<br />

Sailing, scuba diving, and treasure hunting in<br />

the teal blue tropical waters of Florida. What<br />

could possibly go wrong Free updates at<br />

www.southerncrosses.com. (1/09)<br />

2007 ALBIN 26‚ Diesel powered center consoles,<br />

never titled, from $79,000. Super economical<br />

Yanmar 315 hp & Volvo 350 hp<br />

diesels, 4.86 GPH at 2500 RPMs. T-Top,<br />

baitwell, tuna door, outriggers, fish boxes,<br />

cockpit coaming, rod holders. On display<br />

Marathon. (888) 882-5516 or (727) 421-<br />

6662. www.gcyachts.com<br />

ENGINE PARTS<br />

_________________________________________<br />

Wanted. Parts for Westerbeke Pilot 10 or 20<br />

(also known as Bukh 10 or 20)—or complete<br />

engine for parts (engine does not need to<br />

run). (941) 624-0916. (11/08)<br />

_________________________________________<br />

Wanted - seawater pump. Part # 705582-<br />

42700 for Yanmar Diesel SB8. (813) 839-<br />

6032. (12/08)<br />

74 November 2008 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com


CLASSIFIED ADS<br />

HELP WANTED<br />

_________________________________________<br />

Waterfront Director Wanted The St.<br />

Andrews Bay Yacht Club, located in Panama<br />

City, FL, is seeking a Sailing and Waterfront<br />

Director for fulltime employment. Qualifications<br />

include: U.S. Sailing certification; general<br />

seamanship knowledge; and the ability to<br />

plan, organize, and promote waterfront activities.<br />

Duties will include: managing year-round<br />

sailing programs to include the summer sailing<br />

program; planning/managing additional activities<br />

for member events; assisting with Regatta<br />

planning and Fleet maintenance; and overseeing<br />

the appearance and usability of the waterfront<br />

facilities. Competitive salary with benefits.<br />

Drug-free work environment. Please submit<br />

resume to 218 Bunkers Cove Rd, P.C. Fl 32401<br />

Attn: Jay M Wallace GM. Or e-mail resume to<br />

manager@stabyc.com. (1/09)<br />

_________________________________________<br />

North Canvas is recruiting a production<br />

supervisor working with sales and design,<br />

supervising sewing staff, designing, manufacturing<br />

and installing marine covers, interiors<br />

and stainless steel frames. Part of the booming<br />

Houston economy, the bay area offers excellent<br />

working and living conditions in a year<br />

round active sailing community. Paid holidays<br />

and vacations. Phone (281) 334-7223, fax<br />

(281) 334-7226 or email<br />

TrentMcBride@verizon.net. (11/08)<br />

_________________________________________<br />

Sailing Instructors/Branch Managers. Offshore<br />

Sailing School is seeking skilled sailors<br />

with strong teaching experience, performance<br />

and cruising boat sailing experience, US SAIL-<br />

ING certification (or skills to pass exam).<br />

USCG license required, or experience to<br />

obtain appropriate level. Manager applicants<br />

must have organization & management skills.<br />

Email resume to Doug Sparks at doug@off<br />

shoresailing.com, fax (239) 454-9201 visit<br />

www.offshoresailing.com/employment.<br />

(1/09a)<br />

_________________________________________<br />

Yacht Broker Wanted. Lots of Work. Growing<br />

company, with years of experience, in Tampa<br />

Bay looking for a team player. Great company<br />

support. Call (727) 823-7400, or Jacek at (727)<br />

560-0901.<br />

_________________________________________<br />

Massey Yacht Sales Mobile Broker Do you<br />

prefer to sell yachts from your home office If<br />

you do and you are a proven, successful yacht<br />

sales professional, we have positions open for<br />

Florida west and east coast. Take advantage of<br />

the Massey sales and marketing support, sales<br />

management and administration while working<br />

from your home selling brokerage sail and<br />

powerboats. Call Frank Hamilton (941) 723-<br />

1610 for interview appointment and position<br />

details.<br />

LODGING FOR SAILORS<br />

_________________________________________<br />

KEY LARGO BAY FRONT HIDEAWAY and 22<br />

ft sailboat, $800-$1000wk. Snorkel/Dive,<br />

Private, Beautiful Sunsets. Studio, 1 bedroom<br />

or 2 bedroom cottages. See Brochure on Web<br />

site. (305) 451-3438. www.floridasailing<br />

adventures.com/Photos.html. (12/08)<br />

Ponce de Leon Hotel<br />

Historic downtown<br />

hotel at the bay, across<br />

from St. Petersburg<br />

YC. 95 Central Ave.,<br />

St. Petersburg, FL<br />

33701<br />

(727) 550-9300<br />

www.poncedeleon<br />

hotel.com<br />

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE OR RENT<br />

_________________________________________<br />

Sailor’s Paradise “Old Florida”. Lakefront<br />

mobile home cottage with dock on 20K acre<br />

Lake Crescent in Crescent City. Small, quiet,<br />

adult park with reasonable lot rent. $7500<br />

(386) 698-3648 or<br />

www.LakeCrescentFlorida.com. (10/08a)<br />

Protected Sailboat Canal. Port Charlotte.<br />

Ship-shape 3/2/2 CBS. Split plan. Two<br />

screened porches. 30’ concrete dock w/davits,<br />

with two mooring pilings. Updated AC, roof,<br />

appliances. Screened porches. Fruit trees.<br />

Boating neighborhood. $293k/Offers. (941)<br />

753-7433. (12/08a)<br />

SAILS & CANVAS<br />

________________________________________<br />

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY<br />

_________________________________________<br />

1975 C&C 33. New Standing and running<br />

rigging, racing & cruising/delivery sails.<br />

Good race record. Epoxy barrier coat bottom.<br />

AM/FM CD and speed/depth. Asking<br />

$22,000 Call Mike at (727) 510-4167 or<br />

(727) 796-4260; (1/09)<br />

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Dancing With the Wind Video . . . . . . . . . . . .32<br />

David McKie Surveyor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21<br />

Davis Island YC Thanksgiving Regatta . . . . . . .25<br />

Defender Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20<br />

Dockside Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8<br />

Doyle/Ploch Sails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30,33<br />

Dunbar Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9<br />

Dwyer mast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74<br />

Eastern Yachts/Beneteau . . . . . . . . . . . . .9,63,BC<br />

Edwards Yacht Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66-67<br />

E-marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31<br />

Fairwinds Boat Repairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32<br />

Flagship Sailing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10<br />

Flying Scot Sailboats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71<br />

Ft. Myers Beach Mooring Field . . . . . . . . . . . .27<br />

Garhauer Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13<br />

Gulf Coast Yacht Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64<br />

Hobie Cats/Tackle Shack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41<br />

Hotwire/Fans & other products . . . . . . . . . . .31<br />

Hunter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IBC<br />

Innovative Marine Services . . . . . . . . . . . .30,32<br />

Island Detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30<br />

Island Packett Yachts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68<br />

Island Yachting Center Brokerage . . . . . . . . . .68<br />

J/Boats - Murray Yacht Sales . . . . . . . .23,65, BC<br />

Key West Race Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4<br />

Knighton Sails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33<br />

Leather Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31<br />

Mack Sails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29<br />

Magellan GPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20<br />

Massey Yacht Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . .IFC,9,17,38<br />

Masthead Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . .18,33,43,75<br />

Mastmate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31<br />

Murray Yacht Sales Open House . . . . . . . . . . .23<br />

Murray Yacht Sales/Beneteau . . . . . . .23,65, BC<br />

National Sail Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36<br />

Nautical Trader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24<br />

North Sails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45<br />

North Sails Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14<br />

North Sails Outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75<br />

Online Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14<br />

Porpoise Used Sails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33<br />

Premiere Racing/Key West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4<br />

RB Grove/Universal and Westerbeke . . . . . . . .16<br />

Regatta Pointe Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11<br />

Rparts Refrigeration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43<br />

Sailboats Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63<br />

Sailing Florida Charters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31<br />

Sailmonster.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12<br />

Sailors Wharf boatyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8<br />

Schurr Sails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54<br />

Scuba Clean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30,33<br />

Scurvy Dog Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28<br />

Sea Hagg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30<br />

Sea School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35<br />

Sea Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74<br />

Shadetree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48<br />

Show Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7<br />

Snug Harbor Boat Works & Co. . . . . . . . . . . .43<br />

Spintec furlers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10<br />

SSMR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16,32<br />

St. Augustine Sailing Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . .32<br />

St. Barts/Beneteau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BC<br />

St. Petersburg Boat Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7<br />

Suncoast Inflatables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19<br />

Sunrise Sailing Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30,32<br />

Tackle Shack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41<br />

Tampa Sailing Squadron Youth Program . . . . .44<br />

Tideminders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39<br />

Turner Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9<br />

U-Boat Yacht Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22<br />

UK Halsey Sails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15<br />

Ullman sails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30,33<br />

Wag Bags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34<br />

West Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3<br />

Winchmate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31<br />

Windpath Fractional Sailing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5<br />

Yacht Sales Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63<br />

Yachting Vacations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12<br />

76 November 2008 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com


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Beneteau Sailboats..............................................................BC<br />

Boaters Exchange/Catalina Sailboats ..................................43<br />

Catalina Yachts................................................................9, 49<br />

Cortez Yacht Brokerage .......................................................72<br />

Dunbar Sales.........................................................................9<br />

Eastern Yachts...........................................................9, 63, BC<br />

Edwards Yacht Sales .......................................................66-67<br />

Flying Scot Sailboats ...........................................................71<br />

Gulf Coast Yacht Sales.........................................................64<br />

Hobie Cats/Tackle Shack .....................................................41<br />

Island Yachting Centre ........................................................68<br />

Massey Yacht Sales/Catalina//Hunter/Albin ...........IFC,9,17,38<br />

Masthead Yacht Sales/Catalina .............................18,33,43,75<br />

Murray Yacht Sales/Beneteau...................................23, 65,BC<br />

Sailboats Florida ..................................................................63<br />

Snug Harbor Boat Works & Co............................................43<br />

St. Barts/Beneteau ..............................................................BC<br />

Suncoast Inflatables/ West Florida .......................................19<br />

Tackle Shack/Hobie/Sunfish, St. Petersburg .........................41<br />

Tampa Sailing Squadron Youth Program .............................44<br />

Turner Marine .......................................................................9<br />

Yacht Sales Florida...............................................................63<br />

GEAR, HARDWARE, ACCESSORIES, CLOTHING<br />

Annapolis Performance Sailing ............................................55<br />

Bo’sun Supplies/Hardware...................................................21<br />

Coral Reef Sailing ................................................................57<br />

Dancing With the Wind Video.............................................32<br />

Defender Industries .............................................................20<br />

E-Marine .............................................................................31<br />

Garhauer Hardware.............................................................13<br />

Hotwire/Fans & other products ..........................................31<br />

Leather Wheel .....................................................................31<br />

Magellan GPS......................................................................20<br />

Masthead Enterprises ...........................................18,33,43,75<br />

Mastmate Mast Climber......................................................31<br />

Nautical Trader/buy/sell/consign .........................................24<br />

Online Marine.....................................................................14<br />

Rparts Refrigeration.............................................................43<br />

Sea Hagg ............................................................................30<br />

Shadetree Awning Systems .................................................48<br />

SSMR ............................................................................16, 32<br />

Tackle Shack/Hobie/Sunfish, Precision .................................41<br />

Tideminders ........................................................................39<br />

Wag Bags ............................................................................34<br />

West Marine..........................................................................3<br />

Winchmate..........................................................................31<br />

SAILS (NEW & USED), RIGGING, SPARS, RIGGING SERVICES<br />

Advanced Sails ....................................................................32<br />

Atlantic Sail Traders .............................................................37<br />

Bacon Sails ..........................................................................32<br />

Bay Rigging.........................................................................32<br />

Dwyer Mast/spars, hardware, rigging..................................74<br />

Innovative Marine Services............................................30, 32<br />

Knighton Sails .....................................................................33<br />

Mack Sails ...........................................................................29<br />

Masthead/Used Sails and Service .........................18,33,43,75<br />

National Sail Supply, new&used online ...............................36<br />

North Sails Direct/sails online by North..........................14,75<br />

North Sails, new and used ..................................................45<br />

Porpoise Used Sails..............................................................33<br />

Schurr Sails, Pensacola FL ....................................................54<br />

Spintec Furlers.....................................................................10<br />

SSMR ............................................................................16, 32<br />

Sunrise Sailing Services ................................................30, 32<br />

UK Halsey Sails ....................................................................15<br />

Ullman Sails ..................................................................30, 33<br />

CANVAS<br />

Knighton Sails .....................................................................33<br />

Shadetree Awning Systems .................................................48<br />

USED SAILING/BOATING SUPPLIES<br />

Nautical Trader/buy/sell/consign, West Florida ....................24<br />

Scurvy Dog Marine/Used, Consign, Pensacola FL ................28<br />

SAILING SCHOOLS/DELIVERIES/CAPTAINS<br />

Capt. & First Mate Yacht Delivery .......................................30<br />

Sailing Florida Charters .......................................................31<br />

Sea School/Captain’s License ..............................................35<br />

St. Augustine Sailing Enterprises..........................................32<br />

MARINE ENGINES AND ACCESSORIES<br />

Beta Marine ........................................................................37<br />

RB Grove/Universal and Westerbeke....................................16<br />

MARINAS, MOORING FIELDS, BOAT YARDS<br />

Ft. Myers Beach Mooring Field............................................27<br />

Regatta Pointe Marina.........................................................11<br />

Sailors Wharf Boatyard ..........................................................8<br />

FRACTIONAL SAILING/CHARTER COMPANIES<br />

Flagship Sailing ...................................................................10<br />

Sailing Florida Charters .......................................................31<br />

Windpath Fractional Sailing...................................................5<br />

Yachting Vacations ..............................................................12<br />

MARINE SERVICES, SURVEYORS, INSURANCE, TOWING,<br />

BOAT LETTERING, ETC.<br />

Antigua Surveying.........................................................33, 64<br />

Aqua Graphics.....................................................................30<br />

BoatNames.net ...................................................................30<br />

David McKie Surveyor .........................................................21<br />

Fairwinds Boat Repairs/Sales................................................32<br />

Innovative Marine Services............................................30, 32<br />

Island Detail .......................................................................30<br />

Sailmonster.com Web site ...................................................12<br />

Scuba Clean Yacht Services .................................................30<br />

MARINE ELECTRONICS<br />

Dockside Radio......................................................................8<br />

Sea Tech/Navigation/Communication .................................74<br />

YACHT MANAGEMENT<br />

U-Boat Yacht Management .................................................22<br />

SAILING WEB SITES, VIDEOS<br />

BoatNames.net ...................................................................30<br />

Dancing With the Wind Video.............................................32<br />

Sailmonster.com Web site ...................................................12<br />

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Davis Island YC Thanksgiving Regatta .................................25<br />

Murray Yacht Sales Open House..........................................23<br />

Premiere Racing/Key West Race Week ...................................4<br />

Show Management...............................................................7<br />

St. Petersburg Boat Show......................................................7<br />

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News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS November 2008 77


No Particular Place to Go<br />

By Susan Ochs-Conrad<br />

Okay. Let’s face it; we are spoiled here in Florida. The<br />

sailing opportunities are plentiful. Oh, sure—we have our<br />

hurricanes, squalls, waterspouts and lightning storms, but if<br />

we didn’t, our sailing stories would be monotonous. I can<br />

imagine pages and pages of boring log entries:<br />

“Another perfect sunny day: 75 degrees with a steady 15 knot<br />

tailwind. We sailed downwind under spinnaker and mainsail,<br />

with little or no sail adjustment necessary. We sailed effortlessly<br />

all the way to our destination. Upon our arrival, the sun was<br />

just setting and the red glow of the lazy red orb illuminated<br />

our cocktails, the condensation sparkling like crystals as it<br />

trailed down our raised glasses. Tomorrow, we will awake to a<br />

glorious sunrise, set our spinnaker for another downwind run in<br />

which we anticipate the need for little or no sail adjustment…”<br />

You won’t find many entries like that in our logbook. My<br />

husband and I sail whenever we get the chance, which<br />

for us, translates to weekends and short vacations. We<br />

take whatever weather we get. Our Caliber 38, LaLeLu, is<br />

fortunate enough to live in a marina that sits smack dab in<br />

the middle of the ICW (Indian River Lagoon) and the<br />

Atlantic Ocean. Only on rare occasions are we ever without<br />

some sort of sailing option when the urge to sail takes hold.<br />

Most times when we leave our slip, we have a sailing destination.<br />

We are members of an active sailing club (East Coast<br />

Sailing Association) and participate regularly in club-sponsored<br />

weekend gatherings. Occasionally, we have a day that<br />

we get to sail just purely for the enjoyment of sailing. No<br />

plans, no itinerary, no expectations.<br />

On one particular Sunday, our boat chores gave way to<br />

excuses, and we set aside the To-Do list. It was definitely<br />

gearing up to be a hot day. Even at 9:00 a.m., that was clearly<br />

apparent. It was one of those days that you try not to<br />

move more than you absolutely have to. Not a day that you<br />

wake up and say, “Hey, feel that breeze Let’s go sailing,”<br />

but we didn’t let that stop us. It had been horrifically hot for<br />

weeks, and we really wanted—no—needed to sail. By 10:00<br />

a.m., LaLeLu was purring and sputtering, letting us know<br />

she was ready to be untied and leave her slip for a day trip<br />

to nowhere and back.<br />

We ghosted under motor out the barge canal, through the<br />

locks, under the bridge and out Port Canaveral. Once in the<br />

beautiful turquoise waters of the Atlantic, we shut off the iron<br />

beast and bobbed like a cork under barely a whisper of wind.<br />

We weren’t the only ones out there. Shamelessly flaunting the<br />

addiction that afflicts every sailor, there were others in search<br />

of a little wind with which to fill their sails. Some of the boats<br />

we knew. Others, we only recognized as fellow addicts who<br />

were likewise in search of their sailing fix.<br />

Patiently, we waited, waited and waited for something.<br />

Sitting in the cockpit, the air was still and heavy. We huddled<br />

under the Bimini trying desperately to escape any<br />

direct contact with the sun’s rays. The maverick tendrils of<br />

hair that snuck out of my pony tail holder were firmly glued<br />

down with sweat against my red face.<br />

The wind gods finally took pity on us. Gradually, almost<br />

imperceptibly at first, a nice breeze began filling our sails. It<br />

built to 14 knots and LaLeLu skipped along on a nice beam<br />

reach…ahhhhhh. Enjoying absolutely everything and doing<br />

absolutely nothing, I rested my head on the cushion of the<br />

port settee and hung my legs over the cockpit coaming. I listened<br />

with one ear to the rush of water against the hull, and<br />

with the other ear to Jimmy Buffet. I picked up on some lyrics.<br />

I’ve heard them many times but never paid them much attention<br />

until this day, the day when I proclaimed them to be profound.<br />

Seems Jimmy bought a watch with no numbers and no<br />

hands. This watch simply says “now.” Some might think perhaps<br />

the watch is broken, but Jimmy thinks the watch works<br />

just fine. I understood he was telling me to find a blessing in<br />

every day and don’t take time for granted. In times when<br />

things are going wrong, his advice is simple: “Breathe in,<br />

breathe out, and then move on.”<br />

Stuck in deep thought, I ponder the paradox of time. We<br />

master the keeping of it only to become its slave. I am jolted<br />

out of my thoughts and back into the here/now by the<br />

cruise ship horns, “Brrmmppp, Brrrmmmppppppppp.” I<br />

have heard those horns enough to know without looking at<br />

my watch that it is 4:00 p.m. Regretfully, time is still my master,<br />

and it is telling me it was time to go home. Like obedient<br />

children, back through the locks, down the barge canal and<br />

into our slip we go. I am resolved—and only just a bit sad—<br />

for I know that new adventures await and are just around<br />

the corner.<br />

78 November 2008 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com

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