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Issue #94December 2010

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Pete Melvin at the helm of a Reynolds 33. Photo by Pat Reynolds

Coming Events 4

Off the Wire 6

A Sport on the Rise 10The Growing Sport of Rowing

AC Pete 12An Interview with Pete Melvin

Let the Parade Commence 14Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade Announcements

Coastal Currents 16Peggy Slater Rememberd by Richard Schaefer

Powertails 18Life Preserver Design Contest

Racing 20

Ask the Expert - Lightening Prevention 23

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Classifi eds 25

As I was writing the rowing story in this issue, I was brought back to my childhood where I rowed quite a bit.

It wasn’t the same brand of rowing I witness from the perch on my E Basin end-tie where I see all the modern looking shells going by every morning. I didn’t wear spandex shorts and a hat with a little rear view mirror. I was “keeping it real”

I rowed a beat up faded blue 12-foot aluminum boat with mismatched oars, across a creek to my friend’s house (the house in the center of the photo) nearly every day. Until I somehow lost one of the oars and then I paddled with one, until someone hooked me up with another oar - then I was back to two.

I wasn’t working out or in training; I was going somewhere - I had a destination.I’m grateful that boating wasn’t introduced to me

as a sport – I like that it was an integral part of my growing up – a tool, a vehicle, a means to get out of the house and make a small voyage across a small sea.

I never thought of rowing as hard or fun or something I wanted to get better at. I never wanted to get a newer boat, although a few boats came and went for whatever reason – I just wanted to get across the creek, and rowing was a simple, no nonsense way to make the short trek.

It’s these refl ections of innocence that remind me of why I still fi nd myself wanting to travel along the water in a boat and just like when I was a young kid - I really don’t care what kind.


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December 1 “Cupdate” 2010

The next America’s Cup will be raced in 2013 in exotic 72-foot catamarans with “wingsails” – multihulls capable of speeds of 30 knots or more. To prepare the syndicates for the new AC72s, one-design AC45 catamarans will be launched next year, and a lineup of “World Series” regattas will be scheduled for 2011, 2012 and 2013 at venues around the world. Join us at California YC for this year’s “Cupdate”, as Tom Ehman from BMW Oracle Racing will provide unique insight about this exciting new era of the America’s Cup. He will be joined by designer/engineer Pete Melvin. 7:30 p.m. Free Admission & Beer. California Yacht Club 4469 Admiralty Way | Marina del Rey 90292

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December 11Marina del Rey Annual Holiday

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Celebration in AvalonDance in the New Year in the world famous Casino Ballroom. Produced by the Catalina Chamber of Commerce, the gala includes a buffet dinner, dancing, champagne split, one bottle of wine in a specially engraved bottle (#12 in a series), and party favors. For additional information, please call the Catalina Island Chamber of Commerce at 310-510-1520 or send an email to [email protected].

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Yacht Club Wednesday and Friday Night DinnersMembers, guests, and prospective members are invited to join us for cocktails, fun, food, and friendship on most Wednesday and Friday evenings at our club house. Fun starts at 6:30 pm for cocktails and 7:30 pm for dinner. Lectures and educational presentations often follow our Wednesday night dinners. Live music is provided on most Fridays for your enjoyment and dancing pleasure. Reservations are required. Our club house is located at 13589 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. For menus, availability, pricing, directions, parking, and more event and membership details, please visit our web site at www.smwyc.org or call us at 310-827-7692

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Join Marina Venice Yacht Club weekly for our Social-Sunday Open House from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Food items are provided and there is no charge. MVYC is located in the Marina City Club - West Tower - at 4333 Admiralty Way. Whether you own a boat, are looking to

buy one, or just want to be around other water loving people MVYC welcomes all who share in the Corinthian Spirit. Security will tell you where to park. Follow the signs up the stairs or elevator to the Club House on G2. For more information contact [email protected], call (818) 422-6368, or visit our Facebook Group page.

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Sailing Singles of Southern California is a Sailing Club centered in Marina del Rey but open to all sailing enthusiasts from the LA area. We meet twice monthly, at 7 p.m. at the Marina Venice Yacht Club, 4333 Admiralty Way located at the Marina City Club West Tower in Marina del Rey. There is a $10 Meeting donation per person that includes a light Dinner. Drinks are available at a full bar at reasonable prices. Club members will meet and socialize with sailboat owners and can arrange for sails in Santa Monica Bay. After sailing, club members can enjoy wine and cheese parties or full dinners on member’s Boats. Catalina Island trips and special events are also planned. (310) 822-0893 or email: [email protected] www.sailingsinglesofsoutherncalifornia.com

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With a call for entries now underway through December 15 for the 2010 BoatUS Foundation Environmental Leadership Award, now is the time to shine the spotlight on those who have made signifi cant contributions in helping others become more environmentally responsible. The award honors people, organizations or businesses who have helped show boaters how to take better care of their local lake, river or bay, and the recipient will take home $1,000 to help continue their environmental efforts.

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The Border Run International Yacht Race has added more elements to a race that organizers say was founded on inclusion and growing the sport of sailboat racing. This time they’re challenging dinghy sailors to get in the action with a third course called the “Sprint Course” that runs from Newport to Dana Point. It’s a 14-mile run open to dinghy’s, sailboards, kiteboards, kayaks and even paddleboards.

“We want to see the start-line packed with boats, big and small,” said co-founder Bob Long. “Every year we’re trying fi gure out ways to get more sailors out there to have a blast with us. I think people are going to love the short course idea.”

In addition to the announcement of the new short course, TBR organizers have also gone full tilt on trying to make the event a money maker for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. To that end they have set up a number of ways to earn free entries and tons of boating gear.

“We’re confi dent that if people get into it, this year’s Border Run will be really special. The sailors can get a bunch of cool stuff including the free entry and, at the same time, LLS can make money to help cancer patients,” said Long. “The charity aspect is totally voluntary, but we’re hoping that, based on the way it’s all set up, sailors would be silly not to get involved.”

Long says the key is that people enter immediately so they’re able to take advantage of the fund raising option. There are simple methods mapped out on the site to raise money and he assures people that it’s super easy to raise enough to earn a free entry providing they allow themselves enough time.

“I hope people check it out,” Long said. “We’re hoping that this race helps people who are hurting while we’re fortunate enough to be sailing the So Cal waters.”

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The Del Rey Junior Program gets a new start with 22 new boats to replace the older Sabots that have been the cornerstone of the program for years. The Optimist, nicknamed Opti’s will allow the kids in the program opportunities for more competition. Other junior programs have been changing from Sabots to Opti’s. It is now time for DRYC to join the mainstream and offer our young sailors the best possible experience.

Twenty of the boats were purchased with donated funds from the successful FUBAR Odyssey, powerboat rally held in 2007. The rally was conceived of, directed and produced by Bruce Kessler who was named Yachtsman of the Year in 2008 for this event. The FUBAR Committee solicited names for the boats from committee members and some of the participants of the rally. The boats and names will be reveled at a ceremony held at DRYC on November 20.

The other two boats were purchased by Del Rey Youth Foundation, a new 501 (c) (3) charity started in 2008. One of the boats, which will be named Winship was purchased in honor of William Winship Tarr, a DRYC board member and long time mariner from donations made in his name. The other boat was purchased in honor of Andrew Feldman, long time member of DRYC from donations made in his name will be named Andrew’s Place. Both Tarr and Feldman passed away unexpectedly last year. For more information about the charity at www.delreykids.org

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nce a year early on a November morning, the main channel of Marina del Rey becomes a racetrack for the rowing breed. Sleek shells, so narrow the slightest weight shift can feasibly cause capsize, race around the harbor in an annual contest called Head of the Marina hosted by the California Yacht Club.

Seeing large teams of young men and women from the local colleges and a slew of other competitors of all ages and genders is a reminder that this is a sport that albeit somewhat below the radar, is quietly becoming more and more popular every year.

In the last couple of decades, junior and particularly women’s programs have soared in participation numbers. The surge in the women’s divisions is largely to do with a law entitled Title IX, which seeks to insure federal funding is equally disbursed between men and women in college sports.

“When women’s rowing became a NCAA sport about 13-years ago – it really exploded,” said former UCLA rowing coach Paul Mokha. “And following suit, junior rowing, as a feeder, has grown dramatically all over the country.”

Here in California, it is steadily reaching more people who are either in search of a unique form of competition or a means to get a full body workout – and for many it’s both. If the Head of the Marina is any indication, the sport is certainly building steam.

“The event went very well,” said California Staff Commodore Craig Leads who has organized the event for years. “We had one-hundred entries which is a record - previously, ninety fi ve was the most.”

Seeing the demographic in this year’s Head of the Marina Leeds indicated the contest refl ected just what Mokha points out - larger numbers of junior and female teams.

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The sailing world is buzzing with the recent announcements regarding the next America’s Cup slated for 2013. The news that the Cup will be raced on 72-foot state-of-the-art catamarans equipped with rigid wings has some fans out of their minds with excitement and others angry that tradition is being bucked. In the eye of it all is Huntington Beach engineer Pete Melvin, from Morrelli & Melvin Design and Engineering, a world champion A-cat sailor who has been part of such high profi le projects as Steve Fossett’s record setting Playstation and last year working with BMW Oracle on the over-the-top monster trimaran that won the 33rd America’s Cup for the American team.

Melvin and his associates have most recently gone through the painstaking task of writing the America’s Cup Multihull Rule, which tackles the many specifi cs that make up a level and fair playing fi eld for the most prestigious sailboat race in the world. Prior to a visit by BMW Oracle Spokesman Tom Ehman who will be giving a presentation on the America’s Cup at the California Yacht Club on December 1st at 7:30. The Mariner caught up with Melvin, who will also be on hand that night, to ask some questions about the next America’s Cup.

Mariner: Now that you’ve written the AC multihull rule what are you doing now?Melvin: We are done with rule writing and such. So we instantly put our hat on with a team we signed up with and now we’re...(smiling) looking for loop holes in the rules!

Mariner: So you’re signed with another team?Melvin: Yes.

Mariner: Can you say what team yet?Melvin: I can’t because they don’t want to announce it yet.

Mariner: Are you surprised that you’re not with the defender in this capacity?Melvin: No, not really. First, of all, last time it was such a crazy deal where you never knew what was going to happen next and there just wasn’t enough time to develop anything.

Mariner: With the 33rd you mean?Mariner: Yes, exactly. Oracle basically threw bodies at it. It wasn’t an effi cient or inexpensive process but it got done. We started out with work for 2 ½ years with those guys on that. Ultimately, they had to skinny their design team down to about a third of what it was last time. And they have basically gone to everyone in-house, they aren’t having any outside fi rms doing design work for them – at least at this point. And also with the rule writing, politically it would have been hard for them to hire us back. Because they announced they we’re having an independent party write the rules - when we had the choice to write the rules or not, it kind of disqualifi es us from being on their design team. But we decided to just do it anyway.

Mariner: And you decided to do it anyway because it sounded like an interesting thing to do or because it was a sure fi re gig? What was the

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decision process there?Melvin: Yeah, both of those. We thought it was interesting work and it was good work to do. Lots of hours went into it and income came from it.

Mariner: Had you done something like this before?Melvin: No.

Mariner: So the next project you do will be right in your wheelhouse - just doing straight up design work?Melvin: Exactly.

Mariner: How does America’s Cup work compare to the Playstation stuff that you did? Is it similar?Melvin: I guess it’s similar in a way that we’ve got more resources in terms of specialists and things like that - we can drill down much deeper into areas. In normal design or a normal race boat, you just don’t have those kind of resources and budgets to go into that kind of depth. You always learn a ton from those kind of projects because of all the technology that goes into it. They’re great to be involved with and they don’t come along everyday so we’re real happy to be involved with it.

Mariner: Coming from a multihull place, you guys must be out of your heads that the America’s Cup is in multihulls.Melvin: Yes, it’s amazing. You know we built our business never really thinking about the America’s Cup, so for the last 20 years we’ve been diversifi ed – we designed racing boats, cruising boats, production boats, custom boats, commercial boats, just about anything that anyone will throw at us. But all of us in the offi ce pretty much come from a racing background - our fi rst love is to design racing boats. So it’s a dream come true for all of us.

Mariner: What do you say to the critics who say multis won’t make for good match racing in the America’s Cup?Melvin: With BMW Oracle last time, one of the things I was involved with, was doing some match racing where we used the Reynolds 33s for some of the practice and everyone found it was very exciting. It was different, but certainly no less exciting and thrilling. So I think it will be spectacular.

Mariner: Why do you think that people think that?Melvin: Because they have no experience doing it and that’s totally understandable. Very few people have matched race on multihulls so it’s really an unknown. The match racing will be different than how we know it but on the other hand the acceleration will be much more dramatic and the tactics will be totally different. For instance, on the America’s Cup, the one match where Oracle came in from the committee boat side and Alinghi came in from the other side – you don’t have much time to react coming into the box like that. You only get one chicken-wiggle of the tiller and it’s all over if you guess wrong. It’s kind of a sudden death showdown in that way. The fi rst 5 or 10 seconds of the race will be extremely exciting. Who knows what will happen after that. Should be great.

Mariner: What is your take on the British and the Germans snubbing it?Melvin: Well, the Germans, I don’t really know anything about their team - I don’t know if they ever had the resources to compete in the America’s Cup regardless of what kind of boat. The same could possibly be said about the British too, I guess. I don’t know what their fi nancial wherewithal was but there were some rumors that that was the real reason and it wasn’t

really anything about multi-hulls or anything. But once again, I’m not really privy to their information.

Mariner: Is this much more expensive than the 32nd America’s Cup?Melvin: I think it will be comparable to that. There is a lot of debate going on.

Mariner: Was your team involved in the cost control aspect?Melvin: That was one of the things we were involved in when writing the rules. The monohulls that were proposed for the 34th America’s Cup and the multi-hulls that were proposed were actually quite similar in cost. So then it comes down to how many boats can you build, how big your team is, logistics and those sort of things.

Mariner: You can’t have two boats with this, can you?Melvin: Well, you can build up to two boats.

Mariner: So you can practice with two boats?Melvin: You’re not allowed to do two boat testing. You have to read the protocol about that. You’re only allowed to sail it at certain times before events and stuff like that. They’re really trying to limit it – it’s extremely costly to have your entire design team having two complete boats going out and testing every day. It’s just a ton of people and quite expensive.

Mariner: Every time, when the AC happens there’s always this “trickle down” talk, do you foresee trickle down with these kind of things given that it’s so far out of the box. Is the wing something that we’re going to see in the mainstream or do you think the wing is always going to be kind of fringe?Melvin: I think they will always be a bit of a fringe.

Mariner: Because of practical reasons?Melvin: Yeah. A wing like that I think there are applications, like this hover wing with the free standing mast and rig where the wing can rotate around it. You can park it at a dock. I think there will be some commercial and recreational applications for wings maybe just not the type you see on the America’s Cup catamarans.

Mariner: What’s your take on the wing versus the soft sail – from an engineers perspective is it more interesting? Is there as much to do? Melvin: There’s a lot to it. It’s a little more technical. The wing doesn’t talk to you like a sail does. It’s not a moving membrane that you can see how it’s twisting or if it’s luffi ng, you know that sort of thing so you have to sail a little bit more by the numbers but the performance benefi ts are huge.

Mariner: Sail makers often seem to have an edge in racing but now is it going to be the engineers that have the edge? If it is by the numbers, where is the innate talent with the wing, does it exist the same as it does with a soft sail?Melvin: I mean, I guess some people have a good eye for shaping a sail - there’s a whole art with matching masts to sails and all that stuff and some people are better at that than others. It’s just a little different discipline now. Instead of saying ‘maybe I’ll change the shape here, put a tuck here, or poke this batten out…’now it’ll be - ‘let’s change our slot geometry or twist the aft fl aps more’… so it’s not entirely different – it’s just a different tool doing the same job.

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Now that fall is here boaters are starting to look ahead to the holidays. Boat Parade offi cials recently announced the fi rst entry has signed up for the 48th Annual Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade scheduled for Saturday, December 11, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. in the Marina’s main channel with a spectacular fi reworks show at 5:55 p.m.

This year’s parade theme is ”A Rock ’n Roll Christmas” with boat owners competing for numerous prize packages. Boat Parade sponsorships are also available from $100 up to $25,000.

The 33-foot Crystaliner power boat, Westbound, is the fi rst entry in the Boat Parade and is Marina del Rey’s only “legal” scuba dive charter boat. The captains’ and the owner of Westbound Diving are long-time Marina del Rey private boat owners and participants in the parade.

Boat Parade organizers have also announced that DJ Larry Morgan from 100.3 FM, The Sound, will serve as Grand Marshal for the 48th Annual Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade scheduled for Saturday, December 11.

“Larry Morgan is a perfect fi t as our Grand Marshal this year with our

Boat Parade theme,” said Holiday Boat Parade President Cindy Williams. “The Marina should get ready to rock out as he cruises along the parade route. We are looking for a Grand Marshal boat 60-feet or more, if anyone is interested in being the Grand Marshal boat contact Boat Parade headquarters”

Morgan started his radio career at the age of 15 running Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 on Sunday nights. He attended USC and worked part-time at then TOP 40 AM powerhouse KFI answering request lines. Two of Larry’s former friends from

KFI were now a part of the new KIIS-FM where he joined the legendary staff anchored by Rick Dees and Big Ron O’Brien for their mid-80’s run as the biggest station in the country.

Boat parade entry forms can be downloaded from the Boat Parade website at mdrboatparade.org or by visiting the Marina del Rey Visitors Information Center at 4701 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey.

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“The sailing community was stunned by the recent, sudden death of Peggy Slater at 72. She seemed indestructible. As sailor, yacht broker or all-around good person, with her fl aming red hair and a trademark fl ower over her left ear, Slater was a match for anyone.”

Well, 20 years have passed since that evening in November when Peggy died of a heart attack in the parking lot of Pacifi c Mariner’s Yacht Club. She had been an irresistible force in sailing for more than 50 years, and was scheduled to address a meeting of the Women’s Sailing Association of Santa Monica Bay. She died as she had lived - immersed in sailing and things of the sea.

Peggy grew up in a prosperous family in Los Angeles. Her father had a 50-foot cutter, the Jolly Rover, berthed in Newport Harbor. The family spent every available weekend at Catalina. Her father taught her early that sailing to the island was only a small part of boating - the rest included: varnishing the brightwork, scrubbing the deck, polishing brass, mending cotton sails, and the hundred other tasks necessary aboard a gaff rigged cutter.

By the age of 9, Peggy was single-handing her own 14-foot boat around Newport Bay. At fourteen, Peggy raced her boat to Catalina, and that night danced in the Casino Ballroom. Her long love affair with Catalina and the sea began to blossom.

At 16, she was a freshman at UCLA, majoring in English Literature. Her father had bought her a larger boat, a 26-foot sloop she christened, Seventh Heaven. She spent weekends and summers at Catalina for the next four years.

The years from the 1930s through the 1950s were the golden years for Catalina. Hollywood stars came there in droves. Bonfi res and tiki torches lit the beach at the Isthmus, and live bands performed nearly every night during the season.

Peggy would make the long row from her boat moored in Cherry Cove, splash ashore, and throw herself among the laughing dancers. During the day she earned extra money by freeing fouled mooring lines from rudders, props and keels and occasionally baby-sitting the children of Hollywood families. These “Hollywood” friendships were to serve her well in the future.

It was during one of these fi rst solo voyages to the island that Peggy’s life was nearly cut short. She was about midway between Catalina

and the mainland when a fi tting failed on her towed dinghy. She hung over the transom to secure the dinghy when a large wave hit the boat and pitched her into the sea. The tiller was tied off and the boat sailed away, leaving her in its wake. Her only hope was to swim after the sailing boat and hope the boat would luff up, or otherwise slow down. Instead, the boat tacked and sailed away. She felt that she was doomed, but then the boat tacked again, and on a course that she might hope to intercept. She swam with all her strength - barely managing to catch the trailing dinghy and pull herself aboard. Another moment and she would have been lost - leaving everyone to speculate about what had become of the adventurous young girl.

Peggy graduated from UCLA in 1940 and found work managing a small marina and chandlery in San Pedro. Within minutes of closing the shop she was hoisting sail, and was soon heeled and reaching across the large harbor. Her father wondered at the wisdom of working on the docks after obtaining a degree in English literature - but Peggy was happy and so no more was said.

Then one Sunday, returning after a long, blustery race in the San Pedro channel, Peggy and fellow racers found the entrance to L.A. Harbor blocked by Navy ships. As the fl eet of sailboats approached the blockade their crews called to the sailors lining the decks of the

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warships, “what’s going on?”...soon after, the loud speaker on the nearest ship blared, “The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor...we are at war.” It was Sunday, December 7, 1941.

Peggy wanted to join the war effort and soon went to work for the War Department driving trucks throughout Southern California, and even convoyed war materials to Alaska on the newly competed AlCan Highway. In time, Peggy found herself missing the sea and soon signed on to a 65-foot schooner, Hispaniola, which was headed south to Guatemala on a War Department mission to catch sharks. At that time shark livers were the primary source of vitamin A and the Army needed vast amounts for rations and vitamin tablets. She made two adventure fi lled voyages south during the war.

After the war, Peggy became the fi rst woman Yacht Broker in the United States. Her business was an instant success and she soon capitalized on all the Hollywood stars she had met on Catalina before the war. Errol Flynn, John Wayne, director John Ford, Raymond Burr, Dick Powell, Tyrone Power, Howard Hughes, James Cagny, Burl Ives, James Arness, Sterling Hayden, Lauren Bacall and hubby, Humphrey Bogart were all friends, sailing buddies and many were also clients.

Peggy met Bogart when he owned a 35-foot powerboat, named, Sluggy. Not coincidentally, Sluggy was also the nickname of Bogart’s fi rst wife. Their drinking and onboard brawls were legendary at Catalina.

Bogart, who wanted to learn to sail, knew of Peggy’s skills and asked her to instruct him. Bogart’s drinking and temper were well known and at fi rst Peggy was reluctant. But Bogart fi nally convinced her that he could control his drinking and his temper during their lessons. After a few weeks Bogart could be seen sailing a small sloop between the anchored yachts with grand aplomb. Peggy had taught him well.

A few months later, Bogart took Peggy bow hunting for wild pigs on Catalina, along with director and movie star, Dick Powell. They struggled up the hills above White’s Landing and Peggy stopped to enjoy the view of the bay below. Anchored there was the beautiful, 47-foot yawl, Santana. Peggy had previously pointed out the yacht’s graceful lines to Bogart when he was taking lessons with her at the

island. Bogart turned back on the trail and stood next to Peggy - both admiring the yacht’s lines. Bogart said to Peggy, “What would you think of me buying Santana? Peggy beamed, “If you do I’ll even go sailing with you!”

Bogart did buy Santana, and Bogie, Bacall and Slater spent many sparkling days sailing the San Pedro Channel and the waters surrounding Catalina. The last outing Bogart made before his death was to Newport Harbor. Too sick to sail her, he wanted to simply stand on the deck of his beloved Santana - one last time. Bogart insisted that no casket be present at his funeral - but instead, a glass encased model of Santana was to be placed next to the lectern.

Even though she ran a busy and successful yacht brokerage Peggy always made time to sail - doing many local and long distance races. She won more than 800 sailing trophies during her lifetime. She was the fi rst woman skipper in the Transpac and Acapulco Race. She cruised all over the Pacifi c, and the Mediterranean. She sailed to Hawaii and Mexico several times. She cruised the Caribbean often, and even sailed alone, 1,400 miles, in a 14-foot open, native sloop. Her voyage took her from the Virgin Islands to Trinidad - camping and sharing beach fi res with the locals at dozens of islands along the way.

In 1956, the Los Angeles Times named her “Sportswoman of the Year”.

In 1965, she sailed to Tahiti and met Marlon Brando who was there fi lming, “Mutiny on the Bounty”. The two became friends and he asked her to work with the fi lm crew for several weeks.

During these years she continued to run her yacht brokerage and built an ocean view home on the bluffs of Palos Verdes and another on the beach of Kauai. She hired help as needed, but tried to do as much of the work as she was able.

Peggy’s two most harrowing experiences took place en route to Hawaii.

In 1951, she skippered L’Apache on the Transpac race. About 800 miles from Honolulu, in 35 knots of wind and heavy seas one of her crew, Ted Sierks, fell over board. A life ring was thrown, but soon the crewman disappeared among the cresting waves. L’Apache was

running downwind with the spinnaker and it took several minutes to douse the huge sail and turn back. For the next eleven hours Peggy stayed on the wave lashed foredeck, calling and scanning the frothing waves for the crewman. A navy convoy overheard the distress transmissions and joined the search. After several hours the commanding offi cer declared Sierks “lost at sea” and ordered the search called off. He detached the destroyer Munro to standby L’Apache until their rig - damaged in the rough seas during the all night search - could be repaired. Peggy and her navigator hurriedly worked out what they believed to be the most likely position of the lost crewman. Peggy contacted the Captain of the destroyer and said she would refuse to leave the area unless he agreed to search the indicated area one more time. The Captain reluctantly agreed and the destroyer pulled away from the damaged L’Apache, but before doing so he made Peggy give her word that she would resume course to Honolulu as soon as repairs were made.

A few hours later, as L’Apache limped toward Honolulu, the radio crackled - the Munro had found Sierks - alive. He had been in the stormy sea over 30 hours. Peggy and the crew of L’Apache hugged one another - smiling through their tears.

The second time death knocked at Peggy’s door was in 1968, when Peggy set sail, aboard her red Kettenberg 43, Valentine, yet again, for Hawaii. But this voyage was different - this time she went alone. All went fairly well for the fi rst 19 days. Then, just a day out of Honolulu, Peggy fell overboard during a sail change in rough weather. Peggy was tethered to the boat and became entangled in the headsail and halyard. The boat, steered by a wind vane, continued on course - dragging her, spinning and splashing, alongside.

Peggy had broken her hand during her fall and wasn’t able to free herself from the sail turned death shroud. For more than 12 hours she was dragged through the surging seas. Finally, at the end of her strength, she was able to loosen her bonds and pull herself back on board as the gunnel dipped low on a swell.

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degree you drift into stuporous, endless sleep. It was in this state that Peggy made contact with the Coast Guard and after three harrowing days, and the world watching, she was fi nally rescued and her boat towed into Oahu.

It took more than a month for the nightmares and hallucinations to end - and three years before she again attempted long distance sailing.

Throughout the 1970s and 80s, Peggy continued to run her brokerage on Marquesas Way. And, as was her custom, sneak away whenever possible for a weekend at Catalina, or, if time permitted, more exotic locales.

In 1980, Peggy worked closely with her friend, client and dock-mate, actor Hal Holbrook, during his preparations for his solo crossing to Hawaii. Mr. Holbrook’s crossing was diffi cult and he was suffering from sleep depravation. Recently, Mr. Holbrook sent me a note about the incident. It reads in part, “Peggy was so concerned about me she fl ew to Hawaii to meet me when I fi nally arrived in the early dawn at Kauai. She took me home to her house there and I passed out on the sofa for 12 hours.”

Peggy closed her brokerage in December of 1987. About a month or so earlier, I shared a fried chicken lunch with her, and her ever present dog, at the picnic table in front of her offi ce. She said she was saddened to close the brokerage, but thought it was the right time. The boat business was dying, many manufacturers were closing their factories, and Marina del Rey had changed from being about boats and sailors to being about profi ts and parking places - boats had become merely a necessary evil. She said also that she wanted time to write, and perhaps, squeeze in a few more adventures. I am happy to say she was able to do both. Her autobiography, Peggy, An Affair With the Sea, was published after her death. She also made arrangements to leave her considerable holdings to the Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.

Peggy, you stood your long watch well - now sleep peacefully, Skipper.

Captain Richard Schaefer is a U.S.C.G. Licensed Sailing Master and has instructed, delivered vessels, skippered charters and written articles on boating and seamanship for more than 25 years. He can be reached for questions or comments at 310-460-8946 or email [email protected].

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ANNAPOLIS, Md., November 1, 2010 - The BoatUS Foundation’s “Innovation in Life Jacket Design Competition” is once again calling for out-of-the-box life jacket design entries.

Five years ago, the Innovation in Life Jacket Design Competition resulted with the introduction of several new and innovative life jacket designs to the public, the U.S. Coast Guard and recreational boating industry. Since then, the interest in new, more comfortable designs has not faded. While current models of life jackets save lives every day, many are still bulky and uncomfortable, leaving boaters reluctant to wear them.

So the BoatUS Foundation, along with Underwriters Laboratories and the Personal Floatation Device Manufacturer’s Association, decided another competition was necessary to keep the momentum going to seek out the newest technologies and design innovations that could rethink a 100-year-old design.

“We all have the mindset of what a life jacket looks like - and that’s what we need to be challenging,” said Underwriters Laboratories’ Joe Waters. Entries that embrace new technologies and non-traditional thinking are being encouraged from armchair inventors to high school science clubs and collegiate design programs. There are no rules regarding types of materials to be used or whether the design meets any current U.S. standards. The deadline to enter is February 1, 2011.

The entries will be judged based on four criteria: wearability, reliability, cost and innovation. “Wearability” relates to the level of comfort. “Reliability” will take into account the chances for potential failure, while “cost” will look at the affordability of the design. “Innovation” will take into account originality or the employment of new technologies.

In early February, video of all entries will be posted online at the BoatUS Foundation’s channel at YouTube.com, and the public will be asked to select a group of fi nalists. The fi nalist entries will then be reviewed by a special panel of judges convened at the International Boating and Water Safety Summit in Savannah, Georgia, on March 6 - 9, 2011, and the winner announced. A $5,000 cash award goes to the winning designer.

“We believe that out-of-the-box thinking may lead to the next generation of life-saving devices,” said BoatUS Foundation President Ruth Wood. “We anticipate designs that will be creative and unconventional.”

To enter, video footage of an actual working prototype must be submitted by providing a URL link to the video (no actual prototypes are submitted). The video must clearly demonstrate how the design fl oats a person in the water. For more information on how to enter and for contest rules, visit www.BoatUS.com/Foundation/lifejacketdesign. You may also contact Chris Edmonston at 703-823-9550, x8356.

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We’ve been lucky lately that water temps have stayed in the mid to low 60s these past months – it could be worse this time of year. The evening bass bite has been good and with squid still around, we still have had a chance for yellowtail or white seabass as well as calico and sandbass.

As for lobster season – it changes with the weather patterns. Use fresh bait like mackerel, sardines, or barracuda it attracts the bugs easier if there walking and don’t forget they sometimes go to deeper water.

As this season moves on, look for the rockfi shing to pick up and use more lead to keep your bait down.

For all you lingcod fi shermen, the season will be closed from December 1 through April 1. So get out there while you can.

On the Bait Seine Look for Larry and Mike to have sardines and squid as long as its in the bay.

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Doug Baker, Long Beach, skippered the Reichel/Pugh 78 Akela to fi rst-to-fi nish honors Tuesday and was fi rst in Division 1 on corrected ORR handicap time in Long Beach Yacht Club’s biennial 2010 Long Beach to Cabo San Lucas International Yacht Race. Bob Lane’s Andrews 63 Medicine Man, also from Long Beach, fi nished fi rst in Division 1 on corrected PHRF time. Finishing the 804 nautical-mile race within about three hours of each other the two skippers fell short of breaking fellow LBYC member Peter Tong’s Santa Cruz 70 OEX record set in 2008 of 2 days 22 hours 50 minutes 9 seconds. Unlike in 2008 where there was consistent wind of 20 plus knots for the entire race, this year’s breezes fl uctuated just enough to put the race record out of reach. The closest battle during the race was between Brack Duker’s Santa Cruz 70 Holua from Marina del Rey and Per Peterson’s Andrews 69 Alchemy from Oceanside YC with Perterson fi nishing just 4 minutes, 23 seconds ahead of Duker.

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Continued from page 13Mariner: Are there levers that change the trim on the wings or is it a machine?Melvin: You can do whatever you want, just as long as it’s human powered.

Mariner: So does the rule allow for teams to have their wings slightly different from each other?Melvin: Oh yeah. The plan form shape - the height and core lengths and stuff, are controlled within a certain boundary and there’s a maximum and a minimum of area of the wing just so everyone’s wing is about the same size, but the section shape – what air foils you use, how many slots you have, what kind of control systems you have, and what the internal structure of the wing looks like is completely open. So there’s a huge amount of design latitude for teams to explore.

Mariner: So these wing design choices could signifi cantly impact the amount of speed you’re getting out of the boat?Melvin: Oh yeah, the wing could perhaps and probably will be the deciding factor – who is the most innovative and comes up with the best concepts in engineering.

Mariner: But isn’t the rule written in such a way that they are hoping for a lot of close competition as well?Melvin: Yes, that’s the idea. This one, since all the boats are likely to be the same length and beam and have the same size wing - it might be closer to a development box rule class like T252, A-Class Catamarans, Formula 18’s or C Class Catamarans, they are all various fl avors of the box rule.

Mariner: Is it possible to have different wings for different days if it’s really blowing?Melvin: On the measurement certifi cate they’re allowed to have one tall wing, which is the normal sized wing, and you’re also allowed and required, after the second year, to have a short wing that also has parameters on maximum and minimum size. The idea is that if it’s windy and the race committee competitors think it’s dangerous to go out with the tall wing, they can say ‘today is a short wing day’ and everyone puts up their short wing up. That was one problem with the last few cycles of the America’s Cup in the monohulls is that the wind range was actually fairly small and they lost lots of days and media interest because they couldn’t go out in the breeze. So the idea is that we open up the wind range and sail

in big breeze and it’s real exciting.Mariner: Will the boat foil at all? Is there allowance for that?Melvin: You’re allowed a pair of rudders and a pair of dagger boards and they can be lifting daggerboards. I don’t know if you’ll see boats fully fl ying with hulls above the surface of the water but certainly a large percentage of the way the boat will be carried [may be] on foils, especially downwind.

Mariner: What are the projected top end speeds for the AC cats? Melvin: We think the 72 will hit 35-knots – something like that.

Mariner: Has anyone addressed the possibility of a capsize, if one were to go over, what would happen?Melvin: Yeah, it would be bad. Chances are you would break your wing or damage it enough so that there’s no way you could use it the next day. Like with any catamaran there’s probably not a lot of damage to the platform but with the wing you would need to put a new wing.

Mariner: I read that they are going to have camera men on board, is that true? Melvin: Yes.

Mariner: Are there concerns about those guys inhibiting team performance? Melvin: There are cameraman positions that they have to stay in - they might have to move and for instance go the windward side every time, but there are specifi c locations dedicated to camera men on the boat.

Mariner: And that’s a defi nite, that’s going to happen?Melvin: Yes.

Mariner: How is this changing your business? It’s nothing but positive I’m imagining.Melvin: Yeah, it’s defi nitely keeping us all busy.

Mariner: Have you had to expand?Melvin: We are in the process of growing a bit. Our biggest concern is that we maintain our diversity and client base that we’ve managed to build up over the years and our reputation and other areas - cruising yachts, racing yachts, commercial boats and other sort of things. We defi nitely want to keep that other side of our business going. But I think we’ll be okay.

Michael Kasten is the owner and operator of Kasten Marine Design, Inc. Mr. Kasten is an award winning designer who has created plans in a wide variety of categories, from sea plane fl oats to offshore multi-hulls and everything in between, Kasten is as prolifi c as he is profi cient in the fi eld of Yacht Design.

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Kasten: A lightning protection system aboard a boat should have a dual purpose:1. It should primarily serve as a lightning prevention system, the purpose of which should be to continuously shed any charge built up by the boat, thereby rendering the boat “invisible” to lightning.2. It should secondarily be asked to serve as a lightning strike protection system, to safely conduct a direct strike to ground.

Q: That being said, what should the system consist of?

Kasten: The lightning protection system should consist of a robust “primary path”, which should be designed to safely conduct a direct strike to ground. Then, a series of “secondary paths” should be designed to safely dissipate the accumulation of charge by the boat, which should feed into the primary path. This primary path, should consist of an air terminal connected to a ground plate immersed in the water and a robust conductor leading vertically in a straight path to a ground plate immersed in the water.

The top-most end, or air terminal, should be a sharply pointed spike. As for the so called “robust conductor” of the system, which takes the path from the top-most end of the system to

the water, it must be as direct as possible and use long radii, rather than sharp bends along the primary path to the grounding plate.

The connections must offer low electrical resistance or the energy of a strike may instantly heat and melt the connection. An ABYC rule recommends a minimum of a #4 AWG copper wire for the primary lightning protection system conductor and a minimum of a #6 AWG copper wire for the secondary conductors. Tinned wire is recommended, as usual.

For the grounding plate, an area of about one square foot is considered by ABYC to be suffi cient. The plates should be located as close to the base of the primary conductor as possible to minimize any horizontal runs in the primary conductor. It is recommended that the conductor and ground plate be made of copper. The edges of the external ground plate or strip need to be sharp, exposed, and not painted, caulked, or faired into the adjoining area.

The ABYC actually suggests the use of a grounding strip, rather than a plate. The rule states: “A grounding strip shall have a minimum thickness of 3/ 16 inch (5 mm), and a minimum width of 3/4 inch (19 mm). A strip approximately one inch (25 mm) wide and 12 feet long (3.7 m) has nearly six times the amount of edge area exposed to the water, which will improve the dissipation of charges.

“The grounding strip, if used, shall extend from a point directly below the lightning protection mast, toward the aft end of the boat, where a direct connection can be made to the boat’s engine.”


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