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Amel Maramu 52 Boat Review
The Bounty – One Year Later
Destination Kingsley
Amel Maramu 52 Boat Review
The Bounty – One Year Later
Destination Kingsley
SOUTHWINDS SOUTHWINDSNews & Views for Southern Sailors
December 2013For Sailors — Free…It’s Priceless
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SOUTHWINDSNEWS & VIEWS FOR SOUTHERN SAILORS
Amel Maramu 52 boat review. Page 42. Photo byMark Erdos
The “Bounty” — One Year Later. Page 50. Photo byU.S. Coast Guard.
Each issue of SOUTHWINDS (and back issues since 5/03) is available online at www.southwindsmagazine.com
COVER PHOTO:F18s racing in Sarasota.
Fifty-five catamarans from six countries and three continents sailed in the F18 Americas
Championship in Sarasota, FL, on Oct. 19-26.Photo by Tim Wilkes. www.TimWilkes.com.
8 Editorial: The Bounty, The St. Petersburg Boat ShowBy Steve Morrell
9 Letters You Should Believe
14 Bubba Gets FWC Hearing in TallahasseeBy Morgan Stinemetz
16 Southern Regional Monthly Weather and Water Temperatures
17 Calendar — Upcoming Events in the Southeast (Non-Race)
23 Short Tacks: Sailing News from Around the South and the World of Sailing
32 Racing News: Racing News, National and International Regattas in the South, Training, and Southern Sailors
34 Preview of the St. Petersburg Sail and Power Boat Show; Show Seminar Schedule
42 Amel Super Maramu 52 Boat ReviewBy Mark Erdos
50 The “Bounty” — One Year Later By Morgan Stinemetz.
53 Race Reports From Around the South
61 Destination Kingsley: Northeast FloridaBy Frederick A. Braman
66 Carolina Sailing: Fall into Action — When the temperatures begin to drop, in South Carolina, the sailing doesn’t stop; College of Charleston’s Varsity Offshore Team Goes Big
By Dan Dickison
69 Southern Regional Racing Calendar
70 Dock Life on Labor Day By Bob Tis
19 Southern Sailing Schools Section
36 Marine Marketplace
48 Southern Marinas Pages
72 Boat Brokerage Section
78 Classifieds
84 Alphabetical Index of Advertisers
85 Advertisers’ List by Category
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The BountyIt was a year ago in October that the tall ship Bounty sunk offthe North Carolina coast. It was big news across the nation.I read all I could about it. After all, the Bounty had some sortof mystical allure to it—a tall ship built for a classic moviefilled with classic actors that was still out there sailing aftermore than 50 years.
It had special significance for us here in the Tampa Bayarea, because the Bounty called St. Petersburg home. Afterthe movie—Mutiny on the Bounty—MGM docked the ship inSt. Pete as a permanent tourist attraction. It was there till themid ‘80s, and from then on it changed hands several timesover the years. St. Pete really was the Bounty’s winter home,since all knew it was not the place to be during the summerand early fall when the Atlantic hurricane season was mostactive. Who would have guessed that the Bounty would bethreatened by a hurricane while the ship was at dock inConnecticut? But then again, who would have predictedthat a major hurricane would do more damage in NewJersey and New York than any hurricane since the 2004-05storm years that brought us—to name just a few—Charley,Frances, Ivan, Rita, and, of course, Katrina?
The ship’s demise a year ago in such an unusual stormadded to the mystery that surrounded the Bounty. It was lastwinter that the Coast Guard held hearings on the sinking,their findings still not yet released. But ever since then, Ikept telling myself I wanted to do an article on the Bounty,but I never found the time. So, in early October, I askedMorgan Stinemetz if he was interested in doing it. I knewthat Morgan will research out a subject thoroughly till hefinds the core of what is known about it. He eagerly jumpedon it, and in this issue is his excellent summation of whathappened. A book could be written about it, but that’s toolong for most to read and Morgan sums it pretty well. Ilearned a lot from his story. And I am still saddened by it.
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CorrectionIn the November issue, Paula Shur wrote a review onthe Bauer 8 dinghy. It’s such a glowing review thatyou’d think she was selling them (she isn’t). When thearticle came out, she emailed me of an error I madewhen I transposed the boat’s statistics (when I copiedthem from a brochure image she sent) to say that thedinghy’s draft with the board up was 4 feet, and withthe board down, 4 inches. Now that’s some boat! Thereal draft with the board up is 4 inches. With the boarddown, it is 20 inches. That makes more sense. I musthave been asleep during proofreading.
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LETTERS STEVE MORRELL, EDITOR
“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”A.J. Liebling
In its continuing endeavor to share its press, SOUTHWINDSinvites readers to write in with experiences & opinions.Email your letters to [email protected]
COST OF FUEL CRUISING THE ICW VS FUEL IN THE CARIBBEANRe: “Cost of Cruising: Trawler vs Sail” September 2013Very interesting comparison! I have only done the entireICW from New England to Florida four times, the firstbeing in 1983 in a Bristol 35.5. From 1983 through 2004,most of my cruising has been in the eastern Caribbean, anentirely different ball game. The wind is always east at 15knots (except when it’s east at 25 knots), and the waves arealways five feet (except when they’re seven feet). And thewind blows 24/7. Needless to say, one does not see manytrawlers doing passages between the Virgin Islands andVenezuela. I tell people that I bought more diesel fuel inone year of cruising the ICW than I did in 20 years cruisingthe Caribbean.
I realize that sailboats have been delivered with biggerand bigger engines over the years, but I have never had asailboat that used more than half a gallon of diesel fuel perhour while making 5.5 to 6.5 knots. I also have a very goodfriend who has done extensive cruising in his pristineGrand Banks 32, and I believe he told me he uses aboutfour gallons per hour. So I think your GPH figures mightbe suspect.
The sailor does have the option of going offshore,although most do not. In fact, as you noticed, even whenthey have a favorable wind in the ditch, they still don’t sail.Here in Florida, there is a great opportunity to sail fromTitusville to Sebastian in the Indian River, but I still seesailboats steaming along with all sails furled. Offshore pas-sages are possible between a number of inlets offering one,two-, or three-night passages that save fuel and time, butone does need to wait for weather, and, unlike in thetrades, the wind will probably die in the middle of thenight. I recently did an overnight from Ponce de Leon inletto St. Mary’s which worked out quite well, although thewind did check out at about 0300. St. Mary’s is a greatchoice as one can head north and anchor at CumberlandIsland, or head south and pick up a mooring or slip atFernandina Beach, which is probably one of the best mari-na choices on the ICW. St. Mary’s to Charleston andCharleston to Morehead City are good possibilities. Theseoffshore choices offer several advantages, from saving fueland time to avoiding adverse currents, timed bridges, andshallow water.
Thanks for your thoughtful piece on cruising theAtlantic ICW. For a change of pace, take the OkeechobeeICW and cruise the west coast of Florida.
Gil SteinfortS/V Green Flash, Dana 147
Satellite Beach, Florida
I would like to know how fast your friend was going on theGrand Banks 32, because speed is an important aspect of fuelconsumption, and if there’s anything I’ve learned, having owneda couple of small outboard powerboats and a few big sailboats, is
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that you cruise as fast as the boat will go comfortably, which on asailboat is about 5.5-6.5 knots. No one goes faster as it seems as ifthe boat can’t, and no one maxes out the throttle as it seems liketoo much on the engine. But trawlers often go a bit faster— sinceso many passed me in my sailboat on the ICW when I went fromNorth Carolina to south Florida. In fact, they all passed me at anice clip.
A friend of mine, on the other hand, was always money-con-scious, more than most people I know, and never took his trawlermore than about 6 knots and just burnt a few gallons an hour (Ithink it was 2-3). But I still think of every trawler passing me onthe ICW and I was going around six.
Your experience seems pretty extensive and my experienceand knowledge of trawler fuel mileage is limited. But I did likeyour comment that you spent more on diesel in one year cruisingthe ICW than 20 years in the Caribbean. That’s a difference.
Editor
FERRO-CEMENT BOATSRe: “Letters” September 2013Cindy and I enjoyed the recent ferro-cement commentariesin SOUTHWINDS. Over the years we’ve encountered severalvessels of the type. All were unique and generally claimedfor varying lengths of time by equally unique seafarers. Thecommon goal was to obtain the biggest and cheapest boat tofacilitate the dream; voyages to Fiji, Tonga, the Bahamas, allencased in the simplicity of chicken wire and the wondersof structural concrete. Most reputable brokers admit thattype vessel is nearly void of resale value and very difficultto insure.
Years back, the Army determined that between flyingtours in Vietnam and gunship duty on what was then theInter-German Border, I should attend graduate school andteach at Rutgers University near Barnegat Bay in New Jersey.I had a Tanzer 22, which I kept in the heart of catboat coun-try at historic Beaton Brothers Boatyard. Out of sailing sea-son, my dry slip was next to a ferro-cement project of about50 or 60 feet, based loosely on a somewhat suspect schoonerconcept. I watched that project through the seasons.
The most prominent aspect of the vessel was a huge(20-foot, plus or minus) mahogany bowsprit stored next to,sometimes under, and occasionally on top of, the hull. Whatseemed like inordinate attention was spent by the partici-pants on the care of the bowsprit. The bowsprit may actual-ly have been the only part easily identifiable as a “boatpart.” In most weather, which tended to be wet and cool,planks across the top of the structure supported blue plastictarps. On nice days, the plastic “deck” was pulled aside, anda joyful crew, mostly young and in various blends ofRastafarian attire, scrambled up and down ladders to theentrance at the top. The percussive beat of their hammersblended well with their joyful island music.
The crews appeared to function in communal bliss butchanged with the seasons. The hull evolved as well. To limitladder time, a decision was made to simply cut a substantialaccess “door” through the starboard side of the hull. Thedoor also got the blue tarp treatment and the music becameeasier for the neighbors to enjoy. For a brief period after theshift from ladders to the big “door,” a goat took up residence.It was a curious, friendly critter that occasionally cavorted
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throughout the boatyard and visited me and other sailors.I asked the yard manager how they managed to host
the ferro-cement ark through numerous failures to pay stor-age fees, while various crews ebbed and flowed with littlediscernible progress. The response was that it was a “dreamboat” and caused no harm. It paid for itself as one crewwalked away and a new group magically appeared to con-tinue the dream and, for a while at least, to pay storage. Thevessel also was located in a convenient spot for eventualdecomposition and disposal.
I left for Germany to join the 503rd Combat AviationBattalion just as yet another group, sans goat, began to peelaway the blue tarps of winter from what was now a well-established, rust-pitted hull. The bowsprit, to my knowledgewas never installed, yet continued to be the focus of grouplabor and pride. I concluded that the dream, however tran-sient, was a lot more important than the hull material. Intruth, every boat is an emotional escape valve. Even if onenever leaves the slip, it is a comfort to realize that the samewater that flows in Tampa Bay is connected to the waters ofHong Kong Harbor and every other port of call.
In Germany, as I flew a Cobra gunship or a Huey alongthe classic Fulda Gap invasion route into Europe, I mar-veled at the medieval castles, precisely maintained fields,and the fact that ferro-cement and chicken wire has neverbeen seriously considered in the construction of helicopterrotor blades or airplane wings. I reflected on the forms offreedom that boats provide and how the shape, size—oreven construction—are not necessarily the determining fac-tors in individual vessel choice.
And yes, I still do, on occasion, ponder the fate of thatgoat.
Warm regards.Al Davis
Gulfport, FL
Al, Nice story. It adds a certain flavor to the mystique of a boatyardand all the dreams that pass through them, some never leaving. Ithink all sailboats are “dream boats”—some short dreams, somelong dreams. Some happen while awake—others, while asleep.
Ferro-cement is a better material than the public gives itcredit for. As most of us know, the combination of steel and con-crete changed the world of construction and is still one of the mostremarkable building materials around. Hard to believe that con-crete floats, but steel is today the material that ships are made of,and steel doesn’t float. Because concrete and steel are relativelycheap as a hull material, many ferro-cement ships were built dur-ing World War II, but the biggest one ever built was the 425-footoil tanker, the Selma, built in 1919. It was scuttled when repairscould not save it after it hit a jetty in 1920. A channel was dug forit to be scuttled in, and it still lies along the Houston ShipChannel, north of Galveston.
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Last month, Bubba was out of town for a coupleof days attending a hearing at the FloridaFish and Wildlife Conservation Com-
mission in Tallahassee. Both Bubbaand Tripwire went, driving up toFlorida’s capital together. Bubbahad filed a complaint with theFWC, alleging that his ferro-cementsloop had been brutally boarded bytwo FWC officers investigating ananonymous complaint about the useof live ammunition to start the Laserclass at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron’s Labor Day Regattain late August.
A small newspaper article about the hearing, a reprintfrom an FWC press release, appeared in The TallahasseeDemocrat. The release, like most of them, was short on sub-stance. It merely said that after “careful consideration” theFWC hearing officer, Capt. White, had exonerated both“Mr. Whartz and Mr. Cram” from any purported wrong-doing relating to the use of firearms and live ammunitionat the Sarasota Sailing Squadron’s Labor Day Regatta. Upuntil reading the article, I had not known Tripwire’s lastname. Cram? It seems apt for some reason. I am just notquite certain why.
Turns out, word of the decision in Tallahassee hadpreceded Bubba and Tripwire’s return where it reallycounted. When the two came into The Blue Moon Bar, theywere treated like Roman legions returning to Rome after avictorious foreign campaign. The Blue Moon denizens,who knew why they had gone to Tallahassee, cheered.Doobie, The Blue Moon bartenderette, granted them eacha free beer, an honor most high. Me, I went outside to seeif there were any crucified people lining the street outside.Gladly, I didn’t see any.
After the hubbub had died down, the raised glasseslowered and the high fives stopped, I asked the question Ihad wanted to pose. “Bubba, what happened inTallahassee? There were charges pending against youinvolving the misuse of a firearm, attacking a law enforce-ment officer of the Florida Fish and Wildlife ConservationCommission and not having enough life jackets on board
for all hands when the FWC officerscame on your boat. How did you
evade the ramifications of all that?”“First of all, do you know what
FWC stands for?” Bubba asked byway of an answer.
“I know what you think itstands for,” I stated, flatly.
Then Bubba addressed theassembled crowd in the bar, many of
whom had never had been close to a boat.“Do you know what FWC stands for?” he asked of
the small multitude—that would be a minitude. Theanswer came back as Bubba expected, “Noooo!” Doobiemust have been in the ladies room, because Bubba shouted,“F—-ing Water Cops!” That elicited a rousing shout ofapproval and another round of high fives.
My question, however, remained unanswered. I, theever-dogged journalist, asked it again. “Bubba what hap-pened in Tallahassee?”
“I got the hearing I asked for,” replied Whartz.“Tripwire and I showed up at the right place at the appoint-ed time. The hearing was held in the Farris Bryant Buildingon S. Meridan in Tallahassee. The FWC hearing officer,Capt. White, let the two officers who boarded us, Brownand Green, give their side of the story first. Both officers tes-tified that the boarding was a routine safety inspection, thatI had assaulted Officer Green and that they discussed a lackof adequate life preservers and some purported gunfire atthe Labor Day Regatta with me. I maintained my compo-sure while hearing these charges, but their testimony gotunder Tripwire’s skin. He couldn’t contain himself.
“Tripwire shot out of his chair like he was on the war-head of an ICBM and loudly called the FWC officers a cou-ple of REMFs and said that if they ever went into the junglewith him only one person would come out alive.
“The hearing officer asked my agitated friend if either heor I had used live ammunition at the regatta to start the Laserclass. Tripwire said, ‘No f—-ing way, man. My illegitimateson was racing in that class, and I’d frag everyone in thisroom, except Bubba, before I’d let any harm come to him.’”
“I didn’t know Tripwire had a son who was a sailor,” Igasped.
“Me neither,” agreed Bubba. “He sometimes operateson a need-to-know basis. It was news to me, too.”
“What else happened?’“We went ‘round and ‘round on the regatta gunfire
thing. No one could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt thatwe had live ammo on the committee boat. The FWC just hadcomplaints from some parents who weren’t at the regatta—they were playing golf—so it was a once-removed ‘hesaid/she said’ deal. We said the use of live ammo didn’toccur; Brown and Green could not offer proof that it did.The issue was dropped,” Bubba explained.
I asked the live-aboard, live-alone sailor what came next.“It was my alleged assault on Officer Green,” answered
Bubba “Here I was, trying to help this very scared broad getrid of the cockroaches that had landed on her chest, the ones
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that were crawling up her uniform shirttoward her face. I summoned the last bit ofstrength I had left in me—I’d had a lot todrink earlier that night—and flicked theroaches off. They called it assault.
“Tripwire then volunteered thatOfficer Green was not only overweight,she was homely. I remember exactlywhat he said. It went, ‘Look,buddy, no one in their right mindwould try to cop a feel off that FWC.My friend was pretty drunk when thoseFWCs came on his boat in the first place. Hewas not capable of mounting an attack. More to the point,what man in his right mind would attempt such a thing onan armed woman?’ ”
Bubba explained to me that the hearing officer lookedat Officer Green for a while, scratched his chin, ran hishands through his sandy hair and said that he would takethat charge under advisement. The matter of OfficerBrown’s firing his weapon inside Right Guard, which I hadput in my complaint, came next.
When asked about the accidental discharge that rico-cheted around the forepeak of Right Guard, Officer Brownsaid, according to Bubba, that he thought that Officer Greenwas in danger. She had screamed, and then I, rising from apreviously supine position in my bunk, actually attackedher, Brown said, by reaching across from my bunk to touchthe front of her uniform.
“That’s when I drew my weapon,” Bubba had Brownrecounting. And Bubba went on to explain the rest of thesupposed altercation. “But I’m not sure if it fired or not,” iswhat he had Brown saying.
As a perspicacious reporter, I was dumbstruck by theremark. A gun either was fired or it was not. It’s anabsolute, like being pregnant. A woman is either with childor she is not. There are no “maybes” in the equation.
Bubba continued. “While he seemed to be mulling overOfficer Brown’s cryptic response, I explained to Capt.White, that I was not attacking Officer Green or trying tocop a feel. I explained about the cockroaches and how agi-tated she became. I also told him cockroaches didn’t bother
me much. I was used to seeing them on Right Guard.”“Did Capt. White take the gunfire on your boat fur-ther?” I asked.
“He wanted to get at the why of OfficerBrown drawing his gun,” explained Bubba.
“He had already taken a long, slow look atOfficer Green and ascertained that I
was probably telling the truth. Noone in his right mind would get near
Green in the light of day. She was StopLight City. I am sure that is what Capt.
White thought, too.”“And Brown’s accidental discharge?”“That was more complicated, more subjective,” Capt.
Whartz said. “White pretty much knew that a shot had beenfired, and further exposure of the AD would embarrass theFWC. He cut Officer Brown some slack. Capt. White said heneeded more evidence. He wanted to see the inside of RightGuard personally; however, he said his schedule was verytight and asked me if I would bring Right Guard to Tallahasseeso it could be examined by lab people. I had to explain to himthat sailboats are not like skiffs. They must be disassembled, iftrucked, and it would cost a huge amount of money, money Idid not have, to do it. That’s when Capt. White stated, for therecord, that he would not make any decision about all the inci-dents in question until Right Guard had been forensicallyexamined. That put the whole matter in a cocked hat, where Ithink it will languish forever. When Capt. White made a deci-sion not to reach any ruling, I knew we had won.”
“Anything else?”“Yeah,” said Whartz, “they apparently either forgot
about the life jackets or thought it was a cheap issue. It dis-appeared. And one thing more. During the hearing I waswearing my red baseball cap, the one with the Peterbiltemblem on it. After the hearing recessed, Capt. White cameup to me and said he liked the hat and wanted to knowwhere he could get one.”
“And what does that mean?” I queried.“I think Capt. White is, in secret, a wannabe trucker,”
Whartz said. “And he chews tobacco. He had an oldMountain Dew spit bottle with him. He’s a class act. I’d bethe has some tattoos, too.”
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About Boating Safely (ABS) covers subjects includingboat handling, weather, charts, navigation rules, trailering,federal regulations, personal watercraft, hypothermia andmore. Many insurance companies also give discounts forhaving taken the boater safety education course.Completion of courses qualifies attendees for Florida’sboater safety card.
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US SAILING Courses in the Southeast(NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX)For more on course locations, contact information, coursedescriptions and prerequisites, go to http://training.ussail-ing.org/Course_Calendars.htm, or call (401) 683-0800, ext.644. Check the website, since courses are often added lateand after press date.
US SAILING Level 2 Small Boat Instructor Course,Clearwater, FL, Dec. 13-14Clearwater Community Sailing Assoc. Instructor BetsyAllison. Contact Rich White: [email protected].
US SAILING Level 3 Small Boat Instructor Course,Clearwater, FL, Dec. 15Clearwater Community Sailing Assoc. Instructor BetsyAllison. Contact Rich White: [email protected].
US SAILING Level 1 Small Boat Instructor Course,Jacksonville, FL, Dec. 27-30Florida Yacht Club. Instructor John (Jabbo) Gordon. (423)202-8007. [email protected]
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St. Petersburg Power and Sailboat Show, Dec. 5-8Go to pages 34-35 for show and seminar information.
Dallas-Fort Worth Boat Expo, Dallas, Jan. 31-Feb 9. Thisboat show (a powerboat show), held at the Dallas MarketHall—the new home of the expo—will have over 650 all-new2014 boat and watercraft models on display from 20 NorthTexas boat dealers during the 10 consecutive days of theshow. Nearly 150 different vendors will have booths. Hours:Friday, Jan 31, 3-9 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 1, 10 a.m.- 9 p.m.;Sunday, Feb. 2, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Monday-Thursday, Feb. 3-Feb6, 12-8 p.m.; Friday, Feb. 7, 12- 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 8, 10a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 9, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Dallas MarketHall, 2200 Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX 75207. $12 Adults,$6 Children (ages 5-13, under 5 free). Tickets at show only.Parking free. www.dallasboatexpo.com.
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52nd Atlanta Boat Show, Jan 9-12. Thurs.-Fri. 11 a.m.- 9p.m. Saturday, 10am-9 p.m. Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. GeorgiaWorld Congress Center, Atlanta, GA. NMMA. www.atlantaboatshow.com.
40th Stuart Boat Show, Stuart, FL, Jan 10-12. 10am-6pm. till5pm Sunday.Waterway Marina, Apex Marine. Stuart har-bor, Half Mile off State Road 707. Stuart, FL. AllSportsProductions. www.allsportsproductions.net. (305) 868-9224.
Austin Boat Show, Jan. 16-19. Thurs.-Fri. 12-9 p.m, Sat. 10-9 p.m, Sun. 10-6 p.m. Austin Convention Center.www.austinboatshow.com
San Antonio Boat Show, Jan. 23-26. At the Alamodome.Thursday and Friday, 12-9 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.Sunday, 10 am-5 pm. www.sanantonioboatshow.com
Charleston Boat Show, Charleston, SC, Jan. 24-26. Fri. 10-8p.m, Sat. 10-7 p.m, Sun. 11-5 p.m. Charleston ConventionCenter, Charleston, SC. (864) 250-9713. www.thecharleston-boatshow.com.
SEAFOOD FESTIVALS & FLEA MARKETS
8th Annual Port Salerno Seafood Festival, Port Salerno, FL, Jan. 25Live music, arts and crafts vendors, a kid’s fun zone, mer-maids, pirates and seafood. Adults $5, children 12 and underfree. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. www.portsalernoseafoodfestival.org.
SAILBOAT & TRAWLER RENDEZVOUS
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Third Annual Key Largo CatboatRendezvous, Feb. 14-16The 3rd annual Key Largo Catboat Rendezvous will beheld at the Upper Keys Sailing Club on Feb. 14-16. Allmakes of catboats, as well as all nonsuch, are invited.Come with or without your boat. For registration and areainfo, contact David (Wavy Davy) Adamusko at (703) 850-6654, or email [email protected]. www.upperkeyssail-ingclub. com. The UKSC has ample dock facilities, club-house and full bar.
2014 Useppa Island, FL, CatboatRendezvous, Feb. 26 – March 1The Useppa Island every-other-winter catboat rendezvous,held for more than two dozen years, will be held Thursdaythrough Saturday, Feb. 26 through March 1. Those attend-ing are invited to come a few days early and stay a few dayslater. There will be lots of sailing, races for the world cham-
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Wrecker’s Cup Race, Key West,January, February, March, AprilThis race, if you could call it that, is sponsored by theSchooner Wharf Bar on the waterfront in downtown KeyWest. This Sunday afternoon race commemorates the raceto a wreck that signified the old days when Key West’smain business was wreck salvage. Boats race seven milesout to Sand Key from the Key West waterfront and back.The race has five classes: Classic, Schooner, Multihull,Monohull over 30 feet and Monohull under 30 feet. Localsand visitors are invited and welcome. It is known as the“anything-but-serious race.” First boat back wins. Noprotests allowed. Sailing/boating rules and rules of sea-manship always apply. Four races are held over four
months. The race is videotaped and the awards ceremonyafter the race at the bar serves a barbecue dinner whileguests watch the race on a big screen TV. Beer drinking isvery common.
Race dates are Jan. 26, Feb. 23, March 30, April 27. Thereis a captains meeting the day before the race at the bar at 7p.m., where “captains and crew contemplate strategy whilereviewing course and race rules.” Race awards, booty,music and barbecue are after the race at the bar at 7 p.m.www.schoonerwharf.com.
Good Old Boat Regatta, St. Petersburg, FL, Jan. 4A Benefit for “ Meals on Wheels”The St. Petersburg Sailing Association (SPSA) presents the5th Annual Good Old Boat Regatta on Jan. 4. The racetakes place in Tampa Bay near downtown St. Petersburg.Entry is restricted to boats built before 1994. Classes andawards include spinnaker, non-spinnaker, true cruising,one design, Portsmouth and a fun class. The NOR, entryform, contacts and additional information are posted onthe SPSA website (www.spsa.us); online registration isavailable. The St. Petersburg Yacht Club is co-hosting theregatta and will provide free dockage to all partici-pants. This is a premier sailing event in Tampa Bay,attracting Good Old Boats from the entire west coast ofFlorida. It is one of the most fun sailing events in theTampa Bay area and is a charity fundraiser for Meals onWheels. The emphasis of this regatta is fun, camaraderieand “Good Old Boats Supporting Good Old Folks.”
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Office of Coast Survey ConsidersRemoving the Magenta Line onIntracoastal Waterway Charts – Do We Really Need It?By James H. Newsome
Few know the origin or history of the magenta line oncoastal charts, but you will be hard-pressed to find a
mariner who hasn’t cursed and thanked his creator (at dif-ferent times) for the recommended route depicted by themagenta line on most charts.
The magenta line first appeared on charts produced bythe U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 101 years ago in orderto show the best route through the “inside route.” The U.S.Coast & Geodetic Survey published seven editions of theIntracoastal Waterway route prior to 1935.
The agency pointed out in their 1935 annual report,‘‘The existing charts of this system of waterways have beenbased principally on surveys made from 60 to 80 years agoand, necessarily, are obsolete in many respects.’’
The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey received addition-al appropriations to update the coastal charts from thePublic Works Administration in 1935, and concentrated itssurveying efforts on the primary through routes and majortributaries. Beginning in 1936, the ‘‘inside route’’ series ofcharts were absorbed into the Intracoastal Waterway nauti-cal charts.
Most of us would be surprised (or perhaps not) to learnthat the ICW route or magenta line that exists on our chartstoday has remained virtually unchanged since the updatesof 1936! We know that NOAA’s Office of Coast Surveyupdates existing charts between editions, and the commonassumption would be that the magenta line was also adjust-ed as necessary. Apparently, this has not been the case.
NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey is so concerned aboutinaccuracies of the magenta line that it is systematicallyremoving the “recommended route” from NOAA nauticalcharts, and issuing a Local Notice to Mariners, advising cau-tion in using the line in charts where it has not been
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Okeechobee Water Level Decreases Approximately Nine Inches Since October
As of press date in early November, Lake Okeechobeeis at 15.07 feet above sea level, decreasing about 9inches since November. This makes the navigationaldepth for Route 1, which crosses the lake, 9.01 feet,and the navigational depth for Route 2, which goesaround the southern coast of the lake, 7.21 feet. Bridgeclearance at Myakka was at 49.73 feet. For those inter-ested in seeing the daily height of the lake, navigationroute depths and bridge clearance, go to http://w3.saj.usace.army.mil/h2o/currentLL.shtml (copythis address exactly as it is here with upper and lowercases). This link is also available on our website,www.southwindsmagazine.com.
removed. In the Federal Register publication on September26, 2013, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department ofCommerce stated, “Numerous examples can be foundwhere the charted Intracoastal Waterway route (‘‘magentaline’’) passes on the wrong side of aids to navigation; cross-es shoals, obstructions, shoreline; and falls outside ofdredged channels, etc. Coast Survey is taking severalactions to address the problems.”
The Office of Coast Survey is updating the magenta lineon some current charts not scheduled for new editions.Additionally, NOAA is considering options for futurecharts including whether or not to depict the magenta line,and what should the magenta line designate?
The director of NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey invitesinterested parties to submit comments to assist CoastSurvey as it decides whether to maintain a new or updatedmagenta line depicting an Intracoastal Waterway route onIntracoastal Waterway nautical charts. Comments mayaddress whether recreational or commercial mariners needa magenta line depicting a specified Intracoastal Waterwayroute, and whether that should be a federal governmentcharting responsibility.
Additionally, the director specifically seeks commentsregarding:
• How do you currently access the magenta line? Onpaper nautical charts, raster navigational charts, elec-tronic navigational charts, commercial paper chartbooks, commercial charts, or other?• How do you use the “magenta line”? Do you consider itto be a general route, a specific track line, or a reference line?•Given limited government resources, what are yourideas for how NOAA should develop and maintain areinstated magenta line?• How do you use the Intracoastal Waterway?Recreationally or commercially? Locally or long distance?• What are your boat’s length and draft?
Comments may be emailed to [email protected] or faxed to (301) 713–4019. Written com-ments may be mailed to Lt.j.g. Leslie Flowers, Office ofCoast Survey, 1315 East-West Highway, #6312, Silver
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Government to Stop LithographicPrinting of NOAA Nautical Charts –Goes to Print on DemandBy James H. Newsome
The NOAA Office of Coastal Survey has set off a firestorm ofdiscussion on Internet sites with its recent announcementthat the government will no longer print nautical charts effec-tive April 13, 2014. Currently, the federal government printsthe NOAA lithograph nautical charts, and then sells them tocommercial chart agents who sell them to the public.
The history and tradition of paper charts goes back to1807 when President Jefferson created the U.S. Coast Surveyto provide nautical charts that would help the young nationwith safe shipping, national defense, and maritime bound-aries. NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey and its predecessoragencies have been printing lithograph charts since theCivil War. In the 1800s, James Whistler (known for theiconic painting colloquially called “Whistler’s Mother”)and John Muir (founder of the Sierra Club) worked forthe Office of Coastal Survey and produced charts ofhigh artistic appeal.
Since 1999, NOAA has formed partnerships withPrint-On-Demand (POD) chart distributors in orderto print charts that are up to date at the time of the
printing. Additionally, the agency has been building the sys-tems, products, partnerships, and distribution system to sup-port the industry’s evolution from stock paper charts to digi-tal files.
The Office of Coastal Survey’s official announcementstated, “As much as we’d like to continue the tradition oflithography, it is no longer justified as a use of tax dollars.This is the right way to go. NOAA has neither the facilities,nor the budget, nor the appropriate authority, nor theexpertise to stand up or contract for a print-stock-sell oper-ation. Additionally, we believe the private sector is bettersuited to printing and selling charts—and we look forwardto seeing how smart entrepreneurs tackle new opportuni-ties in chart sales.”
Many people have taken this announcement to meanthat NOAA is getting out of chart production altogether,but this is not the case. “While we regret that circumstancesare such that the government will no longer print litho-graph charts, we are still the nautical chart-maker for U.S.coastal waters.”
Coast Survey cartographers apply tens of thousands ofchanges to NOAA charts every year. The current system ofissuing paper charts is so cumbersome and time-consuming
that NOAA will collect hundreds of changes to eachchart before a new edition is issued. This system doesnot allow for latest changes to navigational aids,shoals, wrecks, and obstructions that are critical forsafe navigation.
There is no question that boaters will missthe day when they can drop by their favoritemarine supplier and pick up a traditional nauticalchart, but we’re fooling ourselves if we thinkthese new charts are completely accurate. Mostlikely there have already been dozens if not hun-dreds of updates since the chart was issued.
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POD charts can be ordered online, by telephone, andare also available on Amazon. Additionally, OceanGrafixhas 37 retail locations in the United States. NOAA antici-pates expansion of the Print-On-Demand services currentlybeing offered. The maximum price of POD charts is estab-lished in the business agreement between the POD compa-nies and NOAA. Within that price, NOAA collects $.50 perchart to offset the cost of managing the POD program.
The discussions in the marine community about thisannouncement by the Office of Coastal Survey will certain-
ly continue for some time, but the bottom line isthat boaters who want paper charts can still getthem, and the charts purchased will be 100 per-cent accurate at the time of printing. For moreinformation on this subject go to the NOAA
Office of Coastal Survey on the web, www.nauti-calcharts.noaa.gov
North Carolina and AlabamaMarinas Receive Marinalife Awardsin 4th Annual Best Marina ContestIn October, Marinalife announced the winners of its 4thAnnual Best Marina contest. Two Southern marinas wonawards. River Dunes marina in Oriental, NC, was voted theBest Customer Service award and Dog River Marina inMobile, AL, was voted runner-up for the same award.
River Dunes Marina is located at MM 173 on the ICWand has a MLW depth of 8 feet, floating docks, courtesy carand many other amenities. www.riverdunes.com.
Dog River Marina is located on the western edge ofMobile Bay just south of Mobile where the Dog River meetsthe bay. It has 90 slips, a courtesy car, full boatyard andmany other amenities. Besides being a favorite stopover forGreat Loopers, it is a sponsor of the America’s Great LoopCruisers’ Association. www.dogrivermarina.com.
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Winner of the Best Transient Marina was SaybrookPoint Marina, Inn & Spa in Old Saybrook, CT. Runner-upwas Nantucket Boat Basin in Nantucket, MA.
St. Augustine Dredging Deepens Inlet ChannelIn October, the Army Corps of Engineersdredged the St. Augustine inlet channel to a16-foot depth. Although the channel wasdredged and deepened in 2012, with thesand being placed on St. Augustine Beachas part of a beach re-nourishment project,two months after the dredging, HurricaneSandy came through and undid the dredg-ing. Some areas of the inlet were only ninefeet deep. Sand from the October dredgingwas used to re-nourish another nearbybeach that was not done in 2012. The $2 mil-lion cost of the project is 100 percent feder-al funding received for impacts ofHurricane Sandy.
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A bill that the U.S. House of Representatives passedin October with overwhelming bipartisan support,H.R. 3080, the Water Resources Reform andDevelopment Act of 2013, has Boat OwnersAssociation of The United States (BoatUS) see-ing potential benefits for recreational boaters.
Recreational boaters will benefit fromlanguage in the bill directing the ArmyCorps of Engineers to target funding to emerging harbors,or those that ship less than one million tons of cargo annu-ally. H.R. 3080 allocates 10 percent of the total amount ofexpenditures that go to waterway operation and mainte-nance costs to be used at these emerging harbors. Whilethese harbors and waterways may not carry the millionsof tons of cargo of the bigger ports, they play a vital rolein supporting recreational boating and commercial fish-ing. One part of the bill is directed to assess the operationand maintenance needs of the Atlantic IntracoastalWaterway and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, taking
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The top ten claims in terms of dollar value over thelast eight years, along with some tips that could helpprevent becoming a statistic, or if you’re simplyunlucky, lessen the damage:
Lightning: Make sure to haul out your boat after alightning strike to check for “exit wounds” that can com-promise the hull’s integrity.
Theft: Ninety percent of boats are stolen on their trailers.Make it as difficult as possible to simply hitch up and run.
Injury: Many injury claims involve inexperienced guests.Be sure to warn your non-boating friends about wakes,waves, slippery surfaces, and other hazards.
Grounding: Accurate charts—whether paper, electronic, or
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on a mobile device—and a depth sounder are your bestdefense against grounding.
Collision: Most collisions result from some combinationof three factors: inattention, blind spots, and too muchspeed.
Fire/explosion: Faulty wiring causes most fires;most explosions result from fueling issues.
Striking a submerged object: If you hear a loudclunk from down under, stop and look in the bilge, and,if you find any water coming in, haul out the boat to checkfor structural damage as soon as possible.
Weather/wind: Keeping your boat in a well-protected loca-tion away from trees is the best way to protect it from non-hurricane weather damage.
Sinking: Check, squeeze, and tug all fittings below the water-line at least once a season to make sure your boat stays afloat.
Hurricane: A well-thought-out hurricane plan can keepyour boat safe in all but the most extreme storms.
For information, go to www.BoatUS.com/toptenclaims.
Flare False Alarms CostingCoast Guard
The Coast Guard is reminding the public thatflares are to be used for emergencies only, after aseries of false alarms this past summer that hascost the Coast Guard significant money andresources. As an example, one case involving aCoast Guard C-130 aircraft and small boatsearch crew cost more than $43,000.
If boaters plan to use flares for training,they should contact the nearest Coast Guard unit to informthem of their intentions. Boaters should be prepared to givetimes, locations and types of flares that will be utilized dur-ing the training exercise. The Coast Guard recommends thatboaters properly dispose of old or outdated flares by turn-ing them over to a Coast Guard base or a Coast GuardAuxiliary unit.
An individual who knowingly and willfully commu-nicates a false distress message to the Coast Guard, orcauses the Coast Guard to attempt to save lives and prop-erty when no help is needed, is guilty of a class D felonyand is subject to a civil penalty of not more than $5,000,and liable for all costs the Coast Guard incurs as a result ofthe individual’s action.
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Third Edition Released of “Marine SSB Radio for ‘Idi-Yachts’ ”The third edition has 178 pages with revised and expandedsections on digital selective calling, worldwide weather andtraffic nets, emergency hailing frequencies, weather routing,SSB radio installation and troubleshooting. Informationregarding new options for antenna installations, the GAMand simple and quick ground plane installation and theKISS system are detailed. The issue regarding whether ornot to turn on the Icom M802 compression function isaddressed. Both East and West Coast voice weather,weather fax, NAVTEX, marine SSB and HAM nets areincluded. The book includes an Internet download of freereference files. A removable quick reference guide to keepat the navigation station is also included. The book retailsfor $24.95 and can be purchased at www.idiyachts.com.
Boat Brokerage Sales Increase 29 Percent in September over Last YearFrom Trade Only Today
A 29 percent increase in boat sales in September over thesame month last year was evidence that the brokerage mar-ket continued to show strength. Total value of Septembersales was $232.3 million—an increase of nine percent overthe previous September. The strongest size range for saleswas in the 36- to 45-foot length, showing an increase of 21percent. September sailboat sales numbered 535 boats sold,up 32 percent, with the total dollars paid for sailboats goingup 49 percent to $37.8 million. Although 2014 powerboatswere sold, the total dollar volume for powerboats was flat at$194.5 million. Third quarter sales in number of boats soldin 2013 showed a five percent increase over the previousyear, with a 21 percent increase in total dollar sales.
Hawks Cay Resort SoldHawks Cay Resort, the largest resort in the Florida Keys,was recently sold for $133.8 million to Carey WatermarkInvestors. The resort—a popular destination for boaterscruising the Keys—is on Duck Key in the Middle Keys nearmile marker 61. The resort has 177 guest rooms, 250 villas,five swimming pools, meeting spaces, six food and bever-age locations, a private saltwater lagoon, spa, tennis center,marina and other amenities. The resort will be run byPyramid Hotel Group, which manages 38 hotels and 15resorts in the United States, including locations in Hawaiiand the Caribbean. The company has planned capitalimprovements and other costs of $15.6 million.Improvements of the marina restaurant and the 85-slipmarina are included. www.hawkscay.com.
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New Book on Cruising to CubaReleasedISBN: 978-0-9731659-3-7; $59.95, 224 pagesCaptain and author Cheryl Barr has published her latest book, Cruising Guide to Cuba.
The guide has up-to-date information for the coastalwaters from Varadero westward around to Cienfuegos.The guide is filled with color chart illustrations and pho-tos, including: detailed descriptions (including pertinentGPS coordinates) for harbors, anchorages and inside pas-sages; crucial information about weather, route adviceand passage planning; hurricane holes; and much more.All of Barr’s navigational research and data is presentedin a large, easy-to-read color format.
Barr has spent over a dozen seasons in Cuba sailingaboard a 62-foot Herreshoff schooner. She has a 200-tonyacht masters license and has made numerous yachtdeliveries worldwide. She is also a certified welder and amarine biologist.
Barr’s other cruising guides include The Down EastCircle Route and The Canadian Maritimes.
For more information about Barr’s Cuba voyages, andto purchase the guide, go to www.cruisingincuba.com.Information on her Atlantic Canada guides can be found atwww.yachtpilot.ca.
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Applications Open for 2014Lightning Boat Grants to Young SailorsThe ILCA owns two competitive Lightnings that are award-ed to promising young sailors for the summer sailing sea-son. The grantees are selected by a panel of experiencedLightning sailors based on the proposal that each team sub-mits and through an interview process. The grant covers allregatta entry fees, boat insurance, and some travel money.It includes a nearly new boat, good sails and a mentor.
This is a unique opportunity for sailors over the age of19 to experience Lightning sailing at its best. To date 76young adults have experienced the Lightning class throughthe Boat Grant Program. Eight are now boat owners, andnearly half are still active in the class.
“After the first day of racing at the 2013 LightningWorld Championship in Italy, three of the top 10 were allBoat Grant alumni! It is incredible to see these young peo-ple learning the boat so quickly. They are all sailing reallywell,” boasted Class President John Faus.
Applications and proposals are due on December 31.Each applicant is required to provide sailing resumes, threereferences with letters of recommendation and mustinclude a cover letter explaining why he or she is the bestcandidate for the grant. Complete details on how to applyfor this grant is found on the ILCA website: http://light-ningclass.org/racing/boatGrant/index.asp. Contact infor-mation for questions is on the website.
Paige Railey Wins Bronze at 2013Laser Radial World ChampionshipWith a win in the final race at the 2013 Laser Radial WorldChampionship, US SAILING Team Sperry Top-Sider ath-lete Paige Railey (Clearwater, FL) captured a bronze medal.Racing took place Oct. 1-7, in Rizhao, China, where a totalof 77 athletes competed in the series, which consisted of asix-race qualifying series and a six-race final series. While Railey takes a bronze medal from this Laser RadialWorld championship, it’s the overall takeaway that standsout. “You can only control your own actions, not the actionsof others,” she said. “If there is someone having a great race,you have to focus on your own boat, because you neverknow; it could come down to the last race and get you abronze.” The bronze caps off a strong year in the LaserRadial for Railey, who won silver at Kiel Week, in June, andgold at ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami, in January.
Star Sailors League Final, NassauYacht Club, Bahamas, Dec. 3-8The Star Sailors League (SSL) will hold its first ever event,the 2013 SSL Final, at the Nassau Yacht Club, Bahamas, Dec.3-8, with the best Star sailors from 11 countries competing.The provisional entry list, which includes three OlympicGold medalists, 11 Olympic class world champions and aLouis Vuitton Cup winner, represent the first and the only
time after the Star Worlds and 2012 Olympic Games that somany international Star champions will race together.
The League was established last January, the birth of adream of Olympic and amateur sailors to build an interna-tional regatta circuit to promote athletes and their skills.Under the name of the “Star Sailors League,” the organi-zation brings together all the Star class regattas anddefines a new world ranking (based on the model of the“ATP World Tour” created by tennis players in 1972), withmore than 2,400 skippers and crew already ranked in theSSL ranking. Drawing its inspiration from tennis and itsannual “Masters,” the SSL Board is launching the StarSailors League Final, which will be sailed at the end ofeach year.
All races will be broadcast live on the official website,www.starsailors.com, with Virtual Eye technology, the sametracking that was used during the recent America’s Cup.
16th Annual Hobie Wave NationalChampionships, Islamorada, FL,Dec. 5-8This national event has been held in the Florida Keys area onthe first weekend of December for 15 years, bringing lots ofsailors and their friends to this great sailing venue during theoff-season time for the Keys. It is sponsored by CatamaranSailor Magazine and OnlineMarineStore.com. It is held at theIslander Resort in Islamorada on the ocean side of the island.Event start on Thursday Dec. 5, and three days of racing starton Friday. www.catsailor.com/waves/wave_nationals.html.
International Audi Melges 20Worlds, Ocean Reef Club, Key Largo, FL, Dec. 11-14On Jan. 1, the International Audi Melges 20 Class Association(IM20CA) was officially recognized by the ISAF as an officialinternational class, enabling the Audi Melges 20 to hold itsfirst world championship, to be held at the Ocean Reef Clubin Key Largo. Over 60 boats are expected to compete.www.melges20.com. [email protected]
Orange Bowl International YouthRegatta, Miami, FL, Dec. 26-30This is the largest youth sailing regatta in the United States.It is consistently rated the most fun and best in the U.S. foryouth sailors and their families. Participants include repre-sentatives from over 25 countries and 20 states. The regattaincludes four days of competition between Christmas andNew Years and features dinners, raffles, forums, and bagsfull of merchandise for participants. Unique trophies areawarded up to ten places and are given out by the mayor,head of the Orange Bowl Committee and OlympicMedalists. Fleet racing is supported for Optimists, Lasers(Full, Radial and 4.7) and Club 420s. www.coralreefyacht-club.org/Waterfront/orange-Bowl-Regatta.aspx.
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NAMSA North AmericanChampionships and 2014Tradewinds Midwinter Open CatNationals, Islamorada, Florida Keys,Jan. 18-20This is also the NA F18 Midwinters, F16 Midwinters, WaveNational Series Regatta. Three days of racing (if you can’t sailall three days, you can sail just two days and then your aver-age is scored over three days) and two courses; One for fasterboats (with spinnakers), another for regular beach cats (H16,Wave, etc.). For NOR, online registraton, and information, goto www.catsailor.com/Tradewinds.htm. Carlton TuckerMemorial Award to Winner of the Largest Class, Also, F18Midwinters, F16 Midwinters, Wave Midwinters.
This regatta is held at Founders Park, Islamorada, andhosted by Founders Park Watersports, and the CABB(Catamaran Assn. of Biscayne Bay). The event is sponsoredby Catamaran Sailor magazine, Rick White’s SailingSeminars, www.OnLineMarineStore.com and Calvert [email protected]. (305) 451-3287
27th Key West Race Week, Quantum Key West 2014, Jan. 19-24This is the largest regatta in the Western Hemisphere withone-design, IRC and PHRF fleets racing for five days in thewaters around Key West. Winter winds are usually excel-lent, and boats come from all over the United States,Canada, Latin America and Europe.
Classes include: Farr 30, Farr 40, Farr 400, J/95, J/70,J/80, J/105, K-650, Laser SB3, Audi Melges 20, Melges 24,Melges 32, Swan 42, Open 570, Open 650, Ultimate 20, Viper640, R/P IRC 52, J/V IRC 52. The Melges 32 fleet has hadinternational entries from Italy, Japan, Switzerland andRussia. While the Grand Prix boats may draw the headlines,the heart and soul of race week is the one-design and hand-icap classes that are present year after year. Another main-stay is the huge PHRF fleet that competes annually, withfour PHRF classes.
Kelly’s Caribbean Bar, Grill & Brewery serves as themain regatta anchor. Regatta headquarters, where sailorsand sailing aficionados can mingle, is to be on CarolineStreet between Duval and Whitehead streets. The locationalso serves as the jury rooms, media center and eveningparty venue.
Thousands of crew and spectators spend the week inKey West, and the town becomes one huge race event withafter-race partying occurring throughout the island. The offi-cial regatta marina is the Historic Seaport Marina. QuantumSail Design Group is the official sponsor, along with manyother industry partners who also support the event.
To view the racing action, fans can book seats on spec-tator boats ranging from excursion catamarans to historictall ships. Prime land-based viewing spots include KeyWest’s Atlantic-front restaurants, resorts and beaches.
For more information, go to www.premiere-racing.com.
US SAILING’s ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami Returns in 2014,Jan. 25-Feb. 1 US SAILING’s premier event—the ISAF Sailing World CupMiami—is set to return to Miami, FL, for top-level Olympicand Paralympic class racing. Scheduled for Jan. 25-Feb. 1,the regatta will mark its 25th anniversary of delivering elite-level competition in the sailing events selected for theOlympic and Paralympic Games.
Established in 1990 by US SAILING, ISAF SailingWorld Cup Miami annually draws elite sailors, includingOlympic and Paralympic medalists and hopefuls fromaround the world. The regatta is open to boats competing inevents chosen for the 2016 Olympic sailing competition andthe 2016 Paralympic sailing competition.
Event Chairperson Gary Bodie said, “As we get oneyear closer to the Rio 2016 Games, more and more of theworld’s best sailors are using Miami as a winter trainingbase. The local network of sailors, yacht clubs and sailingcenters serve as a community of support, and it’s great tosee returning and new faces each year. We look forward towelcoming everyone to World Cup Miami.”
ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami is the only NorthAmerican regatta to be included in the International SailingFederation’s (ISAF) 2013-14 Sailing World Cup series.
Competitors in the Paralympic classes will have fivedays of fleet racing (Monday-Friday) and no medal race.ISAF medals will be awarded to the top three boats in eachOlympic and Paralympic class on Saturday, Feb. 1.
Regatta headquarters will be located at the US SailingCenter Miami, an official Olympic training center, in theCoconut Grove section of Miami. Event organizers havepartnered with the City of Miami to provide world-classvenues for competition. Additional hosts for the eventinclude Miami Rowing Club, Coconut Grove Sailing Cluband Shake-a-Leg Miami. These sailing organizations hostclasses onshore, as well as help run the on-the-water racing.The Coral Reef Yacht Club hosts the opening and closingCeremonies.
The 2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami is sponsoredby Sperry Top-Sider, Harken McLube and the University ofMiami Hospital.
US SAILING’S Rolex Miami OCR,Coconut Grove, FL, Jan. 27-Feb. 2
This event brings the world’s top sailors for the Olympicand Paralympic Games and is the second stop on the ISAFSailing World Cup 2012-13 circuit. It draws Olympic andParalympic medalists and hopefuls from around the world.It is a ranking regatta for sailors hoping to qualify for the USSAILING Team AlphaGraphics, which annually distin-guishes the top three sailors in each Olympic andParalympic class. www.RolexMiamiOCR.org.
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The St. Petersburg Power & Sailboat Show DEC. 5-8
Mahaffey Theater Yacht Basin and Albert Whitted Park400 First St. South, St. Petersburg A few blocks south of downtown St. Petersburg(Mahaffey Theater is located at what is formerly known as the Bayfront Center complex)
Directions:Take Interstate 275 into St. Petersburg. Exit on Interstate 175-Exit 22 and continue to its end at the traffic light. Proceed for-ward four traffic lights. The fourth light is First Street. Turnleft on First Street. The Mahaffey Theater and the showgrounds will be on your right-hand side. Plenty of on-siteparking is available at the municipal parking garages and air-port surrounding show grounds. The parking fee is $5.
Visitors can also ride the Downtown Looper Trolley withconvenient stops on First Street alongside the MahaffeyTheater. Visit www.loopertrolley.com for schedules.
Visitors can also come by boat and dock for free at theshow’s “Come by Boat Dock”
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Thurs. Dec. 5 — 12 noon-6 p.m. Fri. Dec. 6 — 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. Dec. 7 — 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sun. Dec. 8 — 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Adults $12 ($10 online)Children 15 and under free admission$2 off each ticket purchased onlineMilitary personnel free (with ID)
General Show Information
The St. Petersburg Boat Show and Strictly Sail merged in2008 to create one large show for both power and sail. Thiswill be Show Management’s 36th year putting on this show.
In-the-water sailboat displays will have dockage for 50-plus boats. Brokerage sailboats will also be on display. Thisis in addition to the many on-land sailboat displays. Alongwith these boats will be over 200 in-water powerboats andmore on land.
Over 200 exhibitors will be in the main tent, and thetent that visitors walk through to enter the show is devotedto sailing exhibitors, although many exhibitors have bothsail and powerboaters as customers. Many exhibitors in themain tent serve both sail and power, also.
There will be a large section for outside exhibitorsshowing both sailing products and services and traileredsailboats. This is in addition to the many trailered power-boats on display outside.
Sailing seminars, run by Sail America, will be held intents at the show site. A final seminar schedule will be avail-able at www.strictlysail.com at the St. Pete web page andthrough the Show Management website, www.showman-agement.com. There will also be an authors’ area outside.
For kids, there will be free fishing clinics on Saturdayand Sunday.
Discover Sailing will also be offering free sailboat rideson Tampa Bay from docks at the show.
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Because of the vast variety of choices, buying our cruis-ing boat was perhaps the most daunting experience ofmy life. Our goal is to cruise full-time. We have no
other definitive plan other than to go sailing. We are notsure where we want to cruise, but we are definitely goingsailing. This perhaps made our selection of boat even moredifficult. For instance, if we knew we were going to limitourselves to just the Caribbean, we probably would haveopted for a multihull. With our plan being wide open toendless possibilities, we sought a reputable bluewatercruiser. After a four-year search, why did we choose anAmel? Amel, designed by Henri Amel and manufacturedin La Rochelle, France, has a history of building boatsintended to safely sail the globe. Our criteria for purchaseincluded the categories of: strength and construction, safe-ty, comfort, single-handed sailing, storage, accessibility ofsystems and price.
Strength and ConstructionThe Amel construction process is somewhatunique. Since 1967, Amel has used biaxial fiber-glass cloth, which provides a stronger end prod-uct than conventional matting. The hull is mold-ed as one-piece lengths are layered from for-ward to aft with no splicing in the biaxial cloth.This is built upon by laying the cloth across theboat port to starboard, again no splicing. And,so on. The cloth is layered at 90-degree offsetsuntil the required thickness is met. The deck isconstructed in a similar fashion but with a balsacore for stiffness and insulation. The bulkheads
and furniture framework are added while the hull is still inthe mold, since they are a part of the bonded super struc-ture, producing a durable and strong foundation. Fewother manufactures use the furniture framework toincrease overall strength. The deck is sealed to the hullwhile the hull is still in the mold using six layers of biaxi-al cloth wrapping the entire circumference of the joint. Thehull and the deck become one. This construction process iswhy Amel yachts are strong and leak-free.
The flat-bottomed wing keel is cast iron and will sup-port the entire weight of the vessel. The wings are wide toadd stability. The partitioned 265-gallon water tank is locat-ed in the stub keel, keeping the weight low and providingsome added ballast.
Amels do not have a prop shaft. Instead, they have anAmel drive. This is a geared drive attached to the rear of the
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keel and to the bottom of the engine room compartment.The engine transmission connects to the Amel drive. Thepropeller is therefore mounted at 90 degrees at the rear ofthe keel yielding more forward thrust, as there is noupward pitch trying to push the boat up out of the water.This design also eliminates the need for a stuffing box.
The rigging chain plates, or chain plate tie-rods, arelaminated to the hull and will support the weight of the ves-sel. A crane can safely lift the boat by the four lift pointswithout the need for a sling. This feature yields additionaloptions when seeking a boatyard for a haul-out.
SafetyFirst and foremost; five watertight compartments! Movingfrom forward to aft: A crash bulkhead doubles as chainlocker and sail-storage compartments (with deck access);the forward cabin can be sealed by shutting one seacock and
securing the watertight companionway door; the enginecompartment (more on this later); the aft cabin is sealedwith a watertight door and one seacock; and finally, alazarette storage locker with deck access.
We have a deep center cockpit. The position of the cock-pit provides a seat in the area of the boat where the motionof the sea is minimized. Protection from the elements is pro-vided by a hard dodger with a folding canvas top. In theevent we need to leave the cockpit, it is not possible to takea single step on this boat without a handrail within easyreach. The faux teak non-skid decks are clear of rigging andallow an unobstructed passageway from bow to stern.Stainless steel 1-inch railings run the entire length of thedeck. The interior of the boat also boasts multiple hand-holds, allowing crew to move safely throughout the vesselwith one hand on the boat at all times.
A sea chest-design located in the engine compartment pro-
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SPECIFICATIONSLOA: 52’6”LWL/static: 41’4”Beam/maximum: 15’1”Beam/waterline: 13’6”Engine: 110 hp Yanmar – 4JH4-HTE Year built: 1999 (launched in 2000)Model year: 2000 Millennium editionFreshwater: 264 U.S. gallonsDiesel fuel: 158 U.S. gallons (main)Auxiliary diesel tanks: 2 x 30 U.S. gallons
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6’ 7” fully loadedWorking sail area: 1280 square feetOffwind sail area: 2344 square feetCruise speed-maximum: 8.8 knotsCruise speed-economy: 7 knotsMax range-economy: 1000+nautical miles
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The ketch rig allows for sail configurations in all weath-er. All sails are furling and are controlled from the cockpit.With the ketch rig, balance can be obtained in heavy weath-er to lighten the steering and alleviate weather helm.
Single-Handed SailingSingle-handed sailing was a “must have” on our list. Wewanted a boat where one person could change course, tackand reef without having to wake up others. Amel offersthe ability to do all of this with the touch of a button. Sailsare driven by electric motors (with manual backups).Electric motors eliminate the need for a hydraulic systemand offer years of reliability. One person can operate theboat and adjust every sail or even tack without ever leav-ing the safety of the cockpit. The electric motor systemoffers ease, convenience and eliminates the struggle with
ropes or winch handles. Three Lewmar electric wincheslocated in the cockpit control the jib and main sail trim.The mizzen sail is manually winched with the wincheslocated in the cockpit. The electric autopilot has options oftracking waypoints or direction. The autopilot has twomotors we alternate to prolong the longevity of each unit.
The steering wheel is flush-mounted to the cabin and isoffset to the port side. The companion entry is offset to thestarboard side. The flush wheel eliminates the need to climbover cockpit seats or work around a cockpit table to get to asteering pedestal (or two). The helmsperson is out of theweather and safe, in addition to having complete control ofthe boat at one’s fingertips. We have secondary monitors forradar and navigation at the cockpit helm.
ComfortWhat is not to like? We have all the comforts of home.Onboard, we have a U-shaped galley, refrigerator, two freez-
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Looking aft on the starboard side towards the aft cabin. Startingbatteries and eight house batteries for 620 amp-hours are locatedunder an amidships bunk, dry and ventilated. Here, we see thebunk on the left and the batteries on the right with the bunk,opened.
The deep center cockpit looking forward, with helm on the left. Theposition of the cockpit provides a seat in the area of the boat wherethe motion of the sea is minimized.
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The navigation station offers a desk with chart storageand ample space for navigation and communication systems.
We have a 220-volt and 110-volt system, allowing us touse appliances of all types. The main power to the boat is 50amp, 220 volts, and the 110-volt system is provided via aXantrex 1000-watt inverter. We need to be aware of thehertz requirements on certain appliances.
The lack of a steering pedestal increases our space inthe center cockpit. We can comfortably seat six to eight andhave a foldaway table. The cockpit has an ergonomic designincorporating a sloped back with lumbar support.
StorageMost owners of Amels keep some sort of log for stored pos-
sessions. It is very easy to lose track of where items are stored.Because the engine and generator are in a watertight com-partment below the cockpit deck, all of the interior floor pan-els lift to provide dry storage. In addition, multiple cabinetsare located throughout. All bunks lift to provide storage forlarger items. Not including closets, drawers, cubbies orshelves, we have over 575 cubic feet of storage space. This isapproximately equivalent to an 8.5-foot wide by 8.5-footdeep by 8-foot high storage unit. With this amount of storage,
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The main salon (looking to port) will comfortably seat eight at thetable (with extension) on luxurious leather upholstery. Here we seethe two freezers under the seats fore and aft of the table. To theleft (forward of the table) is the open galley counter top, showingthe washer/dryer beneath.
The roomy navigation station is located on the starboard sideopposite the galley.
we can keep a large inventory of spare parts, ample provi-sions, souvenirs, books, dive gear, etc. All external storagecompartments can be secured by an internal mechanism.This adds a level of security when the boat is unattended.
AccessibilityThe engine compartment is accessed by a hydraulic lifthatch in the floor of the center cockpit. This watertight andsound-proofed compartment has all the smelly stuff. Wehave a Yanmar – 4JH4-HTE 110-horsepower engine thatwill effortlessly motor us at eight knots. The 220-volt, 7 KWship’s diesel generator is an ONAN unit with a freshwater-cooled three-cylinder diesel power plant. Both the generatorand engine have 360-degree access. Also in this compart-ment are all the pumps; bilge, head, saltwater for AC units,watermakers, freshwater, etc. The hot water heater is elec-tric and also has a heat exchanger using hot coolant for ener-gy from the generator. This is an ideal set-up as we do notneed the electric element when the generator is running toget hot water. This area also houses the main 158-gallondiesel tank and fuel filtration system. Starting batteries andeight house batteries for 620 amp-hours are located else-where under an amidships bunk, dry and ventilated.Because all the smelly stuff is located in this one area, we donot experience an oily boat odor or musty smell hitting us inthe face as we open up the boat.
At the navigation station, the flush-mounted instru-ments can be accessed by sliding out the wood panels.These panels are secured with large thumb screws. Thisenables access to all the wiring. Conduit is in place all overthe boat. When we recently added an AIS system, runningthe wire from the GPS antenna located at the stern to thenavigation station amidships was simply a matter of pullingthe wire through the existing conduit. Amel had the fore-sight to leave string in the conduit so we can pull through areplacement string with the wire.
The flush-mounted wheel configuration allows fullaccess to steering components. A panel in the galley opensto steering cables, autopilot and the back of all cockpitinstrumentation.
A retractable, electric bow-thruster gives us amazingmaneuverability in tight places. The entire unit can be accessed
through a panel in the forward cabin. The bow-thruster can beremoved and serviced (including the prop) even while in thewater by using a special Amel-designed tool.
PriceAs much as we would like to have ordered a new one, it wasway beyond our budget. New Amel 54 models are upwardof a million dollars. Amels tend to hold their valuation. Wewere a little hesitant to purchase a 10-year-old boat for ouradventure. Prior to purchasing our Amel, we contactednumerous Amel owners via a users group to ask a basicquestion: Is buying a 10-year-old Amel a good idea, or willwe be spending our days in port rebuilding systems andmaking repairs to our boat? Overwhelmingly, we were tolda 10-year-old Amel is still a baby.
In summary, Amel is a well-designed, safe, seriousbluewater cruiser. We could not be happier with our pur-chase. We are frequently impressed by accessible simplisticsystems. The boat handles and sails marvelously. The boatwas built with safety in mind first, followed by speed andcomfort. We are not as fast as other boats in our class. Wecan average 7.5 knots with a 15-knot beam reach. Amelparts are readily available from Amel who will ship world-wide. They have our hull number and will double-check thepart to ensure our order is correct.
Perhaps the most important thing of all, my wife ishappy when offshore on our boat and feels safe and con-fident aboard our Amel. No other boat in our price andsize range came close to giving a sense of security andsafety while at sea. My wife’s sailing confidence level hasgrown enormously in the two short years we have ownedour boat. To follow our adventures as we transition fromland life to full-time cruising, log onto our blog atwww.creampuff.us
References: Joel F. Potter, Cruising Yacht Specialist, LLC. Amel’s soleassociate for the AmericasBill and Judy Rouse, owners of BeBe, an Amel SM2K (hull#387)—currently circumnavigatingChantiers Amel S.A, 8 Rue Joseph Cugnot, 17183 PèrignyCedex, France
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Looking forward and to starboard is the starboard settee in the mainsalon. Passage to the forward cabin and head are on the left.
The walk-through transom with several handholds. Shown ondeck is the lazarette for dinghy storage, located aft of the aftcabin.
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As this is being written, in October, it’s exactly one year,to the day, that HMS Bounty foundered off the coast ofNorth Carolina. Bounty ran into the enormous and
unexpected power of a hurricane called Sandy. The CoastGuard’s official assessment on the sinking and the two liveslost has not yet been released, so there may be, currently,diverse opinions—some as hard as granite and some as softas a jelly donut—on what went wrong and why.
Hindsight is always sharply focused because those whobenefit from it have all the facts, whereas the captain andcrew of Bounty had no hard facts about the future exceptthat the vessel was going to be in jeopardy from HurricaneSandy were it to stay where it was located on October 25, inNew London, Connecticut.
Heading SouthBounty, after leaving a Maine boatyard, had stopped in NewLondon to visit the Navy’s submarine school there and togive some submariners, members or members-to-be ofcrews aboard nuclear-powered vessels, exposure to a modeof transportation that was most likely phasing out whentheir great-grandfathers were alive.
Bounty would have been in jeopardy at sea, as well. Allthose aboard knew it, most assuredly Robin Walbridge, 63,the skipper, whose adult life had been wrapped up in the52-year-old ship that had originally been built in 1960 forthe movie, Mutiny on the Bounty, that starred Marlon Brandoas mutineer Fletcher Christian. Walbridge had beenBounty’s master for 17 years. To sea or not to sea? In eithercase, bad and expensive things would happen to the ship.They all knew it. Walbridge knew it better than anyone.He’d already been through two hurricanes with his ship.
Bounty did not carry the Coast Guard’s seal of approvalas an inspected vessel. It was labeled a Dockside AttractionsVessel. Its winter home was St. Petersburg, FL. People couldpay to come aboard and tour the ship, relax, put their handson the same wheel Brando most likely had touched, takepictures and ask questions. However, none of those peoplewere permitted to leave the dock on Bounty.
The ship was crewed by a mix of paid crew and volun-teers, one of whom was Claudene Christian, who may ormay not have been distantly related to Fletcher Christian,the man who mutinied on the original Bounty. She main-tained she was. In any case, few members of the crew hadmuch experience in the type of weather they were going toface on a wooden vessel whereon missed schedules meantan absence of needed income.
The loss of Bounty came about, as most shipboardtragedies do, not from one cause alone. There were lots oflittle things—each significant in its own right—that causedthe loss of an iconic vessel and two human lives. The ship,built in 1960 in Nova Scotia from the original Bounty’sdrawings, was inherently strong. It was also bigger than theoriginal Bounty by a third.
An Old ShipMore than a half-century had passed since the vessel hadbeen constructed as a movie prop. With time, a shortage of
The“Bounty“One Year LaterBy Morgan Stinemetz
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The Bounty sinking off the coast of North Carolina on Oct. 28. Photo by U.S. Coast Guard
money and the press of business, the little things men-tioned above, came to mean a lot. Earlier in October, dur-ing a haul-out, rot had been found in some of Bounty’s tim-bers during a refit in Boothbay Harbor, ME. When CoastGuard investigators looked into the sinking, they talked tothe people at the yard in Boothbay Harbor who had beenresponsible for the yard work, Investigators got differingopinions from yard authorities on whether or not the rotmade Bounty structurally unsound. In addition, the crewdiscovered, between Boothbay Harbor and New London,that Bounty’s bilge pumps were not pumping as well asthey could. Wooden ships leak. Bilge pumps, good ones,reliable ones, are mandatory.
Glitches?It’s also likely that any number of small items that needed tobe taken care of after a refit simply were not. On a woodenvessel the size of the Bounty, sawdust and wooden shavingsare often found in the bilge after time in the yard. Possibly, afastener here and there was forgotten. A thoroughly experi-enced crew might have discovered the omissions and cor-rected them before the vessel left Maine. Bounty’s crew of 16did not meet that standard. Neither did it have the time.
The ship was to be in St. Petersburg in early November.
The UnknownUnpaid volunteers accounted for a third of the crew. Whatis known is that when Bounty left for New London, itdeparted Boothbay Harbor with a less-than-perfect dewa-tering system, part of the crew was untrained on how tooperate the hydraulic bilge pumps the ship carried andBounty had the wrong fuel filters for the two diesel engineson board. A supplier made a mistake. Instead of 20-micronfilters, Bounty received 2-micron filters. In so many words,when Bounty put to sea from New London—with Sandylooming large—the vessel was sailing into a totally unfath-omable situation with known shortcomings. In addition, thecrew was tired. They had worked hard in Boothbay Harbor.Then they sailed from Maine to Connecticut, stood standardwatches, day-sailed in New London and were leaving in thedark. No one took up the offer to leave Bounty, to walkashore. They trusted their skipper.
Pending possibilities, though none of them good, hungover their heads like a guillotine’s blade, the tumbrelempty.
Bounty was scheduled to be an attraction in St.Petersburg in early November.
To SeaFrom New London, Bounty headed east. Hurricane Sandywas smashing its way north with more power than anyexpert agency had predicted. Sandy was off the scale.
Maybe a more seasoned crew might have been able tohandle the challenge. There is no way to tell, though. Whatis reasonable to assume is that people who are tired, scaredor inexperienced are not the most effective of shipmates. Allthe skills they had, together and individually, would beneeded to sail south and avoid being overwhelmed by ahurricane that was blocking a return to St. Petersburg assolidly as the ice pack guards water access to the South Pole.
All things considered, Bounty’s southbound trip was aDavid and Goliath venture. However, the boat carried nometaphorical sling, no metaphorical rocks.
Bounty needed to be in St. Petersburg on time.
No Options LeftThree days out from New London, off the coast of NorthCarolina, fully committed, with no way out, Bounty ran outof options. The initial plan had been to sail east until thedirection of Sandy became better established and then turntoward Florida. For meteorological reasons that are beyondthe scope of this article, Sandy grew into a storm big enoughto cause 20-foot waves as far away as Lake Michigan. It wasfar too big for Bounty to escape severe punishment. CaptainWalbridge apparently made the decision to sail west bysouth, across the hurricane’s track. If they could get to thestorm’s southwest quadrant, the going would be much eas-ier. He aimed toward Cape Hatteras.
Aboard Bounty, fighting the vagaries of a monsterstorm no one had yet quite understood, matters began tosequentially go downhill. A sail on the boat’s foremast blewout, and the remains were muzzled with great effort underextremely perilous conditions. The trash pump, a pumpdesigned to pick up small solids as well as water, failed.Anything loose in the bilges might get sucked into theremaining bilge pumps. Most likely it did. The bilge pumpsburped, ran, burped, ran, lost their prime and eventuallyquit. They could have been clogged with debris. No oneknows. Bounty had two diesel engines and two generators.However, the sight glass on the fuel tank broke, and thatrobbed the diesels and generators of fuel. They stopped.Diesels that quit under such circumstances must be bled ofair before they can start again. On a good day, it’s a hugetask. With the sea state as tumultuous as it was, restartingthe diesels and generators was not an option. Bounty wasadrift in a hurricane.
It was October 28, 2012, and the vessel was taking on
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water and no way to be rid of it.Had Bounty been much farther east, the Coast Guard
may have been able to drop what it calls de-wateringpumps from the back of a C-130, the Coast Guard’s rugged,long-range search engine. However, as involved withHurricane Sandy as Bounty now was, the Coast Guard andthe pumps slipped out of the “we hope” bracket and intothe toilet bowl of “we pray.” Not every prayer, no matterhow devoutly offered, is answered.
DistressAboard ship, the crew was taking terrific physical abuse asthey were tossed about. Though it still had a radio workingon battery power, Bounty set off its EPIRB, a type of homingbeacon. A Coast Guard C-130, dispatched out of Raleigh,NC, found the stricken vessel in the hurricane in the nightand, making a courageous, low pass, dropped life rafts. Asthe survivors left the vessel, they were badly mugged byalready-in-the-water debris.
The next day, Bounty slipped beneath the waves.Overcome by far too much water below decks, she becamea part of modern maritime history that, doubtless, willinspire both songs and somber thought.
RescueFourteen of the 16-person crew was rescued on October 29,at early light. Two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters from theCoast Guard Air Station in Elizabeth City, NC, made thepickup using Coast Guard rescue swimmers to get the sur-vivors out of life rafts, into a basket and then onboard therescue aircraft. The survivors were picked up from the surg-ing, trackless Atlantic about 90 miles due east ofWilmington, NC. The rescued Bounty crewmembers wereall wearing survival suits, items they had donned when itbecame manifestly evident that their ship was sinking,beyond hope, beyond doubt.
Two crewmembers, Claudene Christian and Capt.Robin Walbridge, were still unaccounted for when the hel-icopters—there were three—were forced to leave the res-cue area when fuel aboard reached mandatory leave-for-home levels.
While a C-130 flew search patterns, other rescue heli-copters returned as soon as they could to look for the tworemaining crew. The fifth chopper launch locatedClaudene Christian, in a survival suit, face down in thewater about eight miles from the Bounty. The lowered res-cue swimmer detected no pulse. Christian and the swim-mer were, together, brought aboard the chopper. Nopulse. No breath. The Coast Guard flight mechanic and therescue swimmer kept trying anyway during the nearlytwo-hour return flight to Elizabeth City. ClaudeneChristian was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Thebody of Robin Walbridge was never recovered.
LegacyThere are those who well comprehend Captain Walbridge’sattachment to Bounty, his devotion to his responsibilitiesand his crew and how much the loss of his ship would havetormented him the rest of his days, had he lived.
Walbridge’s wife, Claudia McCann, believed her hus-band, who had been painfully injured during the storm,went down with the ship while attempting to helpClaudene Christian escape. She made that clear during aCNN interview after the tragedy. However, she had no fac-tual basis for her claim.
When the battered Bounty began its inevitable plungebeneath the Atlantic’s ragged surface, some believe RobinWalbridge must still have been onboard. Had he not been,the buoyancy of his survival suit would have kept himafloat, quick or dead. No one can clearly know if Capt.Walbridge decided upon a course he alone could navigate.
And no one ever shall.
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The Bounty in better days. Photo credit tallshipbounty.org.
Fall Bay Race, St. Petersburg, FL, Oct. 11-13By Selga Sakss, St. Petersburg Yacht Club
Hosted by the St. Petersburg Yacht Club, this two-dayrace—which has been held for many years—was a WestFlorida PHRF Boat of the Year event and drew 22 entriescompeting in Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker, Racer-Cruiser andCruiser classes. Racing was on Tampa Bay in the vicinity ofSt. Petersburg.
Saturday’s winds held fairly steady out of the north-northeast at 6 to 8 knots, allowing the Spinnaker class to getthree Windward-Leeward races in before the wind died inmid-afternoon. The Racer-Cruiser class had a 14 nauticalmile race around the government marks with a similar butshorter course set for Non-Spinnaker and Cruiser classes.Competitors struggled to finish within the time limit as thewinds lightened, and an ebb current made headway diffi-cult on the last weather leg to the finish. The one Non-Spinnaker entry retired from Saturday’s race as did twoCruiser class vessels.
Sunday’s wind remained out of the north-northeast butlightened early, resulting in Spinnaker class boats gettingonly one Windward-Leeward race in for the day. The Racer-Cruiser class was able to finish a shortened “around thegovernment marks” course before the wind died complete-ly. The race was abandoned for Non-Spinnaker and Cruiser
class boats as they again struggled with glassy seas and anopposing current.
Results (boat, skipper, club):Spin A: 1, Double Down, Neil Burns/Robert Hobbs, DIYC; 2, Tack Tick,Mike Siedlecki SPSA; 3, Raven, Mike Kayusa, DIYC: Spin B: 1, Semper Fi,Ray Mannix, SPSA; 2, WildKat, Harvey Ford, SPYC; 3, Fire & Ice, GeorgeCussins, DIYC: Racer-Cruiser: 1, Prime Plus, Frank Hanna, ABYC; 2,Wing It, Mike Doyle, DIYC; 3, Brass Ring, John Christman, SPYC:Cruiser: 1, Mi Sueno, Ron Kinney, SPSA; 2, First Wind, Art Cupps DIYC.The George Dewar Perpetual Trophy for overall winner in Spinnakerclass was awarded to Double Down and the Hammill-Jones PerpetualTrophy in Cruiser class was won by Mi Sueno.
2013 Florida/Georgia James RogersMemorial Ocean Challenge, St. Simon’s Island, GA, toFernandina Beach, FL, Oct. 12By James H. Newsome
The Amelia Island Sailing Club (AISC) in Fernandina Beach,FL, and the Golden Isles Sailing Club (GISC) in St. Simon’sIsland, GA, ran the 15th annual James Rogers OceanChallenge on October 12. The race is named for the formercommodore of AISC who was instrumental in organizingthe race in 1998.
Ten Spinnaker and 10 Non-Spinnaker class boats raced.Although the race is a club-against-club event, boats still
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compete for individual honors.The 25.4 miles offshore course starts in St. Simon’s
Channel between markers R3 and R5 and finishes in the St.Mary’s Channel between Yellow Buoys E and F. Unlike theprevious year’s race, which was finished in a course recordtime of 3:36:02 by Contente from GISC, this year’s race set arecord for the slowest race and the most non-finishers.
The winds of 5-10 mph from the northeast at the startdiminished mid-race to 0-5 mph. None of the 10 Non-Spinnaker class boats made the finish line due to no-wind atall and were scored midway at safe water buoy “StA,” theentrance to St. Andrew’s Sound. Only 6 of the 10 Spinnakerclass boats completed the full course.
Jade, a J/92S, skippered by Pete Richmond from GISC,finished with the actual time of 5:06:10, and was the overallwinner of the Spinnaker class and the race. Vibes, a Moody419 from AISC with Gene Sokolowski at the helm, claimedfirst place in the Non-Spinnaker class with an actual time of1:53.30 for the shortened 10.5-mile course.
Winner of the James Rogers Memorial Cup was decid-ed by scoring the top three finishers from each club in eachclass. GISC finished with a total of 17 points, and AISC with32 points. The awards ceremony was hosted by AISC at theSalty Pelican Bar & Grill in Fernandina Beach. Lee Weiner,race chairman from AISC, reluctantly presented the cup toGISC Race Chairman Dave Heine and commented that hefelt AISC had made a strong showing and was getting clos-er to winning the cup back.
Competition between the sailing clubs is cordial at alltimes. The two clubs will meet again in the spring of 2014for the annual Coastal Cup Challenge hosted by GISC tocompete for individual honors only. The boats race offshorefrom Amelia Island to St. Simon’s Island.
48th Summerset Regatta, Fort Myers Beach, FL, Oct. 12-13By Steve Romaine, regatta chairman, CaloosahatcheeMarching and Chowder Society (CMCS)
A new marina, more boats, light wind, great parties, superawards and great participation seem to be the words todescribe the 2013 Summerset Regatta, CMCS’s biggest annualregatta. There was 20 percent growth over last year’s regatta.
Sixty-one boats entered, and most raced off Fort Myers
Beach in light southeasterly breezes in Saturday’s OffshoreSailing School’s buoy races and Sunday’s West Marinecoastal distance race. A new feature this year was a coastalrace on Sunday just for the cruisers. Eight cruisers enteredthe competition, and all had fun. Boats competing camefrom sailing clubs in Fort Myers, Punta Gorda, Naples andMarco Island.
One hundred and fifty skippers and crew membersattended Friday’s pizza and beer party, sponsored byDiane Fowler/Sellstate Priority Realty, at Bonita Bill’s. OnSaturday, 233 enjoyed the poolside cocktail party at thePink Shell, and on Sunday evening, 158 sailors, crew andguests took part in the awards dinner sponsored byScanlon Lexus and Morgan Stanley in the beautifulCaptiva Dining Room overlooking the Gulf. Local busi-nesses donated the door prizes.
Our goal was 48 boat names, and we reached our goal.This record level of support will enable CMCS to make asizeable contribution to youth sailing programs. In total, 160companies, sailors and generous donors make this possible.Corporations supporting Summerset and youth sailing,along with Summerset photos can be found anytime atwww.cmcs-sail.org, and www.SummersetRegatta.com.
The Fort Gorda Cup was awarded to the northern team.The Fort Gorda Cup, a competition between boats home-ported in Charlotte Harbor and north, and boats homeport-ed south of Charlotte Harbor, was awarded to the northernteam. Only two events are scored to compete for this award:PGSC’s Conquistador Cup in March and the SummersetRegatta. The FGC was established to increase participationin both of these major regattas. This is only the second yearof the competition, won the first year by the south.
RESULTS (top three: place, boat name, skipper, club):True Cruising A: 1, Diva Gorda, Rudy Gottschlich, PGSC; 2, Dragon FlyPlus, Dr. Ulrich L. Rohde, MIYC; 3, Panache, Dayton Dorey, PGSC: TrueCruising B: 1, Laura Li, Arnie Pfal, FMSC; 2, Miss Cathleen, John Finnegan,CMCS; 3, Windy City, Diane Fowler, CMCS: Non-Spinnaker A: 1, FancyFree, Jerry Poquette, PGSC; 2, Vixen, Brock Johnson, CMCS; 3, Air Supply,Steve Romaine, CMCS: Non-Spinnaker B: 1, Essence, Paul McDill, FMSC;2, After You, Gary Blessing, CMCS; 3, Vakalele, Richard Lancaster, FMSC:Spinnaker A: 1, Midnite Rider, Forrest Banks, CMCS; 2, Macushla, JoelAndrews, WFPHRF; 3, Tropical Storm, Doug Forster, GCSC: Spinnaker B:1, T-Bone, Jason Richards, GCSC; 2, Vagabond, Dan Spence, GCSC; 3, FullTilt, Eric Milbrandt, CMCS: Multihull: 1, Triumph, Erik Soronen, CMCS; 2,Carpe Ventum, Roger Strube, PGSC; 3, Kraken, Art Monahan, ESC: SundayCruisers: 1, Trust Me!!!, Kim Brown, CMCS; 2, Chase The Clouds, Bev &Bob Duff, CMCS; 3, Sea Puppy III, Mel Rudd, CMCS.
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The Summerset Regatta was sailed in light southeasterly breezes inthe Gulf in both Saturday’s and Sunday’s races. Photo by BillLenahan.
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2013 7th Buzzelli MultihullRendezvous and 34th StilettoNationals, Sarasota, FL, Oct. 18-20By Tony Vandenoever, 2013 chairman
A Nacra 18 sailing in the Buzzelli Multihull regatta in Sarasota, FL.Racing was in light winds on Friday and Saturday, but no windscaused racing to be canceled on Sunday. Photo by Cindy Clifton.
The wind gods weren’t in favor of a sailing regatta the week-end of Oct. 18, but the 2013 Buzzelli Multihull Rendezvousstill occurred with great success. This was the seventhBuzzelli, and the 34th Stiletto Nationals to take place at theSarasota Sailing Squadron. This regatta is dedicated in mem-ory of Bob Buzzelli, avid multihull and Stiletto sailor.
Racers were greeted Friday morning with light andvariable winds but enjoyed bagels donated by EinsteinBagels as they prepared their boats for battle. A postpone-ment was announced at the skippers meeting for the day’splanned distance race on the Gulf. The postponement flagcame down as the sea breeze built to an 8- to 12-mph west-erly. The race committee set a 14.8-mile course around gov-ernment marks in lake-like seas. Mike Speth on Swim Martwon the Stiletto class, and Tom Reese on the Corsair F28,Flight Simulator, won the open class. Multihull racers weretreated to seafood gumbo donated by Salty Dog, chili donat-ed by Proctor catering and a complimentary rum party inthe Squadron Pavilion.
Although racing was postponed for a short time wait-ing for the breeze to fill, Saturday brought a southerlybreeze that remained steady at 8-10 mph most of the after-noon. Sixty-six boats registered to sail in eight classes onthree racecourses. From as small as 17 feet to as large as 40
feet, racers were treated to 4-5 races. After-race festivitiesincluded beer kegs, dinner, and entertainment by RockingBoats and Making Waves by Melanie Massell andCompany—along with several raffle breaks and prizes.
Unfortunately, the sea breeze did not develop onSunday, and racing was abandoned for the day at 1 p.m.The beer keg was again tapped and the award ceremonycommenced along with complimentary deli sandwichesoffered to racers. During the awards several winners sharedtheir memories of Bob Buzzelli and how much this eventwould have made him very happy, as it did to over 150 par-ticipants.
A special thanks to regatta sponsors: Bob Buzzelli’sFamily, Dowd Studio and Artwork, Achieva, Outdura,Windrider, Decorating Madness Inc., Kresge LLC, H2OMarine, and Calvert Sails. Also, special thanks to EllenDowd for securing these sponsors with very short notice.
Results (abbreviated) (top three):18 Windrider Trimarans:: 1, Joy Moore, 2, Rob Powell, 3, JimRodenkirk: 8 F18 Catamarans: 1,Ravi Parent, 2,Todd Riccardi, 3, KenMarshack: 5 F16 Catamarans: 1,Sophia Schultz: 6 PortsmouthCatamarans: 1, Dream On RC30 skippered by Eric Roberts: 7 Wetas: 1,Mike Mead: 3 PHRF Catamarans: 1, Merlin W35 skippered by PeterWormwood: 10 PHRF Trimarans: 1, Flight Simulator CF28R skipperedby Tom Reese, 2, Evolution CF28R skippered by Kathryn Garlick; 3, Yo!F25 skippered by Randy Smyth: 9 Stiletto Catamarans: 1 Swim Martskippered by Mike Speth, 2, Iguana skippered by Jon Dowd, 3,Bontonica skippered by Ben Appel.
26th Annual Lost Bay Regatta, PointYacht Club, Elberta, AL, Oct. 19By Kim Kaminski
The crew on Cherry Baby, winners of the 26th Annual Lost BayRegatta, received the perpetual Paul Schreck Trophy. The trophywas named in honor of the long-time Perdido Bay resident, locallegendary sailor, sailmaker and mentor to many area sailors. Photoby Kim Kaminski.
Tropical Storm Karen moved the annual Lost Bay Regattafrom its original date of October 5 to October 19. Thischange caused a decrease in the number of participants (29boats from the originally anticipated 50-plus) but not in theenthusiasm of this much-anticipated yearly event hosted bythe Point Yacht Club.
The wind and weather proved evasive and challengingfor the three Spinnaker classes and the seven Non-Spinnaker classes racing on Perdido Bay. The wind startedout at 10 to 12 knots out of the north-northeast, then dimin-ished throughout the day to almost glass conditions, but thefleet persevered and completed the course after three hours.
The awards presentation was at the beautiful BarbersMarina nestled along Wolf Bay not far from the inlet toPerdido Bay. The event included a catered seafood dinner,live music and the infamous pottery awards. The OverallTrophies went to Cherry Baby in the Spinnaker class with afinish time of 1:51:26, and Couyon in the Non-Spinnakerclass with a finish time of 1:49:20.
Results (top three):Spinnaker A, 7.8 miles: 1, Cherry Baby, 1:51:26, Overall Spinnakerclass winner; 2, USA 128, 1:59:27; 3, Trifecta, 2:06:08: Spinnaker B,7.8 miles:1, A Little Wicked, 2:11:59; 2, Helldiver, 2:32:28: Spinnaker C,7.8 miles:1, Kanaloa, 2:20:07; 2, : Zig Zag, 2:21:17; 3, Evelyn, 2:29:15:;Non-Spinnaker D, 5.8 miles: 1, Night Sky, 2:13:02; 2, Shutter Speed,2:15:53; 3, Hula Girl, 2:25:23: Non-Spinnaker E, 5.8 miles: 1, Couyon,1:49:20, Overall Non-Spinnaker class winner; 2, At Last, 2:23:27; 3,Shaman, 1:51:37: Non-Spinnaker F, 5.8 miles: 1, Caribbean Soul Too,2:12:35: Non-Spinnaker G, 5.8 miles: 1, Sunset Raider, 2:22:21; 2,Chanticleer, 2:32:45: Non-Spinnaker H, 5.8 miles: 1, Steppin Razor,1:56:59; 2, Gypsy Wind, 1:57:57; 3, Blind Faith, 2:43:29: Non-Spinnaker I, 5.8 miles: 1, Reverie, 2:01:55; 2, Kokomo, 2:08:52; 3,Netphene, 2:33:23: Non-Spinnaker J, 5.8 miles: 1, Clewless, 2:06:52;2, Promises, DNS.
High Winds and Thrills DominateF18 Americas Championship,Sarasota, FL, Oct. 19-26By Cherie Sogsti
Cover: Fifty-five catamarans from six countries and three conti-nents sailed in the F18 Americas Championship in Sarasota, FL, onOct. 19-26. Photo by Tim Wilkes. www.TimWilkes.com.
Thrills and spills dominated the Zhik F18 AmericasChampionship Regatta. One hundred ten sailors on 55 cata-marans from six countries and three continents enjoyed fivedays of intense competition at the Sarasota SailingSquadron Oct. 19-26.
Racers hauled their boats from all over the continent tosail in the historically warm Florida breezes. There was everycondition from dead calm to wind gusting to 28 knots.
“It’s a different skill set to sail in light wind,” saidracer Greg Retkowski, who is used to sailing the big windsof San Francisco. “When it’s light wind, you move aroundthe cat like a cat. Every breath measured; every movementaccounted for.”
The well-organized race committee got 17 races off inboth the bay and the Gulf over five days. They even tossedin a few reaching finishes, which made for excitement withboth helm and crew trapped out, the 18-foot cats screamingtoward the finish line.
In the end, Americans Mike Easton and Tripp Burdtook top honors over the Dutch team of Larsen and vanWest. At the awards ceremony, when Easton/Burd werereceiving their framed trophies, a group of rival sailorsstormed the stage and hoisted the two men over their shoul-ders. The champions were carried to the water and tossed inlike today’s front page news. In other words, Easton/Burdgave everyone a “bath” all week, so at the ceremony—it
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Dream BiggerFor me, the F18 Americas Championship Regatta was adream. Six months ago, my husband and I bought aused F18 for $10,000 with all the gear included. Sincewe’ve been avid big-boat monohull sailors for over adecade, we thought learning to sail a little catamaranwould be easy. We imagined we’d train for five monthsand then compete in the F18 Championship. Either wewere big dreamers or big dummies. We felt like com-plete morons on our F18 for the first four months.
I started driving our F18 in July and with the gener-ous help of Phillip Meredith, who spent dozens of hourscoaching us, we accomplished our goal. We wanted tobe safe, have fun, and not be last. (Or not die, not cryand not be DFL.) The biggest surprise was when wewere awarded the Tenacious Award by the RC for beingdetermined, relentless, and not giving up. We capsized(three times), snapped trap-lines, and exploded a port-hole. But we never let broken stuff break our spirit.
It didn’t matter if you were in the front of the packor the back, the F18 Americas was packed full of fun.You know it was a great regatta when the sailors at theback of the fleet were smiling.
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was time for their own bath! Heck, when you sail these F18catamarans, you’re used to getting wet.
It appears you are never too old to start sailing cats.The F18 racers included women and men of all ages—fromDavid Hein (16) to the most senior member of the fleet, KenMarshack (63). Thirteen women competed in the regatta(myself included), many of them as skipper.
“When I came here, I said this would be the last time Ihauled my boat across the country,” said Marshack. “But I’vehad so much fun, I’m already thinking about the champi-onship next year in Texas.” Some seniors get excited aboutdiscounts. Other seniors get excited about racing catamarans.
Robbie Daniel (51) and his crew Enrique Rodrigueztook first place in the Master’s division, which is for theskipper and crew with a combined age of 85 or older. “Icherish the regattas where I can sail without pressure andexpectations,” said Daniel who coaches for Red Gear Racingand has done four Olympic campaigns. “This regatta wasabout being on a boat with an old friend, and still being
competitive and having fun.” “This is my first senior moment,” exclaimed Olympic sil-
ver medalist Annie Gardner as she accepted her award forthird place in the Master’s division with her fiancé Eric Witte.The crowd chanted and cheered: “Go women drivers!”
The racers had a variety of experience from Olympicmedalists and national champions to everyday dreamerslike me and my husband. RESULTS (place, crew, points):Juniors Division (Skipper and Crew 23 years old or younger): 1, TaylorReiss/Matthew Whitehead, 66 pts; 2, Ravi Parent/Sam Armington, 80 pts;3, Eric Lawrence/David Hein, 375 pts: Masters Division (Skipper andCrew combined age of 85+): 1, Robbie Daniel/Enrique Rodriguez, 113pts; 2, Sandra Tartaglino/Eric Shafer, 172 pts; 3, Annie Gardner/EricWitte, 207 pts: Overall Winners: 1, Mike Easton/Tripp Burd, 41 pts; 2,Gunner Larsen/Ferdinand van West, 45 pts; 3, Taylor Reiss/MatthewWhitehead, 66 pts; 4, Ravi Parent/Sam Armington, 80 pts; 5, CruzGonzalez-Smith/Mariano Heiser, 81 pts: 2013 US National F18Championship: 1, Mike Easton/Tripp Burd, 41 pts; 2, TaylorReiss/Matthew Whitehead, 66 pts; 3, Ravi Parent/Sam Armington, 80 pts;4, Bob Merrick/Tyler Burd; 5, Todd Riccardi/Dalton Tebo
There was every condition from dead calm to wind gusting to 28 knots at the F18 Championship. Photo by Tim Wilkes. www.TimWilkes.com.
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Flying Dutchman Nationals,Gulfport, FL, Nov. 1-3By Dave Ellis
Florida’s Gulfport Yacht Club hosted the Flying DutchmanNationals on lower Boca Ciega Bay in its usual style of min-imal on-shore amenities and great on-the-water racing. Thefleet was smaller than some Nationals because of a schedul-ing conflict for the West Coast fleet. The quality, however,was very good.
Lin Robson, with crew Arthur Anosov of SaintPetersburg, was the clear winner with nine first-place fin-ishes among the 12 races. While some of these races wereeasy wins for this many-time champ,other races took some time to get tothe front of the fleet.
Second place went to BuzzBallenger and Kurt Hemmingsen ofSanta Cruz, CA. After a stellar twodays, they faded on the last day ofracing, but still saved second overJeff and Chris Wrenn fromPennsylvania. Competitors fromCalifornia, Vancouver BC, Ohio andPhiladelphia—along with local Floridasailors—raced.
Six races wore out the competi-tors and the race committee onFriday, with a fresh breeze feeding an
oncoming weather front. Saturdaydawned rainy with storms. Whilethe plan was to sail in the Gulf ofMexico, when it was heard that St.Petersburg Yacht Club hadrescheduled its PHRF racing outthere, the FDs stayed in the bay.Ironically, that afternoon there wasa long wait for any wind at all,finally allowing for two light airraces. Sunday had a delightful 8- to15-knot northerly wind, very closeracing and many place changesamong the fleet. The race officer(me) put the weather mark not farfrom the shore, resulting in manyshifts and puffs that the lake sailorsappreciated. Full results are atwww.sailfd.org/USA.
Audi Melges 20 Winter Series, Event 1, Miami, FL,Nov. 1-3 Photo and text by Marylinda Ramos
This is the first of three events held annually for the largefleet of Melges 20s that campaign in Southern states and theCaribbean each winter. This is the first of three events, allheld at the Coconut Grove Sailing Club. Event 1 bringsteams together from four of the five countries registered forthe Melges 20 World Championships to be held this monthin Key Largo, Dec. 11-14. Event 2 (Feb. 8-9), precedes theInternational Melges 32 Winter Regatta (Feb. 28-Mar. 2) inMiami, which has owners and crew in common with theMelges 20s. Event 3 (Mar. 6-8) is part of Bacardi MiamiSailing Week, after which racing moves to Charleston Race
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Show here are Lin Robson with crew Arthur Anosov—the clear win-ner in the Flying Dutchman Nationals with nine first-place finishesamong the 12 races. Photo by Dave Ellis.
Shimmer, on the left, meets Bacio at theleeward mark. Shimmer won the eventfor the second year in a row. Photo by
Marylinda Ramos.
Week. In between, many of the sailors will also campaign inMelges 32s, including Key West Race Week (Jan. 19-24).
A front that moved in brought sustained northerlywinds of 18 to 22 knots, providing ideal race conditions.Racers could barely be contained at the line. General recalls,one-minute rules, 20 percent penalties—and combinationsthereof—eventually allowed the start of four races beforethe 2 p.m. deadline.
While luminaries, like Harry Melges and John Kilroy,are hallmarks of this fleet, the talent pool and learningcurves are deep and steep. Out of 45 boats, sailors withfull- or part-time roots in Southern states won five of thetop 10 positions, many demonstrating significant improve-ment. Russell Lucas of Shimmer won this event for a sec-ond year in a row. Tony Tabb of YOLO (You Only LiveOnce) moved up from 20th last year to second this year.Marcus Eagan of Cajun Underwriting held on with third, aswell as top Corinthian. Marc Hollerbach of Fu moved from13th to seventh place, and Michael Kiss of Bacio movedfrom 12 last year to eight this year, improving steadily asthe wind increased, meeting Shimmer at the mark, andwinning the last race. Cesar Gomes Neto of Miami, whodidn’t skipper this race last year, finished 10th.
Kent Haeger’s Mach Schnell of Fort Lauderdale earnedtop boat with female crew. For complete results, go towww.melges20.com.
13th Annual Sarasota Yacht ClubInvitational Regatta, Sarasota, FL,Nov. 2By Bernhard G. Kloppenburg, Sarasota Yacht Club general manager
Racing during hurricane season is always a challenge,because you never know when a tropical storm will devel-
op. Even though this hurricane season has been uneventful,the area caught the southern tip of a major weather front. Asthe strong front came through, wind gusts reached 30 knots,ripping some participants’ sails, but winds generally stayedbetween 12 and 14 knots during the rest of the morning. Asthe day continued, in an “all or nothing at all” situation, thewinds died out completely, leaving the race participants todeal with frustrating doldrums.
“It seemed like we got every type of weather but snow,”said Rick Gress, Sarasota Yacht Club regatta chairman. “Butwe made the best of it and sailors had a great day.”
Winners in the top three places for each class receivedconch shells, the traditional prize given annually at theregatta. Doug Dearden took home first place overall in the
From left to right: Regatta Chairman Rick Gress, Doug Deardenand his crew accepting the trophy for first place overall in theInvitational Regatta in Sarasota, FL. Deardon sailed on his Impulse26, In Tune. Photo by Andy Zima.
Frank Hanna’s Prime Plus, sailing in the Invitational Regatta, took third in the Racer Cruiser Class. Photo by Maureen C. Koeppel.
largest fleet, which raced on the pursuit course, in hisImpulse 26, In Tune.
“Sailors sail for the love of the sport, so poor weatherconditions couldn’t scare me away,” said Dearden. “I didn’texpect to have to test my skills against such strong windsthough. It was a thrill.”
One benefit to hosting the race was to raise money forboth the Sarasota Yacht Club Charitable FoundationScholarship Fund and the Sarasota Youth Sailing Program.“We appreciate all of the support and donations,” said MikeMcAdaragh, president of the SYC Charitable Foundation.“We’re reliant on help from the community to maintain oursummer camp programs and continue to provide scholar-ship funding for students interested in pursuing marine sci-ence degrees.”
Spectators, donors, friends and family all gatheredaboard powerboats in the Sarasota Yacht Club’s “Ring ofPower” to get an up-close view of the races from the water.Windward/leeward races were held for Spinnaker andOne-Design classes on Sarasota Bay. Other classes were in aPursuit race in the Gulf, except Multihulls raced on theirown course in the Gulf.
The night wound down—or, depending on your per-spective—got going as more than 250 guests enjoyed pool-side music, dancing, a pig roast and drink specials at theclub before the awards were announced.
“Hosting this regatta is so much fun,” said Gress. “The
race is only the beginning of a great night celebrating thesport we love. Any sailor can understand the all-day excite-ment of a regatta. We’re already planning next year’s race tobe even bigger than this one.”
RESULTS (place, skipper, boat): Non-Spinnaker Class: 1, Doug Dearden, In Tune; 2, Chad Weiss,Zephyr; 3, Dave Wilson, Solitude: True Cruiser Class: 1, Mauro Harto,Mojo; 2, Ed Stanton, Night Star; 3, Dave Ettinger, Spindrift: PocketCruiser Class: 1, Robert Hindle, Windsong: Racer Cruiser Class: 1, MikeDoyle, Wing It; 2, Richard Gress, Mother Ocean; 3, Frank Hanna, PrimePlus: Windward/Leeward Spinnaker Class: 1, David Hillmyer, PeerPressure; 2, Travis Yates, Indigo; 3, Randy St. James, Claire: Random LegCourse, Multihull Class: 1, Tony Vandenoever, Leilano; 2, TungNguyen, Double Barrell; 3, Ben Appel, Botanica.
Flying Scots Race at the JeffPennfield Memorial Regatta,Sarasota, FL, Nov. 2-3By Charlie Clifton
The Sarasota father/son team of Zeke and Jay Horowitzcame out on top of 23 Flying Scots in this regatta hosted bythe Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Zeke and Jay won two of thefive races to finish two points ahead of Jeff and Amy Lintonfrom Davis Islands Yacht Club.
After the first race was abandoned, the wind finallysettled in from the north and held through the weekend.Breeze ranging from five to 18 provided a challenge for theboth heavy and light weight crews. The Lintons never wona race, but three seconds and a fifth as their worst racegained them the runner-up spot over Mark Taylor and LisaHayward. The Taylor/Hayward team won two races, but a12th in the first race made for a deep hole out of which todig. The last race featured an exciting Linton/Taylor luffingmatch at the finish with the Linton team crossing ahead bya nose. David Ames and PJ Buhler from the Coconut GroveSailing Center won the first race and sailed consistentlyenough after that to sew up fourth place.
The Sarasota leg of the Flying Scot DistrictChampionship is named in memory of Dr. Jeff Pennfield, avery popular and well-respected, long-time Scot sailor.Before he died, Jeff donated a trophy to be presented eachyear to the sailor who has done the most for the fleet in thepast year. John and Susie Domagala were presented the tro-phy at the awards ceremony, in part for their stellar workhosting the last Midwinters.
Long-time Flying Scot sailor and tireless fleet pro-moter Charlie Fowler died this past year. Ron Pletschannounced at the award presentation that a new trophy hasbeen inaugurated in Charlie’s name. The trophy will be pre-sented to the fleet that has the best showing at, in alternateyears, the National Midwinter Warm-Up Regatta and theSarasota One-Design Midwinters.
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Like most sailing cruisers, Ihave many favorite destina-tions. I also have favorite en
route anchorages used in gettingthere. There are a few great placesthat can be both. The Fort GeorgeRiver is regarded as a nicestopover by most, but for me, it’sboth stopover and destinationand is often the place that I wantto go. The still-elegant KingsleyPlantation lords over the best spoton the river to drop the hook. Ifyou like walks in the woods, goodfishing, miles of marsh with plen-ty of varmints, acres of low tidesand bar beaches, and a historythat you can still see and touch,you will also like Kingsley, nowpart of the National ParkService’s Timucuan Ecologicaland Historical Preserve.
Located just off the AtlanticIntracoastal Waterway (AICW)about four miles north of north-ern Florida’s St. Johns River, theFort George River is the beststopover anchorage on the stretchof the ICW between Fernandina Beach and St Augustine. Itis listed in most of the anchorage books, and if you pass byin the early spring and late fall, you will usually spot ananchor light or three. I also use Kingsley as a stopover,except that my stops are usually at least a couple of days.More than once, a Kingsley stopover was so pleasant that Idiscarded my intended destination and just stayed. ThisOctober trip, however, was just to be a stopover, as Ishowed off Kingsley as a future destination to my friend,Trevor Rhody, on his Hunter 29, Moondara, as he followedme on Rhombus, my Catalina 30. We were traveling toFernandina Beach to pick up my wife and grandchildren,and Trevor’s daughter, for a trip farther north.
The Fort George River is entered only from SistersCreek, at the AICW waterway (Mile Marker 735), whichconnects Nassau Sound to the north, and the St. Johns River,a few miles to the south. The intended destination, theanchorage dominated by the plantation, is visible frommiles away, especially if approaching from the north.NOAA Chart 11489 of the AICW shows a fairly easy andrelatively deep entry. It is easy, but not so deep. On this day,Moondara and Rhombus are arriving from the south, butentry into the Fort George River is about the same—whether north or southbound. With a tidal range of overfive feet, my favorite time to enter is on a fairly low (so you
can see the sand bars) and rising (in case you get too closeto one) tide. If you draw no more than five feet or so, youcan enter at almost any time.
Follow the same path on the way out. Boats that runaground cut too close to Green #73 while arriving from thesouth or while intending to head south upon departure.Even when just transiting the ICW, don’t go near Green 73!Moondara and Rhombus entered as described, never seeingless that 7 feet on a mid-tide. Keeping close to the southernshore, we passed between Green #3 and the south shore,and proceeded to pass the Park Service visitors’ dock tostarboard. The deepest water is close to the dock. We wouldlater visit it by dinghy, tying up on the inside of the floatingportion of the dock to escape the frequent wake from pass-ing boats. Don’t expect a no-wake zone anywhere along theFort George River!
The preferred anchorage for sailboats is just past thefront of the white plantation house and Green Marker #5. Ifyou go a hundred yards or so past Green 5, the river widensa bit, where you will find yourself out of direct view fromthe mansion grounds, where it’s a little more private. Theriver carries 9-feet-plus at low tide well east of Green 5, sothere is plenty of room to anchor several single-file boats.There is a swift current, but holding in the sand bottom isexcellent. Drop the hook in the river’s center. The best pro-tection is when winds are anywhere from the south, but
Destination Kingsley, Northeast FloridaMore than just a stopover!By Captain Frederick A. Braman, USN (ret)Photos by Trevor Rhody
Rhombus and Moondara anchored directly in front of the mansion.
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because of the good holding, I’ve anchored here during allwind conditions.
Shallow-draft boats can find their way between thesandbars all the way in toward the river mouth. Sailboatersused to do this during the ’80s and ’90s, but, storms and theconstantly changing topography of the area have made this,at best, inadvisable. Even though Rhombus draws just underfour feet, a recent dinghy survey convinced me that the all-the-way-inside days for deeper draft boats are in the past.On this trip, Rhombus anchored directly in front of the man-sion, with Moondara just ahead. Since I multitask as bothcaptain and windlass, it was nice to get the anchoring rightthe first time!
Although I’m an engineer by education, my first aca-demic love is history. It is rare that I go anywhere, even onmy boat, where I don’t think about what was there before.Like most of the barrier islands along the southeastern U.S.coast, Fort George Island is rich in history, and its namedriver is a work in progress. Old sketches from the 1870sshow a wide river mouth open to the Atlantic; almost aswide as the much larger St. Johns River, a little to the south.Time, storms, bridges, beach regeneration projects, and thesteady, relentless geological movement of barrier islandshave changed the river immensely. You can see what themouth looks like today! Although we can’t sneak under thelow-slung Talbot Island Bridge, except maybe in a kayak,we can still enjoy this short, pretty river in all its delights,and sample its rich history.
The Fort George River was never much of a “destina-tion.” After all, this very tidal river is only a few miles long,
starting at the confluence of Sisters and Sawpit creeks andflowing into the Atlantic near the St. Johns River. But, for atime, the river received oceangoing ships with needed sup-plies and shipped tons of produce to markets from areaplantations. The old wharf is still visible. Fort GeorgeIsland, a pine and live oak forest prior to the 1790s, firstbecame a plantation during that decade and the beginningof the house that we now call “Kingsley.” The house wasbuilt then by an American from Philadelphia named JohnMcQueen. McQueen cleared the land and planted the indi-go and sea island cotton crops that would characterize FortGeorge Island for almost a century. Financial troublesforced McQueen to sell the island to John HoustounMcIntosh in 1804. McIntosh was hugely successful finan-cially, but risked it all as a leader of the “PatriotRebellion”—the unsuccessful attempt to wrest the areabetween the St. Marys and St. Johns rivers from the Spanish.When the mission failed—and fearing arrest—McIntoshevaded the Spanish and scampered back to British Georgia.He sold Fort George Island to Zephaniah Kingsley in 1814.
The Kingsley clan’s story is a magical one. Zephaniahrefurbished and added to the plantation house that bearshis name and still adorns the river today. He became amajor land holder in what is now northeast Florida.Kingsley Avenue runs through my Orange Park home,and the Kingsley family can still be found here. But for allhis success, Zephaniah is best known for his choice of abride, a slave girl from Senegal named Anta MajigeenNdiaye, now called Anna, purchased by Kingsley at age13. Later, they married and raised a large family. Annaoutlived the much older Zephaniah, who freed Anna andher children before his death. Anna eventually becamemaster of Kingsley, but, interestingly, died having freedno slaves during her lifetime. Read much more about thefascinating Kingsley family story and their times in themany books by Daniel Schafer. Brief histories are availableat the plantation bookstore.
Shown is the approach (dotted black line) to Kingsley off the ICW(red line). Line up AICW Red # 72 and Red # 2 in the Ft. GeorgeRiver and turn on that line toward Red 2. Select a heading to apoint not more than 25 feet north of Red #2. As you exit the ICWchannel, the depths will drop until you get close to Red #2 wherefive-plus feet quickly changes to 12 and then more. I’ve never seenan entry along this route of less than five feet at the lowest springtides. Once inside near R#2, you’ll find 15 feet most of the way in.As you enter, the deeper water is along the south shore. FromNOAA chart 11489.
The Kingsley mansion. To see the plantation, a dinghy ride to thePark Service floating dock is best, though you can also land adinghy on the beach near the plantation.
To see the plantation, a dinghyride to the Park Service floating dock isbest, though you can also land adinghy on the beach near the planta-tion if you want to visit after the 4:30closing time. Watch out for the oysterpots! A self-guided tour of the planta-tion grounds awaits the land visitor,starting at the park office and book-store in the white building next to theold house. You’ll see the intact planta-tion house plus the tabby-walled rem-nants of the slave quarters in a semi-circular arc of early American history.
Kingsley Plantation is a great stopfor old “history buffs,” like me, but it’salso a favorite place for my grandkids—and not because ofits history. They like the other stuff: sand bar swimming, thehikes, the fishing, exploration of the many sand bar islandbeaches, and the summer fun that abounds on the river. It isan active place, especially on the weekends, where day trip-pers and anchored sailboaters alike congregate on the manysand bar islands for a party. It’s also a great spot for theyounger mates to practice operating the dinghy. My now14-year-old grandson feels like a pirate with my eight-footRIB and two-horsepower Honda! On a sunny Saturday, pre-pare to bounce around a lot, as every kind of powered craftwill buzz your anchored boat, but by the time you fire upthe barbie, the day trippers will have left, and a quiet nightlies ahead.
Today, most of Fort George Island looks just like it didwhen McQueen first saw it. Except for the big white houseand the lawns that surround it, pine and live oak forestshave reclaimed the once-cleared cotton fields of the planta-tion era. For boaters, it’s a great stop for an active watersports Saturday, a quiet night, or a relaxing week. You’llfind sun, sand, water fun, and evening serenity, plus thebeautiful multi-green hues of marsh and forest. You won’t,however, find any ice or anything else for that matter, sotake everything you will need with you. With a schedule tokeep, Moondara and Rhombus reluctantly departed the nextmorning. We’ll both be back!
For questions about visiting Kingsley, contact the author at [email protected]. Proceeds from this article are donated toChildren International. Change a life for $25 a month. www.chil-dren.org.
Fred Braman is a retired U.S. Naval officer and high school mathteacher. He and his wife Louise live on Fleming Island, FL, andsail Rhombus along the southeast U.S. coast, the Bahamas andthe St. Johns River.
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Today’s entrance from the Atlantic isby kayak. Shown here is the AIABridge over the Ft. George River nearwhere the river meets the Atlantic.
The area is a favorite place for mygrandkids. They like the sand barswimming, the hikes, the fishing,exploration of the many sand barisland beaches, and the summer fun that abounds on the river. It isan active place, especially on theweekends, where day trippers and anchored sailboaters alike congregate on the many sand bar islands for a party.
When Warren Luhrs, 69, the organizing and creativeforce that got Hunter Marine off the ground, passed
away in Pennsylvania on September 18, due to an unex-pected heart attack, most of us who knew him werestunned. We lost, collectively, a person whose gentle foot-print changed many of the rules we had always known tobe true about sailing,The heart attack seemed an ironic end. Luhrs stayed inshape. He watched his diet and was as slender and suppleas a willow branch. His looks reminded this writer of theactor Jürgen Prochnow, the skipper on the German subma-rine in the movie Das Boot. Luhrs, the guiding light behindthe Alachua-based sailboat company’s unique approach tosailboat development and production, was as well knownto the cognoscenti for having the courage and tenacity todevelop unique single-handed racing boats like Tuesday’sChild, Thursday’s Child and Hunter’s Child.
The names of the boats came from the nursery rhyme,Monday’s Child, first published in England in 1838.
Monday’s child is fair of face,Tuesday’s child is full of grace,Wednesday’s child is full of woe,Thursday’s child has far to go,Friday’s child is loving and giving,Saturday’s child works hard for a living,But the child who is born on the Sabbath DayIs bonny and blithe and good and gay.
It’s obviously an old poem; the meaning of at least one wordhas changed with time.
Warren Luhrs possessed as many facets as an
American-cut diamond. In an increasingly public world, hewas exceedingly private. His family—Luhrs, his wife andeight children—lived on a farm in Benton, PA, a town of 834souls. It is not near any town or city people can readily iden-tify with. Quiet and self-effacing, Luhrs would make ClintEastwood appear to be a chatterbox.
Jopie (the J is pronounced as a Y) Helsen, the owner ofSailors’ Wharf in south St. Petersburg, FL, was the benefici-ary of Warren Luhrs’ insatiable curiosity. Helsen, thinkingabout the good old days, before the bottom fell out of theboating market, explained that Hunter had come up with anidea that was similar to what Ford Motors was doing in pro-ducing a “signature” Ford Explorer based on the EddieBauer name. Helsen said that Hunter approached himabout using his name. Helsen gave the okay.Hunter’s engineering team subsequently produced a pro-duction model sailboat with the Hunter 46 hull. It wascalled the Hunter Helsen 470. The boat, with Helsen’s input,had 168 engineering changes incorporated into it.
In 2012, Helsen’s own model of that boat, Jade, won theIsla Mujeres race to Mexico.“He knew what he wanted,” Helsen said of Luhrs. “Hewould do anything different on his own. He was an adven-turer. However, the reason I got to know him so well is thatwe never talked about business; we talked about personalthings. He was a real gentleman.”
Luhrs had a wry streak, too. According to Helsen,Luhrs had been told once by close friend Lars Bergstom thatthere are sailors, and then there are gentlemen sailors. Thedifference, Bergstrom maintained, was a necktie. As aresult, Luhrs, dressed in a T-shirt and pants wrinkled fromsailboat storage, could often also be seen wearing a necktie,the emblematic mark of a real gentleman sailor.
Steve Cutsforth, who joined Hunter in 1987 as sales andmarketing director had this to say about Luhrs: “Warrenwas always open to new ideas. There was nothing he didn’thave an open mind about. He loved Lars (Bergstrom)because he was so ‘out there.’ ”
When Hunter decided to produce sailboats in Europe,Cutsworth went to the United Kingdom and ran a Hunterfactory on a site that the company purchased. Located on anold military helicopter training base, the operation produced700 Hunters, Cutsforth said. The plant shut down in 2007.
Mike Reischman of St. Petersburg knew Luhrs bothsocially and also from a business standpoint. “I owned com-panies that outfitted some of Tuesday’s Child, the navigationpackage,” Reischman said. “Warren was curious, innova-tive. In making sailboats, he had very much the right idea.
From left to right: Warren Luhrs, Lars Bergstrom and Courtney Hazelton being fetedin San Francisco after sailing from New York around the Horn to the City by the Bay in80 days, 20 hours. The year was 1989. In the process they broke the clipper shiprecord that had been extant for 135 years. The award they are holding is a perpetualtrophy that the Manhattan Yacht Club created the previous year to whoever made thebest time in the New York-San Francisco passage. Photo by Billy Black.
Warren Luhrs 1944-2013Founder of Hunter Marine was a True Sailor and Innovator
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He made them comfortable and affordable.”Luhrs gained a deserved sterling reputation in long
distance, short-handed sailboat racing. The breakthroughvehicle was Thursday’s Child. The narrow, 60-foot hull wasbuilt by designer Paul Lindenberg in Florida. Thursday’sChild used water ballast for additional stability. In addi-tion, Thursday’s Child carried an interior space frame, agimbaled navigation station on the boat’s centerline andan articulated rudder. Many of the snazzy, innovative fin-ishing touches were provided by B&R Mast & Rigging inSarasota, FL.
Sailing Thursday’s Child across the Atlantic fromEngland to Newport in 1984, Luhrs won the monohull classof the Observer Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race(OSTAR). He finished in 16 days, 22 hours—only 10 hoursbehind the fastest multihull. Thursday’s Child was indeed abreak-through boat.
Ola Wettergren, now 55, sailed the 1985 Double-Handed Around Britain and Ireland Race with Luhrs. Theycompeted together aboard Thursday’s Child and won handi-ly. “Warren was fantastic to sail with,” Wettergren recalled.“He was serious about what we were doing. He’d alreadydone two Trans-Atlantic races.
“Warren and I were both married just before the 1985Around Britain Race, so we spent our honeymoons togeth-er on Thursday’s Child,” Wettergren continued. “Our wivestraveled from port to port in England. The race itself wasmore than 2,000 miles long. And as we were nearing the fin-ish line (Plymouth), I asked Warren if he wanted me to pullthe chute down, and he replied that it was only blowing 26knots. Then when we crossed the finish line and I took the
chute down, I found that it had been blowing 37 knots.Warren just laughed about it.”
Eventually, Wettergren, a Swede, signed on withHunter as a design engineer and worked for the companyfrom 1987 to 1992.
“Warren was first of all my friend and also my boss,and then he developed into my mentor,” Wettergren sum-marized.
In 1989, Luhrs, Swedish maritime magician LarsBergstrom and delivery skipper Courtney Hazelton sailedThursday’s Child from Sandy Hook, NJ, around Cape Horn,to San Francisco. In doing so they eclipsed the previous 135-year-old clipper ship record by nine days, arriving in SanFrancisco in 80 days and 20 hours. The trip involved a stopin the Falkland Islands to repair the boat’s hull, which hadbeen weakened by striking what the racers believed to be ashipping container that had fallen off a merchant vessel.
Bergstrom, a living legend for his maritime innova-tions, was killed in a Florida motorized glider accident in1997. The whereabouts of Courtney Hazelton are unknown.Thursday’s Child is possibly in the San Francisco Bay areanowadays, most particularly rumored to be on the hard inAlameda. The boatyard has, however, closed.
In thinking about Luhrs and his ability to envision arainbow at the end of a road less traveled, one is reminded,though this writer has changed one or two words, of whatEdward Kennedy said about his murdered brother, Robert,at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.
“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Hedreamed of things that never were and asked why not?”
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For a lot of sailors around the United States, autumn iswhen boats get put away for the offseason, but not inthe Palmetto State. In fact, this is one of the most active
times of the year from upstate all the way down to the LowCountry. And that goes for racers, cruisers, and recreation-al sailors. Here’s a quick take on four areas whose activitiescharacterize the sailing you’ll see this time of year acrossSouth Carolina.
Spotlight on Columbia
Columbia’s Lake Murray proved to be a perfect venue for US SAIL-ING’S Championship of Champions, sailed this year in Lightnings.Photo by Joe Reyes, courtesy US Sailing
During the last weekend in October this year, 20 three-person crews from as far away as California and NewYork, and Texas and Oregon, converged on the shores ofLake Murray at the Columbia Sailing Club for U.S. SAIL-ING’S annual Championship of Champions. Local sailorsgot a chance to witness some superb sailing on theirhome waters as a number of the sport’s heavy hitterspopulated the scratch sheet, including five-time RolexYachtswoman of the Year Betsy Alison and 2013Lightning World Champion David Starck, among others.This year, the event was raced in Lightnings. In just threedays, the organizers managed to squeeze in 16 races, withmild winds and relatively clear weather setting the stage.Ultimately, the most consistent performer was BrianKeane and his crew from Weston, MA, representing theJ/80 Class. They mastered the lake’s shifty winds andended up with only one double-digit finish to win by 10
points. This was the first time this event has been heldhere, and event chairperson Jan Jernigan seemed verysatisfied: “A regatta of this caliber takes a lot of plan-ning,” she explained. “We had fabulous volunteers, anexcellent race committee, and our members made sureevery participant was treated with lots of Southern hos-pitality!” (www.columbiasc.org)
Happening on Hartwell
Buccaneer 18s make their way around the course on LakeHartwell at the annual Hospice Regatta. Photo courtesyBuccaneer18.org
Meanwhile, just the weekend before, the upstate CarolinaSailing Club on Lake Hartwell staged one of its biggestevents, the annual Hospice Regatta. This is a populargathering among certain one-design classes, and theevent’s organizers have succeeded in cultivating a strongfollowing. This year, entrants came from as far away asToledo, OH; Birmingham, AL; and Fort Walton Beach, FL,for the 13th edition of this event. They competed inBuccaneers, Flying Scots, Force 5s and Ultimate 20s, aswell as a potpourri of small to midsize keelboats. “Wow,what a weekend,” is what club commodore Paul Harderhad to say afterward. “We exceeded our fundraising goalby $900. We actually raised $60,900 [to benefit Hospice ofthe Carolinas], which was amazing.” And, making it evenmore successful, said Harder, four local sailors from theclub had podium finishes in their respective fleets.(www.wcsc-sailing.org)
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Fall Into ActionWhen the temperatures begin to drop, in South Carolina,the sailing doesn’t stop.By Dan Dickison
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Island Fever
Harbor 20s rounding a mark on Calibogue Sound near HiltonHead, SC. Photo courtesy South Carolina Yacht Club
Meanwhile, down on Hilton Head Island, mid-Octobermeant a flurry of activity for local sailors. Racers here com-peted in the Carolina Ocean Challenge Regatta and theDDS&A Cup (organized by the South Carolina Yacht Club)on one weekend, the 44th annual Harbor Town Cup and the43rd annual Calibogue Cup regattas (organized by the
Yacht Club of Hilton Head Island) the following weekend.Though there were fewer than a dozen boats that entered allfour contests, these were nonetheless competitive events,particularly among the region’s Harbor 20 fleet, which field-ed seven entries. Inordinately light winds and the usualstrong currents in Calibogue Sound made for challengingcompetition on both weekends, but the Harbor 20 racerswere up to the task. Domenico Del Sole and Joe Highsmithon Slingshot won the first two events. On the second week-end, when the one-design Harbor 20s were also scoredunder PHRF, Harbor 20 sailors were stellar, winning boththe Harbour Town Cup (Ned Neilsen’s team on Arcadiawonthat) and the Island Packet Trophy, which is awarded to theboat with the best performance over the two days of racing(Domenico Del Sole and his team on Slingshot won that).(www.scyachtclub.com)
Chucktown ChampionsAnd just up the coast, sailors in Charleston were engaged ina series of events throughout fall, events that ran the gamutfrom distance contests to around the buoys races, and fromserious racing to fun events with an emphasis on fundrais-ing. The latter included the annual Leukemia Cup, whichbenefits the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society. This yearmarked the 17th edition of the regatta, and sailors and theirsupporters from around the region have raised $1.9 millionover the years. In last year’s Leukemia Cup Regatta, Miles
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nationwide. In 2012, they raised over $56,000. This year,team Mongo nearly repeated the feat, raising $52,500. Alltold, participants in the 2013 regatta raised nearly $144,000.Now that’s impressive. And it’s just another part of fall sail-ing in the Palmetto State. (www.leukemiacup.org/sc/).
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Chuck Coyer’s crew aboard his J/36 Soul enjoy the mild condi-tions off the Charleston city waterfront during the annual
Leukemia Cup Regatta. Photo by Priscilla Parker.
Go Big or Stay Home —College of Charleston’s Varsity Offshore Team Goes BigBy Dan Dickison
Success breeds success, or so the saying goes, and that’sexactly what appears to be happening for the College ofCharleston sailing program. After winning the Gill
Coed Dinghy National Championships in June—the fourthtime that the college has achieved this feat—the program’sdirectors are venturing into a new area of competition: bigboat sailing. They launched their inaugural Varsity OffshoreTeam with substantial fanfare by sending team members toSouthern California last spring to compete in the HarborCup (where they finished second out of 10 teams) and toLarchmont, NY, in October. In New York, the team compet-ed in the annual Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta (IOR), thelargest collegiate regatta in North America.
In Larchmont, over 50 teams representing universitiesfrom across the nation—as well as two from Europe andtwo from Canada—raced aboard 54 borrowed keelboats onLong Island Sound over the Columbus Day weekend.Competitors were scored in IRC, PHRF and one-designdivisions (J/44s, J/109s and J/105s). Every entry had theboat owner aboard as well as a second adult who were bothencouraged by the organizers to impart lessons about boatspeed, boat handling and sail trim to the students, but tac-tics were left strictly to the collegiate racers.
The College of Charleston’s team, led by Ned Goss asteam coach, raced aboard Austin Fragoman’s J/105. Withheavy air (winds from 20 to 30-plus knots) and five-foot seassetting the stage, the Charleston-based Cougars were domi-nant, winning both of the races that ultimately made up theregatta. (Extreme conditions prompted the organizers to can-cel the final day’s action.) When it came to the awards, theCougars shared the overall win—and the Paul HoffmannTrophy—with the team from Georgetown University.
“It was cool that our team went to Larchmont and per-
formed so well,” said the College of Charleston’s sailingdirector Greg Fisher afterward, “but frankly, they earned it.Not only are they a talented bunch of sailors, they alsoworked really hard, practicing nearly a dozen times sincelast spring before heading to Larchmont.” Fisher also cred-ited the support of local Charleston boat owners wholoaned their boats to the team for practice sessions andoffered their expertise.
“We had really good chemistry onboard,” explainedCoach Goss a few weeks afterward, “and all the practicingwe did was an important key as well.” He acknowledgedthat his team had never sailed together in such demandingconditions, but cited their collective poise and diverse sail-ing backgrounds as important strengths in winning againstsome very established and talented collegiate teams. “Youhave to realize that this offshore team exists because the stu-dents wanted to compete in big boats. They took a lot of ini-tiative in forming the team. To get to Southern California,they raised all the money themselves. So, when we took theidea of forming an offshore team to the college’s athleticdirector, he was fully supportive.”
In early November, the team traveled to Annapolis tocompete in the Kennedy Cup at the U.S. Naval Academy.Next up will be an invitational regatta in Charleston inFebruary that Goss is coordinating. After that, his team willbegin preparing for a trip to Europe in April. As a benefit ofits victory in Larchmont, the team won the right to competefor the EDHEC Sailing Cup in Les Sables d’Olonne, France,which is the largest collegiate event in the world with 180boats. “We’ll have to raise money for the travel expenses,”explained Goss, “but once we get there, the housing, theboat charter and everything else will be paid for by theorganizers.” Now that’s the way to go big.
College of Charleston sailors hiking out in the Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta on Austin Fragomen’s
J/105, Warlock. Photo courtesy McMichaelYachts.com.
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Table of ContentsUpcoming Regional Regattas Regional Calendars (Including regular club racing)
Southeast Coast (NC, SC, GA)East FloridaSoutheast FloridaFlorida KeysWest FloridaNorthern Gulf Coast (Florida Panhandle, AL, MS, LA, TX
For Racing News, and National and International Regattasin the South, see “Racing News” section.
NOTE ON REGIONAL RACE CALENDARSRegattas and Club Racing—Open to Everyone Wanting toRace For the races listed here, no individual club membership isrequired, although a regional PHRF rating, or membershipin US SAILING or other sailing association is oftenrequired. To list an event, e-mail [email protected]. Send the information. DO NOT just send alink. Since race schedules and venues change, contact thesponsoring organization to confirm. Contact informationfor the sailing organizations listed here is listed in the south-ern yacht club directory at www.southwindsmagazine.com.
Club Racing. Many clubs have regular club races yeararound open to everyone and new crew is generally invitedand sought. Contact the club for dates and information.Individual club races are not listed here. We will list yourclub races only if they happen on a regular schedule.
For a list of yacht clubs and sailing organizations in theSoutheast, go to www.southwindsmagazine.com.
Note: In the below calendars: YC = Yacht Club; SC =Sailing Club; SA = Sailing Association.
Race CalendarThe following organizations do not post their races beyond the cur-rent month (go to their websites for schedule):Neuse Yacht Racing Association www.nyra.org. New Bern, NC. See club website for local club race scheduleLake Lanier. www.saillanier.com. Lake Lanier, GA See club website for local club race scheduleLong Bay Sailing. www.longbaysailing.comSee club website for local club race schedule
DECEMBERSouth Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of theclubs in the region and their websites. www.sayra-sailing.com.(state in parenthesis) No Regattas planned for DecemberCharleston Ocean Racing Association. www.charlestonoceanrac-ing.org. South Carolina.See club website for local club race schedule. Club races year
around. No Regattas planned for DecemberJANUARYSouth Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of theclubs in the region and their websites. www.sayra-sailing.com.(state in parenthesis, eg, SC=South Carolina)No Regattas planned for JanuaryCharleston Ocean Racing Association. www.charlestonoceanrac-ing.org. South Carolina See club website for local club race schedule. Club races yeararound. No Regattas planned for January
Major Upcoming Regattas
5th Annual Holiday KickoffRegatta, Ft. Pierce, FL, Dec. 6-7Fort Pierce Yacht Club’s 5th Annual Holiday KickoffRegatta will be held Dec. 6-7. Saturday offshore PHRF rac-ing, Class A and Class B, followed by after-race party andawards ceremony. www.ftpierceyachtclub.homestead.com.
12th Annual Kettle Cup Regatta,Lake Monroe Sailing Association,Sanford, FL, Dec. 7-8This regatta is a benefit for the Salvation Army. Racing willbe Saturday and Sunday. Registration Friday night andSaturday morning, with skippers meeting following regis-tration. Expected classes are Catalina, Force 5, San Juan 21,Sunfish and Portsmouth. Boat ramps, trailer parking andaccommodations are available. All sailors are welcome.www.flalmsa.org.
Junior Olympic Sailing Festival, US SAILING Center, Martin County, FL, Dec. 7-8Green Fleet, Optis, 420s, Windsurfers. www.usscmc.org.
Race CalendarClub Racing (contact club or website for details):Rudder Club of Jacksonville (www.rudderclub.com): Weekendraces organized seasonally and biweekly races on St. Johns River.Indian River YC (www.sail-race.com/iryc): Weekend races organ-ized seasonally. Spring-Summer series begins the first Wednesdayafter daylight savings begins. Wednesday Evening races weekly.The catamaran section of the club has fun sails on the third week-end each month at Kelly Park on Merritt Island.Melbourne YC (www.melbourneyachtclub.com) holds reversehandicap races on alternating weekends; Sunday afternoons in thewinter and Friday nights from April to Oct. Small boat Sundays onalternate weekends year around. MYC sponsors a Dragon PointRace Series for Co-ed racers and a monthly all-female DP series.Halifax River YC (www.hryc.com). Commodore Cup Races.
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Halifax SA (www.halifaxsailing.org): Sunfish racing weekly; raceseries organized seasonally.Lake Monroe SA (www.flalmsa.org): Sailing on Lake Monroe, asegment of the St. Johns River. Tequila Sunday Racing and JagerCup Race series, alternating every two weeks, with one race in theseries held monthly. March through October, Wednesday NightRum Races. Seasonal race series on Saturdays once a month. Manatee Cove Marina (at Patrick AFB, Satellite Beach) sponsorsmonthly races. www.gopatrickfl.com/marina.html. Lake Eustis SC (www.lakeeustissailingclub.org): Weekend racestwice monthly, Sept through May.
DECEMBER7-8 Catalina 22 State Championship. Indian River Yacht Club
(tentative)7-8 Gator Bowl Regatta One-Design. Rudder Club of Jacksonville14 Gator Bowl Regatta PHRF15 Single Hand Regatta. Back Bayou Cruising Club.JANUARY1 Hangover Regatta. Rudder Club31-Feb. 2 15th Wayfarer Mid-Winters Championship.
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Major Upcoming Regattas
57th Annual Wirth M. Munroe FortLauderdale to Palm Beach Race,Sailfish Club, Palm Beach, Dec. 6This race begins at the Lauderdale Yacht Club finishes justoutside the Lake Worth inlet in Palm Beach. Hosted by theSailfish Club of Florida in Palm Beach. For information, orto enter, call Sara Godward at (561) 844-0206, [email protected], or go to www.sailfish-club.com.
Sailfish IRC Regatta, Sailfish Club,Palm Beach, Dec. 7-8The Sailfish IRC Regatta is scheduled for Saturday andSunday, Dec. 7-8, with short offshore buoy races outside theLake Worth inlet. Open to IRC yachts with a rating of 1.25or greater. Hosted by the Sailfish Club of Florida in PalmBeach. For more information or to enter, call Sara Godwardat (561) 844-0206, email [email protected] orgo to www.sailfishclub.com.
Orange Bowl International YouthRegatta, Miami, FL, Dec. 26-30The largest youth sailing regatta in the United States. See“Racing News” section for more information.
38th Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race, Jan. 16A 160-nautical-mile sprint down the Florida Keys. This willstart at Port Everglades on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 1300hours, and will run along the Florida Keys to Key West.Boats are expected to begin finishing the race throughoutthe day of January 17. Fleets include IRC, PHRF, Multihulland One-Design. The race is sponsored by LauderdaleYacht Club and the Storm Trysail Club and hosted by theSORC race management group.
A skippers meeting and cocktail party takes placeJanuary 15 at Lauderdale Yacht Club, race headquarters.Awards are Jan. 18 in Key West and hosted by Kelly’sCaribbean Bar & Grill. For information and online registra-tion, go to www.keywestrace.org. Entry deadline is Jan. 11.
US SAILING’S Rolex Miami OCR,Coconut Grove, FL, Jan. 27-Feb. 2See “Racing News” section for more information.
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Regional Sailing Organizations:US PHRF of Southeast Florida. www.phrfsef.comBBYRA Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association. www.bbyra.netClubs (go to clubs for local club racing schedules)BBYC Biscayne Bay YC. www.biscaynebayyachtclub.comCASC North Palm Beach. www.castawayssailing.comCGSC Coconut Grove Sailing Club. www.cgsc.orgCRYC Coral Reef YC. www.coralreefyachtclub.org. KBYC Key Biscayne YC. www.kbyc.orgLYC Lauderdale Yacht ClubMYC Miami YC. www.miamiyachtclub.netSCF Sailfish Club of Florida. www.sailfishclub.comDECEMBER6 Wirth Munroe Ft. Lauderdale to Palm Beach Race.
www.sailfishclub.com7-8 Etchells Louis Piana Cup. BBYC14-15 Star Commodore Cup. CRYC27-30 Orange Bowl Regatta. CGSC/CRYCJANUARY1-3 29er Class National Championships. CGSC4-5 Etchells Sidney Doren Memorial. BBYC4-5 Levin Memorial Stars. CRYC9-12 Star Midwinters. CRYC15-17 Ft. Lauderdale to Key West Race. LYC/STC17-19 470, 49er, 49er FX North Americans. CGSC17-19 I-420 & Rs:X ISAF Youth Qualifier. CGSC25-Feb 1 Olympics Classes Regatta. ISAF Sailing World Cup
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Major Upcoming Regattas
16th Annual Hobie Wave NationalChampionships, Islamorada, FL, Dec. 5-8See “Racing News” section for more information.
International Audi Melges 20Worlds, Ocean Reef Club, KeyLargo, FL, Dec. 11-14See “Racing News” section for more information.
29th Annual Key Largo Steeplechase,Key Largo, FL, Dec. 14-15A 110-mile trek around Key Largo for beach catamarans.The race is always scheduled for the second weekend inDecember and draws top world-class sailors from aroundthe country and world. The race is sponsored by CatamaranSailor, www.Catsailor.com/registration.
27th Quantum Key West RaceWeek, Jan. 19-24See the “Racing News” section, pages 32-33
Wrecker’s Cup Race, Key West, Jan. 26, Feb. 23, March 30, April 27See Short Tacks section, “Other Events,” for information.
NAMSA North AmericanChampionships and 2014Tradewinds Midwinter Open CatNationals, Islamorada, Florida Keys,Jan. 18-20See “Racing News” section for more information.
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Key West Community Sailing Center (formerly Key WestSailing Club). Every Saturday – Open house at the Center.10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Friday evenings happy hour openhouse at 5 p.m. (305) 292-5993. www.keywestsailingsailing-center.com. Sailboat Lane off Palm Avenue in Key West.
Non-members welcome. Small-boat Wednesday night racingduring Daylight Savings season. Small-boat Sunday racingyear around at 1 p.m. Boat ramp available. Race in the sea-plane basin near the mooring field. Dinner and drinks after-ward.Upper Keys Sailing Club (UKSC). www.upperkeyssailing-club.com. Go to the Club website for regular club racingopen to all.
Major Upcoming Regattas
Good Old Boat Regatta, St. Petersburg, FL, Jan. 4For more information, see “Other Events” in the“Calendar,” pages 17-22
5th Annual Charlotte HarborRegatta and Laser MastersMidwinters, Feb. 6-9The 2014 Charlotte Harbor Regatta will feature more than100 boats in possibly 11 classes. Expected classes are theViper 640, S2 7.9, Hobie 16, Hobie Wave, Weta, F16, F18,Flying Scot, Windrider, Melges 20, Laser, 2.4 mR Sunfishand Precision 15 classes. Also held again this year is theCharlotte Harbor Pusser’s Rum Beach Party at PortCharlotte Beach Park (which is the staging area for multi-hulls) on Feb. 8. For information about sponsorship and vol-unteer opportunities, contact Brian Gleason at (941) 206-1133 or [email protected]. www.charlot-teharborregatta.com
32nd Annual Golden ConchRegatta, Platinum Point Yacht Club,Punta Gorda, FL, Jan. 18-19 This two-day race series will be conducted outside BurntStore Marina entrance on Charlotte Harbor. There will betwo separate race courses with five races for Spinnaker andMulti-hull fleets; three races for cruising fleets. This regattaqualifies for Charlotte Harbor Boat of the Year (CHBOTY).Expected are 30-35 boats in five classes offered. Both buoyand windward-leeward races will be conducted. A manda-tory skippers’ meeting will be held on Saturday morningalong with a complimentary continental breakfast. A barbe-cue social is planned after the Saturday races. The awardsceremony with light lunch will be held on Sunday after rac-ing. More details, NOR and entry form can be found atwww.ppycbsm.com.
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SAIL AND POWER BOATS66' 2004 Novatec Islander ...............................................................$449,90060' 2003 Novatec Islander 60 ..........................................................$499,90053' 2002 Bruce Roberts Custom...................................UNDER CONTRACT52' 2008 Symbol Pilothouse ............................................................$749,90052' 2006 Custom Cat ....................................................REDUCED $399,90051' 2006 Passport Center Cockpit ................................REDUCED $749,00043' 2006 Tiara Sovran IPS...............................................................$329,00043' 1982 Spindrift Cutter ..................................................................$119,90042' 1986 Grand Banks Europa......................................REDUCED $169,00042' 1974 Grand Banks MY..............................................REDUCED $59,90040' 1997 Sabre 402...............................................................................SOLD40' 1987 Beneteau First Class 12...................................REDUCED $44,90040' 1982 Hughes Columbia Center Cockpit ....................REDUCED $84,90038' 1983 Sabre 38 Centerboard ........................................................$59,90037' 1979 CSY Cutter ..........................................................................$37,90035' 1999 Wormwood Gulfstream Cat Merlin .........................................SOLD 34' 1992 Sabre 34 Shoal Draft ..........................................................$89,90032' 1994 Island Packet Cutter............................................................$89,90032' 2007 Hake Seaward Centerboard...............................REDUCED 99,90032' 1985 Sabre Aft Cabin .....................................................................SOLD28' 1990 Hunter .................................................................................$24,900
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Club Racing Boca Ciega YC. Gulfport. PHRF racing, spin and non-spin everythird Sunday at 1 p.m. Skipper’s meeting at 10 a.m. (727) 423-6002. Dinghy racing every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. during daylightsavings season. www.sailbcyc.org.Bradenton YC. Winter Races: Starting in October until April.Races at 1400 hours each Sunday. Thursday evening races at 1830hours beginning in April through Daylight Savings Time. PHRFracing on Manatee River. Lower Tampa Bay race second Saturdayof each month. Contact John Izmirlian at 941-587-7758 or [email protected]. Clearwater Community Sailing Center. Regular weekend clubraces. www.clearwatercommunitysailing.org. Davis Island YC. Regular club racing weekly. www.diyc.org. Dunedin Boat Club. Spring/Fall PHRF racing in the Gulf ofMexico; June-Aug. Bay racing in St. Joseph’s Sound, alternateWednesday nights. Paul Auman at (727) 688-1631, or [email protected]. Edison Sailing Center. Fort Myers. Sunfish and dinghy racingonce a month, year-round [email protected] Point Yacht Club. Weekly PHRF racing on Mondaysstarting at 1 p.m. on Charlotte Harbor. www.ppycbsm.comPort Charlotte. Third Saturday of month, [email protected] Gorda Sailing Club. Charlotte Harbor. Weekly racing.
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MULTIHULLS60’ Custom Catamaran 1999 $574,900 Tarpon Springs Bill50’ Neel Trimaran 2009 $690,000 Florida Tom48’ Nautitech Catamaran 1998 $349,000 Punta Gorda Leo45’ Voyage Catamaran 2006 $319,000 BVI Tom44’ Privilege 435 Cat 2002 $329,000 St. Augustine Tom44’ Lagoon Catamaran 2007 $499,000 Caribbean Kevin42’ Manta Catamaran 2005 $339,000 Melbourne Kevin40’ Fountaine Pajot 2006 $295,000 West Palm Beach Cal40’ Admiral Executive 2008 $365,000 West Palm Beach Cal40’ Admiral Executive 2007 $385,000 Hilton Head, NC Cal40’ Manta Catamaran 1999 $259,000 Ft. Lauderdale Tom37’ Prout Snowgoose 1993 $165,000 Grenada Harry36’ Intercontinental Tri. 1969 $ 59,900 Englewood Jane 35’ Island Packet Cat 1993 $144,900 Tampa Mark30’ Endeavour Cat 1997 $ 72,900 Punta Gorda Calvin30’ Endeavour Cat 1992 $ 55,000 Punta Gorda Jane28’ Telstar Trimaran 2006 $ 64,900 St. Augustine Tom18’ Sailbird Trimaran 1974 $ 7,900 Clearwater Roy
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45’ Coronado 1974 $139,000 Clearwater Jane45’ Hunter Legend 1987 $ 78,900 Crystal River Jane44’ Beneteau Oceanis CC 2001 $230,000 Titusville Dean44’ Wellington 1980 $174,500 Sarasota Jane43’ Beneteau 1988 $ 78,500 Tampa Scott43’ Irwin 1988 $ 69,900 St. Petersburg Jane43’ Elan 1990 $110,000 Israel Kirk42’ Catalina 1990 $ 99,000 Panama Kevin W42’ Tayana CC 1984 $128,000 St. Petersburg Dean42’ Westsail Cutter 1975 $125,000 St. Petersburg Jane41’ Hunter 2002 $139,500 Lake Norman, NC Wendy41’ Morgan 1988 $145,000 Daytona Beach Jim41’ Gulfstar CC, MOTIVATED SELLER 1973 $ 74,900 Miami Kirk40’ C & C Sloop 1981 $ 64,900 Punta Gorda Calvin40’ Hinckley Bermuda 40 1980 $115,000 AL Kevin B38’ Catalina 1996 $110,000 En route Harry38’ Chiappini Schooner 1990 $ 75,000 Miami Clark38’ Island Packet 1988 SOLD Green Cove Springs Tom37’ Pearson Sloop 1983 $ 35,000 Venice Joe37’ Tayana 1983 $ 62,000 Salinas, PR Harry37’ Gulfstar 1979 $ 44,750 Hudson Jane37’ Hunter 1996 $ 66,500 Pensacola Kevin B36’ Pearson 365 1977 SOLD Apollo Beach Joe36’ Pearson Ketch 1977 SOLD Hudson Jane35’ Pearson 1981 $ 24,500 St. Augustine Tom34’ O’Day 1984 $ 16,000 Naples Susan34’ Hunter 2000 $ 69,000 Punta Gorda Leo33’ Hunter 2008 $ 85,000 Indian Town Clark33’ Tartan 1981 $ 34,900 St. James City Art32’ Melges 2010 $135,000 Sarasota Joe32’ Beneteau 1984 $ 34,900 Ft. Lauderdale Kirk32’ Bayfield 1987 SOLD Melbourne Kevin W32’ Catalina 2000 $ 59,900 Vero Beach Clark32’ Catalina 1994 $ 39,900 Ft. Lauderdale Joe31’ Island Packet Sloop 1987 $ 53,000 Port Canaveral Kevin W30’ Hunter T 1993 $ 39,000 West Palm Beach Cal30’ Hunter 306 2002 $ 49,900 Apollo Beach Mark29’ Island Packet 1991 $ 55,000 Pensacola Kevin B 27’ Island Packet 1989 $ 48,500 Clearwater Dean25’ Hunter 2007 $ 23,900 Pensacola Kevin B
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SAILBOAT LISTINGS1976 Alend Wellington 47 $135,0002000 Catalina 470 $199,900New Catalina 445 $308,8551992 Island Packet 44 $189,9001978 CSY 44 $79,9002010 Jeanneau 42DS $229,9002005 Hunter 41 aft cockpit $169,5001987 Morgan 41 $ 89,9001995 Hunter 40.5 $89,5001979 Schucker 40 $59,0002001 Bavaria 40 $130,0001996 Beneteau 40 $ 89,9501938 Atkin’s Meridian Yawl $ 64,9001991 Island Packet 38 $125,000New Catalina 385 $231,2512007 Catalina 387 $149,9002003 Catalina 387 $135,0002005 Beneteau 373 $92,0002-2004 Island Packet 370 starting at $250,0001976 Allied Princess 36 Ketch $34,9001981 C&C 36 Sloop $29,000New Catalina 355 $199,8412001 Island Packet 350 $169,9502000 Island Packet 350 $159,9001991 Island Packet 35 $111,9001989 Island Packet 35 $89,9001988 Irwin 35 CC $26,900
2005 Catalina 350 $114,9001970 Allied Seabreeze 35 $24,9001987 Catalina 34 $39,900 1984 Aloha 34 $45,0001984 Hunter 34 $21,9001973 Morgan OI $28,500 1985 Prout 33 $59,0001982 Cape Dory 33 Sloop $34,9001981 C&C Sloop 32 $12,0001974 Westsail 32 $58,000New Catalina 315 in stock $125,3811979 Cape Dory 30 $29,5001987 Catalina 30 $ 27,9001980 Catalina 30 $19,9002003 Stuart Knockabout 28 $53,9501982 Cape Dory 28 $19,9001984 Catalina 25 Fin $7,5001985 Freedom 25 Fin $9,9501998 Hunter 240 $12,950
POWER FOR SALE1996 Carver 440 $124,9002008 Island Packet PYCruiser $279,9501998 Sea Ray Aft Cabin 37 $134,9001995 Tiara 36’ $99,0002007 28’ Larson Cabrio 274 $49,9002002 King Cat Baja 27 $29,0002008 25 Ranger Tug 25 $92,900
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14’ RS-100 Performance Singlehander. Fullyequipped dealer demo boat in pristine condi-tion w/dolly & top cover. Specs, photos,videos at www.rssailing.com. $7,995 com-plete. Located in Gainesville, FL, area.Call/text for more info (352) 871-0362.(12/13)
New WindRider 17. $8995. Call Brian atBimini Bay Sailing. (941) 685-1400_________________________________________
Trimaran 21 feet folding day sailer. Brand new.Natural mahogany finish makes this an eye-catcher. Johnson engine. Custom aluminumtrailer. $3500. Reduced from $9000. Call (954)316-8342. (1/14)
2012 Sea Pearl 21 with trailer. LIKE NEW—always garage kept. The perfect Florida shal-low-water-sail-anywhere boat. Unique CatKetch sail plan with furling main and mizzenis easy to set up and sail. Lots of upgrades.$17,864. Call Paul at Masthead Enterprises,(800) 783-6953 or (727) 327-5361.www.mastheadsailinggear.com
Catalina 22. Local Tampa Bay RacingChampion Chuck Jones has restored anotherCatalina 22, race ready, Lying at Short St.docks, Grove City, FL 34224 $2900. Email forinventory and info: [email protected].(1/14)_________________________________________Herreshoff Eagle 22' 1978. Ultimate unsink-able pocket yacht. Fiberglass hull and deck. Alloriginal equipment plus extra mast, new sailsand rigging. Teak Trim, tandem axle trailer. 05'5hp Honda $7500. Fort Pierce, FL (772) 979-1204. (1/14)
1984 Catalina Capri 25. Asking $6,500.Furling genoa, spinnaker, good fiberglass,sails & bottom paint, depth, potty, 9.5 Tohatsuoutboard. Sarasota (941) 388-1560,[email protected] for photos. (1/14)
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25’ Hunter, 2007. 9.8 HP Nissan 4 stroke w/electric start, Raymarine instruments, bimini,enclosed head, furling head sail & twin axletrailer! Simple w/plenty of room! $23,900.Call Kevin @ 850-982-0983. www.CatamaransinFlorida.com, Edwards Yacht Sales
1994 26’ MacGregor sailboat with 2.5 HPmotor and trailer. 5 sails and numerous extras.Located at Ft Walton Beach, FL. Price $5,600.E-mail: [email protected], or call (850)664-5535 or (850) 865-2550. (2/14)
1992 Catalina Capri 26 $12,000 Pocket cruis-er w/big boat appeal. Oversized bimini, wheel,wing keel, Harken roller furler, full batten main.155 and 135 genoas. Yamaha four-stroke 8hp,high-thrust, extra long shaft motor, electricstart. Autohelm, battery charger. Call Julie (850)293-4031. Pensacola Beach, FL. (1/14)
Sailboat Trailer. Good galvanized tandemaxle trailer. New tires, wheels, hubs, bearings.26 feet from hitch to end of trailer. 7 feetwide. Includes 10-foot extendable tongue forbacking into water. Asking $2500. (601) 502-6920. (12/13)
1976 Catalina 27. Very clean. Furling Genoa,cruising spinnaker with sock, tiller autopilot,head, holding tank, macerator pump. Atomic4. Runs Good, great on gas. 2 anchors. $4900.New Port Richey. (727) 534-9947. (12/13)
1986 Laser 28, Farr designed fast racer, PHRF132, race equipped, 8 sails, comfortable fam-ily cruiser, 5’ 10” headroom, full galley,enclosed head, bimini, roller furl, 9 hp diesel,immaculate, dual axle trailer, $21,500. (321)259-8829, [email protected], Fl. (12/13)
Santana 30/30 GP with complete sail inven-tory. Must sell. Boat in good condition. Newalternator. New bottom spring 2012. Volvoengine 17 hp. $10,000 OBO. Call (337) 945-7895. (2/14)
29’ Island Packet, 1991. Yanmar 18 HP. New2012: Bimini, 125% jib from Schurr sails,dinghy davits, bottom paint, LED lighting,varnish, Genoa, &more! CLEAN! $55,000.Call Kevin @ 850-982-0983. www.CatamaransinFlorida.com, Edwards Yacht Sales
Camper Nicholson, 8.80 metre (C 30ft)Motorsailer. 1972. Lloyds-certified, 2000 50HP Perkins, 2100 hrs. All roller furling, A/C,refrig, 2 chartplotters, SSB receiver. Dinghy,two outboards, davits. 2 Bruce, 1 CQR,anchors. Autopilot, 2 folding bicycles. Fullyequipped for extended cruising. Leave tomor-row for the Keys, Bahamas, Cuba. $23,000.941-962-5199.
30’ 1979 Bayfield Cutter. 15HP Yanmar. Bluewater boat with 3 1/2’ draft. Ready to cruise.Located in the lower Florida Keys. $10,000.Please contact me at (305) 898-6065. (1/14)
30’ Chris Craft Sloop, 1967, Perkins 30hp.diesel, all new; main, Genoa, jib, storm jib,Harken roller furling, Harken self-tailingwinches, Navico Autopilot. Eight originalbronze opening ports! Well preserved classic,one owner for last 20 years. $20,000. Lying KeyWest, FL Stewart Marine Corp., Miami, 305-815-2607. www.marinesource.com
Camper Nicholson 31, 1976 Hull #10.Located Saint Augustine, Florida. Life raftneeds service. Owned 12 years - extensiverefit. Recent in-water survey good condition.Sleeps six. Comfortable cruiser. (954) 646-3915 [email protected]. (12/13)
31’ Beneteau 31. TWO models to choose:2012 Centerboard 2.85’ draft w/in-mast furl-ing, and 2011 4’3” fixed keel w/stack pack, airconditioning, full electronics, bimini, refriger-ation $119,000 to $99,000. Pictures & fullspecs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com (727)214-1590
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1994 Island Packet 32 Cutter. Air condition-ing, solar, good sail inventory, GPS, autopilot,Yanmar diesel and more. $89,900. Alan 941-350-1559, or [email protected]
1996 Beneteau Oceanis 321. Bottom paintand topsides waxed (9/13), full-battened mainw/lazy jacks, bimini w/windscreen, carry-onAC, helm-mounted chartplotter, newstereo/microwave, lines lead aft, 27-hp Yanmardiesel-low hrs. $47,900. [email protected], RIB & 10-hp outboard—cost nego-tiable. (225) 335-5327 (1/14)
Hook-Kelly custom 34’ 1982 hull. GrandIllusion. Custom, one-off design. Great sailingand fast racer. $15,000 OBO. LocatedPalmetto, Tampa Bay, FL. (941) 723-6560.(1/14)
35’ Alberg, 1964, new sails, new Harken furl-ing, fresh paint inside and out. Looks right.Rebuilt Universal A-4, 30hp, gas inboard, looksnew. “Fine Old” Pearson $16,000. StewartMarine Corp. Miami, 305-815-2607.www.marinesource.com
Formosa 35 Ketch 1976. Cruiser or bay boat.New YM30 Yanmar, (105hr), Garmin GPS,Radar, Autopilot, 30 amp Air X Wind gen,New canvas, 2 yr paint, 140 water, 45 fuel,Teak-Holly davits, Avon inflatable, 3.5 out-board. $22,495. Pensacola, FL. Rich (850)450-9018, [email protected]. (1/14)
2001 35’ Hunter - $94,500 – Curtis Stokes –(954) 684-0218, or [email protected]
2001 Island Packet 350. Generator, reversecycle heat and air, E-series RaymarineChart/Radar at both the Nav station and helm,autopilot, depth, wind, speed and a boatwhich spent most of its time in fresh water, ask-ing $169,950. This is a beauty. Probably thefinest IP 350 in the U.S. Call Rick@251-377-3676
Wharram Tangaroa Sail Catamaran 36’MKIV, 2002. Sail the world in safety and com-fort or enjoy the tradewinds. She handlesbeautifully. Well equipped and has great longsea legs. Can be single-handed. Sail flat andfast. What more can you ask from a lady! Purr-fect for voyagers/cruisers/liveaboards or daycharter. Asking $55,000. Details: [email protected]. (12/13)
2006 Hunter 36’. Located in St Pete withboth AC and Genset. REDUCED to $94,500.Contact Kelly Bickford CPYB at (727) 599-1718, or email [email protected]
36’ Beneteau First 36.7. TWO 2005 modelsto choose from. Shoal draft, AC, full electron-ics, full sail inventories, race or cruise, BruceFarr design. $96,999 to $116,000. Pictures &full specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com.(727) 214-1590.
1979 CSY 37 Cutter. GPS, shoal draft,fishfinder, Perkins diesel, windlass, propaneLPG stove and oven, huge capacity fridge/freezer. $37,900. Alan 941-350-1559, [email protected]
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CORTEZ YACHT SALESSAIL
56' Custom Wood Schooner ’07 . . . .$700,000*45' Jeanneau 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD42' Endeavour 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$125,000* 40' Bayfield 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$79,900 39' Corbin 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$69,900*39' Irwin Citation 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . .$29,900* 35' Wauquiez 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD30' Catalina 1987 MKII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD
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44' Targa 1989 Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$84,90034' Sea Ray 1984 Twin Diesel . . . . . . .$29,900 32' Trojan F32 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD
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Gulfstar 37, 1979. 50hp Yanmar 1995. Gen-set, semi-custom interior, custom mattress,A/C, fridge, microwave, TV, stereo, CD, electrichead, autopilot, depth sounder, knotmeter,wind, electric windless, mainsail, all canvas2010. Not a project boat. $54,500. (305) 895-0189. (1/14)
37’ Prout Snowgoose Elite Catamaran,1993. Yanmar 30hp, 6kw genset 2005, solarpanels 2009, 2010 water maker, great elec-tronics (most new in 2007)! Lots of upgrades!$165,000. Call Harry @ 941-400-7942.www.CatamaransinFlorida.com, EdwardsYacht Sales
1987 38’ Cabo Rico - $98,000 – Curtis Stokes– (954) 684-0218 – [email protected] –www.curtisstokes.net
My Good Old Boat. Morgan 38’ MKIV. BlueMoon. Just crossed from Roatan, Honduras toFlorida! Classic. $10,000/OBO, or will trade forsmall gas economy car! Engine rebuilt 2013,boat needs some rewiring, Standing head-room, great liveaboard. Laying Key [email protected]. (406) 396-4821.(1/14)
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Irwin Citation 39, 1979, w/ 30 hp Yanmar, 41'9" LOA, custom scoop transom, fin keel, rollerfurling head sails, Dutchman main, ST-60instruments, Garmin GPS, VHF, S/S Stove, 12-volt DC fridge, ST winches, Bimini. Asking$29,900. Cortez Yacht Sales. 941-792-9100.
39’ Corbin Pilothouse 1981. 64 hp Pathfinderdiesel 200 hours, blue water cruiser, Gen Set,all roller furling, solar, wind gen, radar, autopi-lot, GPS, electric windlass, full galley and more.$69,900. Cortez Yacht Sales. (941) 792-9100
2006 39’ Bavaria - $149,500 – Curtis Stokes– (954) 684-0218, or [email protected]
40’ Sabre 402 2003. Shoal draft, AC,Refrig/Freezer, full electronics, full canvas,davits, r/f. Gorgeous boat. $255,000. Pictures& full specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com.727-214-1590
42’ Tayana CC, 1984. Yanmar 70hp w/70 hrs!New bottom paint, new sail covers & bimini,lots of natural lighting & ventilation, AC, 3shorepower inlets, & more! $128,000. CallCapt Dean @ 727-224-8977. www.CatamaransinFlorida.com, Edw
42’ Endeavour 1987. Center Cockpit, twocabins, aft cabin w/centerline Queen, twoheads w/ shower, Marine Air, Full Galley, Tallmast, RF main and RF head sail, Full Canvas,Chart Plotter, Radar, Autopilot, ElectricWindlass, Wind Gen, AB Dinghy w/ OB,Davits. Many Upgrades and New Equipment.A must see at our docks. $125,000 CortezYacht Sales. (941) 792-9100.
Beneteau 423 2007. Fully Loaded and inturn-key condition. New Electronics, AC,Inverter, Electric Windlass, Electric Winch,Bimini, Dodger, In-Mast Furling, Refrig &Freezer, 4’ 9” draft, low hours. $185,000.Specs & pictures at www.MurrayYachtSales.com. (727) 214-1590 x 3.
Custom Hermanson 44. Looking for the ulti-mate ocean steel cruiser?? Look no further.$144,000. Can make money with!!www.dutchlove.com. (305) 989-7181. (1/14)
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2013 Catalina 445! Absolutely loaded forcruising. $8000 watermaker, 6kw generator,full cockpit enclosure, all electronics, bowthruster, 10’ dinghy w/motor and dinghydavits—much too much to list here!Fantastically equipped boat purchased in Jan.2013 and little used. This is an estate sale—Asking $375,000. Call for details.(800) 282-1411, or email [email protected].
46’ Morgan Ketch, 1980, full width aft cabin,private aft companionway. Yanmar 50hp.,(‘04), 7.5kw Onan, 2 Mermaid air condition-ers, RADAR, GPS, SSB, autopilot, bow thruster,Trac-Vision, bright varnish interior. $85,000.Stewart Marine Corp., Miami, 305-815-2607.www.marinesource.com
Beneteau 49 (3 to choose from ’07, ’07 &‘08). All are fully loaded and ready to go. Fullelectronics, AC, Genset, electric winch, electricwindlass, bow thruster, etc. $298,000 (’07),$325,000 (’07) & $340,000 (’08). Specs & pic-tures at www.MurrayYachtSales.com. (727)214-1590 x 3.
1996 51’ Little Harbor - $374,500 – RandyWalterhoefer – (954) 684-0218, [email protected] www.curtisstokes.net
56’ Schooner. Custom built in 2008 byRollins in Maine. A masterpiece from Americancraftsmen. White Oak framing with Douglas Firplanking. Black Locust, Teak, and Cherry usedthroughout. Aluminum spars and custom castbronze fittings. A beautiful “Alden” styleschooner capable of passages with eleganceand American pride. Asking $700,000.www.CortezYachts.com. (941) 792-9100
61’ Custom Pedrick Cutter 1985. Set up forshort or single handed cruising, keel/cb forshoal waters, electric winches, HoodStowaway mast, Air & Genset. REDUCED to$239k. Contact Kelly Bickford CPYB, (727)599-17818, or email [email protected].
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WANTED. Always buying used boat stuff,including hardware, anchors, fenders, and anyother general marine stuff. Cash paid and wewill come to you. THE NAUTICAL TRADER. Call941-704-4828._________________________________________Bilge Blower. Mar-trail 3,” 150 cfm, flangemount, bilge/engine room blower, USCGapproved. Like Jabsco 34739-0010 which sellnew at WM for $135. Used but in great shapeand works perfectly. Asking $50. [email protected]._________________________________________
Brand new CQR style anchors, 20# $45, 26#$55, 35# $75, 44# $95. The Nautical Trader,Sarasota, FL. 941-704-4828. www.thenauti-caltrader.com._________________________________________Wanted: Lewmar 16 two-speed self-tailingwinch - or similar make and model, RaymarineC-70 GPS Chartplotter (941) 792-9100._________________________________________Garmin 126. Excellent condition. $125. (601)502-6920. (12/13).
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Asymmetrical spinnaker with snuffer.Blue,white and black. 48 foot luff. Good con-dition, minor color bleed onto white. $800.(941) 769-0297. [email protected].(12/13)._________________________________________ Heat Exchanger. Sendure model 1026 offPerkins 4-107 (Navy lifeboat), built-in expan-sion tank. Can be used to fresh water cool anysmall inboard engine. NO leaks, works justfine. $50 plus freight. (352) 472-6872.(12/13)_________________________________________ Bronze Winch and Handle. Barient #9 withbronze matching handle. These are "new"—never installed bronze items. $175 for both plusshipping from Lake Lanier, Georgia. Bill at (678)908-5701. [email protected]. (2/14)
ENGINES FOR SALE_________________________________________
Perkins 4.108, 4.154 diesels re-man $5,995,long blocks $4,995, plus core engine or $500.You pay shipping from Pensacola, FL. (850)572-1225. www.BSHmarine.com.
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Someone to do miscellaneous work online.Must have basic familiarity with cruising web-sites and use of computers to help developwebsite material and miscellaneous work. Workon your computer on your own hours, foryourself, at your home as a subcontractor. Paybased on $15/hour as a subcontractor. Parttime. [email protected]. _________________________________________
BOATS AND CAPTAINS WANTEDThe Boy Scouts of America at Florida Sea Basein Islamorada, FL, are looking for sailboats andcaptains to run in the Coral Reef Sailing pro-gram starting summer 2014 (Go to www.bsaseabase.org for more about Florida SeaBase). Boats need to be 40 to 45 feet and drawno more than 5 feet. CSY44s and Morgan41sare ideal for the program. Captains must havea USCG 6-pack license. Captains should have abackground working with 13 to 18-year-oldyouth; BSA scouting background is even better.This is a great part-time opportunity for indi-viduals looking for seasonal charter work in theFlorida Keys. Contact Luke Knuttel at (305)394-0365 for further information. (3/14)_________________________________________
SESY is growing and needs more brokers. Weare looking for experienced brokers, or willtrain. We offer both brokerage and new boatinventory (Hunter, Jeanneau and Alubatmonohulls, and Privilege catamarans) to ourcustomers. Professional and ethical standardsare a must. We have openings in Florida andare expanding into other states. Sales experi-ence or training a plus. Please call to discussthis opportunity. (904) 471-8865. www.ses-y.com. (1/14) _________________________________________
Edwards Yacht Sales is Expanding! We haveseveral openings for yacht brokers in Florida.Looking for experienced broker or will train theright individual. Must have boating back-ground and be a salesman. Aggressive adver-tising program. Come join the EYS team! Callin confidence, Roy Edwards (727) 507-8222www.EdwardsYachtSales.com,Yachts@ EdwardsYachtSales.com.
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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE OR RENT_________________________________________
Boating, fishing, relaxing on 20k acre lake inNortheast “Old Florida” in small, quiet, lake-front senior mobile home park. Convenientlylocated, reasonable lot rent. Homes from$2,000 to $21,000. (386) 698-3648 or www.lakecrescentflorida.com (12/13A)
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DOCK SPACE off SARASOTA BAY!! Slips startat $117 a Month on 6-Month Lease. ShelteredMarina accommodates up to 28’ sail or powerboats. Boat ramp. Utilities included. Call Office:(941) 755-1912. (12/13A)
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www.pgscweb.com. Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Sundayseries, year around with skippers meet-ing at noon. April through SeptemberFriday evening racing. 5:45 skippersmeeting. www.sarasotasailingsquad.org. St. Pete Yacht Club. Friday evenings(except April 3) through Aug. 28. 1630starts off The Pier. www.spyc.org. St. Pete Sailing Association. Weekly clubracing. www.spsa.usVenice Sailing Squadron. Saturdays.First Saturday of each month, PHRF rac-ing. Start at mouth of Venice Inlet.www.venice-sailing-squadron.org
Boat of the Year Races (BOTY) (pleasecheck with West Florida Yacht RacingAssociation at www.wfyra.org). For complete details, go towww.wfyra.org and click on the regionalassociations in southwest Florida pertaining to each area below:Tampa Bay (also known as West FloridaBOTY: (SCPHRF BOTY)Gulf Boat of the Year: (PHRF Gulf BOTY)Caloosahatchee Boat of the Year:(CaBOTY)Charlotte Harbor: (CHBOTY)Sarasota Bay: (SBYABOTY) Naples/Marco Island: (N/MBOTY) DECEMBER1 Thanksgiving Regatta.
Davis Island YC6-8 Stone Crab. J/70s. Clearwater YC6-8 America’s Regatta. St. Pete YC7 Transbay Race. Tampa Sailing
Squadron. St. Pete SA7 Commodore’s Cup. Sarasota
Sailing Squadron7-8 Holiday Regatta. Punta GordaSC. (CHBOTY)14 Naples Offshore. Coastal race.
Naples YC (N/MBOTY)14-15 Melges 24. Davis Island YC19 Full Moon Regatta.
Davis Island YC21 Winter Couples Race.
Davis Island YCJANUARY1 Hangover Bowl. Davis Island YC1 Hangover Regatta. Sarasota
Sailing Squadron4 New Year’s Cup. Naples Sailing
& YC4 Good Old Boat Regatta. St. Pete SA4-5 Commodore’s Cup. Davis Island
YC (SCPHRF BOTY)5 River Series. Fort Myers Sailing
Center (youth)10-12 J/70. Davis Island YC11-12 Snipe Gaspar. St. Pete YC12 Chili Cook-Off Regatta.
Caloosahatchee Marching & Chowder Society
16 Full Moon. Davis Island YC17-19 Master Driver Team Race.
St. Pete YC18-19 Golden Conch. Platinum Point
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YC. (CHBOTY)29-Feb. 1 VX Midwinters. Davis Island YC31-Feb. 2 Valentine’s Youth Regatta.
St. Pete YC
Northern Gulf Coast Race CalendarSee local club websites for club races.
Clubs listed this month (go to club websites for local club racing schedules)
GYA Gulf Yachting AssociationGYC Gulfport YC, Gulfport, MSNOYC New Orleans YC,
New Orleans, LAPBYC Pensacola Beach YC,
Pensacola Beach, FLPYC Pensacola YC, Pensacola, FL
DECEMBER7-8 Sugar Bowl Regatta. NOYC7-8 Sugar Bowl HS. NOYC14 Santa Claus Regatta / Boat
Parade. PYC14-15 Race of Champions. NOYC14-15 Sugar Bowl. NOYC14-15 Sugar Bowl Colliegate. NOYC
JANUARY (tentative dates)11-12 GYA Winter Meeting. GYC18 Frostbite Regatta. PBYC25 Super Bowl Regatta. PYC
Absolute Tank Cleaning..............................36Advanced Sails ...........................................40Airpro Inflatables ........................................40Allstate Insurance ..................................30,31American Rope & Tar...........................37, 53Anchorage Resort Marina...........................49Art of Wooden Boat Repair.........................28Atlantic Sail Traders ....................................40Bacon Sails .................................................40Beaver Flags ...............................................37Beneteau Sailboats.....................................BCBeta Marine ...............................................15Bimini Bay Sailboat Rentals....................18,19Blenker Boatworks & Marina ......................48Bluewater Sailing School .......................11,19BoatNames.net ..........................................36Boatsmith.....................................................7Bone Island Regatta .....................................9BoomKicker................................................37Borel ..........................................................37Cajun Trading Rigging ...............................40Cape Coral Yacht Basin ..............................49Capt Marti’s Books/Seminars......................36Capt. Chris Trawler Training.......................21Capt. Chris Yacht Services ..........................21Capt. Jagger...............................................37Capt. Rick Meyer........................................37Captains License Class................................83Catamaran Boatyard .............................22,36Charlotte Harbor Regatta .............................7C-Head Compost Toilets .......................22,37Clearwater Municipal Marina .....................48Coolnet Hammocks....................................38CopperCoat ...............................................44Cortez Yacht Brokerage..............................80Couples Sailing School ...............................19CPT Autopilot ............................................82Creative Insurance Benefits ........................39Cruise RO...................................................25Cruising Guide to Cuba .............................36Cruising Guide to Florida’s Suncoast ..........37Cruising Solutions ......................................44Curtis Stokes Yacht Brokerage ....................72Denison Yacht Sales ...................................74Dockside Radio ..........................................45Doctor LED ................................................67Doyle/Ploch Sails........................................40Dream Yacht Charters ..................................9Dunbar Sales..............................................77Dunbar Sales Sailing School .......................19
Dwyer mast................................................82Eastern Yachts............................................BCEastern Yachts/Beneteau ............................BCEdwards Yacht Sales ...................................76EisenShine..................................................36Elco Electric Boats ........................................5Ellies Sailing Shop ......................................36Emerald Coast Yachts School .....................19Fair Winds Boat Repairs ..............................39First Patriot Insurance............................30,31Fishermen’s Headquarters ..........................38Froli Sleep ..................................................38Garhauer....................................................47Glades Boat Storage................................6,49Good Old Boat Regatta..............................51Grand Slam Yacht Sales..............................74Gulf Coast Boat Show ................................48Gulfport City Marina ..................................65Happy Cove ...............................................38Hidden Harbor Marina ...............................49Hobie Cats/Tackle Shack ............................27Hotwire/Fans & other products .................38Indiantown Marina.....................................49Innovative Marine Services....................36,40International Auto ......................................38Irish Sail Lady .............................................40Island Nautical ...........................................23J&R Boatyard and Storage.....................35,49J/Boats - Murray Yacht Sales .......................75Kelly Bickford, Broker .................................77Kennedy Pt. Maritime ................................39Key Lime Sailing.........................................39KnotStick....................................................38Laser ..........................................................27Leap of Faith ..............................................37Mack Sails ..................................................65Madeira Beach Municipal Marina...............24Mainly Titles ..............................................36Mainsheet Partners.....................................15Maptech ....................................................29Masthead Enterprises .......................38,41,77Mastmate ..................................................38Miami Strictly Sail Boat Show.......................3Miami Mooring Field..................................16Moor Electronics ........................................38Murray Yacht Sales/Beneteau .....................75National Sail Supply ...................................41Nautical Trader ..........................................17Nautical Trader South ................................39Nickle Atlantic............................................38
No Motion Ocean......................................26North Sails ...........................................53,55NV-Charts ..................................................37Odor Xit.....................................................28Optimist.....................................................27Outland Hatch Covers................................39Panama City Marina...................................48Pasadena Marina........................................48Precision ....................................................27Profurl/Wichard..........................................10Regata del Sol al Sol.....................................2Regatta Pointe Marina .........................87,IBCRigging Only.........................................17,40Sail Repair ..................................................41Sail Technologies........................................41Sailing Florida Charters ..............................19Sailing Florida Sailing School......................19Sarasota Sailing Squadron..........................12Sarasota Yacht Club Regatta.......................11Save the Wetlands Book.............................18Schurr Sails ................................................54SE Moulding ..............................................50Sea School .................................................63Sea Tech ....................................................82Seaworthy Goods..................................39,67Simple Sailing .......................................19,29Sparman USA.............................................45Spotless Stainless...................................34,39St. Barts/Beneteau ................................88,BCSt. Petersburg Municipal Marina ................48Star Marine Outboards...............................40Sunfish .......................................................27Sunrise Sails, Plus .......................................40Tackle Shack...............................................27Teak Guard ................................................26Tiki Water Sports ........................................40Titusville Marina.........................................49Tohatsu Outboards ....................................40Turner Marina .......................................48,77Turner Marine & Boatyard ....................48,77Twin Dolphin Marina .................................49UK Sailmakers ............................................41Ullman sails...........................................36,41US Spars ....................................................64Vacu Wash ............................................41,42West Marine...............................................13Wichard/Profurl..........................................10Winch Bit ...................................................14Yachting Vacations ................................19,25Zarcor ........................................................43
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SAILBOATS – NEW AND BROKERAGEBeneteau ...................................................BCBoatsmith ....................................................7Cortez Yacht Brokerage..............................80Curtis Stokes Yacht Brokerage ....................72Denison Yacht Sales ...................................74Dunbar Sales..............................................77Eastern Yachts............................................BCEdwards Yacht Sales...................................76Elco Electric Boats ........................................5Grand Slam Yacht Sales .............................74Hobie Cats/Tackle Shack ............................27Kelly Bickford, Broker .................................77Laser ..........................................................27Masthead Yacht Sales/Catalina.........38,41,77Murray Yacht Sales/Beneteau .....................75Optimist ....................................................27Precision ....................................................27St. Barts/Beneteau .....................................BCSunfish.......................................................27Tackle Shack/Hobie/Sunfish, St. Petersburg27GEAR, HARDWARE, ACCESSORIES, CLOTHINGAirpro Inflatables........................................40American Rope & Tar............................37,53Beaver Flags...............................................37BoomKicker ...............................................37Borel ..........................................................37Cajun Trading Rigging ...............................40C-Head Compost Toilets .......................22,37Coolnet Hammocks ...................................38CopperCoat ...............................................44CPT Autopilot ............................................82Cruise RO ..................................................25Cruising Solutions ......................................44Dockside Radio ..........................................45Doctor LED ................................................67Ellies Sailing Shop ......................................36Fishermen’s Headquarters ..........................38Froli Sleep..................................................38Garhauer....................................................47Happy Cove...............................................38Hotwire/Fans & other products ................38International Auto......................................38Island Nautical ...........................................23KnotStick ...................................................38Mainsheet Partners ....................................15Masthead Enterprises .......................38,41,77Mastmate Mast Climber ............................38Nautical Trader ..........................................17Nautical Trader South ................................39Nickle Atlantic............................................38NV-Charts ..................................................37Odor Xit ....................................................28Outland Hatch Covers ...............................39Profurl/Wichard..........................................10SE Moulding ..............................................50
Seaworthy Goods .................................39,67Sparman USA.............................................45Spotless Stainless ..................................34,39Tackle Shack/Hobie/Sunfish, Precision........27Teak Guard ................................................26West Marine ..............................................13Wichard/Profurl..........................................10Winch Bit ...................................................14Zarcor........................................................43SAILS (NEW & USED), RIGGING, SPARS, RIGGING SERVICESAdvanced Sails ...........................................40Atlantic Sail Traders....................................40Bacon Sails.................................................40Cajun Trading Rigging ...............................40Doyle Ploch ...............................................40Dwyer Mast/spars, hardware, rigging ........82Innovative Marine Services....................36,40Mack .........................................................65Masthead/Used Sails and Service .....38,41,77National Sail Supply, new&used online......41North Sails ............................................53,55Rigging Only .......................................17,40Sail Repair ..................................................41Sail Technologies .......................................41Schurr Sails, Pensacola FL...........................54Sunrise Sails, Plus ......................................40UK Sailmakers ............................................41Ullman Sails ..........................................36,41US Spars ....................................................64Vacu Wash ............................................41,42SAILING SCHOOLS, CAPTAIN’S LICENSE INSTRUCTIONBimini Bay Sailing School ......................18,19Bluewater sailing school........................11,19Capt. Chris Trawler Training.......................21Captains License Class ...............................83Couples Sailing School...............................19Dunbar Sales Sailing School .......................19Emerald Coast Yachts School .....................19Kennedy Pt. Maritime ................................39Sailing Florida Charters & School...............19Sea School/Captain’s License ....................63Simple Sailing .......................................19,29Yachting Vacations .....................................25MARINE ENGINES AND ACCESSORIESBeta Marine ...............................................15Star Marine Outboards ..............................40Tiki Water Sports........................................40Tohatsu Outboards ....................................40MARINAS, MOORING FIELDS, BOAT YARDSAnchorage Resort Marina...........................49Blenker Boatworks/marina .........................48Cape Coral Yacht Basin ..............................49Catamaran Boatyard .............................22,36Clearwater Municipal Marina .....................48Glades Boat Storage ...............................6,49
Gulfport City Marina..................................65Hidden Harbor Marina...............................49Indiantown Marina ....................................49J&R Boatyard and Storage ....................35,49Madeira Beach Municipal Marina...............24Miami Mooring Field .................................16Panama City Marina ..................................48Pasadena Marina........................................48Regatta Pointe Marina .........................87,IBCSt. Petersburg Municipal Marina ................48Titusville Marina.........................................49Turner Marine & Boatyard ....................48,77Twin Dolphin Marina .................................49CHARTERS, RENTALS, FRACTIONALBimini Bay Sailboat Rentals ...................18,19Dream Yacht Charters ..................................9Florida Keys Cottage/Charter .....................39Key Lime Sailing ........................................39Sailing Florida Charters ..............................19Simple Sailing ............................................19Yachting Vacations ................................19,25MARINE SERVICES, INSURANCE, BOAT LETTERING, ETC.Absolute Tank Cleaning .............................36Allstate Insurance..................................30,31BoatNames.net ..........................................36Creative Insurance Benefits ........................39EisenShine..................................................36Fair Winds Boat Repairs/Sales.....................39First Patriot Insurance............................30,31Innovative Marine Services....................36,40Mainly Titles .............................................36CAPTAIN SERVICESCapt. Jagger ..............................................37Capt. Rick Meyer .......................................37MARINE ELECTRONICSMoor Electronics ........................................38Sea Tech/Navigation/Communication........82SAILING WEB SITES, VIDEOS, BOOKS,GUIDES Art of Wooden Boat Repair ........................28BoatNames.net ..........................................36Capt Marti’s Books/Seminars......................36Cruising Guide to Cuba .............................36Cruising Guide to Florida’s Suncoast ..........37Leap of Faith..............................................37Maptech ....................................................29Save the Wetlands Book.............................18REGATTAS, BOAT SHOWS, FLEA MARKETSBone Island Regatta .....................................9Charlotte Harbor Regatta.............................7Good Old Boat Regatta..............................51Gulf Coast Boat Show................................48Miami Strictly Boat Show.............................3Regata del Sol al Sol ....................................2Sarasota Sailing Squadron..........................12Sarasota Yacht Club Regatta ......................11
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stretched into high heeled flip-flopsthat slowly made their way toward usat the picnic tables. She carried her con-tribution to the party, a bottle of SailorJerry spiced rum. As a group we wereleft speechless; even Jeff stared blanklyinto his water and ginseng. The Doctorblushed while his wife silently boiled.
“Do any of you boys know a goodrigger?” she asked with the slightesttouch of a Georgia twang.
Oh, we knew a rigger all right. Butdid we dare tell her about “measurethree times cut once” Jimmy?
Our recently married rigger friend,like most boat tuners, is about asornery as a badger. He still cusses witha Maine accent, and at any one time, isthe gruffest man in the room. Thisnoted grump has been talking to usabout putting his old Pearson in thewater again for years. Then this year,he did it. We were aghast. And justlike that, a couple weeks ago, hestopped being grumpy. In fact, hestarted acting real strange. He startedposting things on Facebook about hownice it was to be on the water.
“Five years was too long,” hewrote. “It comes down to this. When Iam on the boat, there is a line. All thecrap, all meaningless nastiness aboutmoney and politics stays on one side ofthe line—on shore. I stay on my boat.”
Our eyes all met around the picnictable. We had to introduce Charlotte toJimmy. She would meet him on her owneventually. Yes, we all looked at eachother around the table and agreed. Shewould have to meet Jimmy.
And pretty soon she would under-stand why sailors go out to sea.
Ireally don’t know why my first reac-tion to a party invitation is usually
reluctance. Perhaps some sailors aresolitary, by nature. I do, however,know to my soul why sailors go to sea.
At best, the Labor Day party at themarina—Hidden Harbor Marina inold Saint Augustine—was bound toeventually turn into a drunken affairwith blow boaters trying to top thisstory or that story with their story, orperhaps a heated allocution to seewho has done the craziest thing in themost far-flung place.
Oh—and the never-endingdebates: Which Taiwan yard was thebest for the Formosa and CT models;how far south you need to go to crossthe Stream to the Bahamas; where toanchor in Key West. Experts abound;it never ends.
But oh—the tacos. There could beno debate about this. You know youhave run into a cruiser who isn’t exag-gerating about doing that magicalBaja, California, trip down fromCalifornia correctly when they reallyknow how to cook tacos. Marina man-agers Greer and her husband Aarondidn’t brag about taking that trip; theydidn’t have to. They just cooked—steak, chicken and shrimp on the grill,along with the pico de gallo salsa, wasperfect. There were even soft tortillasfor the non-purists.
So maybe it was the food, or thecompanionship, or the rum from thelocal ABC store across the street fromthe marina. But almost all the sailorsshowed up in the gravel parking loton Labor Day to eat, drink and gener-ally socialize.
At one point in the afternoon, oneof the sailboats started backing herstern out in the current. A huge cheerwent out from our ranks in the park-ing lot as we watched the masts from awell-polished sailboat start to move.The captain let the stern slide and gother bow pointed out toward the chan-nel marker. When she started motoringslowly forward we erupted inapplause. You see, most of us partypeople have been fully ensconced onthe dock this hurricane season,involved in one project or another,spreaders down, engine parts all overthe salon. So when a fellow sailor, evensomeone none of us knew, had the
pulp to put his nose out in the creek,we all cheered. Greer and Aaron brieflyshut down the barbecue and ran for thedocks. I guess the folks on that boathadn’t paid their bill in a few months.The party, of course, continued whiletheir getaway commenced.
SOUTHWINDS magazine was, ofcourse, at the party all day. The newissue sat crumpled next to a bottle ofCruzan Rum on the picnic table, thecover already missing. But the classi-fieds were on display and a sweetFormosa ketch for sale over Pensacolaway had caught everyone’s interest.
“There is something wrong withit. There has to be; good cruising boatscost more than 25 grand,” explainedJeff. Jeff has been trying to sell hissweet Bill Crealock-designed ketchsince most of us can remember. It’spristine. The price? Astronomical.
“A boat is worth what somebodywill pay for it,” said the Doctor. TheDoctor drives a late-model IslandPacket, but unlike Jeff, he leaves thedock for extended adventures. Thedoctor took another gulp of rum andlaunched into a sermon about supplyand demand economics while every-one else rolled their eyes. It astoundsme when a man who has deliveredover 10,000 babies cannot pick up onboring.
Meanwhile the new couple fromWisconsin could not stop smiling.Cap’n Ken noticed it first, then even the
Doctor picked up on it. Russ and Junejust bought the Irwin 40. They sealedthe deal from their couch in Kenoshaafter they saw it on Craigslist.
We all knew the dude who ran hisbusiness selling medical supplies fromthe dock didn’t take a loss on the boat.But we all knew it went cheap. Thereweren’t any electronics on board, andI swear there is only one anchor onthat big tub, but we kept our mouthsshut. The couple from Wisconsin weretoo happy. They spent most of themorning taking stuff out of their new(to them) boat and hauling it up to theDumpster in a wheelbarrow. Isnagged a boogie board, Ken got someold Windsocks and Aaron got somemarine-grade Romex wire. The restreally was junk.
But they were so happy. Theirfuture was an endless horizon of pos-sibilities. It was too much for Jeff (ofCrealock fame). Of course, he had totry and rain on their parade. He could-n’t abide anybody getting a big oldplastic cruising boat for 18 grand.
“Those chain plates will all haveto be replaced,” he told them.
The rest of us couldn’t let theirbubble burst.
Oh, we’ll just polish them up a lit-tle,” offered Ken. “I’ve got a drillpress. If we need to, we will makesome new holes.”
“Yes, yes,” we all cheered,remembering out first boats.
That’s when Queen Charlottepulled up in her Corvette. Charlotteshowed up last month driving an oldboyfriend’s Vette and living on a pret-ty sleek, but older, Cheoy Lee. And shewas single! Her blue eyes put almost allof us boys, single or not, in a bit of atrance. None of us really listened whenshe told us about her old boyfriendsand how she didn’t have a dime to hername. She was too cute, and when wewatched her hoist herself up her ownmast just the day before, the deal wassealed; we were all hooked, line andsinker fully digested.
A dramatic hush dropped overthe party like a fog bank as wewatched Charlotte climb out of herblack Corvette. She had on a matchingblack sundress and her long legs
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Dock Life on Labor DayBy Bob Tis
