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SOUTHWINDS SOUTHWINDSNews & Views for Southern Sailors
July 2016For Sailors — Free…It’s Priceless
Hui Wharram
The Truth About Chartering
Regata del Sol al Sol
News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS July 2016 63
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Each issue of SOUTHWINDS (and back issues since 5/03) is available online at www.southwindsmagazine.com
COVER PHOTO:Tucanu, a 35-foot Wharram Tangaroa, approaching the beach at the Hui Wharram in Fort Myers, FL, in May.
Photo by Bruce Matlack. Story page 35.
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6 Editorial: Wharram CatamaransBy Steve Morrell
9 Southern Regional Monthly Weather and Water Temperatures
10 Calendar — Upcoming Events in the Southeast (Non-Race)
13 Short Tacks: Sailing News from Around the South and the World of Sailing
15 US Sailing Regional SymposiumBy Jabbo Gordon
23 Regata del Sol al Sol XLVIIIBy Stew Ahman
26 Carolina Sailing: A Blueprint for Future Events – The Atlantic CupBy Dan Dickison
29 63rd Mug Race – Who Will Chug the Mug?By Capt. Robert Beringer
31 FrankenRaider Sails in the Mug RaceBy Dave Ellis
32 It’s Time To Service Your Winches!By Gary W. Dickinson
35 Hui Wharram By Bruce Matlack
38 The Truth About CharteringBy Mary Kay Dessoffy
42 Southern Race Report
44 Southern Regional Racing Calendar
62 So...You Live on a Boat and Need a Driver’s License?By Robert Sapp
16 Marine Marketplace22 Southern Sailing Schools Section28 Southern Marinas and Boatyards 47 Boat Brokerage Section 52 Classifieds60 Alphabetical Index of Advertisers61 Advertisers’ List by Category
Hui Wharram. Page 35. Photo by Bruce Matlack.
The Truth About Chartering. Page 38. Photo byDeborah Foster.
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FROM THE HELM STEVE MORRELL, EDITOR
This month, we have coverage of the Hui (a gathering)Wharram that was held in Fort Myers, FL, in May.
Since I was in my 20s, I have been intrigued by catama-rans and trimarans, although I never sailed on one until Isailed a rented Hobie 16 off a beach in my 40s. But it was thebeauty of the bigger catamarans and trimarans that drewme. Of the cats, it was the James Wharram designs, and Iwas always interested in having one.
Cruising catamarans today have become wildly popu-lar, mainly because they offer apartment-size accommoda-tions, sail quickly on most points of sale, and don’t heelover. They have become very popular for chartering, main-ly because of the roomy accommodations. But these big catsaren’t cheap, usually in the several hundred-thousand dol-lar range and up into the millions, although there are a fewsmaller ones in the 30-foot range that are more affordable.
These big cats, though, are quite different from theWharram designs in one simple aspect. In the Wharramdesigns, there is no superstructure/cabin between the hulls.The down-below living accommodations are all in the hulls.
But their design elicits a feeling of Polynesians cruisingin the South Seas, and they are rightly called Polynesian-style catamarans. In my view they beat the big cruising catsof today hands-down in beauty—not that I wouldn’t wantto cruise or charter in one of those big cats.
Most Wharrams are built by their owners, althoughthere are a few boatbuilders who do build them, one of
whom is in Florida (Boatsmith at www.Boatsmithfl.com inWest Palm Beach).
James Wharram has an interesting history. He was bornin England in 1928 and—inspired by Eric de Bisschop’sbook The Voyage of the Kamiloa— built his first catamaran,Tangaroa, a 23-foot design. He sailed the boat across theAtlantic to Trinidad with two women in 1955-56. That’sthree people crossing the Atlantic on a 23-foot catamaranthat only has down-below accommodations in the two 23-foot hulls. In Trinidad, he built a 40-foot catamaran, namedRongo, which he sailed across the Atlantic from New Yorkto Ireland, which was the first west-to-east crossing of theAtlantic in a multihull.
Wharram, 88, has been designing and sailing his cata-marans ever since, is still active in the design businesstoday, and his designs are still popular. For more aboutthem, go to www.wharram.com.
SOUTHWINDS has covered these rendezvous/gather-ings, called “hui [pronounced like who-eee] Wharrams,” formany years, and it is my affection for these boats that hasgiven them special coverage. Twice Wharram’s have gracedour covers and we have a Wharram Tiki 30 review on ourBoat Reviews page at www.southwindsmagazine.com.
I’m hoping someone who owns another modelWharram submits a review of their boat. If anyone is inter-ested, please contact me, [email protected],and I’ll send you the boat review specifications.
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Thank you to all the sailors, sponsors & volunteers
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Everyone had a great time – see you in 2017!
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Okeechobee Water Level Goes up about 5 Inches Since May
As of press date in early June, Lake Okeechobee was at14.08 feet above sea level. This makes the navigationaldepth for Route 1, which crosses the lake, 8.45 feet, andthe navigational depth for Route 2, which goes aroundthe southern coast of the lake, 6.65 feet. Bridge clearanceat Myakka was at 49.10 feet. For those interested in see-ing the daily height of the lake, navigation route depthsand bridge clearance, go to http://w3.saj.usace.army.mil/h2o/currentLL.shtml (copy this addressexactly as it is here with upper and lower cases). Thislink is also available on our website, www.southwinds-magazine.com. See the left column.
The Western Caribbean Series: PineappleCup and Cuba Cup, February 2017The Montego Bay Yacht Club (Jamaica), the Storm TrysailClub (new organizers of Key West Race Week) and theHemingway Yacht Club announced in May The Western
Caribbean Series which will include the 33rd PineappleCup – Montego Bay Race (Miami to Jamaica) and the CubaCup, a new race from Montego Bay to Havana.
The Pineapple Cup will return for its 33rd run on Feb.3, 2017, an 811 nautical-mile race to Montego Bay, Jamaica.That will be followed on Feb. 17 with a 640-nautical-milerace from Montego Bay to Havana. For more information,go to www.PineappleCup.com.
St. Petersburg to Cuba Race to Possibly Run in 2017The St. Petersburg Yacht Club is working on bringing backthe St. Petersburg to Havana race in March 2017. The clubheld its first race to Cuba in 1930 and the last one in 1959.The proposed race would start at the St. Petersburg Pier andfinish off Morro Castle in Havana—the same starting andfinishing points of the previous races.
Sailor Lost after Falling Overboard in Gulf On June 4, at 8am, Alan Schaller and his friend and sailing
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Boating Industry Experiencing Skilled Labor ShortageOne of the boating industries’ main trade magazines, TradeOnly, reported that the boating industry in the U.S. andCanada is having a labor shortage because of trouble find-ing skilled workers. The findings are from a survey taken bythe Marine Retailers Association of the Americas from 517of the association’s dealer members.
Fifty-nine percent of the unfilled positions by dealersare in the service department and almost 90 percent of thosewere technician jobs. More than 74 percent reported theycannot find qualified workers for repair and repower, and66 percent said employees they already hired are lacking inneeded skills. Forty-four percent hired skilled workers froma technical school and 96 percent of them were either poor-ly or partially prepared for the jobs.
Some states are confronting the problem and succeed-ing. Two mentioned were Rhode Island and Florida. RhodeIsland has an apprenticeship program that places preap-prentices in jobs that start at about $13 to $15 an hour (about$30,000 a year) for the first six months. After that, they moveto where, on average, they would be making about $52,000a year after ten years, which is the average annual income inthe U.S. (as of 2013). If the shortage continues, that rateshould rise in the coming years.
Florida was listed as one of the states with one of themost vigorous programs for marine vocational training, cit-ing the program run by the Marine Industries Association ofSouth Florida, which has an extensive program in FortLauderdale, which promotes training programs as early asmiddle school. The MIASF held the second annual marineindustries job fair at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show last falland will hold another one this year. Last year’s fair attract-ed more than 400 people and 25 employers posted morethan 400 job openings at the event.
Gunboat Sold at AuctionTradeOnlyToday reported that on May 6, Gunboat Inter-national of North Carolina was sold at auction to GL YachtingUSA. GL Yachting (Grand Large Yachting, GLyachting.com)is a group consisting of three French boat builders, AlluresYachting, Garcia Yachting and Outremer Yachting.
Although there were more than 100 claims againstGunboat, the largest 20 claimants totaled about $6,025,845.Gunboat’s assets were $1.1 million, with liabilities of $15.6million.
GL Yachting bought the company for $910,000, outbid-ding China-based Hudson Yacht Marine, the company thatGunboat was in a lawsuit with for poor workmanship andother problems. Hudson bid $610,000. Another entity sub-mitted a bid, but dropped out before the bid deadline.
GL plans to continue the Gunboat brand and will serv-ice existing Gunboat owners’ boats and finish the boatsunder construction. The company hopes to keep the NorthCarolina factory open, but states that it depends on negoti-ating a lease for the property with the owners, but they doplan to continue building the boats in the U.S.
GL has purchased three other distressed boat brands inFrance since 2007 and has turned them all around. Theyemploy more than 240 people in France building boats.Their boats have a good reputation and are well-known inthe international yachting community.
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US Sailing started having periodic regional symposiums afew years ago to supplement its annual national sympo-sium, and while they have been rewarding, attendance hasbeen in the 10 to 20 persons range. However, Venice YachtClub hosted one on April 23 and more than 30 people—rep-resenting 14 sailing organizations–attended. The daylongsession was dubbed a huge success.
Lauren Cotta, US Sailing membership director, camedown from Portsmouth, RI, and shared several bits of infor-mation about various items of interest such as CharlestonRace Week, keelboat training, America’s Olympic effort thisyear and clinics that feature high performance boats.
John Sammet, president of Venice Youth BoatingAssociation and a member of the host club, provided thewelcome with a video about VYBA and distributed somebrochures. Donna Sue Marks, new commodore of theFlorida Sailing Association, discussed how her organizationintends to work with all sailing groups in the region andasked for volunteers who would be willing to serve onFSA’s board.
It was a fairly diverse group of sailing enthusiasts andtopics ranged from youth regatta planning, scholarships,grant writing, high school sailing, match racing and family
sailing. Kris Sheppe of Naples discussed his work withBlind Sailing and other adaptive programs. JohnKrystyniak, formerly with both the Manatee River PramFleet in Palmetto and the Edison Sailing Center in FortMyers, took time out from his vacation to attend. He is nowwith Sturgis Boat Works in Massachusetts.
Three “show and tell” presentations added to the vari-ety of information. Ross and Stephanie Webb of FortMyers brought their Opti Trainer from the Edison SailingCenter. It is basically an Optimist Dinghy on wheels, sim-ilar to one that was demonstrated at US Sailing’s nationalforum in San Diego in February. Lisa Fath, director of theManatee River Pram Fleet, volunteered to try it out andwas sailing back and forth across the VYC’s parking lot,screaming for buoy room.
The Webbs also towed their STEM-based portableclassroom to the parking lot for a demonstration. DennisPeck of the Charlotte Harbor Community Sailing Center inPort Charlotte demonstrated the use of foils on Lasers. “ALaser becomes a completely different boat,” Peck said.“And the tiller action is very touchy.”
After lunch, participants divided into four groups toidentify problems and search for solutions. A key concern ineach team was a need for publicity and promotion. Withthe youth sailing panel, one suggestion was to have moreone-day regattas, which would cut down on hotel/motelas well as food expenses, not to mention regatta fees.Members agreed that regattas should not be used asfundraisers. Peck suggested that courses be laid out asclose to shore as possible, so that parents and friends couldsee youngsters competing.
US Sailing had originally advertised the symposium asa three-hour session, starting at 9am, but cooler heads pre-vailed. To attract people from Florida’s east coat—likeLarry Landrigan of Titusville—and to save on motel costs,it needed to start at 10am, when it was originally slated.
Be sure to check US Sailing’s website, under events, forthe next regional symposium, which is scheduled to be heldin the fall. Stephanie Webb, regional training coordinatorfor Florida, looks forward to talking to area clubs to sched-ule instructor training.
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Have you ever been to the Daytona 500 andwatched a photo finish of Jeff Gordon andDale Earhart? Or been to the Kentucky
Derby and cheered on as Seattle Slew won by anose? This describes the finish at the end of a gru-eling 500-mile open ocean race where the two leadboats were separated by 31 seconds for line hon-ors. That’s right; only 31 seconds after sailing 500miles.
As the finish line got closer, John Hamm onSplit Decision, who had been in an ongoing matchrace with Tony Castagno on Azzurra all the wayfrom St Petersburg, got a better wind direction offIsla Contoy, a small island a short distance north ofIsla Mujeres. When only a few miles from the finish,they decided to put up the staysail, and as all sailorsdo, they pulled every string, adjusted each sheet,checked the vang, and at last had the whole crew blow intothe sails. That started to really help him catch Azzurra. As theminutes clicked down to seconds, it became apparent that itwas not to be, so they broke out the rum and toasted the win-ner (not really).
They were followed not too far behind by John Gardnerwith his Irwin 38 Mark 1, After You. He went on to win thewhole enchilada, fulfilling his long-time dream after manyyears of competition. These boats successfully picked theperfect way through the loop current that was the strangestseen in years. (Go to www.regatadelsolal.org then click onSatellite Tracking to see how they all did over the four-dayspread of boats arriving in Mexico, who were welcomed bya Mexican Gun Boat at the finish.)
At the 10am start of the race, on Friday, April 22, therewas perfect weather with a forecast of possible afternoonstorms in the Gulf. Winds were lighter than expected, butcould still be sailed for a great beat to weather, with themajority picking a starboard tack for the start.
On board the committee boat at the start were St.Petersburg Yacht Club General Manager Mark Reydams,Mary Lavash on flags, Event Chair Beth Pennington on thetimer/radio and George Pennington calling the line. I wason board trying to stay out of the way. Also at the start weretwo VIP boats carrying a full complement of distinguishedguests, along with SPYC Commodore Richard Winning.
After the start, as usual, it took about two-and-a-half tothree hours before the boats reached the Sunshine SkywayBridge, where they got a wind shift to go on a beat to clearthrough Passage Key Channel and out into the Gulf. By thattime, it was 1830, with most competitors forced south of therhumb line where the wind would be right on the nose andlooking at a long night.
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Regata del Sol al Sol XLVIIISt. Petersburg, FL, to Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico, April 22By Stew Ahman, St. Petersburg Yacht Club Ocean Racing Chairman
The winning poster for 2017 was done by Jonathan Miguel Lopez Aguirre, fourth
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• At 0530 on the 23rd, with the leader 359 nm to go, theyfound some wind in more or less the right direction andmanaged to head back towards the rhumb line with boatsspread out over 40 miles.
• At 1600 on the 24th we found Azzurra in the lead, fol-lowed by Split Decision three miles back, with XTC some14 nm back followed by After You—all of them trying tofind their way through the Gulf loop current.
• At 0130 on the 25th, the wind gods kicked in and decid-ed to be good to the leaders, and we found Azzurra on aheading of 177 degrees charging along at 9.2 knots withdistance to go of 85.5 nm. They were followed by SplitDecision doing 9.4 at 170 degrees with 93.5 miles to thefinish. Our ultimate winner of the race, John Gardner,owner/skipper of After You was then doing 8 knots at 189degrees with 114 to go (we might want to check the waterline on that 38-foot boat). All kidding aside, John made atremendous move during the night to pass Tom Glew onXTC establishing a solid 3rd.
• At 11:58 EDT, Azzurra and Split Decision were, respec-tively, at 20 mile vs 21.1 miles from the finish, withAzzurra trucking along at 5.8 knots, followed closely bySplit Decision at 6 knots and closing.
• As it came down to the wire, Azzurra got a slight headerand pushed towards Isla Contoy when 8.5 nm away fromthe finish, while Split Decision was at 9.3nm doing 7.2 andclosing fast.
• At the end, Azzurra took line honors with Split Decision
Kids boarding on Cat Trax for the Amigos Race. Photo by Kent Irving.
Lima Family—Kin, Maria and Jesus—present Tony Castagna onAzzura the award for first place in the Race Cruiser division.Azzura also was first to cross the line, beating out Split Decisionby 31 seconds. Photo by Kent Irving.
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only 0.1 nm behind, and John Gardner in After You not farbehind taking third. An amazing feat, considering 500miles of open ocean racing. I might add that all 3 of theseboats were in different classes, which makes it also addi-tionally interesting. (Go to www.regatadelsolalsol.org forcomplete results.)
• As the boats finished over a four-day period, they wereeach met at the line with an escort vessel to take them into the Lima docks to clear customs with the MexicanAuthorities.
• I cannot give enough praise to the customs officials whocheerfully met our tired sailors on the dock no matterwhat time it was and efficiently cleared them in to beau-tiful Isla Mujeres.
Sister City CeremonyThis year, another special event was held on Isla Mujereswith St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, Isla MujeresMayor Agapito Magana Sanchez and the St. Petersburg CityCouncil signing a Sister City pact to bind the many years offriendship between Isla Mujeres and St. Petersburg and thewonderful welcome the sailors and others involved in theRegata del Sol al Sol have received every year for the past 48years. The St. Petersburg Yacht Club was recognized as oneof the driving forces behind the establishment of the touristindustry on the island. This was also witnessed by SPYC
Commodore Richard Winning, as well as arepresentative for the Governor of theMexican State of Quintana Roo. At the pres-entation, the city declared it a day of friend-ship and invited all the residents, as well assailors, to a huge fiesta at the town plaza,with dancing, drinks of course, and manyspeeches proclaiming friendship.
Basketball GameAnother great event that happens everyyear is the basketball game with the local
residents. Needless to say, they beat us once again and Ibelieve we have only won three times in 48 years. Viva laMexico.
Casa De Las Rocas PartyA very important person to mention here is Enrique Lima,commodore of Club De Yates Isla Mujeres. He is the organ-izer, along with his family, on the Mexico end of the regat-ta and conducts most of the entertainment, awards ceremo-ny and holds a very special cocktail party and welcome forall of the sailors at the Casa De Las Rocas (house on therocks). He is a very wonderful friend to the Regata del Solal Sol and without him, the race would not happen.Included in our salute is the admiral and safety officer of theMexican Navy, who so graciously, sent out their gun andpatrol boats, keeping the waters and our boats safe. The gunboat stays in position for as long as it takes until all the com-petitors have finished.
Amigos Race Another annual event is the Amigos Regatta. Thanks go outto the boats and crew who participated, giving their timeand boats to allow the local children to experience the thrillof being on a racing yacht. The current mayor was one ofthose children many years ago and tells us that it’s an expe-rience that has been with him ever since.
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John Gardner and crew of After Youreceive their award for the overall winner,taking first in corrected time. Photo by Kent Irving.
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The last Saturday in May wascalm yet foreboding out onCharleston Harbor. The big
Carolina sky crouched low withclouds while a building south-easterly only hinted that the firsttropical storm of the NorthAtlantic season—Bonnie—hungjust 150 miles off the coast of theLowcountry. On the water, adozen spectator craft had mus-tered for the start of Leg I of the2016 Atlantic Cup, with nineClass 40s readying for the start.
Off and on, a light drizzlecame down as the seconds tickedoff the clock and the starting gunfired. First across the line were EdCesare and Jeff Brock on boardPleaid. “All clear!” came theannouncement over the VHF.Pleaid was just to weather and aboat length ahead of theSpaniards Gonzalo Botin andPablo Santurde on board Tales II.Like most of the other Class 40shere, these two had unfurled theirCode Zero headsails for the shortfetch to the first turning mark justa mile away.
This starting-line vignetteand the next five minutesbetween these two craft, say a lotabout the Atlantic Cup. Launchedin 2007, Cesare and Brock’s steedis one of the oldest boats in theevent. It’s regarded as a first-generation Class 40. The 2013-vintage Tales II, on the other hand, is a third-generationboat. Along with French entry Earendil (launched in 2015),it’s regarded as among the fastest Class 40s in this fleet. Inaddition, Cesare is an amateur sailor and Brock a well-expe-
rienced professional, both ofwhom are more accustomed tocrewed competition than double-handed action. In contrast, bothBotin and Santurde are full-timeprofessional sailors with signifi-cant offshore racing experience indoublehanded events.
Given all that, it’s not surpris-ing that the Pleaid crew couldonly hold off the Spaniards for ashort portion of that initial fetch.By the time Cesare and Brockreached the first turning mark, theSpaniards—and the French—hadpassed them, and both foreignentries were legging out on thefleet as everyone disappearedupwind into the rainy haze,bound for New York Harbor.
Held every other year, theAtlantic Cup bills itself with thetagline “America’s PremierOffshore Race.” Despite a relativelack of notoriety (you won’t seetoo many newspaper headlinesabout the race), the Atlantic Cupis certainly the country’s top sail-ing event in a number of keyareas. For one, it’s undoubtedlyamong the hippest. Think aboutit. The race has an educationaloutreach component for elemen-tary and middle school kids thatengaged 600 public school stu-dents in Charleston and another
200 in New York. It’s branded as the most environmentallysensitive sailing event in the U.S. It starts in Charleston, SC,an enclave for hip technocrats. And it features socialengagements in Brooklyn during its New York stopover.That’s nothing if not hip.
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The lone Spanish entry, Tales II, nears the finish line of Leg I in New York. Atlantic Cup/Billy Black photo.
Public school kids from Charleston tour a Class 40 aspart of the Atlantic Cup’s educational outreach. AtlanticCup/Billy Black photo.
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But hip isn’t whatHugh Piggin—a trans-planted New Zealanderwho created and managesthe Atlantic Cup—is after.Piggin and his fellow co-founder and managingpartner Juliana Barbieri,are intent on establishing a model for what competitive sail-ing can become and how such events can influence thosewho follow the sport of sailing.
To begin with, Piggin and Barbieri have the backing of11th Hour Racing, an initiative set up by Eric and WendySchmidt of the Schmidt Family Foundation, which requiresthat they remain firmly committed to sustainability withtheir race. (11th Hour Racing self-identifies with the tagline“Cleaner, Faster, Better,” and its mission is to establishstrategic partnerships within the sailing and marine com-munities to promote collaborative, systemic change for thehealth of the marine environment.)
“We are definitely deepening our commitment to being
a carbon-neutral event,” explains Piggin. “We regard theAtlantic Cup as a showcase on how sustainability can beincorporated into sailing events. Ultimately, we think thatsailors need to be the ones setting the example when it comesto environmental protection. Yet we want this message to beadopted by the Atlantic Cup’s fans as well, so we encourageeveryone who follows the race to choose one change thateach of them can make in their lives to help and do that.”
Atlantic Cup competitors walk the walk when it comesto environmental impact. Piggin and Barbieri require thatall entries have alternative fuel sources to power their on-board electronics. Most entries rely on solar panels or hydrogenerators, such as those made by Watt & Sea, for this pur-pose. (And the event organizers supply biodiesel for thosetimes when the boats must use their engines to maneuver toand from the dock.) The race also requires that competitorsnot carry single-use plastic water bottles and rely solely onenvironmentally friendly products for boat cleaning. Inaddition, each team is required to recycle any waste gener-ated from the offshore and inshore legs of the event.Whatever waste that isn’t recyclable is placed in com-postable bags provided by Barbieri and Piggin and dis-posed of properly later.
For the 2016 event, Piggin and Barbieri have stepped uptheir emphasis on sustainable operation by seeking certifi-cation as a carbon-neutral event from the InternationalOrganization for Standardization. “If that happens,” Pigginsays, “we’ll be the first sporting event in the U.S. that hasachieved this distinction.”
So, how far do they take this emphasis on sustainableoperation? As standard practice, the organizers monitor theevent’s impact in regards to use of electricity, stays at hotels,competitors’ travel, signage printing, food production, ship-ping, office supplies and just about everything that mightproduce a carbon footprint. To mitigate that impact andthereby validate the carbon-neutral claim, Piggin andBarbieri have aligned themselves with We Are Neutral, afirm that provides carbon offsets for events by plantingindigenous trees on local conservation land, partneringwith local landfills to capture methane emissions and byperforming free energy audits for low-income families.
You may not see headlines in your local paper aboutthe Atlantic Cup, but rest assured, this event is makingimportant headway for the sport, and that’s more than hip.
For updates, photos, videos and additional information, check outthe Atlantic Cup online www.atlanticcup.org.
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It is, without a doubt, the best sailing day of the year on theSt. Johns River. For 63 years, the running of the RudderClub’s annual Mug Race in Florida has shown that despite
all the preparation and practice, the winds and their ficklenature still hold ultimate sway over the many competingsailboats.
This year was no different as 74 boats of all types—fromSunfish to a custom-built RC-30 catamaran—struggled tomaintain speed fighting fluky NW breezes, contrary tides,and silty shoals. For many it’s not about winning, but justfinishing the 38-mile course before the 8:05pm cutoff time.
The world’s longest river race began this year on May 7before dawn as harried crews from all around the Southeastassembled their wind machines on trailers in RiverfrontPark in Palatka, stepping masts, raising sails, and cursingthe little parts that would not fit. Carefully they rolled themdown the ramp and paddled out towards the Highway 100Bridge and starting line.
For many years, the boats have gone off on a pursuit-style format, with slower, then faster boats—all based onthe boat’s PHRF rating—across the start line—a format that,theoretically, has everyone crossing the finish at the sametime. But the race has grown over the years to at least 70boats and tracking that many boats over a start line at dif-ferent times became a daunting task that took lots of time,so this year, organizers reverted to the single start, whichwas how it was done back in the early days.
Of course 74 boats starting all at the same time does tendto spice things up a bit. And it made for controlled chaos atthe starting line at 0830. “For a while the boats were bump-ing off each other—although nothing serious,” exclaimedLinda Girardin of the Palatka Yacht Club. She and her hus-band David darted about the fleet untangling and assistingmany competitors. The starting line between the red marker48 and committee boat was plenty long, but the boatscrowded near the marker for the favored wind it provided.
*The winner of the Mug Race earns the privilege to drink from the German beer stein for which the race gets its name—the winner being the first to cross the finish line.
Who Will Chug the Mug?For the first time in many years, the Mug Race returns to the single startBy Capt. Robert Beringer
Seventy-four boats getting ready for the start of the Mug Race. Photo by Robert Berringer.
So many try, yet only one drinks from the sweet mug of victory.*
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Running due north on the St. Johns, racers hoped for agood quartering wind—which this year they did not get.Instead winds held from the NW and made sure this wouldbe an all-day tacking duel. They meandered past smalltowns, orange groves, and live oaks festooned with Spanishmoss; it’s hard not to relax out there, but always there is thecutoff time to think about.
At the halfway point, the Shands Bridgenear Green Cove Springs, the racers are fun-neled from more than a mile-wide river to91 feet as they pass under the busy road.And it is here they are nervously remindedof the 44-foot limit to their air draft.
At the finish line just south of theBuckman Bridge near Jacksonville, perenni-al line honors winner Eric Roberts hove intoview on his RC-30 catamaran Dream On. Hetacked and was first to cross the line at justafter 1507. And though he earned the rightto hoist the Ault Mug, the time correctionleft him in 11th place, all but two ahead ofhim being monohulls.
Finally, by 1800 the tide had turned, andthe onshore breeze begun. Most of the catsand low PHRF-rated boats had finished, andremaining boats knew their primary adver-sary was now the setting sun—which givesno quarter.
At 1959, the horn sounds a final time for aHunter 23, Point Blank, skippered by EdSims, who picked up the Corinthian Trophyfor his efforts, just the 38th boat to finish.Along with an award for last boat to finish,more than 80 class trophies are awardedbased on boat class and different categoriesincluding first all-female crew to finish andfirst dinghy monohull to finish. The rest ofthe boats—the ones that didn’t make the8:05pm deadline—were towed in to theRudder Club by chase boats to join in for aspaghetti dinner, adult beverages, tall talesand hope for a better finish next year.
Next morning at the Rudder Club’shearty breakfast buffet, I looked over the results whichmust have been difficult to swallow for some of the racers:the first-place boat came in three-hours after the tenth andeleventh place boats, the last place boat came in seventh,and so on. But the PHRF ratings are set by wiser peoplethan me, and they are quick to state that they handicapyachts, not sailors.
Dream On, the RC-30 Catamaran that was first to cross the line and earn the honor of drinking out of the mug. Photo by Jon Hamilton.
Results(place, skipper, boat, club, fleet, finished time, elapsed time, corrected time. Fleets were divided up into divisions—not shown here):
Tom Davis, Cal 9.2MDK, Rudder Club, Cruiser Spinnaker, 18:09:26, 09:39:26, 11:28:10Scott Tillema, C-Scow, Missouri Yacht Club, Monohull Non-Spinnaker, 17:37:33, 09:07:33, 11:32:14Vincent Barre, (not listed), Rudder CLub, Multihull Cruiser Spinnaker, 18:18:17, 09:48:17, 11:34:33John Lamport, Catalina 22, Sun & Fun YC, Cruiser Non-Spinnaker, 19:39:56, 11:09:56, 11:35:40Andy Forrest, Precision 23, Lake Monroe Sailing Association, Cruiser Non-Spinnaker, 19:50:50, 11:20:50, 11:42:11David Ellis, Raider Frankenboat, Gulfport Yacht Club, Florida, Monohull Non-Spinnaker, 18:59:56, 10:29:56, 11:43:50Ed Sims, HTR 23, Ocala Sailing Club, Cruiser Non-Spinnaker, 19:59:08, 11:29:08, 11:49:16Joe Waters, (not listed), Columbia Sailing Club, Cruiser Non-Spinnaker, 18:41:18, 10:11:18, 11:51:13James Keeley III, Miniton, Rat island, Cruiser Spinnaker, 19:18:09, 10:48:09, 11:53:49Rich Brew, RC 27, Rudder Club, Multihull Spinnaker, 15:10:12, 06:40:12, 11:54:39Eric Roberts, RC 30, Tequesta Yacht Club, Multihull Spinnaker, 15:07:29, 06:37:29, 11:54:54Eighty one boats were entered to race, 38 finished, 35 did not finish and eight did not compete. Here are the top 11 results orderedby corrected-time winners. (Eleven were chosen, since first to finish was Eric Roberts, who placed eleventh in corrected time.)
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Dick Alsopp, long time principal race officermade a statement before the trophies werehanded out that, “the ratings are assigned byUS Sailing, and based on their PHRF rating,which the Rudder Club has no control over.”And if there were any hard feelings because ofthe outcome, they were not evident at the well-attended awards ceremony.
Though it’s impossible that every sailorwill be happy with the results of any race, it isgreat to have this fantastic event on Florida’sfirst river, run by the many volunteers of theRudder Club and Palatka Yacht Club.
Eric Roberts (second from left) and crew ofDream On drinking out of the mug after
crossing the line first. Photo by Ken Purdy.
This old guy does race committee work nowadays. Theubiquitous windward/leeward race course has lost itsappeal. But the Mug Race is an event that I try to attendeach year.
But what to do about a boat? Mark Johannsen, theVero Beach, FL, builder of Trinka Yacht Dinghies,Windmills and Raiders gave me a phone call a couple ofyears ago asking, “Wanna free hull?” It seems that thelast Raider pulled from the original mold was destinedfor the dumpster. The mold had been tweaked to be bet-ter in chop and to accommodate a jib. The last old hullhad little value.
Anyone who has been sailing for decades has stuffaround the house. I had enough to start putting togetherthe FrankenRaider. I can’t even remember where the alu-minum mast came from. An old Suicide, I think. The boomis an aluminum pipe. Blocks, cam cleats and horn cleatswere put together from many broken ones. The mainsailwas from the used sails department of MastheadEnterprises. It is a nice Ullman catamaran sail that wasapparently to have been used in the Everglades Challenge,as it has two reef points. The custom jib is from Jay andPease Glaser in return for transporting their Formula 16catamaran from Titusville, FL, to Huntington Beach, CA,on one of my dinghy delivery trips.
It is fun to experiment. I even tried a sliding seat, likethe International Canoe. A foil on the bottom of the dag-ger board was slow most of the time and really fast sometimes. A trapeze was found to have the wrong geometrywith that rig to be effective. I even filled that original dag-ger board with concrete. Finally, I went back to conven-tion and had Johannsen Boat Works lengthen the daggerboard mold and make a new one for the boat. Traded himthe asymmetrical spinnaker for it. Not worth the hassleany more. The jib is on a jib boom that is configured tonot twist when eased and self-tacking. Oh, and the origi-nal Raider has a built-in cooler. This is a great old-fogeyperformance dinghy.
This year’s Mug Race everybody started together.Could have been less interesting if the RC end of the linewere set a hundred yards or so to windward. As it was,everybody wanted to start at the west end of the line, onport tack. Some bozo, me, ran the line in the last minute onstarboard. But I tacked to port in the last ten seconds andgot a great start just under the mess at the end of the line.
The 40 miles was nearly all upwind. The dogleg ofthe river a couple miles north of the start was the onlyfree leg of the course. My goal was to beat the new RS-100and win the Non-Spinnaker class. As the race progressed,my closest competition was a well-sailed Buccaneer. Hebeat me by a half-minute last year; I was a half-minuteahead this year.
Seems that I’m second to the E-Scow every year thathe enters the Mug Race. So I entered in Non-SpinnakerDinghy this year, ending up sixth overall, second in Non-spinnaker to a 20-foot C-Scow. Go figure. If I’d entered inthe Dinghy Spinnaker class, I ended up ahead of all ofthem boat for boat.
Next year? Maybe. If I’m not still sore.
FrankenRaider Sails in the Mug RaceBy Dave Ellis
One of the most neglectedpieces of equipment on many
sailboats are its winches. Youknow: those round things you putline around to raise and controlthe sails.
Winch manufacturers recom-mend that you service your winch-es at least once a year, and I amashamed to say that I have donenothing to mine in the five yearsI’ve had this boat.
The winches looked fine onthe outside, but I noticed that theydid not turn as smoothly as theyonce did. That distinct clickingsound they make when in use wasstarting to sound different.
These differences promptedme to check with the marina in myarea about servicing them and Iwas quoted the price of $75 anhour. I have six winches on my boat and running the num-bers in my head led me to see what it would cost if I serv-iced them myself.
I checked out West Marine which listed Harken winchgrease for $12.89 and pawl oil for $10.21. This lifetime sup-ply of grease and oil is a fraction of what it will cost for themarina to do just one winch.
I turned to the internet, a great resource for the do-it-yourselfer, and discovered that only basic tools are neededto do the job. I was a little intimidated by the number ofparts in the winch schematics, since I thought all I neededto do was oil them. The only part to oil on a winch is thepawls, which I will explain shortly.
I looked on the internet and found the manual for myBarient #18 winches and printed it out. I also printed direc-tions on how to disassemble, clean and do the required
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Depending on the make and model, there are different ways thedrum can be attached. You can see from the photo that myBarient 18 winch uses a snap ring to hold the drum onto the shaft,which is part of the base of the winch.
Once the drum is off, all of the parts that make up the workings ofthe winch are exposed. Caution: Be careful when removing thedrum. Sometimes the pawls or springs can get stuck inside and goflying once they are removed from the shaft.
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service on each winch. For those of you who are more visu-al, there are videos on how to service your winches onYouTube.
With the schematics in front of me, I take pictures ofeach part as I disassemble it. This way I have a record ofhow to put it back together and don’t end up with extraparts. Taking something apart and forgetting how it goesback together has probably never happened to you, but ithas to me.
My first step is to take off the drum, which is the out-side part of the winch. I checked the schematic, becausedepending on the make and model, there are different waysthe drum can be attached. You can see from the photo thatmy winch uses a snap ring to hold the drum onto the shaft,which is part of the base of the winch.
Once the drum is off, all of the parts that make up theworkings of the winch are exposed. Caution: Be carefulwhen removing the drum. Sometimes the pawls or springscan get stuck inside and go flying once they are removedfrom the shaft.
The pawls are the parts that allow the winch to turn inone direction on a one-speed winch. They make that click-ing sound when the winch turns. If your winch turns bothdirections, the pawls probably have grease on them whichprevents the pawls from working properly. They shouldnever be greased, only oiled.
The pawls have springs that hold tension on them andcan easily be lost if you are not careful. I find it helpful tohave a box to put the parts in when I am taking things aparton my boat. More than once a part ended up swimming, or
I should say sinking, because it went overboard. Thatwould never happen to you, but if it does, West Marine hasrepair kits starting at $5.79, depending on what part youneed, and if they are not in stock you can usually get themin a few days.
As I took the bearings off the shaft I discovered that thegrease looked more like lard. The grease turned into a solid,sticky substance. Now I know why the winches are notworking properly. Salt water, sand and who knows whathave taken their toll on this expensive piece of equipment,and now I understand why the manufacturer recommendsservicing them at least once a year.
My next step was to remove the old grease from all theparts. I wiped off as much as I could and then used WD40to clean the remaining grease off the bearings, gears andother surfaces. Like before, I took more pictures and placedeach cleaned part in the box, placing it in the order that itwas taken off. Doing this will remind me of the order I needto take when I re-install the parts.
Once all the parts were removed, cleaned and dried, Iused my finger to coat the moving parts and pack the bear-ings, or you can also use a small brush. Apply winch greaseto lightly coat the shafts, gears and bearings as you put thewinch back together. Remember to never grease the pawls. Ifyou do, they may stick and cause the winch to malfunction.Use the pawl oil when you install the pawls.
It took me less than an hour to service each winch andthe boat is ready to go sailing.
Don’t be afraid to tackle basic maintenance jobs on yourboat. If I can do it, anyone can!
The pawls are the two pieces on opposite sides of the center. Thepawls have springs that hold tension on them and can easily belost if you are not careful.
Once all the parts were removed, cleaned and dried, I used my fin-ger to coat the moving parts and pack the bearings, or you canalso use a small brush.
“My hands were tied behind my back from really pro-moting this event,” said Thom Delforge, the new
host/organizer of the annual Hui Wharram catamarangathering May 20-22 at North Shore Park in Fort Myers, FL,his home town. “But at the 11th hour, the city came throughin support of beaching our Polynesian double canoe vesselsat the...park.”
Tom wound his way through miles of red tape with thecity council to pull off this first-time Fort Myers event thatfor 15 years previous had been hosted in Islamorada in theFlorida Keys off private beach property with no beachaccess issues. With the passing of the group’s oldest guru,Gene Perry, the previous years’ organizer, Dan Kunz, hand-ed off the torch this year to Thom with a venue prerequisiterequiring beach landings for the boats, along withgreat accommodations on site. I was witness to the her-culean effort he mustered to pull this off to get the city toallow a Polynesian, double-canoe beach invasion. Thebeach landing permission was critical to the cause of a Hui,and permission was late coming, reducing participation tobetween 40 and 50 people.
North Shore Park is also home to the Edison SailingCenter and nearby is the Three Fishermen SeafoodRestaurant which served as a gathering spot over the week-end and a banquet on Saturday night. The meal was excep-tional, the service great, and the usual lies and lore of voy-aging were abundant as the beverages flowed.
This was my first Hui event, and it was a really fun andinteresting time to meet these fellow sailors and multi-hullers. I have no doubt that future Wharram events heldthere will be huge successes now that the ice has been bro-ken this year and the word gets out to the likes of annual
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Hui Wharram 2016By Bruce Matlack
Cover: Tucanu, a 35-foot Tangaroa, approaching the beach at the Hui Wharram. Photo by Bruce Matlack.
Wharram catamarans gathering at North Shore Park in Fort Myers, FL. Photo by Bonnie Crutchley.
Cedar Key trekkers, the West Coast Trailer SailingSquadron, and other boat clubs. Thom says every sailor isinvited and wants to spread the word to quadruple thenumbers next year. It will always be the week beforeMother’s Day weekend in May when off-season peaceful-ness and space is the rule. In addition, Fort Myers is strate-gically located at the apex of waterways from the north viathe Gulf and the ICW, and the east through the OkeechobeeWaterway—much easier for everyone to get to compared tothe Keys. The city marina is superb, and there are lots offree anchorages. The city estimates local business revenuefrom the small event this year was $15,000 and they are allsmiles with prospects of larger numbers next year.
A few thousand of these Wharram designs have beenplying the world’s oceans and inland waterways sinceJames Wharram’s initial crossing of the Atlantic some 60years ago. He has sold over 6000 vessel plan sets over theyears. When I asked Wharram owner/builder and organiz-er Thom what the “draw” of these vessels is, he told me,“Easy to build one-off in wood, a stable platform with ashort rig and low profile means safety in a boat that can’tsink and that is reasonably fast.” I noted from attendees thatthe designs appeal to the more rugged, survivalist typesthat are minimalists as well. Living space is in the hullsonly, with nothing permanent built between the hullswhere open wood slats and open weave netting shed waterquickly if vessels are boarded by waves. “They do notappeal to the typical” yachtie types,” he said. I noted thatthey do not look anything like the apartment-building-sizecatamarans I see advertised in the magazines that are most-ly seen tied up at the dock or cruising under motor in theICW—and costing several hundred thousanddollars. Perhaps an EPIRB in case of sudden capsize is animportant accessory.
Most Wharram designs are built in wood with deep Vsections and keels that are stout enough for beaching regu-larly. The same basic concept of design is seen in the 14-footer as well as the 63-footer. The Polynesian concept ispreserved with a somewhat romantic expeditionary, low-profile image, reeking of seaworthiness. According to theliterature, a Tiki 21-footer is yet the smallest catamaran tohave circumnavigated from England in 1991—over a six-year period.
Awards presented at the annual banquet on May 21.
Furthest Trailering: Marge and Omar Rashash broughttheir Hitia 17 Marvin from Wilmington, North Carolina.
Most Unique Rigging: Floyd Marsden for his Santana 21half-boat (monohull) Funnybones
Best Restoration: Jim Beyer for his work on Windchime, a42’ Nari MK IV.
Best Graphic Design: Kevin Collins, for the tatooing of aTiki 31 Tiki Thomkat.
The “My Boat Will Definitely Be Here Next Year” awardwent to Shaun West and Casey Kimberley and theirTangaroa 35.
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On the left is Hui Organizer Thom Delforge’s 31-foot Tiki 31schooner, Tikithomkat, that he built. On the right is Brad Ingram’sTiki 21, Beto, that he trailered down from Mobile, AL. Photo byThom Delforge.
Greg Russell’s Pahi 31, Gulf Surfer, which Greg sailed down fromPanama City, FL. Rafted to Gulf Surfer, on the right, is Marvin, aHinia 17. Photo by Thom Delforge.
Consistent Attendance and Wharram Ambassadors: GregRussell and Barbara Davis from Panama City with a Pahi31, Gulfsurfer.
Prevailing in the Face of the Most Obstacles Ever Thrownat an Event Organizer: Hui Organizer Thom DelForge whoprevailed.
Most Modes of Transportation to come to the Hui: BradIngram for bicycling 700 miles to check out the venue, jog-ging with his bike the last five miles after blowing a tire, 21hours on a Greyhound back to Mississippi, trailered his Tiki
21, Beto, 700 miles back, finally sailed around North Ft.Myers into the event venue. (Yes, that’s a record five modesof transportation.)
Spirit Award to the Most Exemplary Wharramites at theEvent: Troy Roberts, KC Gunn and young daughters,aboard Tucanu, a Tangaroa 35, homeport of Islamorada,Florida Keys.
Award in Recognition and Appreciation Skip Lichty, anearly organizer and promoter of the Hui Wharram.
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Tucanu, a 35-foot Tangaroa, owned by KC Gun and Troy Roberts. Photo by Bruce Matlack.
Wind Chime, a Nari 42 currently being restored by Jim Beyer. The boat was originally built in Toronto, Canada in 1980. On the right isTucanu. Photo by Thom Delforge.
Winter hit northern Ohio particularly hard four yearsback, and a freezing wind was strafing my SUVwith lake-effect snow as my husband, Dan, and I
headed south on Interstate 271 toward Bedford. Ohio win-ters have a way of chasing us natives out of town. “Let’s gosailing in the Virgin Islands again,” I said, “so call John andSandy and see if they’ll go.” We hadn’t gone another milebefore John’s voice boomed through the car’s speaker: “Yes!We’re in!”
But the 2015 charter was inspired not by a snow storm,but by Jimmy Buffett singing “Tin Cup Chalice,”—notexactly on the BVI play list, but close enough for us to hailour crew. Alas, our seasoned crew were busying them-selves with other adventures, and finding friends and rela-tions to go with us was becoming an oddly difficult task.
So, each winter we invite friends and friends-of-friendsto our home for dinner and a couple bottles of wine, thebeginning of a ploy to attract crew to accompany us onbareboat sailing charters. We further chum the waters byshowing them the DVD of one of our BVI charters, a 10-minute masterpiece my brother Ray cobbles together fromstills and cell phone footage. Images of happy people wav-ing from their dinghies, snorkelers flopping about in theclear water, and the now-long-gone Island Moose at theLast Resort Inn are all segued together with Ray’s brilliantarray of Jazz instrumentals.
Every once in a while we hook one or two of our care-fully chosen quarry, for one must indeed choose carefullywhen opting for that person who can tolerate us (and wethem) in close quarters for a week.
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The Truth about CharteringBy Mary Kay DessoffyPhotos by Deborah Foster
Thanks to their creature comforts, catamarans dominate the seascape at the Moorings charter base in Road Town, Tortola, but sleeker,more maneuverable mono hauls still find space here. The base is within walking distance of grocers, or sailors can provision on line andhave their groceries waiting for them at the dock.
expectations; pack lightly; expect to work.Let’s start with expectations, by way of an example.
Crew member Jane went sailing with us to the BVIs with noexpectations, which, frankly, she does with pretty muchevery situation in life. And if an argument ensues, shethrows up her hands and says, “Think of me as Switzerland!Neutral!” So Jane wasn’t a bit put off by the dearth of poshrestaurants, nightclubs, theatre and music; and she belliedup happily at the beach bars. Dining is casual, and someplaces, such as Foxy’s on Jost Van Dyke, will have a guyplaying the guitar while belting out a tune, or maybe a DJ.
The highlight of more than one evening at VirginGorda, where we’d moor close to Saba Rock, was watchinga guy fitted with a microphone and carrying around a buck-et of fish put on quite a show while feeding the tarpon. Somany other tourists squeezed into the dock’s edge to catchthe action, that it was hard to see the tarpon. The nightbefore, many of the same tourists—and probably charter-ers—jammed Trellis Bay for the full-moon party, wherefires burned inside of metal sculptures, a couple of localbands filled the night with music, and servers behind a buf-fet line dished out rice and chicken. In other words, it’s a lotof nothing, but it adds up to just about everything.
Island life as a charterer demands a certain lack of stuffto cram into your suitcase, so hair dryers, make-up, heelsand dresses can safely be exchanged for a few pairs of wash-able shorts and shirts, sunscreen, a couple of swim suits andthe deck shoes you wore on the plane. When my sister-in-law-turned-crew, Deb, came by our place on the way to theairport, she dragged no fewer than three suitcases into thefoyer. “What’s that?” I asked. She looked at me as if I were
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The Virgin Islands are anything but flat, and in recent years, thenumber of moorings has increased greatly. The coral is about asgrateful as the sailors.
Some of the Virgin Islands border on primitive, but not thisone. Virgin Gorda, for example, has some high-end resorts,
but none of them can top the ambience of a sailboat.
an idiot. “My luggage,” she said. “Open it up,” I demand-ed. Together we rifled through enough paraphernalia for asummer’s worth of travel through Europe, carefully thin-ning the neatly folded stacks of shirts, shorts and pantsdown to one very large suitcase.
Work is probably one of the top five reasons most peo-ple shy away from bare boating. Pampering isn’t on the to-get list, so pitching in with food preparation and clean up,deck swabbing, piloting, navigating and winching thedinghy back onto its davits are part of the deal. Even thesailing can be as much work as it is fun. Five of us charteredan excellent 46-foot catamaran from Footloose Charters in
Tortola last July. Because the wind was blow-ing pretty strong, we decided to reef the mainprior to sailing from Tortola’s Road Harbourcharter base to Trellis Bay, which, unfortu-nately was an upwind sail. My first choicewould have been to motor to our destination,but the guys (Paul, a small-boat sailor withtoo much energy, and my brother Joe, who’senthusiastic, willing and an incredibly goodsport) were eager to raise the sails. It tookthree of us to do so. The guys did the heavylifting on the winch, while I kept an eye onthe rising sail and its antagonist, the lazyjacks. “Stop! It’s caught! Bring it down a foot!Helmsman, point up please!” I so love beingbossy while not breaking a sweat.
It didn’t take long for both Joe and ourfriend Paul to master raising and loweringthe main, unfurling and tacking the jib, pick-ing up moorings, and tidying up all the linesafterwards. It also didn’t take Joe long to real-ize that when one tacks upwind, one getsnowhere very quickly at the expense of con-siderable effort. So after an hour or two of“hard to lee!” I stepped up to my husband,Dan, the helmsman/captain, who had onlyrecently required great patience (the islandscan do that to a guy), and said, “How aboutmaking that your last tack, Skipper? Let’smotor in from here.” Joe was visibly relieved.Paul looked disappointed. Barb, Joe’s wife,was positively jubilant, if not a bit pale.
One of my goals while chartering, to thechagrin of Joe and Paul, is to avoid using theanchor. This is because anchoring is too muchwork, even with the windlass (clearly, therequirement of work does not apply to me);and 30 bucks a night for a mooring ensuresthat we are completely “dug in,”—and thatwe have not inadvertently planted an anchoronto a piece of coral. Over the 30 or so yearsI’ve chartered, I’ve noticed a slow and steady
decline in the vibrancy and condition of the coral in theVirgin Islands’ waters, as well as the number and variety offish around them. So when the park services and others inthe islands started to install moorings to slow the damage, Iwas delighted.
The number of charter boats in Tortola and St. Thomasseems to have burgeoned over the years as well, and theproliferation of catamarans is slowly edging out many ofthe monohulls. While the cats don’t sail with the sameagility as the monohulls, that’s a small price to pay for thespaciousness, privacy, and comfort they offer in return.Paul, I must add, disagrees. He missed the nimbleness of
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Mooring is the lazy sailor’s way to“anchor” down for the night, allowingextra time to take in the view, jump in fora swim, or read a book.
Soper’s Hole on the east end of Tortola is a downwind sail from Road Town, and agreat place to stop for lunch, stroll around, or buy liquor (think rum!), a few gro-ceries, or island souvenirs.
the monohulls, their ability topoint, and that responsive feelingin the helm.
One’s choice in boats aside, theVirgin Islands earned its moniker,“The Sailing Playground,” honest-ly. For example, sailing along theSir Frances Drake channel is large-ly line of sight, although we alwaystook advantage of the GPS, thecruising guide, and charts. Othersailors tell me that those aids tosailing, along with channel mark-ers, make it fairly easy to get intoAnegada, an ambitious sail wenever allowed time for. Andalthough Jost Van Dyke and the northern side of Tortola areoutside of the SFDC, the waters are just as calm and the sail-ing is line of sight. While there is a certain amount of vari-ety among the islands, they all share one common denomi-nator, and that is informality. The fashion trend is shortsand flip flops, or no shoes at all.
A couple of products worthy of the scant suitcase spacethey occupy make life on board easier: Sailor Soap andStarbucks Via coffee. Sailor Soap is a remarkable liquid soapthat lathers and rinses in salt water. Paul bragged that heonly used his shower twice, opting instead for a shower onthe stern of the boat, lathering up with Sailor Soap and saltwater. In a pinch, I’ve used it on board for laundry deter-gent, shampoo, cleaning prescription glasses and snorkelmasks, and washing dishes. It performed beautifully.
Starbucks Via coffee is an instant coffee in single-serv-ing packets that, when mixed with boiling water, is betterthan any percolated cup o’ Joe one can boil up on thepropane gas stove. Plus, it’s quicker, easier, and there are nogrounds to clean up.
But not everything on charter boats is quite as simple orstellar as a five-dollar squeeze bottle of Sailor Soap or agreat cup of instant coffee. In each of our charters, the boatsthemselves present niggling but irritating issues before cast-ing off a dock line: navigation equipment that isn’t working,water tanks that leak, fuel tanks that weren’t topped off,winches that have a stubborn streak, cabin lights that don’tgo on, air conditioning lines that need to be purged, over-loaded shore power circuits. That’s why we sleep aboardthe night before the charter begins, so that the problems sur-face where we can still get them handled.
But some little problems have to be shrugged off. Takerefrigeration. Ours worked off the 12-volt DC house batter-ies and was capable of freezing eggs, turning lettuce intoforlorn sheets of ice, and, heaven forbid, turning our beerand wine into slushies. The freezer, however, will one daypresent you with ice cubes, and the next, melted fudge bars.
As the week slips by, the boat’s idiosyncrasies become
part of its character, and the boat just one more entity to beaccepted happily. After all, this is the sailors’ playground,so the “don’t worry, be happy” idiom rules the day. And,because all playgrounds need a couple of toys, we madesure the snorkel gear was on board and then rented a stand-up board and a kayak at the charter base. They were theperfect foil to the calm harbors of Virgin Gorda, Trellis Bay,Manchioneel Bay and Cain Garden Bay.
Snorkelers populate the best known sites of The Baths,the Indians, and Norman’s Island, but our explorationshave uncovered others. Our past couple of charters broughtus, as always, to Norman’s, but rather than going into TheBight, we opted instead for Kelly’s Cove at the Bight’snorthwest corner. This is a quieter mooring than TheBight—and not just due to the distance it puts between usand the William Thornton, a well-known watering hole andrestaurant. There are fewer moorings at Kelly’s Cove, andour experience has been that the winds are gentler at Kelly’sthan those in The Bight.
Paul and Joe, always the first to make a splash after thedock lines were threaded through the mooring line eye, dis-covered that the snorkeling around Kelly’s Cove was atleast as good as Norman’s famous Treasure Point and thecaves, with a colorful variety of fish and a sea turtle or two.But one of our biggest, and tastiest, discoveries was thePirates Bight Beach Bar & Grill, a fairly new addition to theisland. The service was friendly and just slow enough, andthe dinners well worth the price.
We’ve chartered plenty of other great places—TheAbacos in the Bahama chain, the Florida Keys, Belize,Chesapeake Bay, from California’s Dana Point to CatalinaIsland, our own Lake Erie, the West Indies, and, of course,the U.S. Virgin Islands. But the British Virgin Islandsremain for us the holy grail of sailing, so when Januaryblows its snow and ice into Ohio, we’ll once again invite afew of carefully selected, unsuspecting friends over forwine and pasta and, of course, the DVD of our last adven-ture to the BVIs.
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Foxy’s Taboo Restaurant may be theiconic watering hole in the BVIs,
but a walk and climb away is theBubbly Pool, pictured here. Wavescrash through a hole in the rocks
creating the swirling salt water poolthat tosses happy and fearless
swimmers up, under, and over the waves.
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The current interclub boat, the Flying Scot, which is beingreplaced by the Viper 640 by 2018. Photo by Kim Kaminski.
Every May, the Gulf Yachting Association holds their open-ing regatta event in conjunction with their quarterly organi-zational meeting. The new GYA commodore for the yearplays host to the event at their home yacht club. This year’sevent was hosted by the Fairhope Yacht Club, home to GYACommodore Catherine Cromartie.
This weekend regatta is filled with activities including:racing clinics, meetings for the various committees of theGYA, the opening day flag ceremony which includes all ofthe commodores of the 34 member yacht clubs who arepresent for the event, and, of course…racing. Racing in allmanner of one-design fleets which sail under the GYAauthority including: Flying Scot, Fish Class, Viper 640,Optis, Sunfish, 420’s, and VX One. Needless to say, MobileBay was filled with a plethora of small boats.
Two racecourse areas were established with eachcourse area establishing a double course set-up (a wind-ward/leeward course with a shortened turning mark and adistance turning mark) allowing the race committee to runmultiple one-design boats on the same course area. On thenorthern course, the “Capdevielle” Flying Scots, the FishClass and the Viper Interclub class sailed, and on the south-ern course, the Gulf Coast Viper 640 Championship Class,VX One, Sunfish, 420’s and Optis sailed—for a total of 73boats out on the water for two-days of competition.
The rainy weather was not cooperating for Friday’ssailing clinic in the Viper 640, the “newest” addition to theGYA fleet. This one-design boat is pegged to replace thecurrent interclub boat, the Flying Scot, in 2018. Since lastSeptember’s meeting of the GYA when the vote was takento replace the Flying Scot, many of the GYA member clubshave been obtaining the new boat and learning to sail it. Inorder to help transition into the Viper 640, the GYA also set-up a new “GYA Sportboat Championship and InterclubSeries” for 2016-2017, designating certain races alreadyestablished in the Capdevielle Flying Scot series as “pointraces” where the Viper 640 races will be eligible to count inthe scoring for each club. The GYA Opening Regatta wasthe first event in this new series.
The weather conditions for the remaining days of theracing weekend were ideal with sunny skies and fairbreezes creating little chop on the waters of Mobile Bay. Thetop winners: Southern Yacht Club – Capdevielle FlyingScot: Basil Kennedy, GYA Masters, Flying Scot; DonnieBrennan, Fish Class, Fairhope Yacht Club; Viper InterclubSeries, John Dane, Gulf Coast Viper 640 Championship; E.Garrison, Opti Red; C. Smith, Opti Blue; G. Hackle, OptiWhite; C. Smith, Opti Overall; Clinton Edwards, Sunfish;Koser and Bishop, 420 Non-Spinnaker; Edwards and Ware,420 Spinnaker; and Dustin Brennan, VX One. For the com-plete race results, go to www.gya.org.
Tampa to Fort Myers Race, May 27
By Gareth Kelly
Twenty-two boats hit the start line for the Tampa to FortMyers race on the morning of May 27, the Friday before theMemorial Day weekend. With blistering sunshine the crewsreadied themselves for the 106-mile jaunt down the coaststarting at Big J off St. Petersburg. Four classes were racing:Spinnaker, Cruising, Racer Cruiser and Multihull. All werestarting from St. Pete except the four boats in the Multihullclass, which, being faster boats, were starting later in theday from Sarasota. Nine boats were in Spinnaker, 11 in
Gulf Yachting Association Opening Regatta, Fairhope, AL, May 20-22
By Kim Kaminski
RACE REPORT
Cruising and two in Racer Cruiser.The race has a storied history dating back to
1946. Hosted by the Davis Island Yacht Club, therace was brought back to life a few years ago andhas been welcomed by many sailors from aroundTampa Bay as they compete for the NavigatorsTrophy, donated by OH Rogers, awarded to thefirst boat to finish in any class.
It was a relatively slow start for the fleet asthey meandered their way down the bay to theSunshine Skyway. First under the bridge were Fire& Ice and Wired, followed by the only boat thatcame up from Myers to race, Macushla.
Once out of the bay, the fleet picked up the pace as theyheaded to the second mark just past a beautiful-lookingEgmont Key, surrounded by brilliant turquoise postcard-worthy water.
A gybe round the mark and the fleet headed down thecoast, spinnakers still full on the close reach. Fire & Ice had
now put a sizeable lead between itself and the rest of thefleet, while Wired decided to head far offshore. Macushla,Attractive Nuisance and Rocket all stayed close to the beachand swapped third position on the water for the next fewhours.
As dusk arrived, so did a few small squalls, bringing atiny splattering of rain much to the relief of the sun-bakedcrews. Rocket made a move straight towards the beach,searching for more wind with the crew aboard Macushlawondering “Do they know there’s a beach right there?”
The wind had rarely got above 8 knots, but about a halfhour after sundown a very breezy 18 to 20 knots arrived,just in time to make sail changes and reefs in the dark thatbit more difficult. A storm lay about 20 miles ahead on thenose and treated the fleet to a magnificent light show asthey headed for the finish.
Even with a beautiful moon, much of the final few mileswere sailed in darkness, making it hard to tell who waswhere and what was what.
The bold move to the beach by Rocket had paid off asthey took line honors and the navigator trophy at 3:46am,with an elapsed time of 17 hours 46 minutes. They wouldfinish sixth on handicap.
The spinnaker class was won by Back Off followed byAlliance and Semper Fi. The sole Fort Myers entry, Macushlafinished a respectable eighth and had the easiest trip to itshome base of Fort Myers.
The Cruising class was won by Lunacy with an elapsedtime of 21 hours and 22 minutes, followed by Elise Rose insecond and First Wind in third.
The racer cruiser class was won by Intrepid, withRelativity scoring a DNF for the other boat in the class.
In the Multihull class, Lucky 7 took the win with anelapsed time of 15 hours and 53 minutes, with Motive in sec-ond and Double Barrel in third.
The awards and after-race party were held at BonitaBills Waterfront Café in Fort Myers. A light buffet of wingsand shrimp and an open keg proved a big hit with all theweary sailors and their friends and families.
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The crew on Rocket, a J/35 from Davis Island YachtClub. Rocket was to first to finish and received the navi-
gator trophy, although they took sixth in Spinnaker incorrected time. From left to right, are Peter Spencer,
Chris Dollin, Tarry Grimsdale, Dale Nelson, Erin Smith,Ellis Bailey and Bill Wingrove. Courtesy photo.
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SOUTHERN REGIONAL RACING CALENDAR(For Racing News, Race Management Training andNational and International Regattas in the South, see“Racing News” section.)
NOTE ON REGIONAL RACE CALENDARSRegattas and Club Racing—Open to Everyone Wanting toRace Since race schedules and venues change, contact the spon-soring organization to confirm. Websites are listed. Manyclubs have regular club races year around open to everyoneand new crew is generally invited and sought. Contact theclub for dates and information.
Note: In the below calendars: YC = Yacht Club; SC =Sailing Club; SA = Sailing Association.
Yacht Clubs Listed Below/Yacht Club DirectoryClubs listed below are the clubs that have regattas listed thismonth or next month. For a complete list of clubs in theSoutheast, go to www.SouthwindsMagazine.com and go tothe club directory. To add your club or edit the listing, cre-ate an account on the online directory. You can then addadditional information about your club: Location, regattas,club racing, cruising, activities, general information, etc.
Major Upcoming Regattas
Hancock Yacht Club Regatta, Marine CorpAir Station Cherry Point, NC, July 8-10Held on the Neuse River between New Bern andOriental. Friday evening check in & cookout. Saturday con-tinental breakfast, racing and dinner. Sunday continentalbreakfast, racing, & awards. Extensive skippers package.Competitive yet family-friendly and fun! Discount for USSailing members and entries received before June 24. Onlineinformation regarding registration, dockage and securityavailable at regatta.hancockyachtclub.org.
15th Annual Harker’s Island SunfishRegatta, Harkers Island, NC, July 15-17The Island Wind Race, held on Saturday, is often describedas an obstacle course where sailors choose which directionthey circumnavigate the island, typically with a reliable seabreeze. Post race appetizers, beverages, a low country boildinner and video tape replay of the race are included andthis year’s party features a rum cake dessert contest.
Sunday’s schedule includes breakfast and short-courseracing in the morning followed by lunch and an awardspresentation. Old, but seaworthy boats can choose to com-pete in the Beater class and the event can be an all-out raceor simply a memorable outing. Awards will be presented tothe top three finishers, top three finishers in the Beater class,top Female Sailor, top Master Sailor, top Grand Master andtop Youth.
The event is a celebration of youth sailing with donationsgoing to eastern North Carolina youth sailing programs.
Sponsored by the My Own Bloody Yacht Club.www.mobyachtclub.com. Click on Harker’s Island. For reg-istration information and details, contact Rob Eberle at [email protected]
Charleston Yacht Club Open Regatta,Charleston, SC, July 16This youth regatta is one of the largest events the yacht clubsupports during the year with over 100 boats participating.Several classes race: J/24s, SIOD, E-Scows, Melges 24, Y-Flyers, MC Scows, Sunfish, Lasers, 420s and Optimists. Onoccasion, there have been fleets of Snipes, Holders, JY-15sand Hobies. Sailors travel from the many locations in theSoutheast, including SAYRA clubs located in Georgia,North Carolina and South Carolina. For more informationand the NOR, go to http://charlestonyachtclub.com.
2016 Savannah Cup, Charleston, SC, to Savannah, GA, Aug. 12-13 Started in 2010, the Savannah Cup is an overnight race fromCharleston Harbor to the Savannah River entrance coveringover 72nm. Following the race, there will be food, drinks,and awards at the Westin Savannah. The event is hosted bythe Charleston Ocean Racing Association (CORA) and theChatham Sailing Club of Savannah. This is a category threerace open to sailboats over 24 feet. Go to www.charlestono-ceanracing.org for the NOR. The entry fee for non-membersof host clubs is $50. Contact [email protected] for ques-tions or to register.
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Charleston Ocean Racing Association (CORA) organizes manyof the regattas in the Charleston, SC, area. www.charlestonoceanracing.org.South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of theclubs in the region and their websites. www.sayra-sailing.com. Clubs with regattas listed this month (go to clubs for local clubracing schedules):
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LISTING YOUR RACETo list a race or regatta, with or without a description,email [email protected]. We limit thedescriptions to about 50 words (that includes the title.Longer descriptions listed for a small fee, starting at$20—contact editor.) Races with descriptions are up tothe discretion of the editor. We intend them to be themore major races. Send the information. DO NOT justsend a link.
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ChYC: Charleston YC, Charleston, SC, www.CharlestonYachtClub.com
CYC-NC: Carolina YC, Wrightsville Beach, NC, www.CarolinaYachtClub.com
CYC-SC: Carolina YC, Charleston, SC, www.CarolinaYachtClub.com
HYC: Hobcaw Yacht Club, Mt. Pleasant, SC, www.hycclub.orgLNYC: Lake Norman YC, Lake Norman, NC,
www.lakenormanyachtclub.comSCYC: South Carolina YC, Hilton Head Island, SC,
www.scyachtclub.comSIYC: Sea Island YC, Wadmalaw Island, SC,
www.SeaIslandYachtClub.netSYC: Savannah YC, Savannah, GA, www.savannahyachtclub.orgSYC-NC: Southport YC, Southport, NC, www.sycnc.org
JULY (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section)2-3 Fourth of July Regatta. Open. LNYC8-10 Hancock YC Regatta*9-10 HYC Regatta. Open. HYC9-10 Firecracker Regatta. Open. SYC16-17 Charleston YC Open Regatta. ChYC*23-24 Firecracker Regatta. Open. SYC30-31 Carolina YC Regatta. CYC-SC
AUGUST (*=see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section)5 SAYRA Jr. Pre-clinic. CYC-NC6-7 SAYRA. Open. CYC-NC6-7 Rockville Regatta. Open. SIYC6-7 Laser D12. CYC-NC12-13 Savannah Cup. Charleston to Savannah.*
LAKE LANIER, GA. Lanier Auxiliary Race Committee.http://aiscracing.com/aiscracing/LARC/LakeSchedule.php Clubs with regattas listed this month (go to clubs for local clubracing schedules):BFSC: Barefoot SC, www.barefootsailing.orgLLSC: Lake Lanier SC, www.llsc.comSSC: Southern SC, www.southernsailing.org
JULY16 Moonlight Scramble/Firefly. SSC/BFSC
AUGUST27-28 Vern Pickering Commodores Cup. LLSC
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HRYC: Halifax River YC, www.hryc.comMDYC: Mount Dora YC, www.MountDoraYachtClub.comMYC: Melbourne YC, www.MelbourneYachtClub.comPCYC: Port Canaveral YC, www.pcyc-fl.orgRCJ: Rudder Club of Jacksonville, www.RudderClub.comSAYC: St. Augustine YC, www.StAugustineYachtClub.com
JULY10 Liberty Regatta. SAYC16-17 Ohio Shoals Race. PCYC/MYC17 Double Handed Regatta. HRYCTBA Gilligan’s Run Cat Regatta. Hobie Fleet 80, Daytona
AUGUST7 Bikini River Regatta. SAYC20 Moonlight Regatta. RCJ20 Full Moon Regatta (offshore). SAYC
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Regional Sailing Organizations:US PHRF of Southeast Florida. www.phrfsef.comBBYRA Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association. www.bbyra.net
Clubs with regattas listed this month (go to clubs for local clubracing schedules):CGSC Coconut Grove Sailing Club, www.cgsc.orgCRYC Coral Reef YC, www.coralreefyachtclub.org
JULY1-9 Regatta Time in Abaco (see Calendar section, pages 13-16)17 BBYRA PHRF #12. CRYC23 BBYRA OD #12. CGSC23-24 J/24 Districts. Host Fleet 10
AUGUST (*=see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section)6 Single Handed Race. CGSC7 Double Handed Race. CGSC
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Key West Community Sailing Center (formerly Key West SailingClub). Every Saturday – Open house at the Center. 10am to 1pmFriday evenings happy hour open house at 5pm. 305-292-5993.www.keywestsailingcenter.com. Sailboat Lane off Palm Avenue inKey West. Non-members welcome. Small-boat Wednesday nightracing during Daylight Savings season. Small-boat Sunday racingyear around at 1pm. Boat ramp available. Race in the seaplanebasin near the mooring field. Dinner and drinks afterward.
Upper Keys Sailing Club (UKSC), Key Largo. www.upperkeys-sailingclub.com. Go to the Club website for regular club racingopen to all.
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Race CalendarThe organizing authority for racing and boat ratings in WestFlorida is West Florida PHRF at www.westfloridaphrf.org. Forregatta schedules and Boat of the Year schedules, go to the WestFlorida Yacht Racing Association at www.wfyra.org.
Clubs with regattas listed this month (go to clubs for local clubracing schedules):DBC: Dunedin Boat Club, www.DunedinBoatClub.orgSSS: Sarasota Sailing Squadron, www.sarasotasailingsquadron.orgTSS: Tampa Sailing Squadron, www.Sail-TSS.org
JULY4 Liberty Day Regatta. SSS4 Pajama Cup. TSS
AUGUST1 Full Moon Regatta. SSS15 Commmodore Cup/Laundry Race. DBC
Major Upcoming Regattas
USA Junior Olympic Sailing Festival,Gulf Coast, July 1-3Optimist Red, White, Blue and Green Fleet; Laser, LaserRadial and Laser 4.7; Club 420s; Flying Scott. PensacolaYacht Club. www.pensacolayachtclub.org.
42nd Annual Horn Island Hop, OceanSprings, MS, July 9-10A multihull regatta launching from Ocean Springs YachtClub and racing out to Horn Island. The sailors lunch, thenrace back. The final leg is the next day when there is anoth-er opportunity to beat the time around Deer Island. Go towww.osyc.com for more information.
Texas Youth Race Week, Houston YachtClub, July 16-22A US Junior Olympics Sailing Event and USODA TeamTrails Qualifier hosted annually by Texas Corinthian YachtClub (Kemah), Lakewood Yacht Club (Seabrook), and theHouston Yacht Club. www.texasyouthraceweek.com
Women’s Trilogy Races, July 9, July 23, July 30The Women’s Trilogy Series is typically held every July andAugust (this year only in July). The first race, the BikiniRegatta, is held at the Navy Yacht Club in Pensacola. It willhe held July 9 on Pensacola Bay. In this regatta, a femalesailor must be at the helm and 50 percent of the crew mustbe female. www.navypnsyc.org. The second race, the Racefor the Roses, will be held on July 23 at the Pensacola BeachYacht Club and only female crew are allowed to race.www.pensacolabeach-yc.org. The third race, the FastWomen Regatta, is at the Point Yacht Club in Josephine, AL,and will be held on July 30 on Perdido Bay. In this race, afemale sailor must be at the helm and 50 percent of the crewmust be female. www.pointyachtclub.org. Awards will beat each regatta. At the last regatta, there will be a specialTrilogy Trophy for the contestant who enters all three racesand earns the most combined points.
2016 USODA National Championship,Houston, TX, July 23-31Over 400 youth sailors are expected to compete in theUSODA National Championships at the Houston YachtClub. Events include: Team Race National ChampionshipJuly 23-26; Girls National Championship July 27; and theUSODA National Championship and Green Fleet RacingJuly 27-31. Volunteers are needed to help with daily check-in, information, parking, patrol boats with drivers, pressboats with drivers, spectator boats with drivers, judges,safety and general all-around help. For more, go towww.HoustonYachtClub.com.
Northern Gulf Coast Race CalendarGulf Yachting Association. www.gya.orgGalveston Bay Cruising Association. www.byca.org
Clubs with regattas listed this monthBSC: Birmingham Sailing Club, Birmingham, AL,
www.BirminghamSailingClub.orgBWYC: Bay Waveland YC, Bay St. Louis, MS,
www.baywavelandyachtclub.orgFWYC: Fort Walton YC, Fort Walton Beach, FL, www.fwyc.orgGYA: Gulf Yachting Association, www.gya.orgGYC: Gulfport YC, Gulfport, MS, www.GulfportYachtClub.orgHYC: Houston YC, Houston, TX, www.Houstonyachtclub.comLBYC: Long Beach YC, Long Beach, MS.
www.LongBeachYachtClub.comLYC: Lakewood YC, Seabrook, TX,
www.lakewoodyachtclub.comMYC: Mobile YC, Mobile, AL, www.mobileyachtclub.orgNOYC: New Orleans YC, New Orleans, LA, www.noyc.orgNYC: Navy YC, Pensacola, FL, www.navypnsyc.orgOSYC: Ocean Springs YC, Ocean Springs, MS, www.osyc.comPBYC: Pensacola Beach YC, Pensacola Beach, FL,
www.Pensacola Beach-YC.orgPCYC: Pass Christian YC, Pass Christian, MS, www.pcyc-gya.orgPtYC: Point YC, Josephine, AL, www.pointYachtclub.orgPYC: Pensacola YC, Pensacola, FL,
www.PensacolaYachtClub.orgSYC: Southern YC, New Orleans, LA,
www.SouthernYachtClub.org
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Gulfstar 50 Sailmaster 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$145,000Ta Shing Taswell 49 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$280,000CAL 48 1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$95,000Beneteau Oceanis 48 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$430,000 Sea Master 46 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$112,000 Beneteau Oceanis 45 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $331,000Beneteau Oceanis 45 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$325,000Jeanneau 44DS 360 Docking 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$280,000Gulfstar 44 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$75,000Beneteau 43 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$189,000Pearson 424 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$79,500Catalina 42 MkII 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$86,500 Beneteau 411 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Two to Choose from starting at $75,000Gulfstar 41 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$37,500Beneteau Oceanis 41 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$238,747Tartan 40 K/C 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $120,000Bavaria 40 Center Cockpit 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$115,000Beneteau 40 Center Cockpit 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$130,000Beneteau 393 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$115,000Jeantot Privilege 39 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$149,900Beneteau 381 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$73,000Beneteau Oceanis 38 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$195,000Beneteau 373 w/Genset . . . . . . . .Two to Choose from starting at $119,000Tartan 3700 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$149,000Jeanneau 37 SO 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . Two to Choose from starting at $92,900Beneteau 361 w/Generator 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$87,000Fountaine 36 Pajot Mahe 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$230,000Dufour 36 Classic 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $68,000Hunter 36 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$115,000Catalina 350 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$119,000Ta Shing BABA 35 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$75,000Beneteau Oceanis 35 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$155,750 Hunter 33.5 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$34,900Beneteau 321 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Two to Choose from starting at $38,000Pearson 31-2 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$28,000Beneteau 31 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$80,000Seaward 26RK 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$62,000J/Boats J/80 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$35,000J/Boats J/22 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$28,500J/Boats J/70 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$41,500Beneteau First 22 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CALL FOR PACKAGE
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SOUTHERLY 36’ – 57’ No Water to Blue Water
GREAT HARBOUR 35’-74’Go Anywhere Liveaboard REPRESENTING
ISLAND PACKET 36’ – 52’ Cruising Excellence
DELPHIA 31’ – 53’ Shoal Keel Option
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38 Shannon PH 1981 ................................................$99,000
38 Catalina Morgan 1995...........................................SOLD
37 Nauticat 2002 .....................................................$239,000
37 Island Packet 1995 ..........................2 from .......$137,500
37 Southerly 115 MK IV 2006................................$199,000
36 Catalina 36 MKII 2002 ..............................................U/C
36 Cape Dory 1985 ...................................................$79,000
36 Island Packet Estero 2010..................................$270,000
35 Beneteau Oceanis 1988........................................$44,900
35 Island Packet 350 1997 ......................................$129,500
35 Island Packet ’89 to ’90...................3 from .........$94,500
35 Island Packet Cat ’93, ’94 ...............2 from .......$138,500
32 Island Packet 320 2001 ..........................................SOLD
31 Pacific Seacraft 1997 .............................................SOLD
27-32 Island Packet ..............................4 from .........$24,900
44 Island Packet 440 2006 ......................................$384,900
44 Island Packet 1993 .............................................$164,900
42 Catalina MKII 2008 ..........................................$199,900
42 Catalina MKII 2007 ...........................................$179,000
42 Alpha Catamaran 2014.......................................$449,900
42 Trintella Ron Holland 2000 ...............................$259,000
42 Jeanneau 42DS 2007..........................................$199,000
42 Southerly RST 2010...........................................$485,000
41 IP SP Cruiser MKI 2010 ....................................$395,000
41 Bristol 41.1 CC 1981 .........................................$135,000
40 Delphia 40.2 2009..............................................$125,000
40 Bayfield Ketch 1984 ............................................$85,000
40 Block Island 40 1997 .........................................$219,000
40 Maestro 2006 .....................................................$269,900
40 Island Packet ’94, ’96......................4 from .......$165,000
57 Southerly 2011 ................................................$1,250,000
57 Southerly 2010 ................................................$1,475,000
52 Island Packet 485 2003 ......................................$425,000
50 Trintella Ron Holland 2005 ...............................$595,000
47 Beneteau 473 2006.....................................................U/C
46 Moody 2000 .......................................................$279,000
46 Island Packet 465 2008 ..............................................U/C
46 Island Packet 465 2008 ......................................$479,000
46 Beneteau Oceanis 461 2000...............................$169,900
45 Southerly 135 2012 ............................................$735,000
45 Southerly 135 2006 ............................................$419,000
45 Island Packet 445 ’06, ’07...............2 from .......$374,000
45 Island Packet 1997 .............................................$219,000
44 New York 32 Replica 1940 ..................................$54,500
44 Island Packet SP Cruiser MKII 2015.................$629,000
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49' Hunter Cutter Rig 2008Best on Market. Loads of Custom Features Owner
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water cruiser. Immaculate Condition - Many Upgrades
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3700 Tartan 2001PRICED 25% BELOW MARKET
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New RS Quba 11’5”. Starting at . . . . . . . . .$4150 New RS Feva. Starting at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6390New RS Quest. Starting at . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7250 New RS Vision. Starting at . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9595New RS Aero 13’. Starting at . . . . . . . . . . . .$7750New RS CAT 16’. Starting at . . . . . . . . . . .$10,495New RS Venture 16’. Starting at . . . . . . . .$16,5602016 Catalina 12.5 Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5515 2008 Catalina 14.2 sloop w/ trlr . . . . . . . . .$43722016 Catalina 14.2 Sloop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7064 2016 Catalina 14.2 Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7272 2016 Compac Picnic Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$11,395 2016 Compac Legacy 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . .$11,500 2008 Catalina 16.5. Reduced . . . . . . . . . . .$54812016 Catalina 16.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$93671996 Flying Scot 19’ w/trlr . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,321 2015 Melonseed w/ trlr . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$16,1372013 Compac Suncat/trlr . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD2016 Compac SundayCat . . . . . . . . . . . . .$17,3452016 Compac Eclipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$26,5952016 Capri 22 Wing Keel . . . . . . . . . . . . .$22,9792016 Catalina 22 Sport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$21,9662007 Catalina Capri 22 w/trlr . . . . . . . . . .$13,6812004 Catalina 250 Wing Keel w/trlr.
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Hobie Wave wanted. Best if it’s in southwestFlorida from Tampa Bay south, but I’ll go muchfurther if need be. Must have a trailer included.Please email [email protected].
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El Toro Class Sailing Dinghy. Beautiful hand-made wooden sailing dinghy with woodenmast, centerboard, rudder/tiller, and sails.Atlanta area. $600 or OBO. 404-803-0844.(8/16)
16’ Catalina 16.5 centerboard 2008 mod-ern daysailor. Trailer, roller furling jib, com-fortable roomy cockpit, large forward storagelocker. Powerful sail plan, balanced by the sta-ble hull form. $5481. Call Paul at MastheadEnterprises, 800-783-6953 or 727-327-5361www.mastheadsailinggear.com
1980 Herreshoff America 18’ Catboat ingood condition. 2014 Tohatsu 6hp 4-stroke,mast-lifting system from cockpit, Dacron sailand cover, new berth cushions, 12v cabin andrunning lights, solar panel, boarding ladder,solar ventilation, wind vane, aluminum mastand spars, new rub rail installed by Com PacYachts, anchor and chain on bow roller, tan-dem wheel trailer, port a potty. Located in St.Petersburg, FL. $8000, 727-527-9754 (7/16)
22’ J/Boats J/70 #350 2014 with trailer.Hottest One-Design Class. ExcellentCondition with little use. $41,500. Also J/22#1650 @ $28,500. 800-826-2807. Pics andspecs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com
24 Corsair Sprint 750. $36K. 2006 trimaran,excellent condition, pocket cruiser and clubracer with 20-knots speed capability. 5hpmotor, trailer, and complete inventory of sails.Lying Sarasota. Don Wigston, 404-307-9121,or www.windcraft.net. (8/16)
25’ Custom sailboat - Stuart, FL. 1994. Racer/ cruiser. Newly painted, new rigging. 4 strokemotor. Daggerboard. All sails and electronicsready to race! Custom trailer included. $6000OBO. [email protected] 772-285-5055 (9/16)
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Island Packet Yachts 26-52’. Considering aNew or Brokerage Island Packet? Or lookingto sell the one you have? Our team of brokershave over 186 years of experience sellingIsland Packets. Whatever the model—weknow them all well. Contact S&J Yachts 843-284-8756. www.sjyachts.com
28’ C&C 1976 offshore Cruiser (English-Trapper Yachts). Diesel 2YM15, less than 10hours. New rigging and Furlex system. Twosets of sails—cruising/storm. Good condition;lots of additional equipment. Suffered strokeand wants home for go-anywhere sloop.$15,000 or best offer. Call 813-649-1811.Tampa Bay, FL. (9/16)
30’ Catalina, 1992. Well-maintained, newsails, sail cover, dodger and bimini (2013).Custom davits, cockpit and cabin tables. NewRaymarine chart plotter and bottom paint.$29,900. Call 239-822-4056, Fort Myers, FL.(9/16)
30’ sailboat S2 - 1980. Great condition. Solid,fast. Sleeps 4. Bimini with screens. Yanmardiesel inboard, wheel steering, autopilot andbasic electronics. New cushions. Recentlypainted. $12,500. 727-826-3455 (7/16)
Baba 30. New full Sunbrella cover,new Harken roller furling, new headsail, andall cushions recently recovered. Volvo needswork or re-power. $33,000. Austin 803-3979448. Pics at: http://tinyurl.com/[email protected]. (7/16)
1980 Southern Cross 31 sailboat withYanmar diesel. Gilner design, blue water,heavy displacement, full-keel cutter. Double-ended, excellent condition, new cushions,solar panels, wind generator, Aries wind vane,Garmin, radar, plotter. Asking $35,000. Cell828-226-6123. (7/16)
2016 Catalina 315 – NEW! In stock, availablefor demo sail. Listed at $168,500, Catalina’snew designs, coined the Catalina 5 Series,have moved the brand to a higher level ofperformance, finish and engineering accom-plishments. We also have other new Catalina’sin stock available for show! Call 912-638-8573 www.dunbaryachts.com
2003 Catalina 320 – Listed at $79,500,Makana has a wing keel, radar, GPS, autopilot, full canvas package, dinghy with 4 HPmotor, air conditioning, 12V refrigeration,stereo and much more. Call 912-638-8573www.dunbaryachts.com
Cape Dory 32, 1986. Solid, strong bluewater boat. $25K retrofit in 2014-15.Surveyed at $48k, email/call for all 2015upgrades. [email protected]. 912-572-2144. Asking $42,500, bring all offers,Savannah, GA. (9/16)
1979 Pearson 323. Located downtown St.Petersburg with transferable slip. This is a verysolid boat that does not leak. Call Sid@ 727-492-1973 for details. $29,500 OBO. (7/16)
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34’ Gemini 105 MC Catamaran 2007. Greatcruising cat with shoal draft, full cockpitenclosure, full screen enclosure, air condi-tioned for a perfect Florida live aboard. Rollerfurling headsail with MackPack mainsail.$129,000. Call Kelly Bickford CPYB at 727-599-1718, or email [email protected] 100 high definition photos.
34’ Pacific Seacraft Crealock 34 Cutter1990. Furling headsails, FB Main, Depth,Speed, Wind, Radar, Plotter, dinghy, Yanmardiesel, Dodger, Bimini...Ready to set sail fordistant shores. St. Petersburg, $89k. Call KellyBickford CPYB at 727-599-1718
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1997 Island Packet 350 – Listed at $95,500.She is a proven blue water-capable boat asDulcinea has completed a circumnavigationwith her first owner. Her second owner hascruised Dulcinea in the Bahamas and theAtlantic Coast. Her bright work has a fresh coatof varnish and she has been buffed and waxed.912-638-8573 www.dunbaryachts.com
2003 Catalina 350 – Professionally main-tained, new mainsail & genoa, clean & com-fortable, great galley space, ready to sail!$104,500 Located at St. Simons Island, GA.Call 912-638-8573 www.dunbaryachts.com
35’ Ta Shing BABA 35 1983. Over $70,000spent in the past 3 years, genset, air condi-tioning, teak recently varnished, true turn keyconditon. Bob Perry Design. $75,000. 800-826-2807. Pics and specs atwww.MurrayYachtSales.com
1976 35’ Fuji — $44,500 – Michael Martin –440-781-8201– [email protected] –www.curtisstokes.net
Cheoy Lee 35 1979. You’ve never seen one likethis before! 11 seasons in the water. Well main-tained while in storage, extensive restorationcompleted 2016. Teak decks recaulked, 12coats varnish interior, new upholstery, 27 HPIsuzu 780 hrs. 11’2 beam, 5’4 draft, Awlgrip,12 barrier coats, TidesTrack and StackPack.A/C, Garmin 741XS . $32,500. Bradenton, FL.Complete info, pics at http://tinyurl.com/cheoy-lee-35-79, [email protected], 941-376-5333. (8/16)
35’ Victory Catamaran. Built by Endeavour,High Quality, One Owner boat. ThreeStaterooms, Fits in regular Slip. Asking$149,900. Preferred Yachts Brokerage DisplayCenter in St Petersburg. Joe Zammataro. 727-527-2800. [email protected], www.PreferredYachts.com
35’ Beneteau 350 Oceanis 1991. New Yanmardiesel 2012. Great layout. Asking $59,000.Located at the Preferred Yachts BrokerageDisplay Center at the Harborage Marina, St.Petersburg, FL. Joe Zammataro, 727-527-2800
35’ S&S sloop 1939. Rebuilt 1980. New keel(1” bolts), refastened, re-caulked. Yanmar25hp, 7 sails, Aires. Same owners 50 years!New bottom and varnish last month. $25,000. Stewart Marine, Miami, 305-815-2607.www.marinesource.com
Southerly Yachts 36-57’ Shoal Draft Freedom& Deep Draft Performance at the tip of yourfingers!! Blue water boats with a push-buttonswing keel. No other keel compares. Gowhere others cannot! From $199,000 to$1,675,000. Contact S&J Yachts 410-639-2777. www.sjyachts.com
1995 36’ Catalina MK II - $65,000 – CurtisStokes – 954-684-0218 – [email protected] – www.curtisstokes.net
37’ Tartan 3700. Tim Jacket designracer/cruiser. In-mast Furling Main. A/C.Pedigree boat at an amazing price. LowestPriced on the market. Asking $139,900.Located at the Preferred Yachts BrokerageDisplay Center at the Harborage Marina, St.Petersburg. Joe Zammataro 727-527-2800,Joe@ PreferredYachts.com,www.PreferredYachts.com
Tayana 37. Same meticulous owners last 20years, never had teak deck. Level of mainte-nance and equipment top notch! $69,900.Located St. Simons Island, GA. Call 912-638-8573. www.dunbaryachts.com.
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38’ Island Packet 380 2002. Well-maintainedand loaded for world cruising. Turn key Packetready to cast off. $239,900. Contact Capt.Nick 239-470-6723. Naples, FL. See Pics &Specs at www.yacht-world.com/seahorse.(8/16)
Cabo Rico 38 1993. Exquisite joinery in thiscruising edition of the well respected CaboRico 38. No teak decks. Bow thruster, genset,solars, wind generator, 2300 hours. Alwaysmaintained to the highest! $174,900. ContactMichele S&J Yachts 410-708-4416 www.sjy-achts.com
38’ Morgan 384 1984. They don’t buildthem like this anymore. A/C, Generator, veryclean. Owned by commercial pilot and kept insuperb condition. Asking $69,900. Located atthe Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Centerat the Harborage Marina, St. Petersburg, FL.Joe Zammataro 727-527-2800
1979 38’ Cabo Rico. Crealock design, cutterrig, full keel, GPS, Autopilot, extensive sails,solar & wind, $64,900. Alan 941-350-1559,[email protected] www.windsweptyacht-sales.com
38’ Hunter Legend 1991, Yanmar 36hp, longrange w/extra fuel (NEW) & water tanks, NEWinverter, 3 NEW solar panels, NEW CP speakers,NEW batteries, NEW VHF, NEW rigging, &MORE UPGRADES! $59,999, Call Tom O @ 1-256-710-4419, www.SailboatsinFlorida.com,Edwards Yacht Sales
2005 39’ Beneteau 393. Diesel, Air condi-tioner, Fridge, GPS, autopilot, 3 staterooms, 2heads, all the cruising gear. Reduced $79,900.Alan 941-350-1559, [email protected],www.windsweptyachtsales.com
Island Packet 40 – A very popular cruisingboat that is safe, comfortable and has tremen-dous storage. 1996 asking $180,000 & 1994asking $165,000. Call Matt for details. S&JYachts, 843-284-8756, www.sjyachts.com
1986 40’ Cape Dory Cutter. Completelyupdated. Rebuilt Diesel, 2014 generator,2014 air, SSB, AIS, Radar, GPS, 2014 Standingrigging, extensively refit, well-maintained.$119,900. Alan 941-350-1559, [email protected] www.windsweptyachtsales.com
2010 40’ Beneteau Oceanis 40 - Silver Girlhas been meticulously maintained and is acredit to her past owners who have enjoyedher since new. This is a true owner’s boat(never chartered). Silver Girl is ready for self-sufficient long-distance cruising. She will offerher new owners fast and luxurious passageswherever you’d like to go. Call 912-638-8573www.dunbaryachts.com
40’ Block Island 1987, Yanmar 44hp,Raymarine chart plotter/radar, elect windlass,wind gen, full batten Hood main, sails in goodcondition, MUST SEE! $150,000, Call Melanie@ 305-807-4096, www.SailboatsinFlorida.com, Edwards Yacht Sales
Delphia Yachts 31’ - 53’. PerformanceCruiser - Built for You! At production boatprices. Semi-custom yachts w/many optionsincluding shoal or deep keel options. Built inPoland, Europe’s 3rd largest boat builder. CallS&J Yachts 843-284-8756. www.sjyachts.com
41’ Bristol Center Cockpit, 1981. 58hpWesterbeke, 4’5” board up. GPS, SSB, VHF,Radar, AutoPilot, 3-blade Gori Prop, SeaFrostrefrig, recent new sails and rigging, windlass,life raft, new batteries and bottom job, ClassicSailing Yacht. $79,900 George 941-792-9100 GSYS
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41’ Beneteau Oceanis 41 2013. AC, Genset,Full Electronics, Shoal Draft, In Mast Furling,Full Canvas, Turn Key. $237,750. 800-826-2807. Pics and Specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com
41’ Cheoy Lee Offshore 1979. Custom hard-top, aluminum mast, no teak decks, new bot-tom, new batteries, dual radar, autopilot, A/C,electric windlass, MUCH MORE! Serious bluewater cruiser. Cape Coral, FL. $79,000. 239-560-9518 (9/16)
1984 41’ Bristol 41.1 Center Cockpit CutterRig, replaced Yanmar diesel, centerboard,radar, autopilot, GPS, AIS, AGM, awesome aftstateroom. $119,900. Alan 941-350-1559,[email protected] www.windsweptyacht-sales.com
42’ Beneteau First 1983, Vetus 42hp 2007,Refurbished 2007 Monitor Wind Vane self-steering, 2010 Eno 2 burner stove w/ oven,2014 Muir 12-volt vertical windlass, All SailsNEW 2007, 2007 NKE electronics & MORE!$80,000, Call Harry @ 412-692-0639, www.SailboatsinFlorida.com, Edwards Yacht Sales
Alpha 42 Catamarans. A high qualityAmerican-built cruising catamaran. Spacious,elegant & well built. 2, 3 and 4 cabin options.Ask about chartering opportunities. ContactS&J Yachts 843-284-8756. www.sjyachts.com
42’ Tatoosh. Bob Perry blue water cruiserbuilt by Tashing. Just completed two-yearcruise and ready to go again. A rare gem anda must see. Asking $139,900. Located at thePreferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center atthe Harborage Marina, St Petersburg. JoeZammataro 727-527-2800 [email protected], www.PreferredYachts.com
42’ Endeavour 1987. Center Cockpit, two cab-ins, aft cabin w/centerline Queen, two headsw/shower, Marine Air, Full Galley, Tall mast, RFmain and RF head sail, Full Canvas, ChartPlotter, Radar, Autopilot, Electric Windlass,Wind Gen, AB Dinghy w/ OB, Davits. ManyUpgrades and New Equipment. A must see atour docks. $69,000. Call George. Grand SlamYacht Sales. 941-792-9100.
Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 42DS ‘07. Neverchartered. Modern sleek styling, roomy cock-pit, large swim platform, beautifully appoint-ed. Pristine condition. New main/dodger/bimini 2015. Fully equipped. Ready for younow! $199,000. S&J Yachts 410-639-2777.www.sjyachts.com.
1974 Columbia 43. Cruise ready, updated andclean. Good electronics, refrigeration, solar, sailinventory, electrical. With dinghy and out-board, self-steering windvane. $59,900. Alan941-350-1559. Email [email protected].
44' Gallart Motor Sailor, 1982. With Twin 65hp Volvo Diesel Straight Drives, DieselGenerator, 3 Cabins, 2 Heads, 2 HelmStations, GPS, Radar, SSB, Solar, VHF, Stereo,TV, Dinghy w/OB, RF Main, RF Jib. Needssome TLC. $59,900. At our docks in Cortez,FL. Call George 941-792-9100
Catalina/Morgan 44 CC REDUCED. 1988.Well Kept, Cruising Ready, Great Liveaboard,AC. Updated Electronics, Genset, EVERY-THING! Stern Arch, Wind Gen, AIS, Solar,Davits, Swim Platform, Bimini Enclosure,Furling. $95,000. Owner 727-466-6444.(8/16)
Ocean-going Gulfstar 44, center cockpit sail-ing yacht, fully equipped and in greatshape. New Bimini w/full enclosure, 5’ draft,turn key packet ready to cast off. Realisticallypriced $89,000. Contact Betti 847-602-7695.Naples, FL. See Pics & Specs at www.yacht-world.com/seahorse (7/16)
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Island Packet 445 2006. Clean, very wellequipped & priced right! Easy to handle. Lotsof equipment; A/C, 8kw generator, solar pan-els, wind generator, watermaker, bowthruster… $374,000. Contact Matt at S&JYachts, 843-284-8756. www.sjyachts.com
45’ Jeanneau 45DS 2008. 75hp Yanmar, GenSet, Air, RF, Bow Thruster, FullRayMarine elec-tronics, Davits, Life Raft, Windlass, TwoStaterooms, Two Heads, Duel Helms,Spacious Cockpit, Bottom Paint 2015, Bimini,Dodger, Yard-maintained. At our docks.$229,000. George Carter, GSYS, (941) 792-9100 for appointment
Southerly 135 (45’) 2006. High performingblue water yacht with a DRAFT from 2’ 9” to9’ 9” at the push of a button!! Many recentupgrades: hull just painted, new canvas, cush-ions, A/C etc. $419,000. Contact Matt S&JYachts, 843-284-8756 www.sjyachts.com
2008 Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 45 DS – Listedat $280,000, Selene is a one-owner boat. Sheis a three-cabin version with a bright interiordue to the light colored wood and the manyhatches and large ports. Call 912-638-8573www.dunbaryachts.com
Moody 46 2000. Powerful, blue water cruis-ing yacht. Cutter rig, shoal draft. Nicely main-tained. Many upgrades including electronics,Fisher Panda generator, Zodiac, outboard &much more. Ready to depart from Charleston,SC. $279,000. Contact Matt 843-284-8756. www.sjyachts.com .
1979 46’ Brewer - $99,000 - Barbara Burke904-310-5110 - [email protected] -www.curtisstokes.net
46’ Beneteau 461. Low Hours on Engine &Generator. Inmast Furling, Elect Winch. TwoStaterooms. Asking only $139,900. PreferredYachts Brokerage Display Center St Petersburg.Joe Zammataro. 727-527-2800. [email protected], www.PreferredYachts.com
Island Packet 465 2008. A most pamperedyacht – Hinckley maintained, covered andstored inside a heated building. Hardly used.Only 51 hours. A time capsule yacht! Balanceof warranty conveys. $479,000. Call Jack S&JYachts, 410-639-2777, www.sjyachts.com
1987 47’ Bristol - $218,500 – Barbara Burke904-310-5110 – [email protected] –www.curtisstokes.net
47’ Dufour Nautitech Catamaran 1995. Withlots of new updated equipment, including newTwin 55hp Volvo Diesels, Refrig and Freezer,Generator, Chartplotter, Washer/Dryer, Water-maker, Windlass, 4 State Rooms w/en-suitehead and showers. Spacious Catamaran capa-ble of extended passages. www.GrandSlamYachtSales.com. Offered at $279,000. CallGeorge Carter 941-792-9100.
48’ Bavaria 1999, Volvo Penta sail drive 800hrs, easy to sail with all lines leading aft, depthsounder, chartplotter/GPS, in-mast furlingmainsail, anchor windlass, propane range,elect winch, bow thruster, Very Spacious!$100,000. Call Bill T @ 727-234-5818, www.SailboatsinFlorida.com, Edwards Yacht Sales
49’ Hunter 2008. Here is a steal! Best Price,Best Equipped one on the Market. Rare CutterRig, Loads of Extra Features. 3 cabin, CustomSails. Try $249,900. Located at the PreferredYachts Brokerage Display Center at theHarborage Marina, St. Petersburg, FL. JoeZammataro 727-527-2800
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50’ Gulfstar Sailmaster 1984. Generator, AirConditioning, Full Enclosure, Electric R/F main& Jib, Bow Thruster and more. $145,000.800-826-2807. Pics and specs atwww.MurrayYachtSales.com
Southerly 57 2011. Only 4 feet of water? Noproblem. Luxurious, powerful, blue waterperformance. Draft from 3’ 6” to 10’ 9” at thepush of a button. No other boat compares!$1,250,000. Call Jack S&J Yachts, 410-639-2777. www.sjyachts.com
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BOATER’S PARADISE! Beautiful waterfront1-BR 2-Bath furnished townhouse and 17’x41’boat slip. Unobstructed deep water access tothe ICW and Gulf. Slip power and waterincluded in HOA fees. Common areas include:bathroom with shower; laundry room; work-shop/ storage building; outside grilling deck;waterfront gazebo for relaxing. $169,000.Panama City, FL. MLS #642409. Contact:850-866-4572. (9/16)
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Short-term/long-termFurnished cottage rentals while you visit/vaca-tion/work in the Southern Appalachians.Cottage and carriage house on wooded prop-erty real close to historic and lively downtownAsheville, and UNC Asheville. Short term forvisitors or stay longer. Also perfect for corpo-rate, university or others who need stay formonths. Clean, beautiful and furnished. Allamenities including Internet, TV, AC, etc.Housekeeping services available. www.cot-tageparkrentals.com
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JULY (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section)1-3 Junior Olympic Sailing Festival. PYC2 Patriot’s Day Regatta. PBYC5-10 US Junior Women’s Double-handed Championship. BWYC9 Bikini Regatta. NYC*9-10 Meigs Regatta. FWYC9-10 Horn Island Hop. OSYC*16 Bastille Day Regatta. NOYC16-17 GORR. LBYC16-17 Summer Regatta. MYC23 Race for the Roses. PBYC*23-24 GYA Women’s PHRF Championship. PBYC23-24 Junior Lipton Championship. MYC23-26 USODA Team Race Nationals. HYC*26-27 USODA Girls Nationals. HYC*27-31 USODA National Championship. HYC*30 Fast Women Regatta. PtYC*30-31 Birthday Regatta. PCYC30-31 Weatherly Regatta. GYC
AUGUST6 Bay Cup II Regatta. LYC6 Round the Rig. MYC6-7 Summer in the Pass. PCYC6-7 GYA J22. PCYC13-14 Knost Championship. PCYC20 Big Mouth Regatta. PBYC20-21 Galloway GYA Sunfish/Laser Championship. GYC27 Preemie Cup (rescheduled). PBYC27 Katrina Memorial. OSYC27 Pam Sintes Regatta. NOYC27-28 Rock, Paper, Scissors (Youth). BSC
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ter from your marina stating that you residethere, or you can provide the address of afriend or relative to use as your physicaladdress.” With that, she printed out thedocument which stated exactly that, alongwith an additional page outlining the appli-cable laws governing the address require-ments for issuing licenses in Florida.
This was my third visit to the tax col-lector’s office over two months. Each time Ihad left empty-handed. I was stuck inadministrative hell. I was in violation of thelaw, because it states that you have 30 daysto change your license to reflect a newaddress. But I was unwilling to lie aboutwhere I lived so that a clerk could check abox on a form. I was on a mission, and I wasdetermined to prevail. Three times the out-come had been the same. But this time, theymade an error fatal to their cause. It was themistake of inadvertently imparting knowl-edge, with which I was empowered. I’doften stated in my dealings with the tax col-lector’s office, “This is Florida; surely I can’tbe the only person in the entire state wholives on a boat.” As it turns out, theanswer was right there in the additionalpage of applicable law they had provided,something I had never before been given.
It said (I paraphrase):For persons dwelling in a vehicle or ves-sel, the applicant must provide a copy ofthe vehicle or vessel’s state registration toestablish residency, and then completean address self-certification claiming thevehicle or vessel as their legal residence.The listed address will then be the vehi-cle or vessel’s registration number, alongwith the city and zip code where thevehicle or vessel is normally kept.
It took me two and a half months and fourtrips to the tax collector’s office (three ofthem frustratingly fruitless), but I am nowthe proud holder of a newly issued Floridadriver’s license. My address is listed as ourboat’s USCG documentation number,Pensacola, Florida 32501. Since I had finallycleared the path, my wife Rhonda was ableto get her license issued in just one trip.
In retrospect, my biggest mistake wasin assuming that the clerks at the tax collec-tor’s office knew what they were talkingabout. But through patience and determina-tion, we ultimately prevailed. And the bestpart is that if for some reason the state ofFlorida ever does decide to try and track medown, my address isn’t going to lead toa door to knock on, which suits me just fine.
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“Why would I want to do that?” Iasked.
“Excuse me, sir?” she asked,startled.
“I don’t live at the marina. I liveon my boat. It just happens to beparked at that marina at the moment.I might change marinas tomorrow. OrI might go anchor in Big Lagoon andstay there for a while. And I’m notgoing to come in here and pay you$32 to change the address on mylicense every time I decide to move toa different marina.”
“Excuse me sir, I need to talk tomy supervisor,” she said, and left.Five minutes later, she was back. “Ifyou won’t list the marina as your res-idence, then you’ll have to use afriend’s or relative’s address—some-place where you can receive mail.That’s what we commonly do forhomeless people.”
“What’s your address?” I askedwith a smile. Unfortunately, she wasn’tamused by my question.
“You can’t use my address,” shesaid sternly. “It will have to be afriend or relative.” See DRIVER’S LICENSE continued on page 60
”Yes sir, how can I help youtoday?” the clerk at the tax col-
lector’s office pleasantly asked as Istepped up to the counter when mynumber was called.
“I’d like to update my driver’slicense to reflect that I now live on myboat,” I said.
“May I see your license, please?”the clerk asked with a frown. Studyingit for a moment, she asked, “Is this nolonger a good address for you?”
“No, we sold that house lastDecember and don’t live there any-more. We live on our boat now,” Ireplied.
The clerk’s frown deepened,“I’m afraid we can’t use your boatas your legal address. You’ll haveto provide a physical address.”
“We have a Post Office box up thestreet, can I use that?”
“No sir, you have to provide aphysical address. You can’t use a PostOffice box.”
“Well the Post Office gave me astreet address to use when I needpackages delivered, can I use that?” Iasked. It’s a service the Post Officeprovides and I’ve had success in giv-ing this address in other situationswhere a PO Box wasn’t acceptable.
“And what is that address?” sheasked. I gave it to her.
“No sir, that’s still the Post Officeand that can’t be your physicaladdress.”
“Well I don’t have one then. Weget our mail at our Post Office box,and we live on our boat. Meanwhile Ineed to get this license changed since Idon’t live at that address anymore.”
The clerk thought for a minute.“Where do you keep your boat, sir?”
“At the marina down the street,”“Ah, well, you’ll have to list the
marina as your address. Have themprovide you with a letter on their let-terhead stating that you reside thereand then we’ll change your license tothat address.”
“So if I just give you somebody’saddress, you’ll be happy and give mea license?”
“No sir, you’ll have to prove thatyou live there.”
“And how would I do that, sinceI don’t?”
“You’ll have to bring in two utili-ty bills or other official mail deliveredto you at that address. Then you cansign a self-certification stating thatthat is your physical address.”
“Look, this is ridiculous,” I said.“I’m not going to sign a form thatsays I live somewhere I don’t. I hadno problem changing my voter’sregistration,” I added, pulling my
voter’s card from my wallet. “Theysaid they see this all the time, andmade the county courthouse myaddress. So how about we use that?”I stated.
“Sir, you can’t use the courthouseas your address.”
“Why not? The Supervisor ofElections is fine with it.”
“Sir, we need a physical addressso that if the state of Florida needs tofind you, there’s a door they canknock on and the person who answerswill know where you are.”
I just stared at her for a moment.“Are you serious?” I said. “If I gaveyou a letter from the marina so thatyou can check your little box, you’dgive me a license. But if I’m off sailingaround, I guarantee you if you wentknocking on the marina office doorlooking for me, they wouldn’t have aclue where I was.”
Nothing pisses off a bureaucratmore than undermining their pettyrules with logic. I could see in herface that I was now the enemy.Turning to her computer, she startedtyping furiously.
“Sir, I’m preparing a letter ofinstruction stating that you have twooptions. You can either provide a let-
So…You Live on a Boat andNeed a Driver’s License?
By Robert Sapp
