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10 Years After Katrina Cruise to Southport, NC Buying a Fixer Upper SOUTHWINDS SOUTHWINDS News & Views for Southern Sailors October 2015 For Sailors — Free…It’s Priceless
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Transcript of Southwinds October 2015
10 Years After KatrinaCruise to Southport, NC
Buying a Fixer Upper
SOUTHWINDS SOUTHWINDSNews & Views for Southern Sailors
October 2015For Sailors — Free…It’s Priceless
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1972 Bristol 40Classic designed Ted Hood blue water cruiser. Well found yacht,cruise ready. She's turn key, has classic lines and is a head turnerin any harbor. $92,000.
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SOUTHWINDSNEWS & VIEWS FOR SOUTHERN SAILORS
The new Gulfport Yacht Club in Gulfport, MS—one ofthe many clubs rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina. Page29. Photo by Troy Gilbert.
Cruise to Southport, North Carolina. Page 37. Photoby Haila Eggleton-MacKay.
Each issue of SOUTHWINDS (and back issues since 5/03) is available online at www.southwindsmagazine.com
COVER PHOTO:Race #1 of the three-race series of the 2015 USODA Girls National Championship hosted by Pensacola Yacht Club on July 22.
In the lead is Laura Hamilton, Carolina Yacht Club, closely followed by Fiona Forelich, Austin Yacht Club. Behind her is Ava Shakespeare of St. Petersburg Yacht Club. All three are sailing in the White Fleet (age 10 and under).
Page 47. Photo by Julie B. Connerley.
6 Editorial: Ten Years After KatrinaBy Steve Morrell
9 Southern Regional Monthly Weather and Water Temperatures
10 Calendar — Upcoming Events in the Southeast (Non-Race)
17 Racing News: News, Instruction, Southern Sailors, and National and International Regattas in the South
19 Short Tacks: Sailing News from Around the South and the World of Sailing
28 Florida FWC Derelict Vessel MeetingBy Fred Braman
29 Marinas and Yacht Clubs Rebuild Five and Ten Years After Katrina
By Troy Gilbert
37 Cruising Destination: Southport, North CarolinaBy Haila Eggleton-MacKay
42 Carolina Sailing: Fall Sailing EventsBy Dan Dickison
44 Buying a Fixer-UpperBy Gary W. Dickinson
47 Southern Race Report: USODA Nationals; Race for the Roses; Fast Women Regatta; Sarasota Sailing Squadron Labor Day Regatta
50 Southern Regional Racing Calendar
70 Lady the Boat DogBy Robert Centers
22 Marine Marketplace34 Southern Marinas Pages36 Southern Sailing Schools Section56 Boat Brokerage Section 62 Classifieds68 Alphabetical Index of Advertisers69 Advertisers’ List by Category
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FROM THE HELM STEVE MORRELL, EDITOR
Ten (and 11) Years After Katrina, Rita, Ivan, Jeanne, Francis, Wilma, Charley...
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since HurricaneKatrina, which struck New Orleans 10 years ago last week
(as I write this). Katrina drew a lot of deserved attention,but what I remember most was not just Katrina, but the hur-ricane years of 2004 and 2005.
In 2004, the season’s damage to Florida and theSoutheast started off with Hurricane Charley on Friday,August 13. Charley, a Category 4, did some serious damagein Captiva, Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte. Little did weknow that was only the beginning.
Three weeks after Charley, Hurricane Frances—aCategory 4—hit east Florida with destructive force. Butwhat really shocked everyone was when HurricaneJeanne—a Category 4—hit the same general location in eastFlorida only three weeks later.
But that was not the end. Next, on Sept. 16, came Ivan,a Category 3 that really tore up the northern Gulf States.2004 became the deadliest and most costly Atlantic hurri-cane season on record—that is, until the following year.
After 2004, forecasters were backing up a growing the-ory that maybe the Atlantic basin was on a 20-year cycle ofheavy seasons and 2004 was the beginning of a new cycle—this, even though their records really only went back 100years or so, which means only five 20-year cycles were sup-porting the theory. Then came 2005.
2005 took the record of not only the most active year,but the most costly and deadly. There were seven majorhurricanes (Category 3, 4 and 5), five of which did the mostdamage. Wilma, Rita and Katrina were the most destruc-tive. Wilma was the most intense storm ever recorded in theAtlantic basin with winds at 295 mph. It weakened to aCategory 2 by the time it hit Southwest Florida at CapeRomano, doing some real damage in the Keys.
Rita, the fourth most intense storm ever recorded in theAtlantic, hit the northern Gulf from Texas to Louisiana in a
weakened state in late September as a Category 3, but themain damage was from its storm surge, reaching as high as17 feet. That’s some high water.
Just about everyone can remember what Katrina didand there’s no need here to go into the destruction it caused.It was a Category 3 when it hit Louisiana and New Orleans.It is now ranked as the costliest natural disaster and one ofthe five deadliest hurricanes to hit the U.S. Only the LaborDay hurricane in 1935 and Camille in 1969 were of greaterintensity.
The 2004 and 2005 seasons had a major effect on boat-ing in the Southeast, particularly Florida. Many marinaswere destroyed, as were many boats. Insurance went upconsiderably for both marinas and boats, causing slip ratesto rise. Some insurance companies would not insure boatsthat are in Florida during the official storm season if theowners lived out of the state. Many people with older boatseither couldn’t get insurance or the rates were so high thatthey couldn’t afford it. Many marinas around the stateweren’t even half-full. In the northern Gulf, many of themarinas didn’t even exist, taking years to be rebuilt. A lot ofpeople just gave up on boat ownership. Boat sales wentdown (and when the economy crashed in 2008, boat salesreally took a dive, but the boat industry had been goingdown since 2005).
Yet it’s been calm in the Southeast since then, withalmost no storms making landfall. Who knows what hap-pened to the 20-year-cycle theory, but the hurricane fore-casters quit mentioning it and started saying that each yearis unique. And with the world warming up, it’s become lesspredictable still.
I always keep in mind what I read one climatologistsaid about global warming when he was asked what’sgoing to happen. He said, “It’s hard to predict exactly.What’s happening is that the pot is getting stirred up.”
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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Letters from our readers Fred Braman Robert CentersCharlie Clifton Julie B. Connerley Gary W. Dickinson Dan Dickison Haila Eggleton-MacKay Troy GilbertKim Kaminski Roy Laughlin Hone Scunook
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WIND ROSES: Each wind rose shows the strength and direc-tion of the prevailing winds in the area and month. These havebeen recorded over a long period of time. In general, thelengths of the arrows indicate how often the winds came fromthat direction. The longer the arrow, the more often the windscame from that direction. When the arrow is too long to beprinted in a practical manner, a number is indicated.
The number in the center of the circle shows the percentageof the time that the winds were calm. The lengths of thearrows plus the calms number in the center add up to 100percent. The number of feathers on the arrow indicates thestrength of the wind on the Beaufort scale (one feather isForce 1, etc.). Wind Roses are taken from Pilot Charts.
Southeast Air & Water Temperatures, PrevailingWinds & Gulf Stream Currents – October
CALENDAR Upcoming Events in the Southeast(Non-Race)Go to the Racing Calendar for regattas, local races and racing news
• Educational/Training • Boat Shows• Seafood Festivals• Sailboat & Trawler Rendezvous• Other Events
Educational/Training
Go to the Racing News Pages on page 19 for RacingInstruction in the Southeast.
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary organizations throughout thecountry hold hundreds of regular boating courses on thevarious subjects. To find a course near you, go towww.cgaux.org/boatinged/class_finder.
North Carolina Maritime Museum, Beaufort, NCOngoing adult sailing programs. Family Sailing. ongoingtraditional boat building classes. www.ncmm-friends.org,[email protected], (252) 728-7317.
Boating Safety Courses—Required in Florida and Other Southern StatesAnyone in Florida born after Jan. 1, 1988, must take a boat-ing safety course in order to operate a boat of 10 hp or more.Other states require safety education if born after a certain
LISTING YOUR EVENTTo have your event listed, contact [email protected]. Email us the information by the 1st ofthe month preceding publication. Contact us if a littlelater (it most likely will get in, but not certain). We willprint your public event the month of the event and themonth before. Rendezvous we print for three months.Events must be free, very low cost, or not for profit.
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date. To see the laws in each state, go to www.aboutboat-ingsafely.com.
The course named “About Boating Safely” and“America’s Boating Course (ABC)” both satisfy the require-ments.They are marked below with two asterisks (**):
**Jacksonville, FL. Ongoing Mike Christnacht. (904) 502-9154. Classes at Captain’s Club, 13363 Beach Blvd. $25including materials. [email protected]/pe.htm.
**New Port Richey, FL. Ongoing. New Port RicheyUSCGAUX Flotilla 11-06 First Saturday of the month. 9 a.mto 5 p.m. U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary CommunicationsBuilding, 3920 Marine Parkway, New Port Richey, FL (inGulf Harbors Yacht Club Parking Lot). Register atBoaterEducation.info
**St. Augustine, FL, October 3, November 7. Coast GuardAuxiliary of St. Augustine. One-day course. St. AugustineCampus of St. Johns River State College, 2900 CollegeDrive (off SR-16), St. Augustine. 7:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Early registration recommended. Contact Vic Aquino at(904) 460-0243.
**Punta Gorda, FL, Oct. 7, Wednesdays for seven weeks.Peace River Sail and Power Squadron, Punta Gorda BoatClub, 802 W. Retta Esplanade, Punta Gorda. www.pun-tagorda-boating.org.
Mastering the Rules of the Road, St. Petersburg, FL, Oct. 14 St. Petersburg Sail and Power Squadron. 7-9 p.m. at the St.Petersburg Sailing Center, 250 2nd Ave SE, DemensLanding, St. Petersburg, FL. Instruction free, materials $40per family. Pre-registration required, www.boating-stpete.org.
Aids to Navigation, Dinner and Harbor Cruise,Morehead City, NC, Oct. 17Fort Macon Sail and Power Squadron, will present an aidsto navigation class, dinner, and harbor cruise on Saturday,October 17, at the Sanitary Fish Market, 501 Evans Street,Morehead City, NC, at 3 p.m. Dinner follows the class. Theclass then boards the Carolina Princess to cruise BogueSound and Beaufort Inlet channel to see channel markers,ranges, and other aids. Debarkation is at 8 p.m. $50 for theclass, dinner, harbor cruise. Contact David Aitken [email protected], 252-503-7124. Registration and pay-ment must be received by Oct. 1.
US SAILING INSTRUCTOR AND COACH COURSESIN THE SOUTHEAST(NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX)No courses were scheduled in October and November inthe Southeast as of press date. Go to the website forcourses that might have been scheduled after our pressdate. For more on course schedules, locations, contactinformation, course descriptions and prerequisites, go towww.ussailing.org/education/teach-sailing, or call (401)683-0800, ext. 644. Check the website, since courses areoften added late and after press date. For learning-to-sailand powerboat handling courses, go to www.ussailing.org/education.
BOAT SHOWS
Tampa Boat Show. Oct. 2-4Tampa Bay’s oldest and longest running boat show. TampaConvention Center, Tampa, FL. NMMA. Basically a power-boat show. (954) 441-3220. www.tampaboatshow.com. 10-8p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10-6 on Sunday. $12. Ages 15 andunder, free (when with adult). Purchase tickets online, atshow, or by phone.
26th Annual Georgetown Wooden Boat Show, Georgetown,SC, Oct. 17-18This is one of the largest wooden boat shows in the countrywith over 140 classic wooden boats displayed on land andwater, a wooden boatbuilding competition, children’s modelboatbuilding, knot tying, maritime arts and crafts, food andmusic. A special attraction will be Saturday’s Wooden BoatChallenge when teams of two race to build a rowing skiffwithin a four-hour time limit and then test their boats for sea-worthiness in a rowing relay on the Sampit River.
The show takes place on the waterfront and along FrontStreet in historic downtown Georgetown. It is produced bythe Harbor Historical Association, a 501(c)(3) tax-exemptorganization. All proceeds benefit the South Carolina Mari-time Museum. For more, go to www.woodenboatshow.com.
55th Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, Nov. 5-9Bahia Mar Yachting Center. Ft. Lauderdale. Largest boatshow in the world, covering seven sites. Over 1,600 vesselswith 160 Super yachts, marine supplies, accessories, electron-ics. Cost: Adults $27 ($25 online), children 6-15 $12 ($10online), under 6 free. 2-day ticket $45 ($43 online). Fri-Sun 10a.m.-7 p.m., Mon. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The show is open for $43($41 online) for a show preview to all on Thursday, Nov. 5, 10a.m.-7 p.m. (954) 764-7642. www.showmanagement.com.
43rd Fort Myers Boat Show, Nov. 19-22Harborside Convention Complex and City Yacht Basin, FortMyers, FL. 10-6 Thursday-Saturday, 10-5 Sunday. Show is
put on by the Southwest Florida Marina IndustriesAssociation and managed by Good Event Management,(954) 570-7785, [email protected]. www.fortmyersboat-show.com. www.swfmia.com.
38th Annual St. Petersburg BoatShow and Strictly Sail, FL, Dec. 3-6SOUTHWINDS will have a booth at the show, distributingextra copies of the magazine. Businesses and regattas wish-ing to advertise in the show issue, contact Steve Morrell,[email protected] by Nov. 1.
SEAFOOD FESTIVALS &MARINE FLEA MARKETS
Beaufort Shrimp Festival, Beaufort,SC, Oct. 2-3.
Shrimp cooked every way. Local restaurants offer their spe-cialties. Waterfront Park in Beaufort, SC. Free. www.sneadsferry.org/festival/scf_beaufort_shrimpfest.htm
29th Annual North Carolina SeafoodFestival and Boat Show, Oct 2-4. Food, music and lots of other events. Opens Friday at noon.Saturday, 10am-11pm, Sunday 11am-5pm. Free. MoreheadCity, NC. www.ncseafoodfestival.org.
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44th Annual National ShrimpFestival, Gulf Shores, AL, Oct. 8-11Savor fresh-from-the-gulf seafood at the 44th AnnualNational Shrimp Festival during this four-day event thatattracts over 300,000 people. This year the festival will playhost to more than 80 hours of musical entertainment featur-ing a lineup of national, regional and local bands and artists
Main public beach in Gulf Shores at 101 Gulf ShoresParkway. 10 am-10 pm. www.nationalshrimpfestival.com.
46th Annual Cedar Key SeafoodFestival, Cedar Key, FL, Oct. 17-18Parade, arts and crafts, lots of seafood. 9-5 p.m. This majorevent features well over 200 arts and crafts exhibits, andgreat food in City Park. There will be live entertainment atseveral places around town, and a parade on Saturdaymorning. Over the weekend, there is an open house at thelighthouse on Seahorse Key, the big island three miles to thewest of Cedar Key. Shuttle boats are available at CityMarina. www.cedarkey.org
Nautical Rummage Sale, Green Cove Springs, October 18North Florida Cruising Club. Green Cove Springs Marina,851 Bulkhead Rd. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. No cost for space to sellyour stuff.
34th Annual John’s Pass SeafoodFestival, John’s Pass Village, FL,Oct. 23-25. Children’s area, live entertainment and fishing expo. Thearts and craft show is designed with a nautical theme. Abounty of fresh seafood featuring the favorite MadeiraBeach Grouper. Friday 3 p.m.-11 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m.- 6p.m. Sunday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Johns Pass Village, MadeiraBeach, FL. www.johnspass.com.
18th Annual Cortez Nautical Flea Market, Cortez, FL, Oct. 24New Location This YearThe 18th Annual Cortez Nautical Flea Market will be held atthe Florida Maritime Museum, 4415 119th Street West,Cortez, FL 34215, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24.Free to the public with free parking. There is a $15 per spacecharge for sellers only. Bring your own table.
Lots of used boat stuff, some new boat stuff, too, buy ortrade. You might even see some boat stuff you wouldn’t letyour dog chew on. Guaranteed you will meet a lot ofboaters (or interesting people), enjoy the scenery and have agood time. So dig out and dust off all that old boat stuff andbring it on down (or you could just keep it until you can’tremember what it was ever going to be used for). Bring thewhole family if you like. Come out and find a great deal orjust look around and have a good time. This event is co-spon-
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sored by SOUTHWINDS magazine. For information and toreserve space, contact Amara Nash at (941) 708-6121 [email protected]. Rain date, Saturday, Oct. 31.
52nd Annual Florida SeafoodFestival. Apalachicola, FL,Nov. 6-7The state’s oldest maritime exhibit. The two-day eventannually draws thousands of visitors to this scenic historictown at the mouth of the Apalachicola River. The festivalfeatures delicious seafood, arts and crafts exhibits, seafoodrelated events and displays under the shady oaks ofApalachicola’s Battery Park. Some of the notable eventsinclude oyster eating, oyster shucking, a parade, a 5kRedfish Run, a Blue Crab race and a Blessing of the Fleet.(888) 653-8011. 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. (11:00 p.m. onSaturday). www.floridaseafoodfestival.com
Nautical Flea Market, St. Augustine, FL, Nov. 7-8Sponsored by Sailors Exchange. 7-1/2 San Bartola Dr. (nearSR312 by the hospital). 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free. Selling space at$20 (reservations suggested). 904-429-7415.
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WindRider Trimaran Rendezvous,Sarasota, FL Oct. 16-18The 5th WOW (WindRider Owners Weekend) rally forWindRider Trimarans will be held in Sarasota, FL, duringthe weekend of the Buzzelli Rendezvous, a multihull regat-ta. Some WindRider owners may choose to compete in theregatta on Saturday and Sunday. There will be specificevents for WindRiders, which will include instruction andtips for optimizing performance of WindRiders. Furtherdetails to be determined. www.windrider.com.
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2015 Atlantic Hurricane Season,June 1-November 30Visit the SOUTHWINDS hurricane pages at www.southwinds-magazine.com for articles and links to weather Web sites,hurricane plans, tips on preparing your boat and more.How to develop a simple plan to protect your boat—thebest and simplest plan out there.
America’s Great Loop Cruiser’sAssociation Fall Rendezvous,Rogersville, AL, Oct. 14-17This is the AGLCA’s largest annual rendezvous andreunion. The event is held at Joe Wheeler State Park, just offthe main Tennessee River. For more information, and toregister, go to www.greatloop.org/2015-fall-rendezvous-reunion-cms-1304.
Charley Morgan to Speak in Miami,Oct. 20Yacht designer Charley Morgan and his wife, MaurineMorgan, will be giving a talk on his life and times at theMiami Yacht Club at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 20. The event is expect-ed to last at least two hours. The event is free and reserva-tions are highly recommended. Entry could be available atthe door if seats are still available. The first 50 reservationswill receive a special door prize. For reservations, pleaseRSVP. Contact [email protected], or call (305) 632-0298. Watch for details at www.sailingservices.com. Theevent is sponsored by Sailing Services, Inc., of Miami, withhelp from Harken and New England Ropes.
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40th Annual Seven Seas CruisingAssociation Gam, Melbourne, FL,Nov. 13-15SSCA will be holding their biggest party of the year whencruising enthusiasts meet on Florida’s Space Coast inNovember.
The annual general meeting will be held on Saturday at4 p.m. The Vendor Area will be in the gym on Friday andSaturday. Vendors will be offering “boat show” discountedprices. Seminars will be held on Friday and Saturday withroundtable discussions on Sunday morning. Friday eveningwill be the Vendor and Speaker Appreciation andCamaraderie Cocktail Party ($10 per person includes twodrink tickets and cold hors d’oeuvres). Nigel Calder will bepresenting “Lessons Learned Along the Way” on Fridayevening.
Saturday evening will feature a gourmet buffet, fol-lowed by the after-dinner presentation by Peter Swanson.Those who choose to dine elsewhere may return after din-ner to enjoy the Swanson’s presentation and participate inthe annual fundraising auction. Saturday evening dinner is$22.50/person. Registration beforehand is required.
On Sunday morning—rain or shine—will be theNautical Flea Market held in the gym. Tables rent for $10each for Gam attendees, $20 for non-attendees—bothpayable on site. Concurrent with the flea market will thepopular roundtable discussions, including the CruisingDestination roundtables hosted by members who’ve beenthere, and other groups of interest.
All activities will take place at the Eau Gallie CivicCenter in Melbourne, FL (1551 Highland Ave.), located onthe ICW with plenty of room for anchoring and a freedinghy dock just steps from the Civic Center. For moreinformation, or to register, go to www.ssca.org and click onSSCA Events. Cost of attending the Gam is $35 for membersand $50 for non-member friends. Prices go up $5 if registra-tion is after Oct. 31.
Melbourne Heading South Gathering. Just before theMelbourne Gam, on Nov. 12, SSCA is sponsoring anotherinformal get-together where both new and experiencedcruisers can gather and talk about their plans for headingsouth. Those new to cruising can pick the brains ofSSCA’ers who have been out a while and know the ropes.Cruisers who have made the trip south to the Bahamas orthe Caribbean can share their knowledge and help newcruisers avoid the pitfalls. The meeting will be at Squid Lipsbar, just a short walk from the Eau Gallie Civic Center (loca-tion of the Melbourne Gam) at 4 p.m. Squid Lips is locatedright on the ICW. For more details, contact Melinda Schellat [email protected].
16th Annual Atlantic IntracoastalWaterway Conference, Jacksonville,FL, Nov. 12-13The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association will holdits annual conference at the Omni Jacksonville Hotel in
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RACING NEWS Racing News, Southern Sailors, and National and International Regattas in the South
8th Conch Republic Cup, Key West Race to Cuba, January 27-Feb. 6, 2016This is the regatta to Cuba that was last held in 2003. It wasorganized by Key West residents Peter Goldsmith andMichelle Geslin. They ran the event for eight years before2003, but in 2003 they were harassed by the U.S.Government after the race and their computers and paperswere confiscated. Michelle Geslin was ill at the time and shedied in 2009. But that didn’t deter the federal government’sharassment. They were never prosecuted, just heavilyinvestigated. The charges were dropped the Friday beforethe presidential election in November 2004.
Now Peter Goldsmith has joined with Jeff Dreschler toput together this new version of the Conch Republic Cup,except it will no longer be run in June but in January. Jeffsailed with Peter and Michelle in the 1997 Veradero race.Jeff was coach to the Hobie sailors in the Havana Challenge,which sailed to Cuba from Key West in May (see the articleabout the race by Jeff in the July issue in Back Issues atwww.southwindsmagazine.com).
The Conch Republic Cup started out as the Race toVeradero in 1997. After running twice, it evolved into theConch Republic Cup from 1999 through 2003. That makes the2016 race the 8th running of the event. The January date is setto attract racers who have just completed Key West RaceWeek and others who are heading south for the Caribbeanracing season. Registration for the event was closed at the end
of October. As of late August, 21 boats were signed up fromSC, CA, MD, NY, TX and the United Kingdom. For moreinformation, go to www.conchrepubliccup.com.
Sarasota Yacht Club AnnouncesRace to Havana, April 2-12, 2016The Sarasota Yacht Club will host the first race to Havanafrom Sarasota since the club held the race in 1994, which wasthen held under heavy protest, both on and off the water.
This PHRF race is open to any qualified boat 28 feet orlonger, monohull or multihull. Classes sailing will beSpinnaker, Non-Spinnaker, True Cruising and Multihull.Dockage will be at Marina Hemingway. Boats will depart onApril 3 off Big Pass near Sarasota. Boats are expected to arrivein Cuba April 5-6. Tours will be held April 7-9, and departurefrom Cuba, weather permitting, will be April 10-12.
Registration for the race opened in August and dead-line is December 31 to register and submit payment for allrequired fees. All required papers and crew list must besubmitted by Jan. 31, 2016. The crew list cannot be changedonce it is submitted. Crew must not be government employ-ees, not have a criminal record and they must be approvedby the Coast Guard.
For details and contact information, go to www.saraso-tayachtclub.org/regattas.
Treasure Coast of Florida SailingOrganizations Announce an Inter-Club Regatta Series for YouthUS SAILING Center - Martin County (USSCMC), along withTreasure Coast Youth Sailing Foundation (TCYSF), YouthSailing Association of Indian River County (YSF) and PalmBeach Sailing Club (PBSC) announced the region’s first everinter-club regatta: the Treasure Coast Optimist Series.
The new regatta begins this fall and will encourageyouth sailors from the Treasure Coast and surroundingareas to race together on a consistent basis so they canimprove their sailboat racing skills. Children up to the ageof 15 will sail the Optimist (Opti). Each club will host theirfall regatta as usual, and those scores will be included intothe Treasure Coast Optimist Series score. In addition to thetwo fall regattas, USSCMC will host three Sunday afternoonregattas from Noon-4 p.m. to complete the series. There willbe two divisions which will be based on the sailor’s experi-ence: a gold fleet and a silver fleet.
Series Dates Are:• TCYSF (Fort Pierce) Sunday, September 27.
Parker Whitehead Regatta• USSCMC (Jensen Beach) Sunday, October 11, 12 p.m.• USSCMC (Jensen Beach) Sunday, November 1, 12 p.m.• PBSC (Palm Beach) Sunday, November 15. Fall Festival
Regatta• USSCMC (Jensen Beach) Sunday, November 22, 12 p.m.
USSCMC will award trophies for each division for theseries, including a perpetual trophy for the series champion.The series entry fee will be $30. For more information, go towww.usscmc.org.
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US Sailing Advanced Race Management Seminars St. Petersburg Yacht Club, St. Petersburg, FL, Oct. 17-18.Contact Tom Farquhar at [email protected] Thomas Farquhar and Todd Fedyszyn.
UPCOMING NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL REGATTASIN THE SOUTHEAST
Lightning North American Championship. Southern Yacht Club, New Orleans, LA, Oct. 8-11
J/80 North American Championships. Lakewood YachtClub, Seabrook, TX, Oct. 9-11 (Held with J/Fest this year.See the Race Calendar, Northern Gulf Coast section.)
Zhik F-18 North AmericasChampionshipCharlotte Harbor, FL, Oct. 17-23
This international event, sponsored by high-performancesailing gear supplier Zhik, is scheduled for Oct. 17-25 at PortCharlotte Beach Park in Charlotte County, FL. Five days ofracing are scheduled and over 60 boats are expected to com-pete. Charlotte Harbor Regatta, Inc., a not-for-profit Floridacorporation will be the event organizer. For more on the F-18organization, go to www.usf18.com. For more on CharlotteHarbor Regatta, Inc., go to www.charlotteharborregatta.com.
Mutineer National ChampionshipsTampa Sailing Squadron, Tampa, FL, Oct. 19-23
Hobie Wave North American ChampionshipPensacola Beach Yacht Club, Pensacola, FL, Oct. 30-Nov. 1
Pensacola Yacht Club Rally andRace to Cuba, Oct. 31The Pensacola Yacht Club is organizing an offshore rally andrace from Pensacola, FL, to the Hemingway InternationalYacht Club near Havana, Cuba, with a start on Oct 31. Theevent is intended for experienced sailors and seaworthycruising sailboats. Entry to this event should be closed by thetime this goes to press. For more information, contact BobKriegel at [email protected], or (850) 455-7695.
82nd Nassau Cup Race, Miami to Nassau, Nov. 12Running since 1934, this 176-nautical mile race crosses theGulf Stream and is known for its share of great racers anddramatic weather. Competitors over the race’s historyinclude race winner Ted Turner on Tenacious to the morerecent four-time winner, Jim Bishop, on Gold Digger. Past con-tenders for the Cup include Dennis Conner, Dick Bertram,Ted Hood and Bobby Symonette. Monohull and multihullboats 30 feet and over are invited. SORC may also add a dou-ble-handed division (contact the organizers for more).
The Notice of Race is posted at www.nassaucuprace.org. The Coral Reef Yacht Club, LauderdaleYacht Club, Nassau Yacht Club and the Storm Trysail Clubcombine to sponsor this race, which is managed by SORCfor the collective group.
RACING NEWS Racing News, Southern Sailors, and National and International Regattas in the South
Review Your BoatSOUTHWINDS is looking for boaters to review their own boat.We found readers like to read reviews by boat owners. Ifyou like to write, we want your review. It can be long orshort (the boat, that is), a racer, a cruiser, new or old, on atrailer or in the water. Photos essential. If it’s a liveaboard,tell us how that works out. Or—is it fast? Have you madechanges? What changes would you like? [email protected] beforehand and for morespecifics and specifications on photos needed. Articles mustbe sent by e-mail or on disc. We pay for the reviews, too.
80th AnnualEGMONT KEY RACE
The oldest running sailboat race on the west coast of Florida
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To celebrate 80 years, the race will go AROUND Egmont Key for the first time
• 60-mile race around Egmont Key with start and finish at DIYC• Challenging distance course with both in-shore and off-shore elements• Perpetual Houston Wall Trophy awarded to the top PHRF-
corrected time monohull• A DIYC and Suncoast BOTY event• Short course for smaller boats that stays inside the Skyway Bridge• Traditional DIYC Chili Cookoff at the club to welcome racer’s return
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New Online Course for Boaters:“All About Marine Radio”From BoatU.S.
If you put 10 boaters in a room with a working marine VHFradio, how many could call for help, call a friend, or share anavigational hazard with nearby boaters? Chances are themost important piece of safety gear aboard a boat is the leastunderstood. A partnership with the US Power Squadrons
NEWS FROM AROUND THE SOUTH AND THE WORLD OF SAILINGSend us news, including business press releases, to [email protected]. We need to receive them by the 1st ofthe month preceding publication. Contact us if later (it most likely will get in, but not certain).
Okeechobee Water Level Goes up About an InchSince Early August
As of press date in early September, Lake Okeechobeewas at 13.21 feet above sea level, about a foot higher sinceearly August. This makes the navigational depth for Route1, which crosses the lake, 7.15 feet, and the navigationaldepth for Route 2, which goes around the southern coastof the lake, 5.35 feet. Bridge clearance at Myakka was at49.47 feet. For those interested in seeing the daily height ofthe lake, navigation route depths and bridge clearance, goto http://w3.saj.usace.army.mil/h2o/currentLL.shtml(copy this address exactly as it is here with upper andlower cases). This link is also available on our website,www.southwindsmagazine.com. See the left column.
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and BoatUS Foundation aims to improve boaters’ knowledgewith the new online course, “All About Marine Radio,”offered at BoatUS.org/courses. The course shows how to usestandard VHF radios as well as newer Digital SelectiveCalling (DSC) VHF radios and is great for novices and expe-rienced boaters. Taken from the comfort of home, the courseis $24.95 (a reduced price is available to BoatUS members).
“From calling a mayday to requesting a marina slip,it’s the boater’s VHF radio that is the most reliable way tocommunicate, and it is the only piece of equipment thatcan get those closest to a boat in distress to respond quick-ly,” said BoatUS Foundation Director of EducationAmanda Suttles Pérez.
“All About Marine Radio” teaches how to choose thebest radio for your boating lifestyle and how to get the mostuse out of it. The online course will show some simple rulesto follow when you’re using a marine VHF radio plus how to:
• Determine which features you want in a marine radio for your type of boating
• Make and receive radio calls, including what channels to use
• Obtain and use a Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) number for your boat
• Call for help in all kinds of emergencies• Ensure that your transmissions are understandable• Simple rules to follow when using your radio
NMMA Schedules Third BoatingIndustry Trip to Cuba for DecemberAlthough registration is closed for this trip, in July, theNMMA scheduled a third trip to Cuba for boating industryrepresentatives because of high demand that existed for thefirst two trips. The NMMA stated in their press release that“The impetus for this trip is our desire that U.S.-Cuba rela-tions will continue to improve and that private marketenterprise will continue to grow. We want to help boatingexecutives learn about the island and its people before thetrade embargo is lifted.”
The trip, scheduled for Dec. 7-11, will visit maintourist sites in Havana, existing marina complexes—including a recently completed marina in Varadero—andother boating sites. Cuban experts will speak to the groupthroughout the trip.
The NMMA mentioned that boating opportunities inCuba are not just saltwater. There are also over 100 fresh-water lakes suitable for boating. The lakes, which are threeto five miles long, irrigate rice fields and are also filled withlargemouth bass. They were built by the Soviets in the 60sand 70s.
NMMA Releases Details on AnnualEconomic Benefits of the MiamiBoat ShowCelebrating the 75th year of the Miami Boat Show and itsnew location, the NMMA, organizers of the show, releaseda report showing the economic benefits of the show, stating
that there is $600 million dollars of annual benefit to Floridaand the region.
The report was released in the middle of the controver-sy with a local community about other effects of the show’snew location at the Miami Marine Stadium and Basin.
The report stated several facts to support the report:$30.4 million dollars of excise and sales tax is generatedfrom the show; 1200 show exhibitors; 33 percent ofexhibitors are based in Dade, Broward or Palm BeachCounty; $312.2 million in estimated sales for Florida com-panies; 6592 people employed full time by the show; $83million dollars is spent by out-of-town visitors andexhibitors related to the show; 36 percent of visitors and 35percent of exhibitors are from out of the state; 100,000 visi-tors are from out of the country; 200,000 hotel nights arepurchased; more than 1200 boats on exhibit, along withexhibits of marine accessories, electronics, engines, nauticalgifts, apparel and services.
In promoting the show’s new location, the report addedthat there will be 500 slips in the deep-water basin, withparking for 12,000 vehicles at various locations and freeland and water taxi shuttles to the show.
National Sailing Hall of FameAnnounces 2015 InducteesIn July the National Sailing Hall of Fame announced sixpeople who will be in the 2015 class of inductees:
• Sailing school founder Steve Colgate (Fort Myers, FL)• Olympic medalist Paul Foerster (Rockwall, TX)• Olympic medalist and author J.J. Fetter
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Jan Gougeon (both Bay City, MI) • U.S. Olympic Yachting Committee Director
Samuel V. Merrick (Medford, NJ)—also the recipient of the NSHOF’s 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award.
The inductees are decided by a selection committee of rep-resentatives from US Sailing, the sailing media, the sailingindustry, community sailing, a maritime museum, previousinductees and the NSHOF board. The decision follows atwo-month period when sailors from around the countrynominate individuals.
The inductees must be 45 or older and have made a sig-nificant impact on the growth and development of the sportin the U.S. in the categories of sailing, technical/design andcontributor (coach, administrator, sailing media).
An invitation-only induction ceremony for the newinductees will be held on Oct. 4 at the Bay Head Yacht Clubin New Jersey. For more on the NSHOF, go towww.nshof.org.
Researchers Find a SuperiorAlternative to EthanolAfter five years of testing and collaboration between enginemanufacturers, the National Marina ManufacturersAssociation, the American Boat and Yacht Council, theCoast Guard and the U.S. Energy Department, an alterna-
tive biofuel—biobutanol—has been developed that appearsto be far superior to problems created with E15.
Currently there is 10 percent ethanol in gasoline (exceptat marinas and at a small number of gas stations where no-ethanol gas may be found). E15—ethanol at 15 percent—hasbeen proposed and many think it’s coming, but it is amidsta lot of controversy, particularly from the marine industry,because the gasoline tanks on boats and small outboards arenot sealed like in an automobile but open to the outside airwhich can cause major condensation with changing temper-atures. Plus gasoline sits longer in boats and engines thatare not being used, making condensation even more likely.At 10 percent, many small engines have problems of fuelsystem corrosion, particularly in the marine industry, butalso in small gas engines like lawn mowers and generators.Many current engines are designed to handle 10 percent,although many think they don’t handle it well even at thatlevel. Increasing the amount to 15 percent has brought agreat amount of resistance, so in 2010, the marine industrygot together to look for a solution.
Ethanol is highly susceptible to phase separation wherethe water settles to the bottom of the tank with the gasolineon top. The water then goes to the engine creating fuel sys-tem corrosion, even destroying engine parts. Biobutanol issignificantly less susceptible to phase separation and givesthe same effect at 16.1 percent as ethanol at 10 percent.
All of the above organizations that were involved intesting biobutanol are satisfied that they have enough infor-mation from the results to confidently proclaim that theadditive is superior and will solve the problem. The nextstep is getting it accepted, produced and available to themarine industry, which will take some time.
The government, from legislation passed in 2005 and2007, mandated that 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel beadded to the nation’s gasoline supply by 2002. Ethanol iscreated from corn grown by American farmers, who strong-ly support the ethanol mandate.
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On July 1, a workshop was held with all stakeholdersrepresented at FWC Headquarters in Tallahassee in
order to develop ideas for confronting the derelict vessel(DV) problem existing on Florida waterways (Read aboutthat meeting in the August issue of Back Issues atwww.southwindsmagazine.com). Results of the workshopwere reduced to several concepts that were presented in aseries of August meetings around the state to the boatingcommunity, waterfront property owners, boating associa-tions, and law enforcement personnel and waterfront man-agers representing local communities.
Concept 1: Ability to place a “hold” on a derelict vessel title toensure that innocent parties are not placed in a compromisingposition when the owner of a DV attempts to sell the vessel toavoid prosecution or vessel removal obligations. Vessels havebeen “sold” to avoid liability, occasionally to the homeless.This concept would prevent transfer once a vessel is desig-nated by law enforcement as a DV.
Concept 2: Limitation on renewing a vessel registration to theowner of record to protect a previous owner who has sold the ves-
sel to a person who fails to transfer title. Little known by mostboaters, sellers retain liability for a sold vessel if the title isnot transferred by the buyer. Currently, buyers who do nottransfer title (to avoid sales taxes or any other reason) canstill renew a registration.
Concept 3: Penalties for expired vessel registration beyond 6months to ensure that vessels which are being neglected by theirowners receive necessary attention and to mirror current motorvehicle law. This concept assists waterway management inkeeping vessels from deteriorating into a derelict condi-tion, far cheaper than dealing with vessels after obtaininga DV condition. Law enforcement officials believe that anaged boat registration is the first visible identifier of aproblem vessel.
Concept 4: Limited requirement for vessel insurance or bond tohelp mitigate the financial burden that DVs place on local com-munities and the state. A requirement for an insurance policy ora bond to cover removal costs to be applied to commercial vesselsof a prescribed length, vessels more than a prescribed age, or ofwood or steel construction. Boats over 65 feet or older than 35years were offered as possible categories.
Concept 5: Prohibition of vessels deemed “at risk” of becomingderelict in order to reduce the incidence of vessels deteriorating toa DV condition. The conditions that would trigger action by lawenforcement include:
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Concept 6: Vessels incapable of navigating under its own meansof effective propulsion to be added as an “at risk” condition underConcept 5. The availability of sails and the ability to hoistthem would satisfy the “propulsion” requirement.
Concept 7: Rapid removal and destruction/disposal of DVs witha value less than a prescribed amount. $2500 was offered as avalue placeholder.
It should be noted that these are ideas of actions thatmight be taken to help make the management of the DVproblem easier and more effective. DVs represent commonground for waterfront property owners, local communities,and responsible boaters and all can help provide public sup-port for any eventual legislative action. If the DV problemcan be solved, other anchoring controversies may well begreatly diminished. It behooves the boating community tokeep abreast of developments.
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From the still-as-yet unrepaired slips and piers of thenearly 700-slip Municipal Yacht Harbor in NewOrleans, it’s hard to miss the massive 30,000 square-foot
Southern Yacht Club overlooking the half-empty city-owned marina that still remains without utilities or repairsten years out from Hurricane Katrina. Following the twinscourges of fire and water after the storm in 2005, the ven-erable club rose from the ashes four years later and will cel-ebrate its 166th anniversary this year in a world-class club-house and sailing facility.
After the storm’s glancing blow on New Orleans andthe accompanying levee failures and then landfall on theMississippi Coast, the Northern Gulf Coast’s recreationalboating and commercial fishing culture was battling backuntil it was forced to deal with the BP Deepwater Horizonoil spill in 2010. Yet it has proven surprisingly resilient and,not withstanding a scar here and there, in many ways theNorthern Gulf Coast is primed for a renewal and rediscov-ery of the sport deep into the 21st century.
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The new Southern Yacht Club building. Following the twinscourges of fire and water after Katrina in 2005, the venerable clubrose from the ashes four years later and will celebrate its 166thanniversary this year in a world-class clubhouse and sailing facili-ty. Right next to it is the unrepaired Municipal Yacht Harbor.
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private marinas, and with 18 of the 33 yacht clubs ofthe well respected Gulf Yachting Association eitherdestroyed or severely damaged, waterfronts fromNew Orleans to Pensacola have experienced aninflux of federal and insurance rebuilding funds andwill do so again under the penalty phases for the oilspill which are likely to be over $13 billion dollars.
The Yacht Clubs in the Northern GulfThe resilience of the boating community during thedarkest days following Hurricane Katrina wasdemonstrated early when Southern Yacht Club heldtheir 156th Closing Regatta on Lake Pontchartrainwithin 60 days of the storm’s landfall. Thirty-sixboats competed, many showing battle scars, andnearly 300 people celebrated defiantly in the shadowof the club’s burned out husk, overlooking ravagedmarinas and enormous swaths of their surroundingcity, region and individual homes lying in waste.
Melted within the wreckage of the club werecountless trophies and artifacts earned from over acentury and a half of racing, including four trophiespresented to SYC by Sir Thomas Lipton in the early1900s—one of which was graciously restored by theLipton Tea Company using the original London sil-versmith. In the days following the storm, it was easyto find 100-year-old trophies and plaques lyingamong the flotsam and jetsam along the lakefrontlevees—all looking like they had been mangled andground up in a sink disposal.
Today, the rebuilt yacht clubs—ranging from bothshores of Lake Pontchartrain to the MississippiSound and the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico—rise solidly above the normally placid waters, and itis no stretch to say that the Gulf YachtingAssociation—the organizing authority for racing inthe region—now holds a stable of some of the mostbeautiful, state-of-the-art clubs and sailing facilitiesin the United States.
More importantly, the clubs from the SYC toPensacola Yacht Club made their junior sailing pro-
The Municipal Yacht Harbor in New Orleans’ West End—still sitting unre-paired from Katrina damage as it waits for funds from FEMA, ten years later.This photo was taken from the Southern Yacht Club with the small sailboatsin the foreground being on club grounds.
The new facility at the Gulfport Yacht Club in Mississippi. It is no stretch tosay that the Gulf Yachting Association—the organizing authority for racingin the region—now holds a stable of some of the most beautiful, state-of-the-art clubs and sailing facilities in the United States.
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grams an immediate priority even before rebuilding,and their efforts are paying off. Gulfport Yacht Club’slongtime sailing director, Sam Vazquez, was heavilyinvolved from day one, “Within a few months afterthe storm, we had our juniors racing up in Atlanta onborrowed Optis. By the next summer, we hadrepaired or replaced our fleet of Optis, Vanguards,420s, and Scots and had restarted our sailing campwith 120 kids.”
Ten years out, the junior sailors on theMississippi Coast are all now considered “KatrinaBabies” meaning that all they have known is a coast inrecovery and rebuilding mode. And having seen first-hand the importance of getting these kids out on thewater, if simply to have brought a semblance of nor-mality to the community, the clubs on the coast thenreached out to the local high schools. Today there aresix high school sailing teams actively competing onthe Mississippi Coast alone, and their regular regattasare drawing in high school teams from throughoutthe northern Gulf Coast. In 2014, the GallowayRegatta in Gulfport hosted 70 junior and high school boatsranging from Optimists to V-15s.
“The issue for us now, though, is the lack of big boatscoming back, whether sport boats or racer/cruisers thatcompete around the buoys or in our distance races. Ourhigh-schoolers are looking to move up and that’s the wallwe’re running into.” Vazquez continues, “We had a lot ofboats wash away and a lot of people who still haven’treturned, but every year it’s getting better.”
“We made the kids a priority, because we had to.”Vazquez adds, “These Katrina Babies are the future of thesport not only in Mississippi, but on the entire Gulf Coast.”
Rebuilding the MarinasThroughout the coast of Mississippi from Pass Christian toOcean Springs, nearly $94 million in state-of-the-art publicmarinas holding over 900 boat slips have been constructed,including an entire new 163-slip marina adjacent to historicBay St. Louis’ downtown. As these massive public marinason the coast were hardened to withstand future storms and
have come back online, the big boats are finally returning.The Gulfport Small Craft Harbor’s 319 slips are now 60 per-cent leased, and another 300 slips are now available in thenearby cities of Bay St. Louis and Pass Christian. Distanceregattas, such as the 100-nautical mile Gulfport-to-Pensacola Race are nearly back to their pre-storm participa-tion, and Gulf Yachting Association’s Capdevielle Regattaand Challenge Cup regatta are again well attended.
In New Orleans, the large Municipal Yacht Harbor isthe outlier. New Orleans’ West End was built in the 1830son land reclaimed from Lake Pontchartrain and today is therecreational boating heart for the city, but West End hasnow become a flashing beacon of stalled post-storm recov-ery. Located on a nearly uniform 12-foot deep LakePontchartrain with easy access to the Gulf of Mexico, WestEnd encompasses 100 acres of oak-lined green spaces,unparalleled spectator viewing areas and nearly 1,000 boatslips, as well as sail lofts, chandleries and restaurants allwithin easy walking distance. The odds-on favorite to hostthe U.S. Olympic sailing trials until the storm in 2005, New
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Orleans has hosted multiple North American class champi-onships, and even the J/22 Worlds, while West End’slargest marina still lays unrepaired.
While the Wednesday night beer can races have nearlyreturned to their pre-storm levels and even the NationalSailing Hall of Fame held their second induction ceremonyout at West End, Municipal Harbor still lies in waste—wait-ing on FEMA rebuilding funds. Today, it offers about 160
boat slips leased at a heavily discounted rate, therebeing no utilities available. The marina is unable torepair even a finger pier, for fear of losing fundingunder the byzantine FEMA rules never meant to han-dle a disaster of this scope. The marina is FEMA’s pri-mary project worksheet in West End (there are six oth-ers) and is eligible for what could amount to as muchas $25 million in infrastructure improvements whenapproved.
Business owners are disheartened and feel WestEnd is being ignored in favor of FEMA rebuildingfunds elsewhere in the city. They ask how 10 yearscould have passed without even a start to rebuildinga wooden fishing pier or a marina while the otherpublic marina in West End—and those throughoutthe other Katrina-damaged areas—have been rebuiltand are open. But time keeps passing and the localboat dealers, chandleries and fuel docks continue tosuffer, and the management board for the harbor isnow fielding calls from their counterparts in theNortheast that were affected by superstorm Sandy—all seeking advice on how to navigate the glacial
FEMA process.
Oil Spill Funds Will Help to Reinvigorate the RegionWhile this one marina remains an outlier, the fact is that theentire Northern Gulf Coast is now home to state-of-the-artboating and marina infrastructure, and the sport is alive andwell since the storm. With the inevitable influx of the BP
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With the majority of these well-deserved fines andpenalties levied against BP directed into commercialfishing or wildlife and ecosystem remediations, someof these projects would directly compensate and assistrecreational boating on the Gulf Coast. While awaitingthe results from the National Resource DamageAssessment and the Federal courts, BP put in an early$1 billion dollars in order to get the ball rolling onmany long-term environmental projects. Most of theseearly projects had to do with important oyster bedsand marsh/dune restoration and habitats, butEscambia County in Florida was selected for the instal-lation or reconstruction of four recreational boatingramps and docks, two of which were heavily utilizedfor staging out of Pensacola during the spill clean-up.This inevitable funding for recreational loss will againbolster not only the local boaters, but will also build upthe marinas and infrastructure needed to further theseforgotten cruising and racing waters as the destinationsthey deserve to be.
The Northern Gulf Coast has endured almost every-thing conceivable during the last ten years, but as time pass-es and losses are remedied, the boating infrastructure iseither already in place or returning and will continue thelong history and the culture of the Gulf Coast on the water.
As they bid farewell to their days in temporary mobilehomes and jokingly referring to their club as the Triple-Wide Yacht Club, the sailors of Southern Yacht Club andthe entire GYA will endeavor to remind the sailing worldthat there are indeed three coasts to America, and whilemany of the trophies and medals have been lost, the futureon the Gulf Coast is as bright as its already historic legacy.
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Southport’s yacht basin and waterfront. Photo courtesy Steve Sharron.
its importance. It precipitated the building ofcolonial Fort Johnson in the 1700s, whichserved as the first line of defense protectingother settlements farther up river. It dis-patched river pilots and provided quarantineservice for seamen. With the military cameearly colonials, traders and fishermen, thus alittle town took root. But, “Southport” wasn’talways here. In 1792, at this same location,stood the colonial enclave of Smithville. Thisstrategic location at the confluence of the CapeFear River and the Atlantic Ocean is what hasliterally made this a town that has had twonames. In 1887, Smithville was officiallychanged to Southport, because, it soundedbetter—and better is what Smithville want-ed—specifically, a ship’s port. And in a grandgamble, what better place for a shipping portto be built than at the evocative and newlynamed town of “Southport.” The port wentfurther up river to Wilmington, but the newname remained.
Cape Fear and Hurricane AlleyToday, Southport is more associated with thewords Cape Fear, than it is with its Smithvilleself of yesteryear. The iconic suspense movieCape Fear has little to do with this actual areaother than the name. But those two words,“Cape Fear,” are words which conjure dreadand with good reason. Approaching from thenorth, captains must go well offshore to clearthe Cape Fear and Frying Pan shoals whichextend some 28 miles out into the Atlantic.They have been the demise of countless boats.It’s for precisely that reason why most cruis-ers prefer to transit this area via the ICW. Therun from Snow’s Cut down the Cape FearRiver to Southport is fairly straightforward.Being a large ship’s channel, it is well markedand deep with a current which runs a consis-tent three knots. But with opposing winds andcurrent, this river is more than capable ofwhipping up some ferocious white water.
When southbound, at Southport’s confluence of the riverand the ICW, the Colregs change and you are once again onthe “ditch” at flashing green #1. Make sure you leave thismarker well to port, as there is a large and treacherous oys-ter bar, submerged at high tide. For smaller northboundcruisers, it is advisable to remain in Southport until threehours after the predicted low tide to catch a fair run up theriver.
If the phrase Cape Fear doesn’t instill trepidation, per-haps “Hurricane Alley” will. Although Southport’s officialmotto is “home of salubrious breezes from the sea,” some-times those “breezes” whip themselves into an ill windindeed. This otherwise lovely location, by virtue of its natu-ral geography has an unprecedented history of direct hits.In 1954, Hurricane Hazel, a strong category 4, all but
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The colorful and ornate “Crimes of the Heart”house. Photo by Haila Eggleton-MacKay.
The Provision Company, on the left, which sponsors the Stede Bonnet Regatta. In thebackground to the right are the courtesy docks. Photo by Stacey Huggins. Under per-mission of the Creative Commons License.www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode
scoured this area clean and destroyed the fishing fleet. Withthis devastating regularity of landfalls, prudent commercialand pleasure boat captains still seek out the protection ofhardwood-lined creeks to secure their boats and ride outthese storms.
Southport is on the National Register of Historic Places,and the downtown area is a good place to get acquainted.The intersection of Howe and Moore streets is the down-town hub when navigating the tourist-oriented retail shops.It’s a growing montage of restaurants, art galleries andeclectic craft shops. You can find anything from a souvenir“Cape Fear” T-shirt, to a ukulele, a Thai dinner or hand-carved mermaids.
Fort Johnson is now home to the visitor’s center, withthe North Carolina Maritime Museum next door. Both areinformative and well worth visiting. The SouthportHistorical Society puts out a self-guided walking tourbrochure. Granite markers recount Southport’ s interestingpart in this country’s growth from revolutionary timesthrough the Civil War, and more recently during WorldWar II, when German submarines prowled the waters.
The official North Carolina 4th of July Festival Always a patriotic little town, they began celebrating the 4thof July in 1795 and Southport hosts the official NorthCarolina 4th of July Festival. The annual celebration runs fordays, and the population swells from its usual 3000 citizensto 50,000. It’s a birthday party with arts and crafts, concertsand a crazy little hometown parade. The area waters crowdwith pleasure craft for the culminating fireworks display setoff from a barge on the river.
Southport’s scenic “old yacht basin,” just a stone’sthrow south of downtown, is a natural gathering place forvisitors. It was once homeport to a sizable and thriving fleetof commercial menhaden boats. Today, the docks areshared by a small, industrious band of commercial fishing
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Downtown is lined with the tourist-oriented retail shops. It’s agrowing montage of restaurants, art galleries and eclectic craftshops. Photo by Haila Eggleton-MacKay.
Lined with majestic, centuries-old live oaks and romantic, magno-lia trees, the side streets in Southport are a pleasure to investigate.Synonymous with the south, they gracefully frame beautifullyrestored homes. Photo use under permission of the CreativeCommons License.
boats, a few scenic-tour boats for hire, as well as highly cov-eted private dockage. The old fish houses are long gone,replaced by a smattering of colorful, waterfront, tourist-ori-ented restaurants (most offering free dockage to patrons),and the old yacht basin area now bustles with a new pur-pose. Splendid after-dinner sunsets are photo-worthy asyou stroll along its scenic Riverwalk. In the center of this“snug harbor,” the city of Southport offers one free dock forcruisers. Located here on the “T” head of the outer private
docks, it is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Itshould be noted, it is a fixed, wooden dock, so have fenderboards. There are no utility services provided at this dockand a circumspect length of stay is requested. If you wouldrather drop the hook for the night, there is enough room inthe yacht basin for one or two boats to anchor. Be mindfulof your anchor rode and swing room. You will be exposedto the predominant southwest winds, and it should be con-sidered a fair weather anchorage. Southport’s actual areamarinas are located farther north and south of town.
Lined with majestic, centuries-old live oaks and roman-tic, magnolia trees, the side streets in Southport are a pleas-ure to investigate. Synonymous with the south, they grace-fully frame beautifully restored homes. Grand and austereFederal, delicate Victorian and cozy Craftsmen cottages,make a picture-perfect mix of architectural styles. So muchso that Southport has caught the eye of Hollywood. A grow-ing list of television shows—Matlock, Dawson’s Creek,Sleepy Hollow and Under the Dome—have been filmed onlocation here. Major movies like Crimes of the Heart, I KnowWhat You Did Last Summer and the recent Safe Haven allfound that special something here.
Pirate Stede BonnetPersons famous and infamous have been drawn here.Southport is the source of inspiration to author RobertRuark. As a young man he spent summers here with hisgrandfather. He later penned The Old Man and the Boy, basedon his childhood memories. The notorious pirate StedeBonnet frequented Southport’s waters. Naval authoritiesgot word of his location and the Battle of Cape Fear ensued.The pirates surrendered and Stede Bonnet was taken toCharleston, SC, where he was hanged. Today, “Bonnet’sCreek,” has a roadside plaque commemorating the incident.
The “gentleman pirate’s” legacy lives on in Southportin the form of the Stede Bonnet Regatta. Continually hostedby the owners of the Provision Company restaurant locatedat Southport’s old yacht basin since the mid 1990s, upwardsof 50 boats gather for the erstwhile racing spectacle coursingup to Cape Fear, out to Bald Head Island and back to theyacht basin. But the main theme of the day is fun.Competitors dress in pirate garb and playfully “fight” othervessels. The festivities are topped with trophies, food andmuch drink, music and unabashed fun.
In addition to hosting the regatta, the owners ofProvision Company are generous to transient cruisers. Witha handful of docks adjoining their restaurant, they offer freedockage to cruisers. They do request that if you want to tieup overnight, that you please wait until evening to arriveand be good enough to depart the following morning.Provision’s is a seasonal restaurant and by mid-Novemberthey close their doors until March. During the off-season,they also allow free dockage for short stays. However, thereis no electric, water or restrooms. Even so, this is most kindof them and is a reflection of Southport’s spirit of southernhospitality in general.
Southport’s Three Marinas, Anchoring, Provisioning and RepairsAs a stop for cruisers, the Southport area has three marinas.Deep Point Marina (red #20 on the ICW) is just two milesnortheast of town. Southport Municipal Marina (red #2A onthe ICW) is the most centrally located, just west of the yachtbasin area. South Harbor Village Marina (red #8 on the ICW)
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Southport’s yacht basin with anchorage and docks. Southportoffers one free dock for cruisers. Located on the “T” head of theouter private docks (to the right), it is available on a first-come,first-served basis. Photo courtesy Steve Sharron.
is approximately two miles west of town on the ICW headingsouth. All have transient dockage available at competitiverates and full marina amenities. Deep Point is the newest andoffers the best protection from a bad blow. Southport andSouth Harbor have large, easy in/out fuel and transientdocks right on the ICW. Southport Marina is however theonly one that is within walking distance to downtown.
If you need to provision while here, Southport has aSuper Wal-Mart, with the usual accompanying satellite storesand other nearby shopping centers. Unfortunately, citing“insurance liability,” none of the marinas offer courtesy vehi-cles to cruisers. This has always been a problem for cruisersstopping here. Realizing there is a transportation need forvisiting boaters, a new shuttle service is available to help.Carolina Yacht Care with their vans will pick you up at anyof the three marinas and take you to where you need to go.They offer a reasonable price, short notice availability, flexi-ble hours and are considerately “pet friendly” should yourfur-clad crew need medical care. Trips to WilmingtonInternational Airport and the West Marine store inWrightsville Beach can be arranged. Marina managers canput you in touch with them. Local taxi services are also avail-able 24/7 as well as an Enterprise car rental agency.
For cruisers who prefer to anchor out for the night, inaddition to the area in the old yacht basin, there are twoother choices: Dutchmen’s Creek (green #5 on the ICW)south of town. This anchorage is only for shallow-draft ves-sels. There is shoaling at the entrance but it does deepen asthe creek meanders. This anchorage is also largely unpro-tected. The best anchorage is just a little further south, justbefore South Harbor Village Marina (red #8 on the ICW). Inmost anchoring guides, it is referred to as the “PipelineCanal.” The local’s call it the “wildlife anchorage.” It is alarge, tree-lined basin with good water depth. It has the bestprotection to offer and can accommodate many boats. It canbe “wakey,” especially on weekends, as it is adjacent to thepublic boating ramps. Overlooking the anchorage is a chil-dren’s park with daytime restroom facilities. There is also awater spigot outside the building to fill water jugs. It is alovely stop and has become very popular in recent years.
In the event of a breakdown as you traverse the area,Southport has both a long-established TowBoatUS and anewer Sea Tow service at the ready. Should necessity callfor a full-service boatyard, there is one located right next tothe Southport Marina. A 70-ton Travelift is able to handlemost any haul out. If it’s a matter of basic parts, downtownSouthport has a Napa auto parts store with a sizable marine
department. Stewarts Hardware has a good inventory anddoes propane refills. In the event you need a West Marinestore, the closest two are in Wrightsville Beach, NC, andNorth Myrtle Beach, SC. Southport naturally has a good-size boating population and consequently, it has top-notchboat service and repair people ready to help.
This lovely little town on the banks of the notorious CapeFear is steeped in maritime history. It has withstood devas-tating hurricanes, battles, epidemics, the demise of the fishingindustry and plenty of hard economic times. The resilient res-idents endure and overcome with a combination of grit andgrace. They also know it helps to have a sense of humor.Where else can you find streets—all next to each other—named “Lord,” “Howe,” “Dry” and “I-Am”? And the folkshere just love their “salubrious breezes from the sea.”
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The best anchorage, referred to as the “Pipeline Canal” in most anchoring guides. The local’s call it the “wildlife anchorage.” Photo byHaila Eggleton-MacKay.
Early fall. That’s when sailors in so many areas across theU.S. start putting their boats away for the impendingwinter season. But not in South Carolina. From the
upstate to the Lowcountry, sailors here enjoy a full menu ofautumn options for getting out on the water. Here’s a par-tial roundup.
Leukemia Cup RegattaIf it’s the end of September in Charleston, it must be time forthe Leukemia Cup Regatta (Sept. 25-27). Sponsored by theLeukemia and Lymphoma Society and co-hosted by theCharleston Yacht Club, this annual event has been going onfor the past 18 years here. It’s part of a series of over 50fundraising regattas that take place around the country.Collectively, these regattas have raised millions of dollars tosupport patient services and blood cancer treatment research.
Over the years, participants in Charleston’s LeukemiaCup have helped raise more than $2 million. In 2014, 29boats competed in four different classes. This year, theorganizers anticipate a slightly larger turnout. Though theon-the-water action can be intense, the real battle goesdown in the realm of fundraising.
Among the crews racing this year will be a core groupfrom the event’s top fundraising team for each of the last fouryears—Team Mongo. In 2014, these sailors raised $39,030,which made them the top Leukemia Cup fundraisers inSouth Carolina and No. 3 in the entire U.S. Mongo’s owners—Miles Martschink and Ben Hagood—have since sold thatboat and bought a J/105 called Skimmer, which the team willbe sailing this year. According to crewmember NancyHagood, the team is still intent on dominating the fundrais-ing race. For more on the regatta, go to leukemiacup.org/sc.
Hospice RegattaIn the upstate, another big fundraising regatta is only weeksaway. On the eastern shore of Lake Hartwell at the WesternCarolina Sailing Club, members are preparing for theirannual Hospice Regatta (Oct. 16-18). This is the club’s pre-miere event of the year, says regatta co-chairman JohnKreidler. “Last year, we had 30 volunteers supporting closeto 80 boats that came from as far away as Connecticut andhelped us raise over $64,000. Our goal this year is $65,000,with all the proceeds being donated to Hospice of theUpstate in Anderson, SC.”
Kreidler explains that there will be four separate divi-sions, including centerboard boats, keelboats, distance andcruiser. “Great food, fantastic raffle prizes and great sailing
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on Lake Hartwell in the fall make this event something thatshould be on every sailor’s calendar,” he adds. For moreinformation, go to the club’s site, wcsc-sailing.org.
Halloween RegattaJust under 100 miles to the south, right over the state line fromNorth Augusta, SC, lies the Augusta Sailing Club on LakeThurmond. In the fall, the big focus here is on the annualHalloween Regatta (Oct. 9-11), which will turn 61 this year. Ifyou live in the region, and you’ve got a boat that can trailer orcar-top, don’t miss it because this event is a seasonal favorite.
Last year, seven different one-design classes made upthe fleet, along with two PHRF classes. Most of these com-petitors arrive from Georgia and South Carolina, but theevent regularly attracts competitors from North Carolinaand Tennessee as well.
It’s hard to know what aspect of the Halloween Regattais the most fun. According to regatta chairman Tony Coy,participants seem to equally enjoy the laidback yet compet-itive action on the water and the frivolity of the shore-sidefestivities, complete with a costume party. In addition, out-of-towners can camp on the club’s grounds. And, if you reg-ister on line before October, you’ll get a $20 discount. Butthe best part is that $15 buys you a beverage bracelet, goodfor the whole weekend. For more on the Halloween Regatta,go to halloween.augustasailingclub.org.
Carolina Ocean ChallengeOn that same weekend, down in Hilton Head Island, you canjoin in the fun of the Carolina Ocean Challenge (Oct. 10-11), aregatta for PHRF racers, Harbor 20s and other one-designsthat are 16 feet long or larger. Hosted by the South CarolinaYacht Club, this event is a favorite for Lowcountry sailors.The courses are set on Calibogue Sound, a well-protectedbody of water, and the shore-side festivities take place at theclub’s impressive complex in Windmill Harbor, which isaccessed from the sound by way of a unique canal lock. Formore, go to facebook.com/events/1690200791199617.
Turkey Shoot RegattaAt the end of the month, up on Lake Keowee (just north ofLake Hartwell), you can enjoy some of the most scenic sail-ing in the region by participating in the Keowee SailingClub’s annual Turkey Shoot Regatta (Oct. 31-Nov. 1). Thisevent draws a range of boats, with sailors competing aboardmultihulls, keelboats and dinghies (all of them under 35 feetlong). Last year, the regatta fielded seven different classesmade up mostly of local sailors.
The Turkey Shoot is one of the best regatta dealsaround. For an individual entry fee of $20, each crewmem-ber gets two days of racing and a two-day meal packagethat includes breakfast and lunch both Saturday andSunday, and dinner Saturday night. And for juniors (18 andyounger), the registration fee is $10, which includes thesame meal package. What’s more, participants are welcometo camp on the club’s grounds (but no pets please). Formore on the Turkey Shoot, go to keoweesailingclub.com.
Georgetown Wooden Boat ShowOf course, you don’t have to go to a regatta to enjoy sail-boats and the beauty of sailing. One of the best ways to dothat is to plan on attending the annual Georgetown WoodenBoat Show (Oct. 17-18) in Georgetown, SC. It’s become sopopular in the past five years that the organizers haveexpanded it to two days.
This homegrown show, which is acknowledged as oneof the best wooden boat exhibitions in the country, includestwo boatbuilding competitions, children’s model boatbuild-ing, knot tying, maritime arts and crafts, as well as food andmusic. It all takes place along historic Georgetown’s water-front and Front Street. There’s no entry fee, yet all the pro-ceeds from merchandise sales and competition fees go tosupport the South Carolina Maritime Museum. For more onthe show, go to woodenboatshow.com.
So, what’s not to like about South Carolina sailing inthe fall?
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An October staple is the annual Georgetown Wooden Boat Show,which is steadily becoming one of the best wooden boat gatherings
in the nation. Photo courtesy Georgetown Wooden Boat Show.
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People say the two bestdays in a boatowner’slife are the day they
buy a boat and the day theysell it. I think that is true formost, but there have beentimes in my boating lifethat I was sad to see myboat go—and still miss heryears later.
For the first time in years,I find myself “boatless.” Iam dreaming and day-dreaming all the time about
getting a boat. Every day I look at my empty dock and feellike I am missing out by not being on thewater. It is almost painful.
It does not help that everywhere Ilook, I see other people’s boats sittingproudly in their yards, waiting for the nextadventure. I was curious to know just howmany boats there are here in Florida.According to my findings on the internet, Idiscovered that there are more than onemillion registered boats in the state, notcounting kayaks and other personal water-craft that do not need to be registered, somaybe it is not just my imagination when Ifeel like everyone but me has a boat.
For many of us, the price of a new boatis out of our reach, but buying a boat thatneeds fixing up can solve this problem.You can buy a boat that has been neglectedand bring it back to life. For those of youwith self-discipline, drive and basicmechanical skills, this might be a way foryou to not only realize your dream ofbeing on the water, but in turn resurrect adream that over time died.
You have all seen the ads for cheap orfree boats, but free is not a good price if thecost to bring the boat in working order is
more than the boat is worth when it is finished. In fact, Ilooked at a boat recently that I thought was a good deal, butonce I added up the costs to restore the boat, it would havebecame a money pit. You need to do your homework and notjust buy a boat because it is cheap and you can afford it. Makesure it is something that you really want!
Every boater knows how expensive having a boat canbe. Not only do you have the purchase price of the boat, butyou have all of the maintenance that goes with it. That maybe why some boats end up neglected—owners who havegiven up on their dreams who didn’t realize what the truecost would be.
My friend George bought a fixer-upper. He found a1983, 20-foot Haines Hunter Tramp in the weeds that hadnot seen the water for a decade. During the research on the
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The Hunter Tramp as foundin the weeds.
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boat, he discovered that it was“Australia’s sailboat of the year in1981.” The more research he did, themore impressed he became with theboat. The Tramp, introduced in 1980,was the first boat designed by IanFarrier who has designed many of thepopular multihulls on the water today.The folding floats allow easy dockingand trailering, and with the center-board raised, the boat allows shoaldraft sailing and she can be beached.The large cockpit seats six and theportable vinyl cabin top allows forovernight camping. The research alsostated that the Tramp handles easilyand sails well in all conditions, whichmake it a perfect fit for this area.
George excitedly towed the boathome and started pressure washing thehull and making “a to-do list” for thingsto be done. When he examined the boat,he determined that in addition to agood cleaning, which every boat needsfrom time to time, the only structuralrepair needed was to the transom wherethe rudder bolts had pulled out. Georgecould do the repair himself.
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The transom after the repair as seen on the outside. George cleaning out a locker on the Tramp.
George and his Tramp, just after launching.
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I looked at his find and was impressed with the con-struction. All of the quality hardware was oversize for aboat of this size, and it looks like the only wood used in theconstruction of this fiberglass boat was in the transomwhich has deteriorated over the past 31 years.
It took nearly a week to tear out the rotted wood back-ing plate in the transom and do the fiberglass work. Aftersix layers of glass was built up on the transom, and newbacking plates were made from solid 3/4-inch oak that wastreated with epoxy and bedded with 3M 5200, the repairwas complete.
The only modification George did to this stock boat wasto replace the inspection cover that gave access to the built-in ice chest in the cockpit with a Bomar 12x16 hatch thatmakes the built-in ice chest much more usable.
Once the repairs were made, he repainted the rudder,mast and folding arms that attach the pontoons to the mainhull and it was ready for the water.
I was very impressed with the Tramp’s sailing abilityon her maiden voyage and leaving her in the water at myfriends dock for a day allowed us to work on the trailer.George replaced the trailer bunks that were only heldtogether by the carpet that covered them. It was an easy taskto replace the trailer tongue and winch, putting the trailer inas pristine condition as the boat.
By doing the work himself, not only was George able tohave his perfect boat, but the sweat equity he put into theboat made it worth much more than what he invested—andmost importantly, his dream is sitting in the yard!
George with the finished boat in the water.
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SOUTHERN RACE REPORT
Making It Happen...Preparations for a National ChampionshipBy Julie B. ConnerleyAfter successfully hosting the 2013 USODA SoutheastRegionals, Pensacola Yacht Club (PYC) placed a bid to hostthe 2016 USODA Nationals. It was accepted and PYClooked forward to a two-year coordination phase offundraising and planning.
Approximately nine months before this year’sNationals, USODA asked PYC if we could possibly pushup our schedule and host the event this year. The decisionwas made to “go for it.” Key elements included sponsor-ships, logistics, accountability and overall value for partic-ipants. Highlights of the job were:• Coordination with local communities, organizations,marine vendors, marinas and businesses.• Our beachfront was literally tripled in size forlaunch/recovery of Optis, through members’ hands-onintensive labor.• Temporary floating docks were installed at our marina. • Members’ boats normally occupying our marina slips
were relocated to nearby commercial marinas which gra-ciously offered temporary spaces, allowing room for coach-es, judges, umpires, media, race committee and other boats.• To track sailors’ movements on and off the water, racetiming chips were attached to the Opti dollies which allcompetitors then walked through daily to a designatedarea to the beachfront launch site. An organized dollyretrieval system after racing (back through the designatedtiming area) counted each competitor. The system workedperfectly.• Food trucks were set up on-site, as well as a semi-truckof showers for the girls to provide additional amenities.
According to the official survey conducted for VisitPensacola, the economic impact on Escambia County fromthe USODA Nationals was over $1,004,350. First time visi-tors totaled 33 percent, while returning guests totaled 67percent. The average party had four people.Overwhelmingly, respondents had a positive experienceand would definitely come back.
Pensacola Yacht Club has accomplished much during its105-year history. Having hosted “the largest sailing regattaever held on Pensacola Bay” is now part of that history.
2015 USODA Nationals Sets Recordfor Pensacola Yacht Club, July 18-26Largest Sailing Regatta Ever Held on Pensacola BayBy Julie B. Connerley
Cover: Race #1 of the three-race series of the 2015 USODA GirlsNational Championship hosted by Pensacola Yacht Club on July 22.In the lead is Laura Hamilton, Carolina Yacht Club, closely followedby Fiona Forelich, Austin Yacht Club. Behind her is Ava Shakespeareof St. Petersburg Yacht Club. All three are sailing in the White Fleet(age 10 and under). Photo by Julie B. Connerley.
All hands were on deck July 18-26 as Pensacola Yacht Club(PYC) hosted not one, but three national championships col-lectively known as the 2015 USODA Nationals: The three-day Team Race National Championship July 19-21; fol-lowed by the one-day Girls National Championship on July22; and concluded with the four-day NationalChampionship, July 23-26.
“It was the largest sailing regatta ever held onPensacola Bay,” smiled Baus, the regatta chair. “I believe itwill establish Pensacola as a world class venue not only forjunior sailing but sailing in general.”
Total registrations numbered 325. Adding the requirednumber of coaches per competitors, family members andvendors, the total count of visitors to PYC and the GreaterPensacola area tallied around 2,000. The event was to beeight days of racing. Holly Murray, Southern Yacht Club’ssailing director, served as principal race officer (PRO) forthe Green Fleet. “We had 28 youth complete 16 races overfour days, and many attended a three-day clinic,” she said.“They competed in all types of wind conditions on three dif-ferent type courses.”
Twenty-six teams with 118 competitors launched day 1of the Team Nationals. PROs John Alden Meade and J.Dwight LeBlanc, III, expected to complete 78 eight- to ten-minute races that day on two separate courses in this round
robin series. But weather changed all that and just 12 raceswere completed on one course, and 11 on the other courseon the first day.
The pressure was on for race officials on day two. Theweather cooperated and both PROs completed 78 races eachon day two. With the required number of races and morecompleted by the final day, LISOT Black, the Long IslandSound team comprised of Team Captain Emma Cowles, hertwin sister Carmen, Max Anker, Owen Henessey andConnor Marz, took top honors in the Gold Fleet.
Girls EventThe Girls National Championship fielded 90 athletes. Itwas “double vision” at the awards ceremony when thewinners were announced and the Cowles twins went up tothe podium. Carmen took first; Emma placed second.Their coach, Pepe Bettini, said, “They swap wins back andforth.” The girls, from Larchmont Yacht Club, NY, havealready qualified for the Opti Team Cup (LISOT) to beheld in Berlin during October.
National Event For many of the 297 competitors the first day of the NationalChampionship turned out to be their worst. The day startedwith a postponement and ended with line adjustments andgeneral recalls. But by July 26, after sailing 11 races and dis-carding two, Luke Arnone, (Red Fleet), of Mantoloking YC,NJ, was crowned 2015 USODA National Champion with 29points. One point behind him in second place was EmmaCowles (Red Fleet), and in third was Justin Callahan (BlueFleet) of Coral Reef Yacht Club in Miami, with 33 points.
As defined by USODA guidelines, the top 50 percent ofthe 2015 USODA Nationals are now eligible for entry intothe 2016 Team Trials. For complete results and photos ofboth racing and social events, visit www.pensacolayacht-club.org. Results are also available at www.usoda.org.
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Hot Chocolate Too Hot To Handle At Race for the Roses,Pensacola Beach, FL July 25Ladies from Lake Pontchartrain Retain Top Honors, other Lake Ladies Join Local Crew
By Julie B. Connerley
Southern Yacht Club’s Debby Grimmand crew aboard Hot Chocolate, theJ/30 that has become an annual con-tender—and winner—during Pensa-cola Bay’s women’s sailing regattas,has done it again!
Grimm’s crew made the road tripback to the Panhandle July 25 to com-pete in Pensacola Beach Yacht Club’s“mother of all women’s races”—theRace for the Roses. The womenreturned to battle some of the samecrews they had the week before dur-ing Navy Yacht Club Pensacola’sannual Bikini Regatta.
Hot Chocolate wasn’t the only ves-sel “wo-manned” by New Orleanswomen. This captain had, unfortu-nately, lost a couple of key positionsearlier this year. Finding crew is diffi-cult midyear. Finding experienced crew is even more chal-lenging.
Luckily, the Lake Pontchartrain Women’s SailingAssociation used the Internet to let Pensacola area sailorsknow they had women crew who were able, willing andavailable to come race. I needed crew. Ella McCulloch andDebbie Huntsman joined our crew aboard White ShellWoman, my S2 7.9, for both Bikini and Race for the Roses.We ended up racing Bikini in the Spinnaker class and Rosesin Non-Spinnaker.
Conditions for this year’s Roses were, in this writer’sestimation, perhaps some of the most challenging. Why?Little wind...shifty, little wind.
While the spinnaker class was set on a W-L 2 course, theNon-Spin class was to take the same W-L course oncearound. Thankfully, Principal Race Officer Rick Zern choseto shorten the course for the spinnaker class to one W-L. Asit was, it took the first Non-Spin boat almost 1.5 hours to fin-ish a 1.96-nm race.
And then the rains came. Since the plan was to hold tworaces, skippers and crews doused their sails and waited outthe storm. Another race, a little more wind and anotherRace for the Roses was in the record books. The first Non-Spin boat to finish race 1, as well as race 2, was White ShellWoman. Thanks to the LPWSA women for joining our crewto make it happen!
From the very beginning of this annual regatta, organ-izers’ goals have been: to empower women; to share thespirit of sailing; and to learn, grow and enjoy the sport!Congratulations to all the competitors. For complete results,visit www.pensacolabeach-yc.org.
Fast Women Regatta & LadiesTrilogy Sailing Series, Josephine,AL, Aug. 1By Kim Kaminski
The 2015 Fast Women Regatta marked not only the 24thAnniversary of this female event, but also the first race thePoint Yacht Club held at their new club facility located onPirates Cove, in Josephine, AL.
Ten boats entered the third race of the Ladies TrilogySailing Series with five spinnaker boats (two racing with allfemale crews) and five non-spinnaker boats (also havingtwo boats racing with all-female crews). In addition, theFast Women Regatta also has a special racing category for“Virgin Skippers” (female competitors who are helming aboat in a regatta for the first time). This year’s event saw fiveboats entered in this special category (two Spinnaker andthree Non-Spinnaker).
Principle Race Officer George Hero set-up a triangleand a windward-leeward course for the Spinnaker class (6.6miles) and a triangle course for the Non-Spinnakers (4.64miles) with a south southwesterly breeze at 8 knots. Prior tothe race start, a brief rainstorm entered the racing area cool-ing off the competitors before the heat of battle.
Debby Grimm and her all-female team from NewOrleans, sailing aboard a J/30 called Hot Chocolate, were ontrack to capture the Ladies Trilogy Series trophy with theirimpressive first-place finishes in the two previous ladiesraces held in July (the Bikini Regatta and the Race for theRoses). Their closest competitor hailed from the Navy YachtClub of Pensacola aboard a Tartan 10 named Helldiver, with
Debby Grimm and her all-female team, who sailed aboard HotChocolate from New Orleans. They not only earned the Best AllFemale Spinnaker Trophy during the Fast Women Regatta but alsoearned three first-place finishes during the Ladies Trilogy Series(also in the Bikini Regatta and the Race for the Roses) to capturethe Trophy for the series. Photo by Kim Kaminski
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an all female team skippered by Kim Kaminski. However,during the first spinnaker leg of the race, the Helldiver teamexperienced a jib halyard failure which prevented the use oftheir Spinnaker during the rest of the race, pushing themback into a second-place finish. Debby Grimm and her crewwere exuberant with their three first place finishes in theLadies Trilogy, but the best part, according to Debby, is “Welove seeing the other teams every summer, and yes—we arehaving a good year. Feeling fortunate, but as we always say,a day sailing with friends is always a winner.”
With half of the racing fleet sailing in the Virgin Skippercategory, the battles were on for the new kids on the bay. Inthe end, Julia Hollings, skipper aboard Hula Girl—a Sabre42.5—rose above the rest to earn the perpetual Fast WomenVirgin Skipper Award along with a second-place award (anengraved Yeti Cup from the Point Yacht Club Fleet CaptainJohn Bozeman) for the Spinnaker Mixed Crew Class. For thefull race results, visit www.pointyachtclub.org.
69th Labor Day Regatta, Sarasota Sailing Squadron, Sept. 5-6By Charlie Clifton
One hundred and eighty-eight sailors from all over Floridaconverged on the Sarasota Sailing Squadron Sept. 5-6. Theycame for two reasons for which Labor Day at the Squadronis famous: Sarasota Bay breezes and Darvon’s tasty bar-beque chicken.
The chicken was as good as ever. The breeze finallyshowed up, but when it did, it was full of tricks. In one race,Dave Hillmyer started last because he was OCS, was first atthe first windward mark, was last at the leeward mark, firstagain at the second windward mark and finally finished
sixth. Moderate sea breezes were interspersed with 20-knotgusts from passing clouds.
This year’s regatta was marked by continuing genera-tions of SSS sailors. Third generation sailors included: AlexLiebl (third in Opti Green), son of Scott Liebl; Kaitlynn Liebl(12th in Opti Green), daughter of Mark Liebl; and Madi andWatt Icely, daughter and son of Billy Icely.
Harrison Molesky with the Manattee River Pram Fleetused consistency to clinch the 44-boat Opti Green title.Although he never finished higher than third, he came outon top by a five-point margin. Skippers who won individ-ual races were Natalie Gravielov (Naples), Ava Shakespeare(SPYC), Alexis Young (CCSC) and Alex Liebl (SSS).
In the 65-boat Opti RWB fleet, Justin Callahan fromCape Coral posted all firsts and seconds to run away withthat title by a 16-point margin. Mateo Rodriguez (CCSC)was second in RWB and first in Red Fleet. Justin’s brother,Mitchell, was third overall. Another set of brothers, Nicoand Sam Dreyfuss (NCSC), were also in the top ten.
The Dalton Tebo-coached team of Bella Lemole andSkye Erhart (SYS) won the 17-boat 420 fleet by five points,despite winning only one race. Other individual race win-ners were Hoyt Corns (VYBA) taking second, SamMyer/Joseph Faul (VYBA) third and Carrie Marshal/Kayla
Wherry (Team Sail On) taking fifth.In the 10-boat laser 4.7 fleet, Mathew
Magardino (NCSC) won by six points.Sydney Monahan (ESC) took secondover Hannah Sheppard (DIYC) via tiebreaker.
Gage Wilson (LYC) came out on topof 18 Radials by nine points. GageSchoenherr (CCSC) took second by onepoint over Louisa Nordstrom (SYS).
Buzzy Heausler (DIYC) took a breakfrom planning his daughter’s weddingto eke out a one-point victory in theeight-boat Full Rig Class. Phil Karcher(SSS) and James Liebel (Titusville) wereone and three points behind, respec-tively.
In a four-boat PHRF spinnaker Class,Doug Dearden’s In Tune crew (SSS) wonevery race.
In the eight-boat Multihull fleet, DougFisher, Miro Kafka and Roy McPhail on
the Stiletto 30 Mirage (SSS) squeaked out a one-point victo-ry over Travis Yates’ crew on the Stiletto 27 Indigo (SSS). JonDowd on Iguana sailed a great come-from-behind last raceto clinch third place.
Dave Wilson on Solitude (SSS) presided over the three-boat Non-Spin class. It was noteworthy to see the TMI 27,Spars and Stripes, back on the bay after a long absence. She iswell known in the area from the 1980s through the 2000s,having been campaigned extensively by John Pether andDave Bridges, father of SSS manager Craig. New ownerGregg Knighton plans to continue that record.
PHRF Cruiser and Pocket Cruiser were won by DaveEttinger on Spindrift (SSS) and Bob Miller on Bob Miller(SSS), respectively.
Full results at www.regattanetwork.com.
Nine of the 10 winners of the Red, White and Blue Opti fleets atthe Labor Day Regatta in Sarasota. Shown here are (not in order,but they know who they are): Justin Callahan, Mateo Rodriguez,Mitchell Callahan, Sam Dreyfuss, Mia Hanes, Heather Kerns,Johnny Magardino, Tee Chulikavit, Nico Dreyfuss and DevinWade.
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Racing Instruction in the SoutheastRegional Calendars (Including regular club racing)
Southeast Coast (NC, SC, GA)East FloridaSoutheast FloridaFlorida KeysWest FloridaNorthern Gulf Coast (Florida Panhandle, AL, MS, LA, TX)
NOTE ON REGIONAL RACE CALENDARSRegattas and Club Racing—Open to Everyone Wanting toRace For the races listed here, no individual club membership isrequired, although a regional PHRF rating, or membershipin US SAILING or other sailing association is oftenrequired. To list an event, email [email protected]. Send the information. DO NOT just send alink. Since race schedules and venues change, contact thesponsoring organization to confirm. Contact informationfor the sailing organizations listed here is listed in the south-ern yacht club directory at www.southwindsmagazine.com.
Club Racing. Many clubs have regular club racesyear around open to everyone and new crew is generallyinvited and sought. Contact the club for dates and informa-tion. Individual club races are not listed here. We will listyour club races only if they happen on a regular schedule.
For a list of yacht clubs and sailing organizations inthe Southeast, go to www.southwindsmagazine.com.
Note: In the below calendars: YC = Yacht Club; SC =Sailing Club; SA = Sailing Association.
RACE MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTIONIN THE SOUTHEASTGo to the Racing News Pages on page 17:
Major Upcoming Regattas
22nd Stede Bonnet Regatta,Southport, NC, Oct. 31Hosted by the Provision Company in Southport, this regat-ta runs up to Cape Fear, the Bald Head Island and back toSouthport. Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker classes. Upwardsof 50 boats participate and competitors dress in pirate garb.Festivities after the race include trophies, food, music andmuch drink. www.stedebonnetregatta.com.
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Club Racing: Go to the local association and club websites for clubracing. The following organizations do not post their races beyond the cur-rent month and are not listed in the below calendars:Neuse Yacht Racing Association www.nyra.org. New Bern, NCSee club website for local club racing.Long Bay Sailing. www.longbaysailing.comSee club website for local club racing.
South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of theclubs in the region and their websites. www.sayra-sailing.com.(state in parenthesis, eg, SC=South Carolina). (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section)
OCTOBER (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section) (** = see Carolina Sailing, page 42)
3-4 Lightning Regatta. Lightnings. Lake Lanier SC (GA)3-4 Old Salty. Thistles. Lake Norman YC (NC)3-4 Barefoot Open. Open. BSC3-4
D12 Laser Regatta. Lasers. Carolina SC (SC)9-11 Halloween Regatta. Open. Augusta SC (GA)** 10-11 Carolina Ocean Challenge. South Carolina YC**10-11 GA State Championship Laser Regatta. Lasers.
Lake Lanier SC (GA)10 Dataw Cup. PHRF. BYSC10-11 Indian Summer Regatta. Open Multihull.
Wateree SC (SC), Eastern Multihull SA10-11 Beers. Y-flyers. Atlanta YC (GA)10-11 Carolina Ocean Challenge. PHRF H20 OD.
South Carolina YC16-18 Hospice Regatta. Western Carolina SC **17 Harbour Town Cup. PHRF, H20, FS. YC of
Hilton Head Island (SC)17-18 Sailboards Regatta. Sailboards. Lake Lanier SC (GA)17-18 Pipers. Highlanders. Lake Norman YC (NC)18 Calibogue Cup. PHRF,H20,FS. YC of Hilton
Head Island (SC)24-25 Halloween Regatta. Open. Lake Lanier SC (GA)24 Around Parris Island Sunfish Race. Sunfish.
Beaufort Yacht & SC (SC)24-25 Wild Oyster Regatta. Lightnings. Carolina YC (SC)24-25 Halloween Regatta. Snipes. Atlanta YC (GA)30-Nov. 1 Miss Piggy. J22,J24,M24,MH. Lake Lanier SC (GA)30-Nov. 1 Turkey Shoot Regatta. Open. Keowee SC**30-Nov. 1 Fall 48. Flying Scot. Lake Norman YC (NC)31 Stede Bonnet Regatta. Southport, NC *
NOVEMBER (** = see Carolina Sailing, page 42)7-8 Last Cat Regatta. Multihulls. Keowee SC (SC),
Eastern Multihull Assoc.7-8 CKOD. One-Design. Laken Norman YC (NC)7-8 No More Turkey. Lasers. Atlanta YC7-8 Midlands Regatta & Oyster Roast. Open.
Columbia SC (SC)15 Whitecapper PHRF Regatta/Small Boat Long
Distance Race. Lake Lanier SC (GA)28 No More Leftovers. Open. Lake Lanier SC (GA)
CHARLESTON OCEAN RACING ASSOCIATION (CORA).www.charlestonoceanracing.org. South Carolina. Go to CORA website for local club racing.
OCTOBER10-11 Bohicket24 Fall Ocean RaceNOVEMBER1 Witches Brew5 Doublehanded Race28 Turkey Race
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LAKE LANIER, GA. Lanier Auxiliary Race Committee. http://ais-cracing.com/aiscracing/LARC/LakeSchedule.php See club website for local club racing.LLSC. Lake Lanier SC. www.llsc.comBFSC. Barefoot SC. www.barefootsailing.orgAISC. Atlanta Inland SC. www.aiscracing.comSSC. Southern SC. www.southernsailing.org
OCTOBER (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section)2 Barefoot Open. BFSC3 Lightning Regatta. LLSC3-4 Barefoot Open. BFSC4 Lightning Regatta. LLSC10-11 Laser Regatta. LLSC17-18 Sailboard Regatta. LLSC24-25 Halloween Regatta. LLSC31 Miss Piggy, One-Design (J/22, J/24). LLSC
NOVEMBEROct. 31-Nov.1 Miss Piggy. One-Design. J/22, J/24. LLSC7 Lanier Cup. University YC21 Whitecapper. LLSC
Major Upcoming Regattas
Melbourne Yacht Club FallRegattas, Oct. 17-18, 24-25The Melbourne Yacht Club Fall Regatta Race Week starts offwith small boat racing on Oct. 17-18. Expected classes areSunfish, Lasers, Raiders, and 420s. Big-boat racing is the fol-lowing weekend on Oct. 24-25. Go to www.sail-race.com.
14th Hiram’s Haul Catamaran Race,Melbourne, FL, to Sebastian, FL,Oct. 31-Nov. 1The 14th running of Hiram’s Haul is set for Oct. 31-Nov. 1.This catamaran race is a 60-mile race running fromMelborne, FL, to Sebastian, FL, on Saturday and back toMelbourne on Sunday. Hiram’s Haul started in 1997 andhosted by Performance Sail and Sport until last year whenSail Series Promotions USA took over as the organizingauthority. It is one of four races of the Endurance Sail Seriesand each day counts for points separately.
The first day starts on Halloween morning with a granprix-style start at the POW/MIA Park in Melbourne andends at Riverside Park just one mile South of CaptainHiram’s in Sebastian. Captain Hiram’s will host a Halloweenparty including live music Saturday night, which has alwaysbeen a spectacle not to be missed. Sunday is a run back toMelbourne with a standard water start. After racing con-cludes on Sunday, there will be an awards ceremony withfood available. www.sailseries.com/hirasmhaul.
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Club Racing (contact club or website for details):Rudder Club of Jacksonville (www.rudderclub.com): Weekendraces organized seasonally and biweekly races on St. Johns River.Indian River YC (www.sail-race.com/iryc): Weekend races organ-ized seasonally. Spring-Summer series begins the first Wednesdayafter daylight savings begins. Wednesday Evening races weekly.The catamaran section of the club has fun sails on the third week-end each month at Kelly Park on Merritt Island.Melbourne YC (www.melbourneyachtclub.com) holds reversehandicap races on alternating weekends; Sunday afternoons in thewinter and Friday nights from April to Oct. Small boat Sundays onalternate weekends year around. MYC sponsors a Dragon PointRace Series for Co-ed racers and a monthly all-female DP series.Halifax River YC (www.hryc.com). Commodore Cup Races.Halifax SA (www.halifaxsailing.org): Sunfish racing weekly; raceseries organized seasonally.Lake Monroe SA (www.flalmsa.org): Sailing on Lake Monroe, asegment of the St. Johns River. Tequila Sunday Racing and JagerCup Race series, alternating every two weeks, with one race in theseries held monthly. March through October, Wednesday NightRum Races. Seasonal race series on Saturdays once a month. Manatee Cove Marina (at Patrick AFB, Satellite Beach) sponsorsmonthly races. www.gopatrickfl.com/marina.html. Lake Eustis SC (www.lakeeustissailingclub.org): Saturday andSunday races MC Scows. Flying Scots, Wayfarers, Lasers—twice amonth, September through May. Laser races every two weeks dur-ing the summer.Port Canaveral YC Sunday Funday PHRF ocean races secondSunday of each month. www.pcyc-fl.org.
OCTOBER(* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section)2-4 16th Wildcat Multihull Regatta. Lake Eustis SC3 Hands on the Helm Women’s Regatta.
North Florida Cruising Club3-4 J/24 District 10 Championship. Eau Gallie YC
& Melbourne YC10 Crab Trap Roundup. Florida YC11 Compass Rose. Offshore race. St. Augustine YC17 Anchors Down. North Florida YC.17-18 Fall Small Boat Regatta. Melbourne YC*23 Yankee Rebel Rally. Melbourne YC24 Navy Day Regatta. Epping Forest YC24 Brewers Cup, Smyrna YC24-25 Fall Big Boat Regatta. Melbourne YC*25 Masquerade Race. Ft. Pierce YC31 Fall River Race. North Florida Cruising Club31-Nov. 1 10th Inland Lake Championship for Opti,
Laser & 42031-Nov. 1 Hiram’s Haul. Catamarans*
NOVEMBER7 Women on Water Regatta. Rudder Club Jacksonville7 Chicken Island Race. Smyrna Yacht Club14 Kings Day Regatta. Epping Forest Yacht Club.15 Mother’s Arms Race. Lake Monroe SA14-15 Ohio Shoals Ocean Race (also: Canaveral Chase).
Melbourne YC & Port Canaveral YC14-15 22nd MC Scow Southeast Regional Championship–
Triple Crown. Lake Eustis Sailing Club.21-22 Kings Day Regatta. Florida YC.
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Major Upcoming Regattas
61st Annual Columbus Day Regatta,Biscayne Bay, FL, Oct. 10-11The 61st annual Columbus Day Regatta will take place dur-ing the weekend of October 10-11 on Biscayne Bay.
Attendance is expected to draw over 200 racing andcruising sailboats from around South Florida. The CoralReef Yacht Club will once again host the award ceremonieson Saturday, October 17. Organizers are looking for dona-tions for raffle prizes.
To sponsor, donate raffle prizes or for more informa-tion, go to the event’s Web site at www.columbusdayregat-ta.net.
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Regional Sailing Organizations:US PHRF of Southeast Florida. www.phrfsef.comBBYRA Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association. www.bbyra.net
Clubs (go to clubs for local club racing schedules)BBYC Biscayne Bay YC. www.biscaynebayyachtclub.comCGSC Coconut Grove Sailing Club. www.cgsc.orgCRYC Coral Reef YC. www.coralreefyachtclub.org. CSC Castaways SC of N. Palm Beach.
www.castawayssailing.comKBYC Key Biscayne YC. www.kbyc.orgLYC Lauderdale YC. www.lyc.orgMYC Miami YC. www.miamiyachtclub.com. USSC US Sailing Center
OCTOBER (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section)3-4 Annual One-Design Regatta. CGSC.
BBYRA OD #2.10-11 Columbus Day Regatta*17 Annual Regatta. BBYRA PHRF #224 46th Round the Island Race. KBYC24-25 Halloween Howler Youth Regatta. CGSC
NOVEMBER (** = see Racing News section, page17)7 Annual BBYRA PHRF #3. CRYC7 Annual BBYRA One-Design #3. CRYC12 Miami to Nassau Race. CRYC**22 Star Schoonmaker Cup. CRYC22 Fall Harvest Youth/Multihull Regatta. MYC24 International 420 Clinic. CGSC
Florida Keys Race Calendar
Key West Community Sailing Center (formerly Key WestSailing Club). Every Saturday – Open house at the Center. 10:00a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Friday evenings happy hour open house at 5p.m. (305) 292-5993. www.keywestsailingsailingcenter.com.Sailboat Lane off Palm Avenue in Key West. Non-members wel-come. Small-boat Wednesday night racing during DaylightSavings season. Small-boat Sunday racing year around at 1 p.m.Boat ramp available. Race in the seaplane basin near the mooringfield. Dinner and drinks afterward.
Upper Keys Sailing Club (UKSC). www.upperkeyssailingclub.com. Go to the Club website for regular club racing open to all.
OCTOBER3-4 Club 420 Regatta.
NOVEMBER15 Dockmaster’s Regatta Winter #222 Snipe Women’s Nationals
Major Upcoming Regattas
32nd Annual Rumgatta Regatta,Tampa Sailing Squadron Apollo Beach, FL, Oct. 9-11One of the oldest events in Tampa Bay. Racing on Saturdayin Multihull, Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker, One-Design, RacerCruiser, True Cruising and Mother Lode. The Mother Lodeclass is designed to provide an easy, safe pursuit racearound a comfortable course. Boats are assigned a competi-tive rating based on their equipment and the captain’s expe-rience. It provides a way for non-racers to join the regattaand compete for trophies.
The One-Design fleet may include J/24s and FlyingScots. On Sunday is the Women’s Rumgatta Regatta.Saturday after-race Ron Diaz Caribbean “Par-Ti” featuringmusic, rum libations, and dinner.
For information and NOR, go to www.sail-tss.org.
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Fall Bay Race and Leukemia CupKick-Off Party, St. Petersburg Yacht Club, Oct. 9-10 This is a Suncoast Boat of the Year event. Last year, the racereverted back to a one-day schedule, which it was for manyyears—one long race around Tampa Bay, which at timeslasted till late if there were no winds and was very fast ifthere was a lot of wind. The variable conditions in TampaBay add a strategic component for the navigators. For infor-mation, registration and the NOR, go to www.spyc.org.Click on the “Sailing” drop-down menu and then Regattas.
This year’s regatta is a preliminary event which willintroduce next year’s 2016 Fall Bay Race/Leukemia CupRegatta planned for October. This years Kick-Off Partywill include speaker Gary Jobson, a silent auction and com-plimentary craft beers. Visit www.leukemiacup.org/sun.
50th CMCS Summerset SailingRegatta, Fort Myers Beach, FL, Oct. 10-11This is the southwest Florida racing community’s premiereannual sailing competition and the kickoff regatta for thefall and winter racing program. The regatta is held to raisemoney for local youth sailing programs. The event is held atFort Myers Beach with the Pink Shell Resort as headquartersfor Saturday’s party and the awards dinner Sunday.
The regatta is a boat-of-the-year event for SouthwestFlorida racers. Fifty to 60 boats usually participate in six class-es in this two-day event. Up to four buoy races on two racecircles in the Gulf will be held Saturday, along with a distancecoastal race Sunday. A new event from last year, “CruisersGo Racing?” will be a highlight for Sunday. These boats willstart after the racers and sail a different course It is designedto be a fun sail/race, and all will be eligible for fabulous doorprizes. For more information, go to www.cmcs-sail.org.
9th Buzzelli Multihull Rendezvouswith 36th Stiletto Nationals,Sarasota Sailing Squadron, Oct. 16-18 Open to all multihull sailboats, the three-day event starts onFriday with the long-distance race, which is optional for allexcept those competing in the Stiletto Nationals. Courseswill be on Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, weatherdependent.
In previous years, participants have come from 17states and the Dominican Republic. More than 70 boast usu-ally compete in eight classes: Stilettos, Corsairs, Formulas,Hobies, Nacras, Windriders, Hobie Waves, Wetas, and avariety of other multihulls.
Complimentary camping, docking, launching, andparking are available at the Squadron, which can bereached at (941) 388-2355. For more information, go towww.BuzzelliMR.com, or contact the Sarasota SailingSquadron at (941) 388-2355.
USA Junior Olympic SailingFestival, River Romp, Fort Myers Beach, FL Oct. 17-18The Edison Sailing Center (ESC), a community-based sail-ing center in Fort Myers, FL, will host the River RompRegatta in October, A USA Junior Olympic Sailing Festival.US SAILING’s Junior Olympic Sailing Program is a nation-wide series of sailing regattas for youth ages 8 to 21. Eachevent is hosted by a different club or organization. ESC willhost a STEM event as part of the Project Reach. River Rompcontinues to welcome Optis, Lasers, and 420s. If a minimumof three sailors register—and sail in—Laser full rigs, medalswill be awarded for the Laser Full fleet. The event is held atLee County Park. For the NOR, registration and more infor-mation, go to www.riverromp.org.
15th Annual Sarasota Yacht ClubInvitational Regatta, Nov. 7This regatta includes a windward/leeward race in the bayfor Spinnaker and One-Design classes, with a 12-mile pur-suit race in the Gulf of Mexico west of Big Sarasota Pass forNon-Spinnaker, True Cruising, Racer Cruiser, PocketCruiser, and Multihull. Five or more boats may make aclass. The random leg course rating will be utilized.
Skippers meeting and a party will be held Fridayevening. A continental complimentary breakfast will beavailable Saturday morning, and racing will begin aroundnoon. An after-race party with dinner and awards presenta-tions will be held Saturday evening.
This is a Sarasota Bay Boat-of -the-Year event. For theNOR and online registration, go to www.sarasotayacht-club.org. (941) 365-4191. [email protected]
80th Egmont Key Race, Tampa Bay, FL, Nov. 212015 marks the 80th anniversary of the oldest running sail-boat race on the west coast of Florida. To mark this specialevent, for the first time ever, the race course will take usAROUND the island (it was tried in 2014, but maintenancedredging blocked the course). The race is both a DIYC andSuncoast BOTY event. There is a short course for smallerboats that will stay inside the Skyway Bridge, but still offera challenging course. The long course will go “around”Egmont key, once again qualifying the race for the presti-gious Wall perpetual trophy. After the race is the tradition-al DIYC Chili Cookoff event at the club.
Doris Colgate Junior Women’s Cup,Edison Sailing Center, Fort Myers, FL, Nov 27-29Edison Sailing Center will host its inaugural Doris ColgateJunior Women’s Cup (clinic and regatta) in Fort Myers.Female Laser sailors ages 13-19 are invited to register for the
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two-day clinic and one-day race. Information will be avail-able at www.edisonsailingcenter.org, or contact StephanieWebb at [email protected], or call (239) 454-5114.Housing and charters will be available. Registration will beavailable through Regatta Network.
West Florida Race Calendar
The 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.
Club Racing Boca Ciega YC. Gulfport. PHRF racing, spin and non-spin everythird Sunday at 1 p.m. Skipper’s meeting at 10 a.m. (727) 423-6002. Dinghy racing every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. during daylightsavings season. www.sailbcyc.org.Bradenton YC. Winter Races: Starting in October until April. Racesat 1400 hours each Sunday. Thursday evening races at 1830 hoursbeginning in April through Daylight Savings Time. PHRF racingon Manatee River. Lower Tampa Bay race second Saturday of eachmonth. Contact John Izmirlian at (941) 587-7758 or [email protected]. Clearwater Community Sailing Center. Regular weekend clubraces. www.clearwatercommunitysailing.org. Davis Island YC. Regular club racing weekly. www.diyc.org. Dunedin Boat Club. Spring/Fall PHRF racing in the Gulf ofMexico; June-Aug. Bay racing in St. Joseph’s Sound, alternateWednesday nights. Paul Auman at (727) 688-1631, or [email protected]. Platinum Point Yacht Club. Weekly PHRF racing onMondays starting at 1 p.m. on Charlotte Harborwww.ppycbsm.comPort Charlotte. Third Saturday of month, [email protected] Gorda Sailing Club. Charlotte Harbor. Weekly racing.www.pgscweb.com. Safety Harbor Boat Club. Saturday races year around, usuallytwice a month, once a month during summer. Wednesdayevening races organized seasonally. For the current schedule, goto www.safetyharborboatclub.com.Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Sunday series, year around withskippers meeting at noon. April through September Fridayevening racing. 5:45 skippers meeting. www.sarasotasailingsquad.org. St. Pete Yacht Club. Friday evenings (except April 3) throughAug. 28. 1630 starts off The Pier. www.spyc.org. St. Pete Sailing Association. Weekly club racing. www.spsa.usVenice Sailing Squadron. Saturdays. First Saturday of eachmonth, PHRF racing. Start at mouth of Venice Inlet. www.venice-sailing-squadron.org
Boat of the Year Races (BOTY) (please check with West FloridaYacht Racing Association at www.wfyra.org). For completedetails, go to www.wfyra.org and click on the regional associa-tions in Southwest Florida pertaining each area below:Tampa Bay/Suncoast (also known as West Florida BOTY: (SCBOTY)Davis Island YC Boat of the Year: (DIBOTY)Gulf Racing Boat of the Year (Clearwater/Dunedin area): (GULFBOTY) St. Petersburg Ocean Racing Circuit: (SPORC)Charlotte Harbor/Ft. Myers area: (CHBOTY)Sarasota Bay (Sarasota to Venice): (SBYABOTY) Naples/Marco Island: (N/MBOTY) Southwest Florida Boat of the Year (Naples to Marco Island):(SWFLBOTY)Caloosahatchee Region Boat of the Year: (CLRBOTY)
OCTOBER (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section) (** = see Racing News section, page19)3 Sunfish. DIYC3-4 Dore Drake Regatta. Davis Island YC3-4 SAISA HS Keelboat Qualifier. St. Pete YC10 Rumgatta Regatta. Tampa Sailing Squadron*10 Bay Race. Bayshore Gardens YC (SBYABOTY)10-11 Leukemia Cup/Fall Bay Race. St. Pete YC (SPORC)
(SCBOTY)*10-11 Summerset Regatta. Caloosahatchee Chowder &
Marching Society. (CHBOTY) (SWFLBOTY) (CLRBOTY)*16-18 Florida State Melges 24 Championship. Davis Island YC16-18 Buzzelli Multihull Rendezvous. Sarasota Sailing
Squadron*17-18 US SAILING Advanced Race Management Seminar.
St. Pete YC**17-18 River Romp Junior Olympic Sailing Festival. Ft. Myers.
Edison Sailing Center*17-25 Zhik F-18 Americas Championship,
Charlotte Harbor, FL**19-23 Mutineer National Championships.
Tampa Sailing Squadron24 Transbay Regatta. St. Pete Sailing Assoc.24 Commodore’s Cup. Naples Sailing and YC
(SWFLBOTY)24 Great Pumpkin Regatta. Sarasota Sailing Squadron23-25 Husband & Wife Flying Scot Championship.
Davis Island YC29-31 F16 National Championship. Sarasota Sailing Squadron31 Halloween Regatta. Davis Island YC (DIBOTY)31-Nov. 1Clearwater Challenge. Clearwater YC (GULFBOTY)
NOVEMBER (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section)7 Sarasota Invitational. Sarasota YC (SBYABOTY)7 Festival of the Islands Regatta. Caloosahatchee
Marching & Chowder Society (CLRBOTY)13-15 Melges 24 Southeast Championship. Davis Island YC14 Commodore’s Cup. St. Pete SA14 Fall Regatta. Marco Island YC (SWFLBOTY)14-15 Carlisle Classic. Clearwater Community Sailing Ctr. 20-22 Snipe Western Hemispheres. St. Pete YC21 ISSA National Keelboat Championship. St. Pete YC21 Egmont Key Regatta. Davis Island YC (DIBOTY)*21-22 Hospice Regatta. Charlotte Harbor YC (CHBOTY)27 Old Shoe Regatta. Davis Island YC27-29 Doris Colgate Junior Women’s Cup. Edison Sailing Ctr.*28 Drumstick Regatta. Sarasota Sailing Squadron28-29 Thanksgiving Regatta. Davis Island YC
Major Upcoming Regattas
Lost Bay Regatta, Perdido Bay, AL,Oct. 3The Lost Bay Regatta (known as one of the largest beachparties along the northern Gulf Coast) will be held Oct. 3 onPerdido Bay in Alabama. The Point Yacht Club, in PiratesCove Marina, Josephine, AL, is host. Regatta activities beginon Friday evening with race registration and party. On
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Saturday, a competitor’s briefing will be held in the morn-ing with the race start at 1 p.m. Following the race will be aparty and awards presentation.
For information, go to www.pointyachtclub.org.
6th Annual J/Fest SouthwestRegatta and J/80 North AmericanChampionshp, Lakewood YachtClub, Seabrook, TX, Oct. 9-11Held on Galveston Bay, this regatta will have J/boats racingin a PHRF race and in the J/Cruise class. J/boats racinginclude J/22, J/24, J/70, J/80, J/105 and the J/109. AnyJ/boat is welcome and there will also be One-Design races.The regatta is a circuit stop for J/22s and J/24s. There is alsoa J/Cruise class. This year the event is coupled with the J/80North American Championships. Skippers meeting Fridayand after race parties on Saturday and Sunday with awardson Sunday. Go to www.lakewoodyachtclub.com orwww.JfestSouthwest.com
16th Annual Fish ClassChampionships, Mobile, AL, Oct. 10-11This regatta will be at the Buccaneer Yacht Club. This GulfYachting Association event, held at the Buccaneer YachtClub in Mobile, annually allows member clubs the opportu-nity to sail in the historic Fish, a gaffed-rigged sailboat.Boats will be provided by the yacht club.
Three races are planned, with the winning club earningthe John G. Curren Trophy. Class awards for first, secondand third in the series will also be awarded to the helmsmanand crew on the final day of competition. For more infor-mation, go to www.bucyc.com.
41st WFORC Regatta, Pensacola, FL,Oct. 16-18Held at the Pensacola Yacht Club, registration and skippersmeeting will be held on Thursday evening. Racing willbegin each day at 12:00 noon starting Friday with dailyawards given out each evening. Live music, door prizes willbe held throughout the event with the final awards ceremo-ny. For more information, go to www.pensacolayachtclub.org.
Racing, Texas Style: 29th AnnualHarvest Moon Regatta, Oct. 22-25The Harvest Moon Regatta is the largest point-to-point sail-ing regatta in U.S. coastal waters. The regatta attracts morethan 250 sailboats and 1,700 sailors each year to race 153 off-shore nautical miles through the Gulf of Mexico fromGalveston to Port Aransas, TX. Conceived as a gentlemen’srace by a few members of the Lakewood Yacht Club inSeabrook, the course reaches southwesterly down the Texas
coast when the prevailing winds are southeasterly. Regatta participants moor at the City Marina or at
Island Moorings in Port Aransas following the race. TheHarvest Moon Regatta, a/k/a “Rum Regatta,” culminatesin the Welcome Sailors Rum Party and awards dinner onSaturday night to see who won the coveted Bacardi Cup. Asmany as 2,000 sailors and friends show up to celebrate andenjoy a party and barbecue dinner with music.
Sunday morning, many of the sailboats return via theGulf ICW or offshore. For more information, go towww.harvestmoonregatta.com, or www.lakewoodyachtclub.com.
Northern Gulf Coast Race Calendar
See local club websites for club races.Gulf Yachting Association. www.gya.orgGalveston Bay Cruising Association. www.byca.orgNew Orleans Yacht Club. www.noyc.orgSouthern Yacht Club. www.southernyachtclub.org
Clubs with regattas listed this monthBSC Birmingham SC, Birmingham, ALBucYC Buccaneer YC, Mobile, ALBWYC Bay Waveland YC, Bay St. Louis, MSBYC Biloxi YC, Biloxi, MSCSA Corinthian SA, New Orleans, LAFYC Fairhope YC, Fairhope, ALGYA Gulf Yachting AssociationGYC Gulfport YC, Gulfport, MSHYC Houston YC, Houston, TXIYC Hemmingway YC, Haban, CUBAJYC Jackson YC, Jackson, MSLAYC Lake Arthur YC, Lake Arthur, LALPWSA Lake Pontchartrain Women’s SA, New Orleans, LALYC Lakewood YC, Seabrook, TXMYC Mobile YC, Mobile,ALNOYC New Orleans YC, New Orleans,LAOSYC Ocean Springs YC, Ocean Springs, MSPBYC Pensacola Beach YC, Pensacola Beach, FLPCYC Pass Christian YC, Pass Christian, MSPtYC Point YC, Josephine, ALPYC Pensacola YC, Pensacola, FLPontYC Pontchartrain YC, New Orleans, LASSYC South Shore YC, New Orleans, LAStABYC St. Andrew’s Bay YC, Panama City, FLSYC Southern YC, New Orleans, LATYC Lake Tammany YC, Slidell, LA
OCTOBER (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section) 1-4 J/22 NA Championship. HYC3 28th Annual Lost Bay Regatta. PtYC*3 Single-Handed Round the Lake. TYC3 Round the Cat. PCYC3-4 Cressy Eliminations ISSA HS. SYC3-4 Great Scot. BSC3-7 VX One NA Championship. GYC8-12 J/80 North American Championshps. LYC8-11 US Sailing Championship of Champions. GYC8-11 Lightning NA Championship. SYC9-11 J/80 North American Championships LYC*10-11 Alternate Date. Lipton Cup. BWYC10 Pink Ribbon Regatta. NOYC/LPWSA/SYC10 Monk Smith. BWYC10-11 Fish Worlds. BucYC*10-11 J/Fest Southwest. LYC*
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SAIL AND POWER BOATS2005 72' Grand Banks Aleutian................................................................SOLD2007 64’ Hateras CPMY...........................................................................SOLD2003 60' Novatec Fast Trawler ...........................................Reduced $399,0001990 58' Striker 580 Sportfish .............................................................$299,9002008 52' Symbol Pilothourse...............................................................$599,0001980 Morgan 512 OI Sloop .................................................................$129,0002003 Novatec 48 Fast Trawler, Bristol......................................................SOLD2002 48' Sea Ray Sedan Bridge ..............................................................SOLD2011 47' Sea Ray Sundance...............................................Reduced $549,9002006 44' Manta Powercat....................................................................$459,0002003 43' Silverton ACMY ....................................................Reduced $194,9001982 44' Gallart Motor Sailer.................................................................$59,9001989 44' Nova Targa ACMY.....................................................Under Contract2002 42' Carver Mariner......................................................................$163,0002005 41' Luhrs Convertible ......................................................................SOLD2008 38' Hunter Sloop loaded.............................................................$129,9002003 37 Lady Hawke Cabrio Sail Cat .....................................................SOLD1993 37' Najad CC Sloop - Bristol and Loaded...................................$179,0001981 36' Island Gypsy Trawler ..............................................................$59,0001986 36' Grand Banks Classic, Bristol ................................................$119,0001991 Oyster Bay 34 Express Cruiser…Nice .........................................$44,9001997 32' Luhrs Convertible Diesel ..........................................Under Contract1977 31' Pacific Seacraft Mariah Sloop ................................................$19,0001987 30' Catalina Sloop MKII Shoal Draft .............................................$16,900
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Beneteau SENSE 55 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .In Stock/Call for PackageBeneteau Sense 50 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $439,000Beneteau M50 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$130,000Beneteau Sense 50 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$425,000Beneteau 49 (two to choose) starting at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$290,000CAL 48 1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$95,000Beneteau Oceanis 48 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .In Stock/Call for Package Beneteau 473 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$203,500 Nelson Marek 46 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$97,000Sea Master 46 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$119,000 Beneteau Oceanis 45 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $350,000Beneteau Oceanis 45 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .In Stock/Call for PackageGulfstar 44 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$78,000Pearson 424 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$82,500Beneteau 423 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$179,000Hunter Passage 420 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $135,000Jeanneau 42 Deck Salon 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$190,000Catalina 42 MkII 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$86,500 Beneteau ST42 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$239,000 Beneteau 400 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$90,000Beneteau 393 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$119,000Beneteau 381 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$81,000Beneteau 38M 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$55,000Endeavour 38 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$64,900Catalina 380 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$110,000Catalina 380 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$83,500Beneteau Oceanis 38 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .In Stock/Call for Package Beneteau Idylle 11.50 (37') 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$50,000J/Boats J/111 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$275,000Dufour 36 Classic 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $79,000Wauquiez Pretorien 35 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$59,000Beneteau Oceanis 35 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .In Stock/Call for Package Beneteau 311 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$55,000 Beneteau 31 Centerboard 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$96,000J Boats J/29 MHOB 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$24,000Seaward 26RK 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$69,000J/Boats J/70 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .In Stock/Call for Package Beneteau First 20 Twenty 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$40,000Perry 20 2011 (Custom Bob Perry Design) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$50,000
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2009 DYER DHOW. 8 feet. Very good condi-tion, oars w/leather, engine mount, embed-ded serial numbers, perfect towing, three per-sons plus equipment. 4-cycle Yamaha 2.5engine. $1000 for boat. Engine $500. RichardEdson (727) 940-2695. (11 /15)
Luders 16, 1952. Current owner since 1965(named Windrider, previously Thunder). WonColumbus regatta Miami three times. 24-feeton deck. Appears totally original and tightwith main and jib. Hull #570, racing number33. Epoxy glass over wood. Elderly ownerwishing to sell. $9995. Located Anna MariaIsland, FL. (941) 778-9435 (12/15)
17’ Com-Pac Suncat 2013. Excellent condi-tion, trailer, unique hinged mast system, shoaldraft keel, outboard brackets, bimini, lazyjack, portable head, transom ladder, sleeps 2.$19,831. Call Paul at Masthead Enterprises,(800) 783-6953, or (727) 327-5361.www.mastheadsailinggear.com
Supercat 20. Original owner. 28 years in stor-age. Never raced or wrecked. New furling jib,new running and standing rigging. FreshBottom paint. 4 hp Honda. $5500. (941) 763-0530. (12/15)
1985 Wilkinson 22 ft Cat Boat. Gaff Rig, 8HPYanmar Diesel rebuilt 2012, Hull refinished2014, V-berth, enclosed head, galley sink,large storage areas. Call (813) 447-1989.Lauderdale area, make offer. (10/15)
1973 Ranger 23. Sails Great! LessonsAvailable by US Sailing-Certified Instructor.Standing Rigging 2013, painted hull, Honda4-stroke OB, Harken roller furler, adjustablewhisker pole, genoa, main, covers, VHF, run-ning lights, cabin lights, adjustable motormount, swim ladder. $2,900. Fort Myers, FL.Call Dan (941) 704-1578. (11/15)
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24’ Bahama Sandpiper. Gaff-rigged CatKetch, 1978, with trailer. Pocket cruiser is ahead turner in any fleet, by Chuck Paine. 18”draft, 1500# lead ballast. Now $3,000. StewartMarine, Miami. (305) 815-2607. www.marine-source.com. [email protected]
Seaforth 24, 1981. Full keel, 2.5 ft draft.NEW: stern rail, Lewmar hatch, rigging, sails,roller furling, canvas, Seadeck non-skid, more.Must see. New bottom job. Cockpit well,2011 Suzuki 6 LS, trailer available. $7,850.Call Tony at (941) 545-1179. (12/15)
Merit 25, 1985. Good Condition. Race ready!Standard Main & Jib, like new UK Tape-Drive,Mylar Racing Main, 155 & 130 Mylar Genoa,Spinnaker, 6 HP Tohatsu 4-stroke, Autopilot.Great cruiser, sleeps 4, largest berths in boatsunder 35 feet. Fast & easy to sail. $6300 -OBO. Lake Hartwell, SC. Fred (864) 630-1223(10/15)
26’ Seaward 26RK 2012 w/Trailer, 1’3 to 6’draft, electric retractable keel, mast lower-ing/raising system, 8 S/S ports, roller furlinggenoa, $69,900. (800) 826-2807. Pics &specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com
1984 27’ Albin Family Cruiser. Trawler cruis-ing on a budget. Diesel engine, wind andsolar power, air conditioning, inverter, refrig-eration, center cockpit with forward and pri-vate aft stateroom. Alan (941) [email protected]. Details at;www.windsweptyachtsales.com. $25,000
1984 Cal 27 Pocket Cruiser/Club Racer.Ready to sail away! Shoal draft. Roller furling.Wheel steering. Strong outboard. New galley.Four sails. Air conditioning. St. Petersburg.(239) 464-0916. $7500. (11/15)
1976 28’ Sabre - $20,000 - Curtis Stokes -(954) 684-0218 [email protected]
1987 30’ Catalina MKII. 3’10” Shoal-draftwing keel, one-owner boat with roller furlinghead sail, Universal diesel, propane SS cook-top w/oven, microwave, shore power, all orig-inal except for custom hard bimini top and ingood condition. $16,900. Call George (941)792-9100 Grand Slam Yacht Sales
1997 Endeavourcat 30. Twin Diesel,Generator, Dinghy, davits, air conditioningand extraordinary liveaboard comfort in a 30-foot catamaran. $77,[email protected]. (941) 350-1559www.windsweptyachtsales.com
30’ Catalina 1990. Universal 23hp, large deckarea, single handling made easy, Nav center,bimini, genoa, battened mainsail, batterycharger, gen, Raytheon auto pilot & MORE!$19,900, Call Tom S @ (727) 742-2772,www.SailboatsinFlorida.com, Edwards YachtSales
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Pacific Seacraft Mariah 1977. Yanmar diesel,project boat, needs starboard side cap rail,electrical and interior clean up. Please callGeorge for details and appointment forinspection. Asking $19,900 with offersencouraged. (941) 792-9100. Grand Slamyacht Sales.
32’ CATALINA 320 1999. Well keptracer/cruiser. Roller furling jib. Flaking systemon main. Yanmar 27hp recently maintained.Wing keel. Lots of electronics with portable airconditioner and flat screen TV included. Fullcockpit bimini. Clean and smells like new.Motivated seller. $62,500 obo. Call Dave at(941) 685-5755. (11/15)
33 C&C 1975. Yanmar 30hp, Diesel, solid per-forming racer/cruiser. Excellent racing/cruisingsails, Garmin chart-plotter, speed/depth,AM/FM CD Stereo, VHF. Bimini top that coverscockpit. Asking $16,999. Contact Mike @(727) 510-4167 [email protected]. (10/15)
33’ Tartan, 1981. Speed, flat wake by S&S,tough by Tartan, 3 sails, 24hp diesel, 4’5”Scheel keel–so stiff! $23,000. Stewart Marine,Miami. (305) 815-2607. www.marine-source.com. [email protected]
33’ Island Packet 2000. Yanmar 27hp, electwindlass, full bimini enclosure, NEW Fridgecompressor, 2012 Radar, 2015 chartplotter &autopilot, 2015 bottom paint, water maker,MAINTAINED WELL! $115,000, Call Cal @(561) 312-0010, www.SailboatsinFlorida.com,Edwards Yacht Sales
2002 Beneteau Oceanis 331. New bottompaint and cutlass bearing June 2015. Includeswindlass, autopilot, chartplotter, fridge/freez-er, and stern shower. Very clean cruiser-live-aboard in great condition. Larger wheel andbulb keel provide excellent performance forblue water sailing. $59,500. Located Miami.Call John at (954) 253-7479, or Jim at (954)303-5310. (12/15) (12/15)
34’ Hunter 2001. Yanmar 27hp, furling main(2013) & jib, lines leading aft for single han-dling, Raytheon Speed log/Autopilot/WindSpeed & Direction/VHF/Depthsounder,Garmin GPS, READY TO GO! MUST SEE!$49,900, Call Ralph @ (941) 276-8047,www.SailboatsinFlorida.com, Edwards YachtSales
34’ Beneteau 343 2008. 4’9 draft, in-mastfurling, AC, Electronics, Bimini/Dodger,Refrig/Freezer. $95,000. (727) 214-1590. Pics& Specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com
1984 34’ Sabre Classic. A rare opportunity topurchase a classic boat that needs a little“sweat equity”. Centerboard; 4’ draft, sails,canvas, diesel, new batteries. See our websitefor details on what she needs for restoration.www.windsweptyachtsales.com. Alan (941)350-1559. [email protected]. $13,000.
34’ Hook Kelly Custom. 1982. Diesel runsperfect. Excellent condition. Price cut to$11,000 OBO. Owner retired and anxious tosell. Proven PHRF winner. Contact Terry at(941) 723-6560. (12/15)
1992 34’ Sabre Classic. Diesel, radar, GPS,Exc sail inventory including spinnaker.Refrigeration, 4’6” Wing keel. Bimini/Dodgerand more. Alan (941) [email protected]. Details at;www.windsweptyachtsales.com. $94,500.
36’ Presto Ketch 1982. Fiberglass, shoaldraft, tanbark sails, Yanmar 30 diesel. Perfectfor Bahamas, Florida Keys and Chesapeake.$24,800. Located in NC. Specs and picturesat www.beaufortyachtsales.com
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1995 36’ Catalina MK II - $68,500 – CurtisStokes – (954) 684-0218 – [email protected] – www.curtisstokes.net
36’ J/111 2012. 2015 World Champion,Several High-End, Race-Ready Sail Inventories,Full Electronics, Trailer, Dry-Sailed Only. NoExpense Spared. $275,000. (504) 283-2507.Pictures & Specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com.
36’ Pearson Cutter 1982. Excellent condi-tion, ready to sail. 11 sails, new electronics,loaded for cruising & racing. Separate showerstall in head, full galley & nav. 48’ mast. Greatfor inshore cruising, offshore voyaging & rac-ing. $52,000. Mobile, AL. Details atwww.pearson36cutter.com. (11/15)
Several like new, one-owner Catalina 350s &Catalina 375s available! Dunbar Sales, Inc.,www.dunbaryachts.com. (800) 282-1411.
1993 NAJAD 370 from Sweden. VolvoDiesel, New Generator, Bow Thruster, AirConditioning, In-Mast Furling, Roller FurlingHead Sail, New Teak Decks, Beautiful CenterCockpit Performance Cruiser in excellent con-dition. Call for appointment (941) 792-9100Note: vessel is currently restricted from sale inUS waters-$179,000. Grand Slam Yacht Sales.
2001 Tartan 3700. Lowest priced on the mar-ket. In-mast furling, air conditioning, custommattress, shoal draft, dinghy, super fast andvery comfortable. Asking $149,900. Call JoeZammataro at Preferred Yachts (727) 527-2800. Pictures, video and listing atwww.PreferredYachts.com
38’ Catalina 1996. Westerbeke 42hp, AC,2012 LED lighting, 2012 water heater, 2013autopilot, 2012 Solar panels & inverter, NEWbatteries, 2012 gen, 2010 main, 2012 stand-ing rigging, & LOTS MORE UPGRADES!$79,000, Call Clark @ (561) 676-8445,www.SailboatsinFlorida.com, Edwards YachtSales
38’ Catalina 380 ‘97 & ‘00 models to choosefrom, shoal & deep draft, in-mast furling &standard, air conditioning, cushions and morestarting at $84,900. (800) 826-2807. Pics &specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com
1984 38’ Sabre Centerboard. Classic Layout.4’3” draft. In mast furling, Diesel, stainlessports, GPS, VHF, Xantrex inverter, refrigera-tion, Gori prop, and more. Alan (941) 350-1559. [email protected]. Details at;www.windsweptyachtsales.com. $59,900
39-foot Irwin, 1978. Roomy, centerboarder,4’3” board up. 30 hp Yanmar. 10 hours sincetotal rebuild. Solar runs fridge. New batteries.Now $22,500. Stewart Marine, Miami (305)815-2607. www.marinesource.com. [email protected].
41’ Beneteau 411, 2001. Dream Weaver isstunning. New Radar/GPS/Chart Plotter, newair conditioning, in-mast roller furling, cruis-ing chute, new cockpit enclosure, 2011dinghy, 2 cabin layout, dinghy davits withsolar. $109k. Call Kelly at Massey Yacht Sales,St Pete. (727) 599-1718
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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. $79,000. Call George. Grand SlamYacht Sales. (941) 792-9100.
42’ Jeanneau 42 DS 2007. In-Mast Furling,Shoal Keel, Genset, AC, Full Electronics, BowThruster, Windlass, Electric Winch, FullCanvas, Very Clean & True Turn Key.$195,000. (504) 283-2507. Pics & Specs atwww.MurrayYachtSales.com
Catalina 42s. Two available – one owner,loaded, low hours. Call (800) 282-1411 fordetailed list
43’ Fountaine Pajot Belize. Owners edition2006 vintage with all options plus. $449,500.Please contact Ed at Punta Gorda YachtBrokers in South Florida at (941) 833-0099.
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
2009 Catalina Morgan 440. Best priced onthe market. Raised main salon offerspanoramic view. Draws 4’11, yet built tocruise the world. In-mast furling, bowthruster, water maker, davits. Asking$233,900. Call Joe Zammataro at PreferredYachts (727) 527-2800. Pictures, video andlisting at www.PreferredYachts.com.
45’ Hunter CC 2000. Beautiful center cockpitsloop with all the bells and whistles. Ready tocruise with genset, wind generator, dink ondavits, new electronics, redundant GPS plot-ters, auto pilot, heat & air. $145k. KellyBickford CPYB (727) 599-1718
2002 46’ Ray Creekmore Custom BuiltCenter Cockpit. Aft owner’s stateroom, Cutterrigged, diesel, solid construction. Alan (941)350-1559. [email protected]. Details at;www.windsweptyachtsales.com. $49,900.
1979 46’ Brewer - $110,000 - Barbara Burke(904) 310-5110 - [email protected] -www.curtisstokes.net
49’ Beneteau 49 2008. $290,000. Generator,AC, Bow Thruster, 4 electric winches, in-mastfurling, shoal draft, canvas, full electronicspackage & more. (727) 214-1590. Specs &pics at www.MurrayYachtSales.com
49’ Hunter 2007. SHOAL DRAFT, bowthruster, great electronics, cutter rig, water-maker, cabin heater, Genset, full reverse-cycleheat and air and the best value on the markettoday. $239k. Call Kelly Bickford CPYB @(727) 599-1718
1987 50’ Gulfstar - $89,000 – Barbara Burke(904) 310-5110 – [email protected] –www.curtisstokes.net
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SAILING CHARTER BUSINESS. IncludesNonsuch 30 Cat Boat in Wilmington NC.Established and Profitable for 5 years withGrowth Possibilities. Downtown Slip, Perfectfor Couples. Phone (910) 538-8884 or email:[email protected]
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Perkins 4.108 Re-manufactured LongBlocks. $5,995 plus your rebuildable coreengine, or $500 core charge. Plus shippingfrom Pensacola, FL. [email protected]
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Sailboat CAPTAINS needed in Miami. P/Tday charter operation in Miami, FL. Must havea USCG 50Gt MASTER license orbetter. Sailboat experience required. Part-timeonly. More online at www.MiamiSailing.net/careers. (12/15)_________________________________________
Yacht Sales. Curtis Stokes & Assoc., Inc. hasopportunities throughout Florida for experi-enced brokers or new salespeople. Applicantmust be ethical, hard-working and have aboating background. Training available.Inquiries confidential. (954) 684-0218,[email protected]._________________________________________Independent Writers in the Florida Keys. Paidby word to write about cruising/sailing (includ-ing trawler cruising if you are a trawler cruiser)in the Keys. [email protected]._________________________________________
Independent Writers in the northern GulfCoast—and Florida’s Big Bend—FloridaPanhandle, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,Texas. Paid by the word. To write about cruis-ing and sailing (including trawler cruising ifyou are a trawler cruiser) in the area. [email protected]._________________________________________Edwards Yacht Sales is expanding! Severalopenings for yacht brokers in Florida. Lookingfor experienced broker or will train the rightindividual. Must have boating background andbe a salesman. Aggressive advertising program.Come join the EYS team! Call in confidence,Roy Edwards (727) 507-8222 www.Edwards YachtSales.com,Yachts@ EdwardsYachtSales.com_________________________________________
Help Wanted in Canvas Shop in NorthCarolina. Well-established Marine CanvasShop seeks new operator. Current operatorretiring. Shop is located on site at the region’sleading full service marina and boatyard. Idealcandidate will be experienced and proficientwith canvas repairs, bimini and dodger fabrica-tion, and upholstery. Contact: Mark Henley,179 McCotters Marina Road, Washington, NC27889. [email protected]
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Seeking female 40 years and up. Sailing expe-rience necessary. Long term, leisurely, shortcruising. East coast. Cuba possible when per-mits available. I am an experienced cruisingsailor with a 41-foot ketch. (843) 742-8056.Little River, SC. Paul [email protected].
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Laser ......................................................19Mack Sails..............................................40Madeira Beach Municipal Marina ..........31Mainsail School......................................36Maptech................................................37Marine Tech Services .............................22Martek Davits ........................................44Masthead Enterprises...................27,24,58Mastmate .............................................24Miami Mooring Field ...............................9Mobile Marine Services..........................22Murray Yacht Sales/Beneteau.................61Myrtle Beach Marina .............................35National Sail Supply...............................27Nickle Atlantic .......................................24North Sails .........................................7,17Optimist ................................................19Panama City Marina ..............................34Panel Visor .............................................25Paradise Marina .....................................35Pasadena Marina ...................................34Pier One Yacht Sales ................................3Ponce de Leon Hotel .............................67Port Canaveral YC..................................27Port Visor...............................................32Precision ................................................19Preferred Yacht Brokerage......................58Punta Gorda Yacht Brokers ....................57Regatta Pointe Marina ...........................34Rigging Only .........................................26Safe Cove Boat Storage .........................32Sail Harbor Marina.................................35Sail Repair..............................................27Sailing Services ......................................26Sailors Exchange Flea Market.................14Sarasota YC Invitational Regatta...............7Schurr Sails ............................................29Sea School .............................................44SeaTech .................................................67Seaworthy Goods .............................25,32Simple Sailing ........................................36Smartkat Catamarans.............................12Source Mobile Marine............................22Sparcraft - Wichard..................................8Sparman USA ........................................37Spotless Stainless ...................................25St. Petersburg Boat Show ........................5Storm Trysail Club .................................72Sunfish...................................................19Sunrise Sails, Plus...................................26Tackle Shack ..........................................19Teak Guard ............................................42Teak Hut ................................................25TideSlide................................................33Tiki Water Sports....................................25Tohatsu Outboards ................................25UK Sailmakers ........................................27Ullman sails ......................................22,27US SAILING............................................15US Spars ................................................13Vacu Wash .............................................27VMG Sailing School ...............................36West Carolina Sailing Club.....................63Wichard - Sparcraft ..................................8Windrider Trimarans ................................6Windswept Yacht Sales ..........................71Zarcor....................................................30
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Restored 1976 27' O'Day performance sloop.Same fine boat, new price. $7,500 OBO, It'stime. Fort Myers Beach, FL. (239) 560-9656(12/15)
back and forth to shore for a head visitand are confident that she’ll, most like-ly sit straight up, enjoying the view.The admiral and I are still in delibera-tion on where she should sleep, but I’msure that will most likely work itselfout our first night at anchor. We knowwe’ll have fun watching her through-out the weekend.
Did we make the right decision?For us, yes! Bringing Lady onboard hasmade us go over our boat to make sureit’s dog friendly, and as a result, wehave a neater more Bristol feel downbelow. Topsides, we are quite sure thatthe cabin top will be her lookout posi-tion. We are looking forward to havingher onboard whenever we sail. After all,she is now known as Lady, the Boat Dog.
Bob & Margaret Centers sail a 1967 Cal 30out of the Augusta Sailing Club in Georgia.
SAILBOATS – NEW AND BROKERAGECurtis Stokes Yacht Brokerage......................59Dunbar Sales ...............................................57Edwards Yacht Sales.....................................56Flying Scot...................................................22Grand Slam Yacht Sales ...............................60Hobie Cats/Tackle Shack ..............................19Intensity Sailboats ........................................41Kelly Bickford, Broker ...................................60Laser ............................................................19Masthead Yacht Sales/Catalina...........24,27,58Murray Yacht Sales/Beneteau.......................61Optimist ......................................................19Pier One Yacht Sales ......................................3Precision ......................................................19Preferred Yacht Brokerage............................58Punta Gorda Yacht Brokers ..........................57Smartkat Catamarans...................................12Sunfish.........................................................19Tackle Shack/Hobie/Sunfish, St. Petersburg..19Windrider Trimarans ......................................6Windswept Yacht Sales ................................71GEAR, HARDWARE, ACCESSORIES, CLOTHINGAlpen Glow..................................................10Anchor Rescue .............................................23Beaver Flags.................................................23Borel............................................................23Cajun Trading Rigging .................................26C-Head Compost Toilets ..............................23Coolnet Hammocks .....................................24CopperCoat.................................................43CPT Autopilot ..............................................67Cruising Solutions........................................31DoctorLED ...................................................46Ecotop .........................................................24Flop Stopper................................................39Froli Sleep....................................................24Garhauer .......................................................2Hotwire/Fans & other products ..................24J Prop ..........................................................28KnotStick .....................................................24Martek Davits ..............................................44Masthead Enterprises.........................24,27,58Mastmate Mast Climber ..............................24Nickle Atlantic .............................................24Seaworthy Goods ...................................25,32Sparman USA ..............................................37Spotless Stainless .........................................25Tackle Shack/Hobie/Sunfish, Precision..........19Teak Guard ..................................................42Teak Hut ......................................................25TideSlide......................................................33Zarcor..........................................................30SAILS (NEW & USED), RIGGING, SPARS, RIGGING SERVICES, CANVASAdvanced Sails.............................................26Atlantic Sail Traders......................................26Bacon Sails...................................................26Cajun Trading Rigging .................................26Dwyer Mast/spars, hardware, rigging ..........67Far East Sailmakers.......................................45Keys Rigging................................................26Mack Sails....................................................40Masthead/Used Sails and Service .......24,27,58National Sail Supply, new&used online........27North Sails................................................7,17Rigging Only ..............................................26Sail Repair....................................................27Sailing Services ............................................26Schurr Sails, Pensacola FL ............................29Sparcraft - Wichard........................................8Sunrise Sails, Plus ........................................26UK Sailmakers ..............................................27
Ullman Sails ............................................22,27US Spars ......................................................13Vacu Wash ...................................................27Wichard - Sparcraft ........................................8SAILING SCHOOLS, CAPTAIN’S LICENSEINSTRUCTION, YACHT CLUBSBimini Bay Sailing School..........................6,36Bluewater sailing school..........................16,36Dunbar Sales Sailing School.........................36Mainsail School............................................36Sea School/Captain’s License ......................44US SAILING..................................................15Simple Sailing ..............................................36VMG Sailing ................................................36MARINE ENGINES AND ACCESSORIESBeta Marine .................................................45Tiki Water Sports..........................................25Tohatsu Outboards ......................................25MARINAS, MOORING FIELDS, BOAT YARDSAnchorage Marina .......................................34Blenker Boatworks/marina ...........................34Cape Coral Yacht Basin................................34Catamaran Boatyard ...............................22,35Clearwater Municipal Marina.......................34Glades Boat Storage ...............................11,35Gulfport City Marina....................................21Hidden Harbor Marina.................................35Indiantown Marina ......................................35Madeira Beach Municipal Marina ................31Miami Mooring Field .....................................9Myrtle Beach Marina ...................................35Panama City Marina ....................................34Pasadena Marina .........................................34Regatta Pointe Marina .................................34Safe Cove Boat Storage ...............................32Sail Harbor Marina.......................................35CHARTERS, RENTALS, FRACTIONALBimini Bay Sailboat Rentals .......................6,36Key Lime Sailing ..........................................25MARINE SERVICES, INSURANCE, TOWING,BOAT LETTERING, HOTELS, ETC.Absolute Tank Cleaning ...............................22Allstate Insurance.........................................13BoatNames.net ............................................22EisenShine ...................................................22Fair Winds Boat Repairs/Sales.......................25First Patriot Insurance ..................................12Marine Tech Services ...................................22Ponce de Leon Hotel ...................................67Source Mobile Marine .................................22CAPTAIN SERVICESCapt. Rick Meyer .........................................23MARINE ELECTRONICSDcckside Radio ............................................38Sea Tech/Navigation/Communication..........67SAILING WEB SITES, VIDEOS, BOOKS, GUIDESArt of Wooden Boat Repair ..........................23BoatNames.net ............................................22Capt Marti’s Books/Seminars .......................22Cuba Cruising Guide ...................................23Good Old Boat Magazine ............................21Maptech......................................................37Classic Regatta.............................................29Cortez Flea Market ......................................12Davis Island YC ............................................18Egmont Key Race.........................................18Key West Race Week ....................................72Port Canaveral YC........................................27Sailors Exchange Flea Market.......................14Sarasota YC Invitational Regatta.....................7St. Petersburg Boat Show ..............................5Storm Trysail Club .......................................72West Carolina Sailing Club...........................63
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Jacksonville, FL. Interested partiesand Intracoastal Waterway (ICW)advocates are urged to attend.
As of press date, the final agendahad not been completed. Some of theagenda topics confirmed are Water-way Maintenance by the U.S. ArmyCorps of Engineers, Offshore Renew-able Energy Exploration, BeneficialUse of Dredged Materials, A Viewfrom Washington, D.C., A Discussionof Marine Highway 95 and U.S. DOT,Inlet Management Districts, Marinasand Marine Industries. More infor-mation and conference registration atwww.atlanticintrcoastal.org. Sponsor-ship inquiries are welcome.
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Lady the Boat DogBy Robert Centers
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billowing out in the wind. When tack-ing, she would simply adjust her bodyposture to the new heeling of the boatand would wait to catch the wind inher face again.
We dropped a lunch hook andbrought her down into the cockpitwhere she ate and drank with us,
enjoying swinging at anchorand listening to an assort-ment of Beach Boys tunesand some classic BobMarley. I will swear that sheappears to prefer the four-part harmonies of the BeachBoys, but my wife just rollsher eyes when I make thatjudgment.
When it was time to raisethe anchor, she followed meup to the bow, sniffingaround as if we’d hidden aspecial treat along the toerail. She seemed to enjoywatching me do the ol’heave ho with the rode but
then jumped a bit when the chaincame up, so we knew she was defi-nitely startled. So I took a minute toshow her the chain and how it soundswhen dropping down in the hawsepipe. That brief moment, along with atreat, seemed to work wonders on heranchor rode concerns.
By the time we set sail for ourslip, she was getting more and moreused to the movements of our boat.One of the benefits of having her onboard that day was the countlesswaves and woo-hoos we experiencedas friends and strangers noticed herwith that face in the wind on the wayback in. I could only imagine howmany “grumps” (like me) there wereout there wanting to know what typeof blame fool would have a canine onboard a sailboat.
Our next outing will be a week-end cruise. We’ll use our tandem sit-on-top kayak as a dink to ferry her
Why would you want a dog onboard at all? I wonder what the
mindset is for the sailors who taketheir dog cruising—I just don’t under-stand it. Look, there’s another dog ona cruiser.
The above are just a sample of thequestions I’ve expressed for years. Itwasn’t so much a judgmentcall as it was a failure tounderstand the overall con-cept. I mean, there areenough issues to think abouteach day when you are sail-ing; the weather, provision-ing, anchorages, safety. Whyin the world would you wantto add another item to thatlist? An item that requiresdifferent food, a differentPFD(?) and certainly there isthe different head issue todeal with.
Then we brought Ladyhome to live with us. She’s a7-year-old Cavalier KingCharles Spaniel and we adopted herfrom her previous owner. She’d neverbeen around boats or even water forthat matter and certainly had not beenaround a hustle and bustle lifestyle thatmy wife and I share.
Our last dog was a 75-poundDalmatian named Smokey. We hadbrought her home as a six-month-oldpuppy for our two-year-old daughterMaggie to grow up with. The dog waspretty much sent from heaven for usas he never gave us any trouble andwas Maggie’s protector and constantplaymate for years and years. Whenhe passed on in 2000 we had agreedthat our lifestyle was not meant for adog. We had moved to a home with amuch smaller backyard and sinceSmokey was the perfect dog, whatwould be the odds of replicating thatwith a new dog?
Flash forward to late 2014. We’dspent a couple of months “consider-ing” a dog and then began to make alist of the dogs we knew we wouldn’t
want. Upon further research, wefound that Cavaliers are a fine breedfor sailors—low maintenance, lightshedders, a love of the water and aburning desire not to get into troublewith their owners. We even foundthat friends at our sailing club had a"Cavvy" named Bosun and he has
turned into a fine boat dog. After we brought Lady home, we
made a point to take her out to oursailing club to walk around the dockand get on the boat just to become abit familiar. On our first sail, we werelike new parents in that we had a bagwith her food, treats, collapsible waterand food bowls, PDF(?) and her leash.We had no idea how she would reactto the movement of the boat, the sailsflapping around when tacking, etc.The temperature that day was 99 andthe heat index was 106. We had ourbig tarp up as my wife is a ginger, andwe ended up placing Lady on a beachtowel on the cabin roof portside as weknew we’d set the genny to starboard.
We had 10-12 knots of steadywind, and as we watched Lady in hernew surroundings, it was apparentthat she was not only comfortable onthe cabin top, but with the wind in herface and being out of the sun, thewhole picture was a moment intime—her hair and even ears at times
