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Issue #94
December 2010
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FROM THE EDITOR
WHATS INSIDE
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RO W M Y BO AT
Pete Melvin at the helm of aReynolds 33. Photo by Pat Reynolds
Coming Events 4
Off the Wire 6
A Sport on the Rise The Growing Sport of Rowing
AC Pete An Interview with Pete Melvin
Let the Parade Commence 14Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade Announcements
Coastal Currents 16
Peggy Slater Rememberd by Richard Schaefer
Powertails 18Life Preserver Design Contest
Racing 20
Ask the Expert - Lightening Prevention 2
Ask Mookie
Classifieds 25
As I was writing the rowing story in this issue, I
was brought back to my childhood where I rowed
quite a bit.
It wasnt the same brand of rowing I witness from
the perch on my E Basin end-tie where I see all themodern looking shells
going by every morning.
I didnt wear spandex
shorts and a hat with a
little rear view mirror. I
was keeping it real
I rowed a beat up faded
blue 12-foot aluminum
boat with mismatched
oars, across a creek to
my friends house (the
house in the center of the photo) nearly every day.Until I somehow lost one of the oars and then I
paddled with one, until someone hooked me up
with another oar - then I was back to two.
I wasnt working out or in training; I was going
somewhere - I had a destination.
Im grateful that boating wasnt introduced to me
as a sport I like that it was an integral part of
my growing up a tool, a vehicle, a means to ge
out of the house and make a small voyage acros
a small sea.
I never thought of rowing as hard or fun orsomething I wanted to
get better at. I never
wanted to get a newe
boat, although a few
boats came and went for
whatever reason I jus
wanted to get across the
creek, and rowing was
a simple, no nonsense
way to make the shor
trek.
Its these reflections of innocence that remind meof why I still find myself wanting to travel along
the water in a boat and just like when I was a young
kid - I really dont care what kind.
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December 1
Cupdate 2010
The next Americas Cup will be raced in 2013in exotic 72-foot catamarans with wingsails
multihulls capable of speeds of 30 knots
or more. To prepare the syndicates for the
new AC72s, one-design AC45 catamarans
will be launched next year, and a lineup of
World Series regattas will be scheduled
for 2011, 2012 and 2013 at venues around
the world. Join us at California YC for this
years Cupdate, as Tom Ehman from BMW
Oracle Racing will provide unique insight
about this exciting new era of the Americas
Cup. He will be joined by designer/engineer
Pete Melvin. 7:30 p.m. Free Admission &Beer. California Yacht Club 4469 Admiralty
Way | Marina del Rey 90292
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December 11
Marina del Rey Annual Hol idayBoat Parade
Festively decorated boats illuminate the main
channel in one of the Marinas most visually
exciting events. Best viewing in Burton
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New Years Eve a t Two Harbors
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Please call for reservations, 310-510-4215.
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38th Annual New Year s Eve
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one bottle of wine in a specially engraved
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Members, guests, and prospective members
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We meet on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each
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We want to see the start-line packed with boats, big and small, said co-founder Bob Long. Every year were trying figure out ways to get more sailorout there to have a blast with us. I think people are going to love the short course idea.
In addition to the announcement of the new short course, TBR organizers have also gone full tilt on trying to make the event a money maker for the
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. To that end they have set up a number of ways to earn free entries and tons of boating gear.
Were confident that if people get into it, this years Border Run will be really special. The sailors can get a bunch of cool stuff including the free entry
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I hope people check it out, Long said. Were hoping that this race helps people who are hurting while were fortunate enough to be sailing the SoCal waters.
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The Del Rey Junior Program gets a new start with 22 new boats to replace the older Sabots that have been the cornerstone of the program for years. The
Optimist, nicknamed Optis will allow the kids in the program opportunities for more competition. Other junior programs have been changing from
Sabots to Optis. It is now time for DRYC to join the mainstream and offer our young sailors the best possible experience.
Twenty of the boats were purchased with donated funds from the successful FUBAR Odyssey, powerboat rally held in 2007. The rally was conceived
of, directed and produced by Bruce Kessler who was named Yachtsman of the Year in 2008 for this event. The FUBAR Committee solicited names
for the boats from committee members and some of the participants of the rally. The boats and names will be reveled at a ceremony held at DRYC on
November 20.
The other two boats were purchased by Del Rey Youth Foundation, a new 501 (c) (3) charity started in 2008. One of the boats, which will be named
Winship was purchased in honor of William Winship Tarr, a DRYC board member and long time mariner from donations made in his name. The other
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nce a year early on a November morning, the main channel of Marina del Rey becomes a racetrack for the rowing breed. Sleek
shells, so narrow the slightest weight shift can feasibly cause capsize, race around the harbor in an annual contest called Head of the
Marina hosted by the California Yacht Club.
Seeing large teams of young men and women from the local colleges and a slew of other competitors of all ages and genders is a
reminder that this is a sport that albeit somewhat below the radar, is quietly becoming more and more popular every year.
In the last couple of decades, junior and particularly womens programs have soared in participation numbers. The surge in the womens divisions is
largely to do with a law entitled Title IX, which seeks to insure federal funding is equally disbursed between men and women in college sports.
When womens rowing became a NCAA sport about 13-years ago it really exploded, said former UCLA rowing coach Paul Mokha. And following
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Here in California, it is steadily reaching more people who are either in search of a unique form of competition or a means to get a full body workou
and for many its both. If the Head of the Marina is any indication, the sport is certainly building steam.
The event went very well, said California Staff Commodore Craig Leads who has organized the event for years. We had one-hundred entries which
is a record - previously, ninety five was the most.
Seeing the demographic in this years Head of the Marina Leeds indicated the contest reflected just what Mokha points out - larger numbers of junio
and female teams.
The sport is growing, mainly fueled by junior and masters rowing, Leeds said. There are large numbers of girls going into rowing because they thinkrowing is a sure way of getting into a good college with a scholarship.
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The sailing world is buzzing with the recent announcements regarding
the next Americas Cup slated for 2013. The news that the Cup will be
raced on 72-foot state-of-the-art catamarans equipped with rigid wings
has some fans out of their minds with excitement and others angry that
tradition is being bucked. In the eye of it all is Huntington Beach engineer
Pete Melvin, from Morrelli & Melvin Design and Engineering, a world
champion A-cat sailor who has been part of such high profile projects
as Steve Fossetts record setting Playstation and last year working with
BMW Oracle on the over-the-top monster trimaran that won the 33rd
Americas Cup for the American team.
Melvin and his associates have most recently gone through the painstaking
task of writing the Americas Cup Multihull Rule, which tackles the many
specifics that make up a level and fair playingfield for the most prestigious
sailboat race in the world. Prior to a visit by BMW Oracle Spokesman
Tom Ehman who will be giving a presentation on the Americas Cup at the
California Yacht Club on December 1st at 7:30. The Mariner caught up
with Melvin, who will also be on hand that night, to ask some questions
about the next Americas Cup.
Mariner: Now that youve written the AC multihull rule what are you
doing now?
Melvin: We are done with rule writing and such. So we instantly put our
hat on with a team we signed up with and now were...(smiling) looking
for loop holes in the rules!
Mariner: So youre signed with another team?
Melvin: Yes.
Mariner: Can you say what team yet?
Melvin: I cant because they dont want to announce it yet.
Mariner: Are you surprised that youre not with the defender in this
capacity?
Melvin: No, not really. First, of all, last time it was such a crazy dea
where you never knew what was going to happen next and there just
wasnt enough time to develop anything.
Mariner: With the 33rd you mean?
Mariner: Yes, exactly. Oracle basically threw bodies at it. It wasnt an
efficient or inexpensive process but it got done. We started out with work
for 2 years with those guys on that. Ultimately, they had to skinny thei
design team down to about a third of what it was last time. And they
have basically gone to everyone in-house, they arent having any outside
firms doing design work for them at least at this point. And also with
the rule writing, politically it would have been hard for them to hire us
back. Because they announced they were having an independent party
write the rules - when we had the choice to write the rules or not, it kind
of disqualifies us from being on their design team. But we decided to jus
do it anyway.
Mariner: And you decided to do it anyway because it sounded like an
interesting thing to do or because it was a sure fire gig? What was the
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decision process there?
Melvin: Yeah, both of those. We thought it was interesting work and it
was good work to do. Lots of hours went into it and income came from
it.
Mariner: Had you done something like this before?
Melvin: No.
Mariner: So the next project you do will be right in your wheelhouse
- just doing straight up design work?Melvin: Exactly.
Mariner: How does Americas Cup work compare to the Playstation
stuff that you did? Is it similar?
Melvin: I guess its similar in a way that weve got more resources in terms
of specialists and things like that - we can drill down much deeper into
areas. In normal design or a normal race boat, you just dont have those
kind of resources and budgets to go into that kind of depth. You always
learn a ton from those kind of projects because of all the technology that
goes into it. Theyre great to be involved with and they dont come along
everyday so were real happy to be involved with it.
Mariner: Coming from a multihull place, you guys must be out ofyour heads that the Americas Cup is in multihulls.
Melvin: Yes, its amazing. You know we built our business never really
thinking about the Americas Cup, so for the last 20 years weve been
diversified we designed racing boats, cruising boats, production boats,
custom boats, commercial boats, just about anything that anyone will
throw at us. But all of us in the office pretty much come from a racing
background - our first love is to design racing boats. So its a dream come
true for all of us.
Mariner: What do you say to the critics who say multis wont make
for good match racing in the Americas Cup?
Melvin: With BMW Oracle last time, one of the things I was involved
with, was doing some match racing where we used the Reynolds 33s
for some of the practice and everyone found it was very exciting. It was
different, but certainly no less exciting and thrilling. So I think it will be
spectacular.
Mariner: Why do you think that people think that?
Melvin: Because they have no experience doing it and thats totally
understandable. Very few people have matched race on multihulls so its
really an unknown. The match racing will be different than how we know
it but on the other hand the acceleration will be much more dramatic and
the tactics will be totally different. For instance, on the Americas Cup, the
one match where Oracle came in from the committee boat side andAlinghi
came in from the other side you dont have much time to react coming
into the box like that. You only get one chicken-wiggle of the tiller and its
all over if you guess wrong. Its kind of a sudden death showdown in that
way. The first 5 or 10 seconds of the race will be extremely exciting. Who
knows what will happen after that. Should be great.
Mariner: What is your take on the British and the Germans snubbing
it?
Melvin: Well, the Germans, I dont really know anything about their team
- I dont know if they ever had the resources to compete in the Americas
Cup regardless of what kind of boat. The same could possibly be said about
the British too, I guess. I dont know what their financial wherewithal was
but there were some rumors that that was the real reason and it wasnt
really anything about multi-hulls or anything. But once again, Im not
really privy to their information.
Mariner: Is this much more expensive than the 32nd Americas
Cup?
Melvin: I think it will be comparable to that. There is a lot of debate going
on.
Mariner: Was your team involved in the cost control aspect?Melvin: That was one of the things we were involved in when writing the
rules. The monohulls that were proposed for the 34th Americas Cup and
the multi-hulls that were proposed were actually quite similar in cost. So
then it comes down to how many boats can you build, how big your team
is, logistics and those sort of things.
Mariner: You cant have two boats with this, can you?
Melvin: Well, you can build up to two boats.
Mariner: So you can practice with two boats?
Melvin: Youre not allowed to do two boat testing. You have to read the
protocol about that. Youre only allowed to sail it at certain times before
events and stuff like that. Theyre really trying to limit it its extremelycostly to have your entire design team having two complete boats going
out and testing every day. Its just a ton of people and quite expensive.
Mariner: Every time, when the AC happens theres always this
trickle down talk, do you foresee trickle down with these kind of
things given that its so far out of the box. Is the wing something
that were going to see in the mainstream or do you think the wing is
always going to be kind of fringe?
Melvin: I think they will always be a bit of a fringe.
Mariner: Because of practical reasons?
Melvin: Yeah. A wing like that I think there are applications, like this
hover wing with the free standing mast and rig where the wing can rotate
around it. You can park it at a dock. I think there will be some commercia
and recreational applications for wings maybe just not the type you see on
the Americas Cup catamarans.
Mariner: Whats your take on the wing versus the soft sail from an
engineers perspective is it more interesting? Is there as much to do?
Melvin: Theres a lot to it. Its a little more technical. The wing doesn
talk to you like a sail does. Its not a moving membrane that you can see
how its twisting or if its luffing, you know that sort of thing so you have
to sail a little bit more by the numbers but the performance benefits are
huge.
Mariner: Sail makers often seem to have an edge in racing but now is
it going to be the engineers that have the edge? If it is by the numbers
where is the innate talent with the wing, does it exist the same as i
does with a soft sail?
Melvin: I mean, I guess some people have a good eye for shaping a sail
theres a whole art with matching masts to sails and all that stuff and some
people are better at that than others. Its just a little different discipline
now. Instead of saying maybe Ill change the shape here, put a tuck here
or poke this batten outnow itll be - lets change our slot geometry or
twist the aft flaps more so its not entirely different its just a differen
tool doing the same job.
continued on page 22
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Now that fall is here boaters are starting
to look ahead to the holidays. Boat Parade
officials recently announced the first entry
has signed up for the 48th Annual Marina
del Rey Holiday Boat Parade scheduled
for Saturday, December 11, 6:00 - 8:00p.m. in the Marinas main channel with a
spectacular fireworks show at 5:55 p.m.
This years parade theme is A Rock n Roll
Christmas with boat owners competing
for numerous prize packages. Boat Parade
sponsorships are also available from $100
up to $25,000.
The 33-foot Crystaliner power boat, Westbound, is the first entry in the
Boat Parade and is Marina del Reys only legal scuba dive charter boat.
The captains and the owner of Westbound Diving are long-time Marina
del Rey private boat owners and participants in the parade.
Boat Parade organizers have also announced that DJ Larry Morgan from
100.3 FM, The Sound, will serve as Grand Marshal for the 48th Annual
Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade scheduled for Saturday, December
11.
Larry Morgan is a perfect fit as our Grand Marshal this year with our
Boat Parade theme, said Holiday Boa
Parade President Cindy Williams. The
Marina should get ready to rock out as
he cruises along the parade route. We are
looking for a Grand Marshal boat 60-fee
or more, if anyone is interested in being theGrand Marshal boat contact Boat Parade
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Morgan started his radio career at the age
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L.A. Times - Rich Roberts
Slater Gave No Quarter at the Helm
November 23, 1990
The sailing community was stunned by
the recent, sudden death of Peggy Slater
at 72. She seemed indestructible. As sailor,
yacht broker or all-around good person,
with herflaming red hair and a trademarkflower over her left ear, Slater was a match
for anyone.
Well, 20 years have passed since that evening in
November when Peggy died of a heart attack in
the parking lot of Pacific Mariners Yacht Club.
She had been an irresistible force in sailing
for more than 50 years, and was scheduled
to address a meeting of the Womens Sailing
Association of Santa Monica Bay. She died as
she had lived - immersed in sailing and things
of the sea.
Peggy grew up in a prosperous family in Los
Angeles. Her father had a 50-foot cutter, theJolly
Rover, berthed in Newport Harbor. The family
spent every available weekend at Catalina. Her
father taught her early that sailing to the island
was only a small part of boating - the rest
included: varnishing the brightwork, scrubbing
the deck, polishing brass, mending cotton sails,
and the hundred other tasks necessary aboard a
gaff rigged cutter.
By the age of 9, Peggy was single-handing
her own 14-foot boat around Newport Bay. At
fourteen, Peggy raced her boat to Catalina, and
that night danced in the Casino Ballroom. Her
long love affair with Catalina and the sea began
to blossom.
At 16, she was a freshman at UCLA, majoring
in English Literature. Her father had bought her
a larger boat, a 26-foot sloop she christened,
Seventh Heaven. She spent weekends and
summers at Catalina for the next four years.
The years from the 1930s through the 1950s
were the golden years for Catalina. Hollywood
stars came there in droves. Bonfires and tiki
torches lit the beach at the Isthmus, and live
bands performed nearly every night during the
season.
Peggy would make the long row from her boat
moored in Cherry Cove, splash ashore, and
throw herself among the laughing dancers.
During the day she earned extra money by
freeing fouled mooring lines from rudders,
props and keels and occasionally baby-sitting
the children of Hollywood families. These
Hollywood friendships were to serve her well
in the future.
It was during one of these first solo voyages
to the island that Peggys life was nearly cut
short. She was about midway between Catalina
and the mainland when a fitting failed on he
towed dinghy. She hung over the transom to
secure the dinghy when a large wave hit the
boat and pitched her into the sea. The tiller wa
tied off and the boat sailed away, leaving her in
its wake. Her only hope was to swim after the
sailing boat and hope the boat would luff up, o
otherwise slow down. Instead, the boat tacked
and sailed away. She felt that she was doomed
but then the boat tacked again, and on a course
that she might hope to intercept. She swam with
all her strength - barely managing to catch the
trailing dinghy and pull herself aboard. Anothe
moment and she would have been lost - leaving
everyone to speculate about what had become
of the adventurous young girl.
Peggy graduated from UCLA in 1940 and found
work managing a small marina and chandlery
in San Pedro. Within minutes of closing
the shop she was hoisting sail, and was soon
heeled and reaching across the large harbor. Her
father wondered at the wisdom of working on
the docks after obtaining a degree in English
literature - but Peggy was happy and so no more
was said.
Then one Sunday, returning after a long
blustery race in the San Pedro channel, Peggy
and fellow racers found the entrance to L.A
Harbor blocked by Navy ships. As the fleet o
sailboats approached the blockade their crews
called to the sailors lining the decks of the
C O A S TA L C U R R E N T S
By Captain Richard Schaefer
REMEMBERING ALOCAL LEGEND
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warships, whats going on?...soon after, the
loud speaker on the nearest ship blared, The
Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor...we are at
war. It was Sunday, December 7, 1941.
Peggy wanted to join the war effort and soon
went to work for the War Department driving
trucks throughout Southern California, and
even convoyed war materials to Alaska on
the newly competed AlCan Highway. In time,
Peggy found herself missing the sea and soon
signed on to a 65-foot schooner, Hispaniola,
which was headed south to Guatemala on a War
Department mission to catch sharks. At that time
shark livers were the primary source of vitamin
A and the Army needed vast amounts for rations
and vitamin tablets. She made two adventure
filled voyages south during the war.
After the war, Peggy became the first woman
Yacht Broker in the United States. Her business
was an instant success and she soon capitalized
on all the Hollywood stars she had met on
Catalina before the war. Errol Flynn, John
Wayne, director John Ford, Raymond Burr,
Dick Powell, Tyrone Power, Howard Hughes,
James Cagny, Burl Ives, James Arness, Sterling
Hayden, Lauren Bacall and hubby, Humphrey
Bogart were all friends, sailing buddies and
many were also clients.
Peggy met Bogart when he owned a 35-footpowerboat, named, Sluggy. Not coincidentally,
Sluggy was also the nickname of Bogarts first
wife. Their drinking and onboard brawls were
legendary at Catalina.
Bogart, who wanted to learn to sail, knew of
Peggys skills and asked her to instruct him.
Bogarts drinking and temper were well known
and at first Peggy was reluctant. But Bogart
finally convinced her that he could control his
drinking and his temper during their lessons.
After a few weeks Bogart could be seen sailing
a small sloop between the anchored yachts with
grand aplomb. Peggy had taught him well.
A few months later, Bogart took Peggy bow
hunting for wild pigs on Catalina, along with
director and movie star, Dick Powell. They
struggled up the hills above Whites Landing
and Peggy stopped to enjoy the view of the
bay below. Anchored there was the beautiful,
47-foot yawl, Santana. Peggy had previously
pointed out the yachts graceful lines to Bogart
when he was taking lessons with her at the
island. Bogart turned back on the trail and stood
next to Peggy - both admiring the yachts lines.
Bogart said to Peggy, What would you think of
me buying Santana? Peggy beamed, If you do
Ill even go sailing with you!
Bogart did buy Santana, and Bogie, Bacall and
Slater spent many sparkling days sailing the
San Pedro Channel and the waters surrounding
Catalina. The last outing Bogart made before
his death was to Newport Harbor. Too sick to
sail her, he wanted to simply stand on the deck
of his beloved Santana - one last time. Bogart
insisted that no casket be present at his funeral
- but instead, a glass encased model ofSantana
was to be placed next to the lectern.
Even though she ran a busy and successful
yacht brokerage Peggy always made time tosail - doing many local and long distance races.
She won more than 800 sailing trophies during
her lifetime. She was the first woman skipper
in the Transpac and Acapulco Race. She cruised
all over the Pacific, and the Mediterranean. She
sailed to Hawaii and Mexico several times. She
cruised the Caribbean often, and even sailed
alone, 1,400 miles, in a 14-foot open, native
sloop. Her voyage took her from the Virgin
Islands to Trinidad - camping and sharing beach
fires with the locals at dozens of islands along
the way.
In 1956, the Los Angeles Times named her
Sportswoman of the Year.
In 1965, she sailed to Tahiti and met Marlon
Brando who was there filming, Mutiny on
the Bounty. The two became friends and he
asked her to work with the film crew for several
weeks.
During these years she continued to run her yacht
brokerage and built an ocean view home on the
bluffs of Palos Verdes and another on the beach
of Kauai. She hired help as needed, but tried to
do as much of the work as she was able.
Peggys two most harrowing experiences took
place en route to Hawaii.
In 1951, she skippered LApache on the
Transpac race. About 800 miles from Honolulu,
in 35 knots of wind and heavy seas one of her
crew, Ted Sierks, fell over board. A life ring
was thrown, but soon the crewman disappeared
among the cresting waves. LApache was
running downwind with the spinnaker and it took
several minutes to douse the huge sail and turn
back. For the next eleven hours Peggy stayed on
the wave lashed foredeck, calling and scanning
the frothing waves for the crewman. A navy
convoy overheard the distress transmissions
and joined the search. After several hours the
commanding officer declared Sierks lost at sea
and ordered the search called off. He detached
the destroyer Munro to standbyLApache unti
their rig - damaged in the rough seas during the
all night search - could be repaired. Peggy and
her navigator hurriedly worked out what they
believed to be the most likely position of the
lost crewman. Peggy contacted the Captain o
the destroyer and said she would refuse to leave
the area unless he agreed to search the indicated
area one more time. The Captain reluctantly
agreed and the destroyer pulled away fromthe damaged LApache, but before doing so
he made Peggy give her word that she would
resume course to Honolulu as soon as repairs
were made.
A few hours later, as LApache limped toward
Honolulu, the radio crackled - the Munro had
found Sierks - alive. He had been in the stormy
sea over 30 hours. Peggy and the crew o
LApache hugged one another - smiling through
their tears.
The second time death knocked at Peggys doowas in 1968, when Peggy set sail, aboard her red
Kettenberg 43, Valentine, yet again, for Hawaii
But this voyage was different - this time she
went alone. All went fairly well for the first 19
days. Then, just a day out of Honolulu, Peggy
fell overboard during a sail change in rough
weather. Peggy was tethered to the boat and
became entangled in the headsail and halyard
The boat, steered by a wind vane, continued on
course - dragging her, spinning and splashing
alongside.
Peggy had broken her hand during her fall and
wasnt able to free herself from the sail turned
death shroud. For more than 12 hours she was
dragged through the surging seas. Finally, a
the end of her strength, she was able to loosen
her bonds and pull herself back on board as the
gunnel dipped low on a swell.
She was bruised, beaten, dehydrated, and badly
hypothermic. When body temperature drop
below 95 degrees anxiety and confusion take
over the mental process - if it drops another
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was in this state that Peggy made contact with the
Coast Guard and after three harrowing days, and
the world watching, she was finally rescued and
her boat towed into Oahu.
It took more than a month for the nightmares and
hallucinations to end - and three years before she
again attempted long distance sailing.
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, Peggy continued
to run her brokerage on Marquesas Way. And, as
was her custom, sneak away whenever possible
for a weekend at Catalina, or, if time permitted,
more exotic locales.
In 1980, Peggy worked closely with her friend,
client and dock-mate, actor Hal Holbrook, during
his preparations for his solo crossing to Hawaii.Mr. Holbrooks crossing was difficult and he
was suffering from sleep depravation. Recently,
Mr. Holbrook sent me a note about the incident.
It reads in part, Peggy was so concerned about
me she flew to Hawaii to meet me when I finally
arrived in the early dawn at Kauai. She took me
home to her house there and I passed out on the
sofa for 12 hours.
Peggy closed her brokerage in December of
1987. About a month or so earlier, I shared a fried
chicken lunch with her, and her ever present dog,
at the picnic table in front of her office. She saidshe was saddened to close the brokerage, but
thought it was the right time. The boat business
was dying, many manufacturers were closing their
factories, and Marina del Rey had changed from
being about boats and sailors to being about profits
and parking places - boats had become merely
a necessary evil. She said also that she wanted
time to write, and perhaps, squeeze in a few more
adventures. I am happy to say she was able to do
both. Her autobiography,Peggy, An Affair With the
Sea, was published after her death. She also made
arrangements to leave her considerable holdings
to the Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles.
Peggy, you stood your long watch well - now sleep
peacefully, Skipper.
Captain Richard Schaefer is a U.S.C.G. Licensed
Sailing Master and has instructed, delivered
vessels, skippered charters and written articles on
boating and seamanship for more than 25 years.
He can be reached for questions or comments at
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ANNAPOLIS, Md., November 1, 2010 - The BoatUS Foundations Innovation in Life Jacket Design Competition is once again calling for out-of-
the-box life jacket design entries.
Five years ago, the Innovation in Life Jacket Design Competition resulted with the introduction of several new and innovative life jacket designs to the
public, the U.S. Coast Guard and recreational boating industry. Since then, the interest in new, more comfortable designs has not faded. While curren
models of life jackets save lives every day, many are still bulky and uncomfortable, leaving boaters reluctant to wear them.
So the BoatUS Foundation, along with Underwriters Laboratories and the Personal Floatation Device Manufacturers Association, decided another
competition was necessary to keep the momentum going to seek out the newest technologies and design innovations that could rethink a 100-year-old
design.
We all have the mindset of what a life jacket looks like - and thats what we need to be challenging, said Underwriters Laboratories Joe Waters.
Entries that embrace new technologies and non-traditional thinking are being encouraged from armchair inventors to high school science clubs and
collegiate design programs. There are no rules regarding types of materials to be used or whether the design meets any current U.S. standards. The
deadline to enter is February 1, 2011.
The entries will be judged based on four criteria: wearability, reliability, cost and innovation. Wearability relates to the level of comfort. Reliability
will take into account the chances for potential failure, while cost will look at the affordability of the design. Innovation will take into account
originality or the employment of new technologies.
In early February, video of all entries will be posted online at the BoatUS Foundations channel at YouTube.com, and the public will be asked to select a
group offinalists. The finalist entries will then be reviewed by a special panel of judges convened at the International Boating and Water Safety Summi
in Savannah, Georgia, on March 6 - 9, 2011, and the winner announced. A $5,000 cash award goes to the winning designer.
We believe that out-of-the-box thinking may lead to the next generation of life-saving devices, said BoatUS Foundation President Ruth Wood. We
anticipate designs that will be creative and unconventional.
To enter, video footage of an actual working prototype must be submitted by providing a URL link to the video (no actual prototypes are submitted)
The video must clearly demonstrate how the design floats a person in the water. For more information on how to enter and for contest rules, visit www
BoatUS.com/Foundation/lifejacketdesign. You may also contact Chris Edmonston at 703-823-9550, x8356.
Out of the BoxBoatUS Invites the public to design a new PFD
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LB to Cabo
Doug Baker, Long Beach, skippered the Reichel/Pugh 78Akela to first-to-finish honors Tuesday and was first in Division 1 on corrected ORR handicap
time in Long Beach Yacht Clubs biennial 2010 Long Beach to Cabo San Lucas International Yacht Race.
Bob Lanes Andrews 63Medicine Man , also from Long Beach, finished first in Division 1 on corrected PHRF time.
Finishing the 804 nautical-mile race within about three hours of each other the two skippers fell short of breaking fellow LBYC member Peter Tong
Santa Cruz 70 OEXrecord set in 2008 of 2 days 22 hours 50 minutes 9 seconds.
Unlike in 2008 where there was consistent wind of 20 plus knots for the entire race, this years breezes fluctuated just enough to put the race record
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The closest battle during the race was between Brack Dukers Santa Cruz 70Holua from Marina del Rey and Per Petersons Andrews 69Alchemy from
Oceanside YC with Perterson finishing just 4 minutes, 23 seconds ahead of Duker.
Alchemy finished second on ORR corrected time and third on PHRF corrected time while Holua finished third on ORR time and fourth on PHRF
time.
Both boats were in close proximity to each other throughout the race. So close at times that there was a near miss late Sunday night between them
under a moonless cloudy sky in a very dark ocean.Alchemy executed a crash-jibe and avoided what could have been an unfortunate encounter for both
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Ricardo Brockmanns Reichel/Pugh 52 Vincitore from Acapulco rounded out the order with a fourth place finish on ORR corrected time and fifth on
PHRF time.
Since all boats have already finished, race officials have decided to move up the trophy presentations from Thursday evening to Wednesday at 6 p.m
allowing teams and race committee volunteers to return home a day early should they wish.
OEXs record is safe for another two years until these racing sleds will once again attempt to break it in the Fall of 2012.
Chuck Skewes ofAlchemy commented on the race, Of all the distance races I have done this has been one of the best with close racing and boat to boa
tactics. These old 70-foot sleds are such a great boat for these races and truly amazing at the speeds we average.
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there is little or no breeze unfurl your genoa let air get to the
center of the sail.
If the conditions are warm and sunny, an hour or so, should
be sufficient. If the sail remains wet this could cause mildew
and it will need professional cleaning. Just drying your sails
will help prevent mildew from starting.
Tip 2) Check the stitching on your UV covers. To check
this you can perform whats called the scratch test. Simply
scratch the stitching with your fingernail. If the stitching
deteriorates then it is time for re-sewing. This also works
for dodgers, biminis, sail covers - pretty much any type of
stitching that is exposed to the sun.
Tip 3) Have your sails serviced during the off season - fall
and winter. This will save you both time and money. Many
sailmakers like us here at t/a sails offer fall, winter discounts
on repairs during the off peak time of year.
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Mariner: Are there levers that change the trim on the wings or is it a
machine?
Melvin: You can do whatever you want, just as long as its human
powered.
Mariner: So does the rule allow for teams to have their wings slightly
different from each other?
Melvin: Oh yeah. The plan form shape - the height and core lengths and
stuff, are controlled within a certain boundary and theres a maximumand a minimum of area of the wing just so everyones wing is about the
same size, but the section shape what air foils you use, how many slots
you have, what kind of control systems you have, and what the internal
structure of the wing looks like is completely open. So theres a huge
amount of design latitude for teams to explore.
Mariner: So these wing design choices could significantly impact the
amount of speed youre getting out of the boat?
Melvin: Oh yeah, the wing could perhaps and probably will be the
deciding factor who is the most innovative and comes up with the best
concepts in engineering.
Mariner: But isnt the rule written in such a way that they are hopingfor a lot of close competition as well?
Melvin: Yes, thats the idea. This one, since all the boats are likely to be
the same length and beam and have the same size wing - it might be closer
to a development box rule class like T252, A-Class Catamarans, Formula
18s or C Class Catamarans, they are all various flavors of the box rule.
Mariner: Is it possible to have different wings for different days if its
really blowing?
Melvin: On the measurement certificate theyre allowed to have one
tall wing, which is the normal sized wing, and youre also allowed
and required, after the second year, to have a short wing that also has
parameters on maximum and minimum size. The idea is that if its windy
and the race committee competitors think its dangerous to go out with the
tall wing, they can say today is a short wing day and everyone puts up
their short wing up. That was one problem with the last few cycles of the
Americas Cup in the monohulls is that the wind range was actually fairly
small and they lost lots of days and media interest because they couldnt
go out in the breeze. So the idea is that we open up the wind range and sail
in big breeze and its real exciting.
Mariner: Will the boat foil at all? Is there allowance for that?
Melvin: Youre allowed a pair of rudders and a pair of dagger boards
and they can be lifting daggerboards. I dont know if youll see boats
fully flying with hulls above the surface of the water but certainly a large
percentage of the way the boat will be carried [may be] on foils, especially
downwind.
Mariner: What are the projected top end speeds for the AC cats?
Melvin: We think the 72 will hit 35-knots something like that.
Mariner: Has anyone addressed the possibility of a capsize, if one
were to go over, what would happen?
Melvin: Yeah, it would be bad. Chances are you would break your wing
or damage it enough so that theres no way you could use it the next
day. Like with any catamaran theres probably not a lot of damage to the
platform but with the wing you would need to put a new wing.
Mariner: I read that they are going to have camera men on board, is
that true?
Melvin: Yes.
Mariner: Are there concerns about those guys inhibiting teamperformance?
Melvin: There are cameraman positions that they have to stay in - they
might have to move and for instance go the windward side every time, bu
there are specific locations dedicated to camera men on the boat.
Mariner: And thats a definite, thats going to happen?
Melvin: Yes.
Mariner: How is this changing your business? Its nothing but positive
Im imagining.
Melvin: Yeah, its definitely keeping us all busy.
Mariner: Have you had to expand?
Melvin: We are in the process of growing a bit. Our biggest concern is tha
we maintain our diversity and client base that weve managed to build up
over the years and our reputation and other areas - cruising yachts, racing
yachts, commercial boats and other sort of things. We definitely want to
keep that other side of our business going. But I think well be okay.
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Michael Kasten is the owner and operator of
Kasten Marine Design, Inc. Mr. Kasten is an
award winning designer who has created plans
in a wide variety of categories, from sea plane
floats to offshore multi-hulls and everything in
between, Kasten is as prolific as he is proficientin the field of Yacht Design.
Q: What are your views on what makes a
good lightning protection system?
Kasten: A lightning protection system aboard a
boat should have a dual purpose:
1. It should primarily serve as a lightning
preventionsystem, the purpose of which should
be to continuously shed any charge built up by
the boat, thereby rendering the boat invisible
to lightning.
2. It should secondarily be asked to serve as
a lightning strike protection system, to safely
conduct a direct strike to ground.
Q: That being said, what should the system
consist of?
Kasten: The lightning protection system should
consist of a robust primary path, which
should be designed to safely conduct a direct
strike to ground. Then, a series of secondary
paths should be designed to safely dissipatethe accumulation of charge by the boat, which
should feed into the primary path. This primary
path, should consist of an air terminal connected
to a ground plate immersed in the water and a
robust conductor leading vertically in a straight
path to a ground plate immersed in the water.
The top-most end, or air terminal, should be
a sharply pointed spike. As for the so called
robust conductor of the system, which takes
the path from the top-most end of the system to
the water, it must be as direct as possible and
use long radii, rather than sharp bends along the
primary path to the grounding plate.
The connections must offer low electrical
resistance or the energy of a strike may instantlyheat and melt the connection. An ABYC rule
recommends a minimum of a #4 AWG copper
wire for the primary lightning protection system
conductor and a minimum of a #6 AWG copper
wire for the secondary conductors. Tinned wire
is recommended, as usual.
For the grounding plate, an area of about
one square foot is considered by ABYC to
be sufficient. The plates should be located as
close to the base of the primary conductor as
possible to minimize any horizontal runs in the
primary conductor. It is recommended that the
conductor and ground plate be made of copper.
The edges of the external ground plate or strip
need to be sharp, exposed, and not painted,
caulked, or faired into the adjoining area.
The ABYC actually suggests the use of a
grounding strip, rather than a plate. The
rule states: A grounding strip shall have a
minimum thickness of 3/ 16 inch (5 mm),
and a minimum width of 3/4 inch (19 mm).
A strip approximately one inch (25 mm) wide
and 12 feet long (3.7 m) has nearly six timesthe amount of edge area exposed to the water,
which will improve the dissipation of charges.
The grounding strip, if used, shall extend from
a point directly below the lightning protection
mast, toward the aft end of the boat, where a
direct connection can be made to the boats
engine.
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Dear Mookie,
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SailboatsBeneteau Oceanis 400
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Race ready. Emaculately restored in 2005, a proven
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40 Suzuki,EFI, 4stk, long w/ remote & gauges $400015 Johnson, 4stk, extra long, high thrust, electric start,
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8 Yamaha 2stk, short $750
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