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Sailing the Northeast

Marion to Bermuda Aboard Mischievous Schooner Racing on the Chesapeake Healing Veterans Through Sailing

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Editor’s Log Compelled to Act How far that little candle throws his beam!

– William Shakespeare, from The Merchant of Venice Maybe it’s the heat of midsummer, or maybe I’m just getting old, but lately I seem to notice more and more headlines about young people and their lack of respect for others, and frequently news of kids committing crimes. Certainly, many of the (mainstream) celebrities that teenagers tend to idolize these days don’t provide the best moral guidance. I guess I’ve really just seen a general decline in ‘feel-good’ news. But, just when you think there is little hope for the youth of today, we hear of young people doing something special for others. What I love to see is how often a small deed or even a fun venture can project change, value and hope far beyond expectations.

I think we see these great stories quite often in the sailing world – and it’s nice in this day of sensationalist media to hear about young people doing selfless things to improve the lives of others and moreover that this news trumps the negative ‘blah, blah, blah’ that’s become so prevalent everywhere else. Sailing’s idols do possess a strong moral compass and provide sincere inspiration for youngsters to act – and those actions throw quite a beam.

Take for instance the story of Tyler Fleig of Portsmouth, RI who, through his work at Sail to Prevail in Newport, has found a way for quadriplegic people to enjoy sailing – and competition – aboard the singlehanded 2.4mR. According to Sail to Prevail CEO Paul Callahan, Tyler’s innovation is a “breakthrough” that will allow thousands around the world to benefit. A recent high school graduate, Tyler combined two things he’s good at – robotics and sailing – and presto, a fun and worthwhile project that will change lives. Tyler is attending the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD this fall, and hopes to carry on the work that he started.

Two other go-getters that could easily use their talents and drive to benefit themselves or their wallets are Kilian and Sean Duclay, brothers from New York who instead co-founded a not-for-profit organization called Sail Ahead. They have changed sailing from a hobby to a mission: Helping our veterans. Kilian and Sean, featured on page 22 of this issue, share a passion for sailing as well as a desire to do their part to help veterans cope with the effects of PTSD through the “positive stress” that sailing provides. Theirs is a deed that reaches far beyond simply taking vets sailing. Sail Ahead is changing the quality of vets’ lives – and those around them, too.

So, why do these kids take time out of their busy lives to do things like this?

They obviously see a need and feel compelled to act, and who knows; maybe they see the other side of the coin and want to balance the bad with some good. I think doing stuff for others simply feels good and can be fun at the same time. To complete the above quote from Shakespeare, “So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

These are but two of many examples of the great things that young sailors are

doing to help their fellow man. Countless other kids are doing their part to preserve the environment or teach others less fortunate the value of sailing, and let’s not forget, all the while keeping themselves out of trouble! Sailing sure helped me in this regard.

Clearly, the discipline that sailing demands of its participants and the selfreliance and camaraderie that it fosters carry on through everyday life. Youth sailors, keep up the good work, and thanks for making headlines that we can all be proud of!

See you on the water.

Sailing the Northeast Issue 146 Publisher Anne Hannan anne@windcheckmagazine.com Editor in Chief Christopher Gill chris@windcheckmagazine.com Senior Editor Chris Szepessy zep@windcheckmagazine.com Contributing Editor Joe Cooper coop@windcheckmagazine.com Graphic Design Kerstin Fairbend kerstin@windcheckmagazine.com Contributors Julianna Barbieri, Bailey Bellone, Billy Black, Antonio Braga, Abby Buckley, Clay Burkhalter, Michael Cabarles, Stephen Cloutier, Kellie Crete, Sam Crichton, Captain Ed Cubanski, USCG, Ray Cullum, Kilian Duclay, Sean Duclay, Jim Flach, Brandon Flack, Daniel Forster, Dave Foster, Stan Freberg, John K. Fulweiler, Davis Gaynes, Fran Grenon, Jan Harley, Rachel Jaspersen, Bob Kubis, Carol Kubis, Richard Langdon, Peter Louderback, Barby MacGowan, Taylor Martin, Sean McNeill, Tom Miller, Whitney Peterson, PhotoBoat.com, Vin Pica, Colin Rath, Jo Riley, Cindy M. Sabato, Jeff Smith, Paul Sollitto, Stuart Streuli, Onne Van der Wal, Roger Vaughan, Andrea Watson Ad Sales Erica Pagnam erica@windcheckmagazine.com Distribution Satu Lahti, Man in Motion, Chris Metivier, Prolo Services, Rare Sales, Jack Szepessy WindCheck is a monthly magazine. Reproduction of any part of this publication is strictly prohibited without prior consent of the members. WindCheck encourages reader feedback and welcomes editorial contributions in the form of stories, anecdotes, photographs, and technical expertise. Copies are available for free at 1,000+ locations (yacht clubs, marinas, marine retailers, restaurants, sailing events & transportation centers) in the Northeast. Businesses or organizations wishing to distribute WindCheck should contact us at (203) 332-7639. While WindCheck is available free of charge, we will mail your copy each month for an annual mailing fee of $27.

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Contents

Editor’s Log 6

Letters 10

Checking In 12

From the Log of Persevere 20

Electric Shock Drowning 24

Book Review: Two Sailboats, One Moon 26

Book Excerpt: The Strenuous Life of 27 Harry Anderson, by Roger Vaughan

Boating Barrister 28

Captain of the Port 29

Sound Environment 30

Calendar of Events 32

Tide Tables 40

Coaches’ Corner 44

Junior Sailing 201: Having a Blast! 45

Secor Volvo Fishers Island 46 Sound Race

Coop’s Corner 48

Block Island Race Week XXVI 52

Port Washington YC Charity Cup 54

Transatlantic Race 2015 56

R/C Lasers in Wickford 59

The Thomas J. Clagett, Jr. Memorial 60

Clinic and Regatta

Comic 62

Around Jamestown Record Falls 63 to Phaedo3

Broker Tips 65

Brokerage 66

Classifieds 68

Subscription form 72

Advertisers Index 73

On Watch: Shelley Brown 74

16 World-Class Sailing in New Bedford

Buzzards Bay is well known as the windiest place on the East Coast. That reliable sea breeze – and the bay’s clean water! – make it the perfect venue for the country’s largest multi-class regatta. And with its rich maritime history, the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts is a wonderful summer cruising destination.

22 Sail Ahead: Healing Wounded Veterans Through Sailing

With the enthusiastic support of their family, friends and Oakcliff Sailing in Oyster Bay, New York, Kilian and Sean Duclay have launched a program that takes military vets sailing in all weather, in all seasons.

42 The Marion Bermuda Race Aboard Mischievous

A team from Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, MA claimed line honors in the 20th edition of the Marion to Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race. Proud to have completed his second Marion Bermuda with his father, 14-year-old Jonathan (Jo) Riley recounts the adventure.

49 Joe Harris to Attempt 40-foot Monohull Non-Stop Solo Around the World Record

A winner of the Transat Jacques Vabre, Newport Bermuda Race, Bermuda 1-2 and The Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing, this affable shorthanded sailor departs Newport, Rhode Island in November on a quest to fulfill a 35-year ambition. Julianna Barbieri has the story.

50 A Schooner Experience on the Chesapeake

The Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race was a bucket list item for Carol and Bob Kubis, so they signed on with Captain John Eginton aboard the 110-foot Mystic Whaler for the 25th edition of “a five-day party, broken up by a couple of days of racing.”

On the cover: Fran Grenon, Official Photographer of the Marion to Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race, was on station at the finish line off St. David’s Head when Mass Maritime’s Meriten 65 Mischievous claimed line honors.

A firsthand account of the race aboard Mischievous, by 14-yearold crewman Jo Riley, starts on page 42. © Spectrum Photo/Fran Grenon

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Letters A Little Levity I was laughing while reading Joe Berkeley’s Comanche article [“Great Spirit of Comanche’’ appeared in our July 2015 issue and can be read at windcheckmagazine.com. – Ed.], especially the Kimo W. inflatable alligator section. Great to see some fun infused into the story!

I’ve become accustomed to relatively serious articles and race recaps in WindCheck. I had to stop and look at the cover again, thinking, ‘Is this really an issue of WindCheck?’ Yours was a breath of fresh air. Nicely done!

Tim, Fairfield, CT Farr 395/Viper 640 racer Our articles aren’t that serious, are they?

Get out on the RC Boat!

Kudos to my friend Clemmie Everett on her article about race committee. [“Coaches’ Corner: RC Duty”; June, 2015; windcheckmagazine.com.] Many clubs need young people to step up and help with RC. While spending time with one’s family is certainly important, time can be made to give back to the sport.

RCs work very hard and sometimes take abuse. (No, the Mooseheads* are not a form of abuse.) Anyone who sails should go out of his or her way to thank the RC. Even better, join them.

Bill Sandberg, via email Bill – Indeed, some of the best sailing lessons can be learned while working RC Duty. Absorbing the vast knowledge of seasoned race officers, learning to set a proper course, watching good (and bad) starts and learning about one’s competitors’ habits are all invaluable – and can be garnered while giving a little back to the sport.

The Atlantic is King As a regular reader, and admirer, of WindCheck, a former owner of Atlantic Class #91, and a former Secretary of the Atlantic Class, I feel I must advise you of errors in Tom Darling’s article [“A Tale of Two Sixes”; July, 2015].

The first paragraph describes the IOD as the oldest onedesign keelboat still racing, the queen of Long Island Sound elite racers beginning in the late 1930s. The Atlantic Class is 10 years older, was designed by Starling Burgess, and held its first nationals in 1929. Corny Shields himself was a national champion in the Atlantic in 1931, sailing out of Larchmont. The Atlantic Class list of national champions arguably makes the Atlantic the king of elite racers, with the likes of Bob Mosbacher, a two-time Atlantic champion, and Briggs Cunningham, a five-time champion.

I’d like to refer you to “History of the Class” at the Atlantic Class website, atlanticclass.org, which includes a list of national champions. Thanks for looking into this.

Ron Breault, Old Lyme, CT

Ron – Thanks for the clarification. We are lucky to have such beautiful and enduring designs still actively sailing in our region.

Large Adventures in Small Vessels I always enjoy reading John Rousmaniere, and his tribute to Thomas Fleming Day [“Tom Day and the First Thrash to the Onion Patch”; July 2015; windcheckmagazine.com] was certainly no exception.

While Tom Day was a member of many local yacht clubs, he was one of the founding members of Huguenot Yacht Club in 1894 and represented Huguenot Yacht Club in the early days of the Yacht Racing Union of Long Island Sound. As John emphasized in his article, Day was intent upon demonstrating the feasibility of safely crossing oceans in small vessels. Five years after the first Bermuda Race in 1911, Tom Day (along with Frederick Thurber and Theodore Goodwin), sailed the 25-foot Seabird from Providence, Rhode Island to Rome, Italy.

This photo of Tom Day being honored at the annual HYC dinner and election, at the Astor Hotel in New York City in 1912, is displayed in our clubhouse living room. Behind the dais is the enormous Huguenot Yacht Club burgee that Captain Day brought with him on his voyage across the Atlantic.

HYC Past Commodore Lawrence R. Rouen, New Rochelle, NY Let’s Bake!

Editor’s note: Regrettably, we did not have space for Andrew Shemella’s excellent “Spring Off Soundings Marked by Light Air” article in our July issue, although it can be found at windcheckmagazine.com.

What a well-written exposé of the excitement of sailing! I can hardly imagine the scintillating conversation during the calm moments. Golf may burn calories, but sailing bakes friendships.

Schuyler Winter, via email * Held each fall at a yacht club on western Long Island Sound, the annual meeting of the International Society for the Perpetuation of Cruelty to Racing Yachtsmen (ISPCRY), infamously known as the Moosehead Luncheon, recognizes and rewards noteworthy blunders made by race committees (and occasionally by racing yachtsmen) during the preceding season. F

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New Initiatives for Quantum Key West Race Week As the new organizers of Quantum Key West Race Week, the Storm Trysail Club has promised to maintain all the elements that have made it such a popular event while introducing innovations designed to increase participation. These include a stadium-style “Harbor Racing Circle” for sportboats and multihulls, distance racing for Performance Cruising designs, a new rating system, and cost reduction measures.

“We believe the sailing constituency that revolves around Key West was looking for something different,” said Regatta Chairman John Fisher. “Many, many elements of the regatta are tried and true, but there are other things that needed to be tweaked. We are listening to sailors and attempting to address their desires and needs. One of the things we’ve heard repeatedly involves the expense of the regatta. Key West is a very popular tourist destination and therefore the cost of meals and lodging can be considerable.”

To address that issue, Storm Trysail is offering a condensed, three-day regatta format for those classes that choose to do so.

Racing would be held Wednesday through Friday for those classes so participants are included in the final awards ceremony.

“Housing and feeding a crew for four or five days as opposed to eight or nine reduces the expense to a level that is more palatable for a segment of boat owners,” Fisher said. “We’re hoping that holding a ‘regatta within a regatta’ will bring back a segment of skippers who stopped doing Key West because of the cost.”

Acknowledging the declining interest in PHRF racing at Key West, Storm Trysail plans to provide distance racing for Performance Cruising boats, whose skippers would prefer to sail one long race that traverses the keys as opposed to multiple buoy starts. “We need to give those owners a reason to enter our regatta and I think one distance race each day could do that,” said Race Committee Chairman Dick Neville. “My experience is that those boats would prefer that type of format.”

In fact, it is the intention of organizers to eliminate PHRF racing altogether, a strategy that has prompted them to look for solutions offered by the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC), an international organization that administers two rating systems, ORC International and ORC Club, both of which are being proposed for use in Key West.

“PHRF boats have been disappearing from the regatta and the logical solution is to offer a different rating system that is more popular worldwide,” said Neville, noting that ORC provides three different ratings for windward-leeward courses based on whether the wind is light, medium or heavy. “One of our goals is to attract more overseas boats to Key West, and we are encouraging owners who may have raced PHRF in the past to obtain an ORC Club certificate.”

Quantum Key West Race Week 2016 will be held January 17 - 22, 2016 in Key West, FL. Visit keywestraceweek.com for more information. F

Tucker Thompson to Host the 35th America’s Cup and AC Tour For the next two years, Tucker Thompson, co-founder of T2P. TV in Annapolis, MD, will host all public delivery of the 35th America’s Cup, which will be sailed in Bermuda in 2017.

Thompson’s coverage will include live TV, press conferences, public events and video features.

He will also host the AC Tour, delivering live multi-media presentations at yacht clubs and other venues around the world.

A champion sailor, Thompson got into international match racing while still competing in college sailing. After graduating he raced professionally and was picked up to sail with America True in the 2000 America’s Cup trials. From there a career in sailing shifted to one covering the sport. He and then partner, Bruce Nairn, started T2P.TV and after almost 15 years and two more America’s Cups as an announcer with longtime friend Andy Green, Thompson now sits in the lead role. “These are very interesting and exciting times for the America’s Cup,” said Thompson. “The America’s Cup has always been at the forefront of technology and design in yacht racing, and pushing the envelope of what’s possible is nothing new. It’s what the America’s Cup is all about!”

Worldwide TV coverage of the first Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event began last month. The AC Tour is underway and will visit major sailing venues worldwide, often with the America’s Cup trophy itself. A replica of the yacht America, the schooner that started it all back in 1851, will embark on its own tour, making stops along the western and eastern seaboards of the U.S. and throughout the Caribbean before traveling to Bermuda with Thompson aboard. “I am a lifelong fan of both the America’s Cup and the yacht America,” said Thompson. “I can’t imagine a more perfect complement to the Tour than for sailing fans to have the ability to sail aboard the yacht by day and celebrate the event at night.”

For more on the America’s Cup or the America’s Cup Tour visit americascup.com or contact official.tour@americascup.com. F

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SSV Oliver Hazard Perry Sets Sail Rhode Island’s 200-foot Official Sailing Education Vessel SSV Oliver Hazard Perry sailed for the first time on July 17 in Narragansett Bay after she left the Hinckley Boat Yard in Portsmouth, RI to begin a journey up the coast to join the Tall Ships Portland Rhode Island’s Tall Ship will serve the 2015 festival. Anyone on or youth from all states with its Education near East Bay Passage between at Sea programs. © Onne van der Wal seven and eight a.m. saw a truly amazing spectacle when four of the ship’s 20 sails were unfurled as crew members climbed aloft to set free the lines that secured them to the yards.

“This is a huge milestone,” said Jess Wurzbacher, Executive Director of the non-profit Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island (OHPRI). “Over the past seven years all of her movements have been under the control of tugs. The wind was blowing 12-15 knots out of the north to make it a nice downwind run out of the Bay, so it was great to watch the sails harness some of that power – it is what we have all been waiting to see for years.”

SSV Oliver Hazard Perry is the first ocean-going full-rigged ship built in America in over a century. She also is this country’s largest privately-funded, actively sailing Tall Ship, one of only 75 Tall Ships in the world designated by Sail Training International as Class A.

On July 3, SSV Oliver Hazard Perry was dockside at the Newport Shipyard for the “Homeport Rhode Island” gala. The annual fundraising event celebrated the unprecedented $16 million economic development project, which has supported hundreds of jobs in the Rhode Island marine industry. It raised $122,000 while also honoring the non-profit organization’s Board Chairman Bart Dunbar for his unfailing devotion to OHPRI’s Education-at-Sea mission.

With orange being the color theme, most of the 450 guests were decked out in their orange best. The signature drink, the “Dunbar Fizz,” also was orange, and wait staff from Blackstone Catering sported orange bow ties. Cocktail hour included tours of the ship, passed hors d’oeuvres and offerings from a fresh seafood bar, while dinner was served under a giant tent with orange globe lights.

At the event, Dunbar acknowledged all of OHPRI’s supporters, and especially Admiral Tom Weschler, OHPRI’s Chairman Emeritus, who was in attendance, with helping the organization realize its dreams. “We are far from finished with fundraising,” said Dunbar, “but it is a huge milestone to have the ship completed and going through its final inspections and preparations for accommodating students of all ages.” F Barby MacGowan at Media Pro International contributed to this report.

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Taylor Martin Joins NESS New England Science & Sailing (NESS), a non-profit ocean adventure foundation in Stonington, CT that serves communities in southern New England, has welcomed Taylor Martin from Fort Collins, CO as their new Adult Sailing Director. A leader on the Washington University sailing team, Martin will utilize his background in sailing instruction and program management to enhance the adult, family, and adaptive programs offered at NESS.

Martin developed a passion for sailing while working at Community Sailing of Colorado and while on the sailing team at Western Washington University. During his three years on the team, he served as Team Commodore and Team Captain. Martin is also certified as a USCG Captain, US Sailing Level One Instructor, and First Aid & CPR provider.

NESS offers a wide range of programming including instructional and recreational sailing for adults on their fleet of Sonars, as well as social programs including Thursday Sailing, Kayaking, SUP “Ladies Nights” and Sunset Cruises. Martin will focus on expanding these programs and strengthening NESS’s commitment to provide more members of the community with the opportunity to sail.

NESS recently formed a joint partnership with Mitchell College in New London. Martin will be teaching for-credit sailing courses for Mitchell College, coach their varsity sailing team, and advise the student sailing/water sports club as part of the new joint initiative to create a robust water sports program at Mitchell and in greater New London. This partnership builds on an existing joint venture that uses Mitchell’s docks and NESS boats for a newly formed varsity sailing team from New London High School and the Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut. For more information, visit nessf.org. F

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World-Class Sailing in New Bedford New Bedford, Massachusetts first made its mark in the history books as the Whaling Capital of the World. Innovation, teamwork, courage, creativity, persistence and skill. It’s the lifeline that brought New Bedford fame and fortune in the 1800s and it’s the legacy the city proudly maintains at the crest of the 21st century.

New Bedford has come a long way since its waterfront landed tremendous riches and the city lit the world with its oil. Today, New Bedford’s fishing port is the richest in America and its pristine coast, recreational marinas, short access transits to Buzzards Bay, clean water and protected harbor attracts competitive sailors and recreational boaters from around the world.

Some of the very best sailing in the world can be found on Buzzards Bay, where sailors find optimum wind conditions for both fun and competition. The strength and consistency of the sea breeze is second to none, blowing all day and diminishing prior to sunset, with local conditions on Buzzards Bay often 12-20 knots from the southwest. The shifts are 5-15 degrees, which is enough to be interesting,

not so shallow that race officials have to worry about competitors running aground, nor so deep as to make it difficult for them to set race marks. While these ocean conditions make for some great sailing, New Bedford’s location, community amenities, and nautical infrastructure solidifies its attraction for both recreational boaters and competitive racers.

New Bedford is a city of roughly 100,000 located along the southern coastline of Massachusetts. Its rich maritime history as the Whaling Capital of the World in the 19th century gave rise to its development as a great seaport community that today includes the National Whaling Historic District, a vibrant

Catboats race in Buzzards Bay in front of New Bedford’s Butler’s Flats Lighthouse. © Spectrum Photo/Fran Grenon

The Buzzards Bay Regatta is the largest multi-class regatta in the U.S. © Spectrum Photo/Fran Grenon

but not enough for a race to be judged as an unfair test of skill.

In addition to the wind, the water is quite warm in the summer, particularly in August. The depth of the Bay is also optimal –

downtown with shopping and restaurants rising up along the same streets where whalers once trod. This downtown sits between the sea and a residential neighborhood where the beautiful historic homes of the great ship captains still stand amidst lovely gardens and tranquil streets.

At its southernmost point, New Bedford juts out into Buzzards Bay at Fort Taber Park, a 40+ acre recreational peninsula with a Civil War era stone fort designed by then-Union Captain Robert E. Lee. A stroll along its miles of bike, walkway and jogging paths affords a 270˚ view of the bay.

One of the most prominent features of New Bedford Harbor is its hurricane barrier. Considered to be not only the largest stone structure on the East Coast but also the largest hurricane barrier in the world, New Bedford’s barrier serves as a natural divider, with 193 moorings for recreational use located in the outer harbor to its south, and another 296

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recreational moorings in the inner harbor to its north. Of the classic yachts and 50-foot+ racing machines, and Buzzards Bay total 489 moorings located within ten mooring fields, 91 are set Regatta 2015 promises to be one of the top sailing regattas in aside for transient boaters. the U.S. in 2015.

The inner harbor also features several small islands, among

It’s been said that the best sailors know Buzzards Bay has them, Pope’s Island, easily accessed from downtown New Bedthe best sailing, and that New Bedford is the best way to access ford and itself, traversed by State Highway Route 6 from east to those waters. Now is the time to visit and see for yourself; to west. Pope’s Island provides important connectivity for recrecome sail upon the waters where whalers once set out for great ational power boaters and sailors, alike, both on water and on fortune, and where sailors train and compete. F land. Whether you’re an elite athlete in training or a casual enthusiast, Working Waterfront Festival is next month the Port of New Bedford ensures complete support services for recreEvery September, New Bedford hosts the Working Waterfront Festival, a celational sailors and power boaters by ebration of the men and women who harvest the North Atlantic. Admission to offering launch services and water this popular event is free, and your family can experience the workings of the taxi, dinghy docks, showers and industry that brings seafood from the ocean to your plate. Attractions include restrooms, laundry and vessel pump demonstrations and out. Details about New Bedford’s contests of industry recreational boating are available at portofnewbedford.org/recreationalskills, tours of workboating. boats, documentary

=You’ll want to make sure that films and footage if you’re heading to New Bedford at at sea, cooking the beginning of August this year, demonstrations, you have the chance to watch or author readings, participate in the 43rd Annual Buzzards Bay Regatta. Over 400 boats children’s activities, and 1,200 sailors from across the performances of sea U.S. and Canada annually converge music, dance and on Buzzards Bay to participate in poetry, U.S. Coast what has become one of the most Guard demon© workingwaterfrontfestival.com widely respected regattas in the strations, a tugboat country and the largest multi-class muster, whaleboat races and more. This year’s Working Waterfront Festival is regatta in the United States. The Buzzards Bay Regatta features over September 26 & 27. Visit workingwaterfrontfestival.com.

12 classes of boats from Lasers to

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From the Log of Persevere: Back to NYC

By Colin Rath

channel because two cargo ships – one inbound and the other outbound – pass often. The depth isn’t a problem, although it can be edgy as two 600-foot ships pass within 20 feet of your boat, forcing you to deal with a double wake. The ships communicate well with you on VHF channel 13, however, so you know they know you are there.

Editor’s note: This is the seventh installment in a series of dispatches from the Rath family (Colin & Pam, daughters Breana, Meriel and Nerina, dog Aspen and cat Wasabi), who departed Stamford, CT last fall for a worldwide cruise aboard their Hanse 545 Persevere. You’ll find previous articles at windcheckmagazine.com.

Persevere was back on a U.S. time schedule and had to be in New York City for the release of my book on May, 26 and then in Newport, RI on June 1 to prepare for the NYYC/ RORC Transatlantic Race 2015, which we started on July 1. We had sailed directly from Havana, Cuba to Key West, FL, which you might think would be a problem because the Coast Guard, NSA, drones, etc. are all watching. Well, maybe they are and have too much else to worry about other than the yacht Persevere, or maybe not?

Regardless, that turned out to be not a problem. The biggest issue we had entering the country involved Mette, a young German who had joined us in the Dominican Republic. Mette’s original travel plans did not include a visit to the USA, and she didn’t have a visa. Passengers on airlines and cruise ships get a waiver for visas, but small private boats don’t get that luxury. But, after a few hours of discussion and negotiations with the customs officers and with all the girls in tears, two very nice customs officers (who have daughters themselves and were very sympathetic) allowed us to get a visa for Mette and $560 later she was welcomed into America. She had to promise that she would fly home at the end of May when we would be in New York.

We then spent a few days in Key West. This allowed us all to get comfortable being back in America after seven months abroad.

The kids loved hitting the supermarkets, Trader Joe’s and local stores again, and of course the latest flick in the theatres.

We headed to Miami, FL from there. Where we were forced to stop when our jib halyard shackle snapped in the middle of the night…always a good time to lose a jib and have to fetch it out of the water in the dark. But, the stop gave me an excuse to see an old childhood friend and go out for Cinco de Mayo in Miami with him. Seemed like old times; friends like that last a lifetime. After a few days waiting for repair parts, we were off to Savannah, GA.

Savannah has a long commercial channel from the ocean to the city, where you have to spend most of your way outside the

Persevere sailed the Transatlantic Race with a crew of 14. © Stephen Cloutier/photogroup.us

We got a dock right on the waterfront and spent three days touring the city. Savannah is a beautiful and friendly city, full of Civil War history. The girls especially liked the Julliete Gordon Low Birthplace, a museum dedicated to the founder of the Girl Scouts. All three of our girls received another merit badge for their sashes. (side note: the Girls Scouts used to give merit badges for achievements, i.e. making fire from scratch, learning First Aid, or building a proper camp. Now, they get one for going to a museum? I understand the knowledge part, but are they not lowering the bar too far? Maybe doing a report on the museum to earn the badge would make more sense.)

We did the carriage tour and haunted house tour, and enjoyed a lot of the local music. Another interesting thing about Savannah is that it has several monuments to Haitian soldiers who fought for the South in the Civil War. A little odd, but the city has a lot of historic ties to Haiti. From Savannah we sailed to Beaufort, NC, and then on to NYC, our old home.

We relied on AIS and GPS all the way from Point Judith, RI to New York City, because we could not see a thing in the fog.

It finally cleared up by Governors Island, and we pulled into our slip at Newport Marina. I met with my publisher and ironed out the details of the promotion and Bookcon. I was at my booth at Bookcon at the Jacob Javits Center from May 26 until the 30th.

Book sales and signing went particularly well. We had a signing

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with yellow bulb, the vinyl wrap was removed and the boat rewrapped including the deck fiberglass, all engine services were performed, electronics updated, all the sails checked and repaired, life raft recertified, and the boat inspected from top to bottom so that she’d pass the Transatlantic Race safety inspection.

Additionally, all family stuff was removed and packaged for the shipping container to Cowes, England, and we got all family members and animals certified for Europe.

My oldest daughter, Breana, and our cat Wasabi would be racing to Cowes with me and a full crew, while my wife Pam, twins Meriel and Nerina, and our Alaskan Malamute Aspen flew to England ahead of us. After the race across the pond, we look forward to spending a year sailing in Europe. F

The author’s daughter, 14-year-old Breana Rath, was the youngest sailor in the Transatlantic Race 2015. “I’m mostly nervous about doing well with all these professional sailors and keeping my part up, because I know I just want to be equal with everyone else,” said Breana before the start. Describing her job of handling the running backstays, she said, “I’m strong with upper body muscles, and no one else wants to do it.” © Jan Harley/Media Pro International

party for 100 at my condo. I did a few interviews for It Is What It Is*, including The New York Times and the New York Post, and various online and radio interviews.

The family had fun seeing old friends in the City and Connecticut. I got to celebrate my birthday with my father, whom I had not seen in seven months and saw the play “The Book of Mormon” with him and friends. He got a good chuckle out of that. The kids picked up over free 200 books at BookCon…nice to see them reading more and more these days aboard. Lastly, Mette departed out of our merry band and flew out to Germany to start school in September, with a lot of waterworks from my family members. We plan on meeting her in Munich in late September for OktoberFest.

Weather hampered our departure for Newport until June 2.

We arrived in the early morning hours, and Persevere was hauled immediately at Newport Shipyard for two weeks of work in the shed. Her mast was pulled and re-greased, the bottom painted

Been Thinking About It? We Can Do It!

As this issue of WindCheck went to press, Persevere had just completed the Transatlantic Race 2015. Next up for the Raths are the Rolex Fastnet Race this month, the Rolex Middle Sea Race in October, and the RORC Transatlantic Race (Lanzarote, Canary Islands to Grenada, West Indies) in November. Look for updates on Persevere’s journey in future issues of WindCheck, and track their progress at Persevere60545.com and their Facebook page, “Persevere60545.”

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Sail Ahead: Healing Wounded Veterans Through Sailing According to a briefing released last year by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, at least 22 Armed Forces veterans commit suicide every day in America. Mental health professionals estimate that nearly one quarter of all veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or major depression. Furthermore, there are 76,577 veterans living in Suffolk County, the largest veteran population in New York.

It is because of the above reality that Long Island brothers Kilian Duclay (18) and Sean Duclay (16), with the enthusiastic support of their family, friends and Oakcliff Sailing in Oyster Bay, have dedicated themselves and their sailing expertise to providing effective sailing therapy for traumatized and wounded veterans. Having co-founded a not-for-profit organization called Sail Ahead, they have changed sailing from a hobby to a mission: Helping our veterans.

Kilian and Sean started sailing as infants with their parents, who always put them on a boat. At the ages of 8 and 6, Kilian and Sean started learning the competitive side of the sport and enjoyed it from the start. Having sailed with friends and family during the winter on Hobie 16s, the brothers wanted to invite the community into their “backyard” and suddenly thought about the veterans. “This is when sailing took on a new meaning,” said Sail Ahead Skipper Kilian, an enthusiastic participant in Oakcliff’’s Acorn training program for three years who recently completed an internship with the Eric Tabarly Foundation in France. “After the first couple of veterans taken sailing, it was clear by their reactions that sailing is more than just fun. It is therapeutic.”

“The therapy of sailing is similar in concept to veterans going to work with horses or being exposed to different environments where they can feel a constructive stress,” Kilian continued. “From comfortable day-long trips in the summer to intense (From left) Sail Ahead Advisor Frank Ostroff, Skipper Kilian Duclay, veteran Frank, and Junior Skipper Sean Duclay on a recent sail. © duclay.com

Sail Ahead takes military vets sailing in all weather, in all seasons. © duclay.com

racing in harsh, freezing cold conditions in the winter, sailing brings mental relief to our wounded veterans. There is definitively no doubt that sailing heals.”

“The immersion into an environment where everybody’s effort counts and teamwork is applied to either keep the boat afloat or keep the boat moving well and fast, has two effects: while it cleanses the mind, it also proves that some military skills are useful,” explained Sean, Sail Ahead’s Junior Skipper and Video Producer. “Especially in sailing, everyone needs to remain calm and effective.”

“Even though at times it can be seen as extreme, this sailing activity is not dangerous!” Sean asserts. “Taking veterans sailing provides an often new and definitively liberating experience. Veterans are exposed to new sounds, new feelings, new or renewed social interaction and new types of challenges. Learning to sail and being supported by others while on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean exposes our veterans to positive forms of stress. It forces each veteran to work with other unfamiliar veterans to make a team that gets the boat moving! The veterans returning from sailing trips are energized, eager to set sails again and relish the mental freedom sailing provides.

Other members of the Sail Ahead team include Skippers Pascal Blotiau and Thierry Duclay (Kilian and Sean’s father); Advisor Frank Ostroff, a U.S. Navy vet who served aboard the USS Kenneth D. Bailey; Skipper in Training and Advisor Joshua Hartley, a U.S. Marine Corps Captain who served in Iraq and Afghanistan; Chief Financial Officer Jimmie Spears, a proud veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps; and Mentor Dawn Riley, Executive Director of Oakcliff.

Primarily sailing out of Oyster Bay, Sail Ahead currently has six Hobie Cats and three keelboats. Sail Ahead is looking for help in the form of volunteers and monetary or sailboat donations. “Our fleet is potentially every sailboat moored in every single bay around Long Island,” said Kilian. “This is a work in progress!”

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Understanding Electric Shock Drowning

By Kellie Crete and Whitney Peterson, Gowrie Group Midsummer is upon us, with marinas and sailing programs in full operation and lots of kids swimming. With this in mind, now is a good time to increase your knowledge of Electric Shock Drowning (ESD). Many people have never heard of ESD, and those that have typically don’t realize the common situations that can be putting people at risk for ESD.

These common waterfront scenarios seem innocuous, however ESD should be considered as a risk in each. This Gowrie Risk Report helps explain why.

• A sailor cleaning his or her boat’s bottom before a weekend race.

• A powerboat owner swimming to inspect a new propeller while tied to the dock.

• A marina employee falling off a new dock.

• A boat owner climbing out of the water using the metal ladder on the swim platform.

• A group of kids jumping off a marina dock and using the marina’s emergency escape ladders to get out.

• An orange extension cord draped across a lake dock to charge a ski boat’s battery.

What exactly is Electric Shock Drowning? ESD is caused by alternating current (AC) flowing through fresh water encountering a human body. The current tries to pass through the body and causes skeletal muscular paralysis, which ultimately results in a drowning. The electricity tends to enter the water from an electric fault from a nearby dock or marina’s wiring, or from a boat that is connected to a power supply. Often, the electric fault occurring from the boat is intermittent and only leaks current into the water when a switch is flipped and an electrical device cycles on.

Why have I never heard of this? ESD is a relatively new problem, given that 20 years ago very few docks were powered.

Given the prevalence of electric boat lifts, lights, and shore-power connections on docks of all sizes and at nearly every marina, the risk of ESD is real today. In the 1980s it was commonly considered safe to dive off a dock without a thought of ESD. Today, the common summertime activity of swimming off a dock or diving under a boat can result in a tragedy.

Fresh vs. Salt Water. While ESD can occur in salt water environments, the risk is much higher in fresh water bodies of water (lakes, ponds, rivers) because of differences in conductivity.

Salt water naturally has a high conductivity and low resistance, so leaking current in water tends to go around a human body to stay in the low resistant salt water. In fresh water, which has low conductivity and high resistance, the electrical fault or current seeks a path of lower resistance to get back to its source – and a human body can serve as this low resistance path. Fresh water is nearly 70 times more resistive than salt water.

Tiny amounts can be deadly. In fresh water, minute amounts of leaking alternating current can kill. Just 15 milliamps (mA) can cause skeletal muscular paralysis, while 100 mA can

cause death within a few seconds.

Faulty wiring. Many times, it is later discovered that the leaking current in an ESD resulted from faulty wiring done by an amateur, which did not meet marine code. The marine codes in play are NFPA 303 (Fire Protection Standard for Marinas and Boatyards), NFPA 70, and National Electric Code 555 (NEC). Often boats not wired in accordance with standards set forth by the American Boat & Yacht Council (ABYC) can be a source of AC leakage.

Ed Sherman, a certified master technician and Vice President and Education Director at the ABYC shared with Gowrie Group his recommendations related to marine wiring and reducing ESD risk. “One of the most common sources of AC ground faults on boats are onboard water heaters that have developed electrical leakage in their heating elements. This is not enough to trip a fuse or circuit breaker, but it is definitely enough to present a potentially dangerous level of electrical current into the water around a boat.

Boats that have had electrical repairs performed on them by landbased electricians are also often the cause of leakages. Non-marine electricians will often innocently wire boats as they would a home, without knowing that the wiring configuration requirements on boats is quite different from homes. I strongly recommend that you only have your boat wiring performed by and checked by an ABYC certified marine electrical specialist.”

Preventing Electric Shock Drowning Don’t swim in or near freshwater marinas, docks or boatyards energized with 120-volt AC power. If you are a boat owner, have your boat inspected by an electrician with current ABYC (American Boat and Yacht Council) Electrical Certification or by an ABYC Certified Technician.

If you keep your boat at a marina, talk to the marina owners or operators about the danger of electric shock drowning. Ask if GFCIs are installed on all shore power pedestals and on all marina wiring circuits. Ask if their marina is regularly inspected by qualified electricians who are familiar with National Fire Protection Association Codes NFPA 303 and NFPA 70.

Tell others about the danger of Electric Shock Drowning.

Kellie Crete manages Gowrie Group’s Safety & Loss Prevention practice area and is an OSHA authorized instructor. Whitney Peterson is Gowrie Group’s VP of Marketing. For more information, contact them at kelliec@gowrie.com or whitneyp@gowrie.com, or log onto gowrie.com/safety.

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Book Review...

Two Sailboats, One Moon Journals from a year spent oceans apart

By Sue Montana & Bob Bennett Cover image by Dawn Daisley Designs Published by Tepin, Inc. 297 pages paperback $22 Sue Montana and Bob Bennett share an affinity for sailing that’s surpassed only by their devotion to one another. In 2002, they had been together for 17 years, having successfully implemented a “five-year renewable contract” in their relationship that saw them become homeowners, build their respective careers, and buy a 32-foot sailboat. When Bob began experiencing what Sue calls the midlife blues, he left his job and signed on for a one-year circumnavigation of the world aboard the legendary Captain Eric Forsyth’s Westsail 42 Fiona.

Before departing on the first leg of the voyage, from Weeks Yacht Yard in Patchogue, NY to Cape Town, South Africa, Bob and Sue promised they’d think of each other every time they saw the moon. During Bob’s absence, Sue maintained the house they’d bought together, launched a new business, and learned to sail their boat singlehanded. Sue and Bob each kept journals during those 12 months. Comprising their journal entries, this

remarkable book is a story of adventure, enduring hardships, overcoming selfdoubt, and abiding love, and it’s highly recommended.

The authors have sailed Long Island’s Great South Bay together for many years. Having started with a Grampian 23 that Sue’s mother owned, they now own a Sabre 32 named Habanero. They’ve sailed Habanero from Portland, ME to Oxford, MD, and they’re looking forward to retirement and taking her from Nova Scotia to Florida. To order a copy of Two Sailboats, One Moon (or a signed copy), log onto twosailboatsonemoon.com. It’s also available from Amazon, and you’ll find Sue and Bob on Facebook at “Two Sailboats, One Moon.” F

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The British-American Cup 1949 This excerpt from The Strenuous Life of Harry Anderson by Roger Vaughan recounts an event that caused the match racing rules to be re-written.

The Solent is indeed a mean-spirited body of water with an extreme wind range that can change from flat calm to white caps in a London minute. An extreme tidal rise and fall of four meters (14 feet) produces ferocious currents. On a practice day with little wind, one American boat was slammed into a cage (channel marker) by the four-knot current, while another took a bite out of a teammate’s stern by misjudging the tidal effect. The American team consisted of Herman Whiton (Firecracker); Bus Mosbacher (Llanoria); Dr. George Nichols Jr. (Goose); and Mrs. James R. Sheldon (NOA, on charter). George Nichols, as it happened, was a classmate of Anderson’s from Adirondack-Florida School, an Oyster Bay neighbor, and a fellow member of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club (SCYC).

The report on the regatta Anderson compiled is 14 pages single-spaced, complete with charts of the course and photographs.

It is presented race by race, with the course, tidal situation, and wind conditions noted. The denouement of the first race will be recognized as a classic by anyone who has ever competed in the Solent. Llanoria and Goose had worked out an eight-minute lead with one leg to go to the finish. In a team race, a 1-2 finish by a team is an unbeatable combination. As Anderson wrote, “Only a miracle could prevent an American victory. The Solent, however, is an unceasing source of miracles, and one was in the making.”

Llanoria and Goose both took the port jibe on the downwind leg, and soon found themselves becalmed without steerageway.

The trailing boats took the starboard jibe, and they were first to pick up an incoming southeasterly breeze that blew them to the finish. Llanoria and Goose finished next to last, and last. The lesson was not lost on Anderson. “In the fluky winds and strong tides of the Solent,” he wrote, “Llanoria and Goose should have kept further apart on the run in order that they would not fall victims of the same fate.”

Race two turned out to be the most significant of the series because of the rules question that arose. Llanoria, skippered by Bus Mosbacher, rounded the last mark with a lead of several minutes. “Suddenly an astonishing maneuver took place,” Anderson writes. “Instead of heading for the finish, Mosbacher, realizing the American team did not have a winning combination, turned Llanoria back along the leg of the course from which he had just come, tacked ahead and to leeward of two British boats, and by forcing them onto a higher course attempted to allow Goose to sail through them to leeward and secure a winning combination.

It was a gallant challenge, but Goose was too far astern for it to work.” For his efforts, Mosbacher was beaten across the line by one second, losing the always-valuable ¼ point for placing first. The windcheckmagazine.com

London Times gushed that it was “a day of prolonged, and at times scarcely bearable, excitement.”

That Mosbacher’s gambit didn’t work out wasn’t the question. The lively post-race discussions at the bar centered around the propriety, under the racing rules, of a boat turning back to help a teammate by harassing a competitor. “It was the consensus of both teams,” Anderson wrote, “that the rules do not, and never have been adequately explicit to cover situations occurring in team racing events.” This led a few years later to the formation of a large committee that included Mosbacher, Whiton, and Anderson to draft a supplementary set of rules for intercollegiate team racing in the United States. The final code was completed by a subcommittee consisting of George O’Day, William S. Cox, and Henry H. Anderson Jr., and later adopted with little variation by the North American Yacht Racing Union (NAYRU) . . . and later (with one variation consisting of a complete prohibition on the practice of going onto another leg of the course to engage an opponent) by the Royal Yachting Association. F

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The Boating Barrister Leaving Your Sailboat Behind: Abandoning ship, but not its ownership.

By John K. Fulweiler Crouched in the companionway, you watch the seawater slosh and squirt around the floorboards. A fellow competitor is standing by to take you off. You’re far enough out in the bending blue where decisions like these mean something. You and your crew step clear. You bum your first cigarette in twenty years, and through its acrid familiarity watch your sailing steed fade into the evening’s darkness. “So, that’s that,” you think.

Maybe, maybe not.

What happens if someone finds your vessel, prevents it from sinking and gets it safely into port? This scenario invites the sailor to consider two maritime law considerations: the law of finds and the law of salvage. And like the bowline or sheepshank, these issues are worth knowing.

Think of the law of salvage as being your guardian angel of sorts. The salvor is rewarded for leaping into the breach to save what you deemed to be a loss. The salvor plucks value from the ocean’s maw and instead of a time and materials payment, we encourage this behavior with an award. The award is almost always many multiples of a time and materials charge, but that’s okay. We can’t really expect someone to risk his own life and equipment to save someone else’s property unless the pay-off

A salvor just might save your sailing steed. makes you pucker, right? And when your marine insurer speaks ill of the salvor’s endeavor, pause to consider the salvor sent his vessel and crew scores of miles offshore, maybe chartered an aircraft, sweated the details, plotted set and drift and otherwise spent the last so-many tens of hours committed to the recovery of your property! Indeed, you might ask in retort: “Why, Mrs. Insurer, are you reluctant to pay a salvage claim when you were spared having to pay the full value of the loss?”

Sort of like getting a little too far into greasing the winch, there can be a lot of bits and pieces to deciding how much a salvor should receive for its endeavors. If the vessel is a derelict (as was the scenario I described), a salvor may expect a claim of fifty-percent (and maybe better) of the salved vessel’s value when it arrives back in port, depending on the circumstances. (That’s the value as-is with the water damage, not the value prior to the salvage.) Indeed, when it comes to salvage awards some of the

largest awards relate to derelict vessels likely because of the very high degree of peril. Without the salvor’s efforts, the argument goes, your vessel would’ve been lost to the sea.

When you get queasy at the thought of someone happening upon the boat you left behind for the safety of another, remember you’ll never likely lose ownership. A claim seeking title to a vessel as opposed to a salvage award would be a claim arising under the law of finds. However, and I’m speaking broadly here, you’d have to graffiti the mainsail with something like the message: “I’m relinquishing all right, title and interest in this pig!” for the law of finds to apply, and even that might not be sufficient. In other words, to trigger a claim under the law of finds where the courts apply a “finders-keepers” wisdom, you typically have to show the vessel’s owner expressly relinquished title to the vessel. And while in physical terms, the abandonment of your sinking vessel is relatively easy to accomplish, proving an owner abandoned title to the vessel is a very difficult battle. In fact, that battle begins with a headwind in that there’s a presumption against application of the doctrine.

Maybe I haven’t seen a sufficient stack of wind chop atop serious sea swell, but I’d swim off before I’d step off. (As a paunched pilot once told me as he rolled a bottle of St. Pauli Girl between his palms, “How it is, if something goes wrong I’m going to keep trying to fly her right into the ground.”) Like I said, I probably haven’t seen enough blue water action to judge (much less condemn) anyone’s decision, but when you bail, remember all’s not lost; a salvor just might save your sailing steed.

This article is provided for your general information, is not legal opinion and should not be relied upon. Always seek legal counsel to understand your rights and remedies.

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Admiralty attorney John K. Fulweiler, Esq. practices maritime law on the East and Gulf Coasts. As a former partner of a Manhattan maritime firm, John now helms his own practice located in Newport, Rhode Island where he helps individuals and businesses navigate the choppy waters of the maritime law. John can be reached anytime at 1-800-383-MAYDAY (6293) or via e-mail at john@fulweilerlaw.com.

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From the Captain of the Port You Know “Boat Trim” – But Do You Know “Boat Squat?”

By Vincent Pica Commodore, First District, Southern Region (D1SR) United States Coast Guard Auxiliary When I teach seamanship classes, inevitably somebody raises their hand and asks about how “flat” the boat should be. I ask, “By ‘flat,’ I am guessing that you mean relative to her waterline.

But do you mean when she is sitting at the dock, going slowly forward but only at a ‘slow bell*, or making all deliberate speed?”

As their eyes glaze over, I know that we will have to take it by the numbers. This column is about that.

Boat Trim Understanding boat trim and boat squat are all about control and avoiding running aground. For a “planing boat,” i.e., those boats we’re most familiar with that buzz around the bays and creeks, usually with an outboard engine on the stern, that “climb up” on to the water as they go faster, trim is synonymous with every aspect of the boat. Whether it be at the dock, barely making way or operating “at speed,” how ‘flat’ she is largely under the control of the skipper and he or she should be constantly aware of what trim they are assuming. This trim is best controlled by what angle you place the outboard engine relative to the transom. Huh?

Usually in the throttle, there is a thumb control that when you press it “down,” it brings the propeller in closer to the transom. See figure 1.

Figure 1 – courtesy of the USCG Auxiliary

By bringing the propeller in closer to the transom, you force the bow down from its manufactured waterline. When you would want to do that? How about if you were heading into strong wave action? If your bow was trimmed ‘up,’ the force of the waves would accentuate that, possibly making it more difficult to see – and to control the boat.

Commensurately, if you press the thumb control to bring the engine “up,” it moves the propeller away from the transom, forcing the bow up from its manufactured waterline.

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Why would you do that? Well, there are a number of reasons. One reason is that a powered vessel’s fuel consumption improves as you reduce its wetted surface. So, as you are cruising down the bay, you can trim the engine up and save fuel at a given rate of speed. Secondly, if you are willing to throw fuel efficiency to the wind, so to speak, a powered vessel simply goes faster with less of a wetted surface. And, as you bring the bow up, you reduce the wetted (in the water) surface. Compare how much more of figure 1 is below the waterline, versus figure 2.

Boat Squat When any boat is making way through the water, she starts by pushing a large amount of water ahead of her. If she's a planing vessel, she’ll climb up on that wave as she picks up sufficient speed. But if she is a “big ‘un,” she won’t be planing anytime soon. She is a displacement vessel. So, this water that is getting pushed ahead returns to the side and under the boat’s bottom.

As she starts to put on some way (speed), imagine this cycle of water building up speed under the ship. This causes a drop in water pressure under the boat. This causes the ship to vertically drop in the water. This is “boat squat” and how a boat with four feet of draft hits the bottom in five feet of water. (Hint: go slow in shallow water, Big ‘Un.)

Now, for a displacement vessel, trim is different from squat.

Trim is the difference of the forward and aft draft while the boat is stationary. As she gets underway and her aspect to her waterlines changes, she is affecting “squat.” Naval architects justifiably worry about whether she has forward or aft “squat” (leans forward or aft as she builds speed). This is largely determined by her center of gravity and her “block coefficient,” which is the volume of the hull (V) divided by the Length of her Waterline (LWL) times the (maximum) Beam of her Waterline (BWL) times her Draft. If you draw a box around the submerged part of the ship, it is the ratio of the box volume occupied by the ship.

So, now, you can say that you do know squat!

The author invites those interested in being part of the U.S. Coast Guard forces to email him at JoinUSCGAux@aol.com or go direct to d1south.org/StaffPages/DSO-HR.php.

* A “slow bell” means making way at the minimum speed at which the boat can maintain steerage. Larger boats, with exposure to the wind, need more speed to maintain steerage than a smaller, low-profile boat. F

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Sound Environment...

Save The Bay

By Cindy M. Sabato, APR A fully swimmable, fishable, healthy Narragansett Bay, accessible to all. That’s what Save The Bay® - Narragansett Bay and our many supporters, volunteers and partners have been working toward since 1970.

From humble but passionate beginnings as a tiny grassroots organization opposing a proposed nuclear power plant at North Kingstown, Rhode Island’s Rome Point in 1970, Save The Bay has grown into the state’s largest, member-driven, non-profit organization advocating for Narragansett Bay. Today, we operate a fleet of three vessels to give students and community members close-up experiences with their Bay. We’ve been selected to participate in a White House Summit on environmental education, and our education programs serve 15,000 K-12 students and teachers each year. Our members have helped us successfully defeat a proposed LNG facility, and pass legislation to increase protections for coastal wetlands from development and eliminate Rhode Island’s cesspools. We now organize the International Coastal Cleanup for Rhode Island and run the state’s only hands-on aquarium featuring local marine life exclusively. And we just held our 39th Annual Save The Bay Swim, a storied openwater swim and our signature fund raising event.

Once choked by raw sewage and dying a slow death from

The Save The Bay Swim is a fundraiser that supports Save the Bay’s mission to protect and improve Narragansett Bay. © savebay.org

industrial toxins, the Bay is now making a strong comeback. More than ever before, people are able to swim, fish, sail and enjoy the waters of Narragansett Bay. But there is still work to be done before our vision is fully realized. We’re connecting our community to the Bay and its inhabitants through education, eco-tourism, and restoration programs, and continuing to advocate for laws and regulations to protect the Bay for years to come.

Advocacy Since our beginnings, advocacy has been the heart of Save The Bay. Our advocacy work today includes monitoring water quality, identifying pollution sources, holding state environmental agencies accountable for enforcement of federal law and promoting policy changes to improve Bay health, increase public access and adapt to changing climate conditions. Out on the water, our

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Baykeeper and Coastkeeper act as the eyes, ears and voice for our local waters.

Habitat Restoration An incredible team of restoration ecologists and volunteers plan, lead, manage and participate in projects that limit the impacts of rising sea level, changing precipitation and increasing storm intensity on our coastal watersheds, salt marshes, beaches and dunes.

We plant beach grasses to prevent beach erosion, dig creeks in salt marshes to drain trapped water, retrofit the ends of dead-end roads to filter polluted runoff, remove dams and install fish ladders and much more.

Education The continued improvement of Narragansett Bay for the next 45 years depends on the next generation of Bay stewards. In partnership with school districts, private schools and individual teachers, Save The Bay reaches about 15,000 students with hands-on marine science and environmental education every school year, while summer BayCamps give about 350 K-12 children hands-on, adventurefilled experiences on and along the Bay.

Eco-Tourism For our community members, lighthouse tours in summer and fall offer a unique vantage point from the water, while winter birding and seal tours prove that summertime isn’t the only time to enjoy the Bay. Some 22,000 visitors per year get close-up with the marine life of Narragansett Bay at our Exploration Center and Aquarium

on Easton’s Beach in Newport, where three touch tanks and more than two dozen living exhibits showcase 50+ species and 100+ animals at any given time.

Beach Clean-ups Thousands of volunteers help us clean up Rhode Island’s beaches and shorelines by picking up debris at more than 100 cleanups every year. The International Coastal Cleanup in September is a great way to discover the role that humans can play in the health of our waters and marine life.

Our five-year vision, which will take us into our 50th anniversary year in 2020, is ambitious. We’re focused on working with state and local governments, agencies, organizations and individuals to: • Reduce nutrient loads entering Narragansett Bay • Improve watershed-wide management of polluted runoff • Increase public access to Narragansett Bay beaches • Increase populations of filter-feeding fish species • Restore shellfish populations • Expand educational programs, and advocacy and restoration efforts into Massachusetts • Strengthen Rhode Island’s permitting and enforcement programs • Improve municipal capacity to reduce polluted runoff, protect wetlands and adapt to changing climate conditions You can support our work and Narragansett Bay by becoming a member of Save The Bay. For more information, visit savebay.org.

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Calendar 2015 AUGUST Daily through October River Cruises Aboard Schooner Mary E - Enjoy a river excursion (1.5 hours) or a sunset cruise (2 hours) aboard a 108-year-old, 75-foot gaff-rigged schooner. Fee includes museum admission. Connecticut River Museum, Essex, CT; Reservations: 860-767-8269; schoonermarye.com; ctrivermuseum.org 1 SYC Lighthouse Regatta A navigator’s race on Fishers Island Sound, this fundraiser for the New London Maritime Society Lighthouse Fund has a course encompassing three lighthouses with views of six more, and it’s an ECSA points event. Shennecossett Yacht Club, Groton, CT; syc-ct.com 1 Boardman Cup Invitational - This ECSA points event is hosted by Milford Yacht Club.

Milford, CT; milfordyachtclub.com 1&2 YRA Championship Regatta - Sponsored by Thomson Reuters and co-hosted by Riverside, Indian Harbor & American Yacht Clubs, this event is open to dinghies, inshore & offshore one-designs, and PHRF & IRC boats. Greenwich, CT & Rye, NY;Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound: office@yralis.org; yralis.org

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1&2 AHYC Blue Water Regatta - This event is open to J/24s, J/105s, PHRF Spinnaker & Non-spinnaker boats and Multihulls. Atlantic Highlands Yacht Club, Atlantic Highlands, NJ; ahyc.net 2 Special Olympics CT Unified Sailing Regatta - Cedar Point Yacht Club, Westport, CT; cedarpointyc.org 2 SIYC PHRF Anniversary Races - Shelter Island Yacht Club, Shelter Island Heights, NY; siyc.com 2 Hands-On Powerboat Training - Participants in this one-day, on-the-water course will actually drive powerboats, including backing, hovering, docking, anchoring, high speed, MOB recovery and many other skills. Powerboats are provided.

Pettipaug Sailing Academy, Essex, CT; Paul Risseeuw: 860-7671995; prisseeuw@aol.com; register at pettipaug.com Also offered 8/17, 8/19 & 9/5 2-4 Mariner Class Association Rendezvous - Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD; usmariner.org 3 Northport Make-A-Wish Junior Sailors Regatta Hosted by Northport Yacht Club in partnership with Centerport Yacht Club, the Head of the Bay Club, Huntington Yacht Club, Cold Spring Harbor Beach Club and the Huntington YMCA, this event helps children with life-threatening illnesses have a wish granted by the MakeA-Wish Foundation of Suffolk County. Check-in 8 - 9am; Skippers meeting 10am; Harbor start 10:45am; last race off before 2:30pm; Pool party & DJ 3pm; Awards &

prizes 4pm; Barbecue 4:30pm; Northport Yacht Club, Northport, NY; Bob Doherty: 631-757-3174; pbkd223@optonline.net; northportyachtclub.com 3 Junior Safety-at-Sea Seminar - Presented by the Storm Trysail Foundation and sponsored by the Jamie Boeckel Fund for Safety at Sea and Sailing World, this hands-on workshop includes presentations covering safety procedures, particularly man overboard recovery and big-boat organization & crew work, in-the-water demonstration of inflatable PFDs and the inflation of a six-man canopied life raft, and sail handling & man overboard drills, both upwind with jibs and downwind with spinnakers. Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, ME; Bob Scott: ati@aerotropic.com; stormtrysailfoundation.org/ safety-at-sea.htm

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5-9 33rd Annual Manhasset Bay Match Race for the Knickerbocker Cup Hosted by Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, this ISAF Grade 2 match race series is sailed in Swedish Match 40s. Port Washington, NY; manhassetbayyc.org 5-9 C. Raymond Hunt National Championship - This International 210 Class regatta is hosted by Cohasset Yacht Club.

Cohasset, MA; 210class.com 6 JSALIS Pixel Championship - Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY; jsalis.org; larchmontyc.org

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6 Shoreline Sailing Club meeting - If you’re an active single over 35, this club’s activities include sailing, fishing, kayaking, dances, dockside parties, golfing, skiing and more. Meetings are held the first & third Thursdays of each month (lite bites/cash bar available); 7:30pm; Westbrook Elks Lodge, Westbrook, CT; shorelinesailingclub.com 6 Singles Under Sail meeting - SUS is a sailing club for adults who are also single. Meetings are held on the first and third Thursdays of each month at various locations in Fairfield County, CT; 203-847-3456; visit SinglesUnderSail.org for cruises, lectures and other special events.

7 Fishers Island Junior Overnight Race - In this race, presented by Fishers Island Yacht Club and the Storm Trysail Foundation, each boat (27 - 45 feet) will be crewed by at least five sailors ages 13 to 18 and adult safety advisers. The course will be 80 to 100nm, depending on wind and conditions. Fishers Island, NY; fiyc.net/junior_sailing.html 7 5th Annual Light Keeper’s Gala - This New York Harbor cruise aboard the Cornucopia Princess with dining and dancing in the moonlight, supports the National Lighthouse Museum.

6:30 - 11pm; Stapleton Pier, Staten Island, NY; lighthousemuseum.org 7-9 22nd Annual EYC 12 Metre Regatta - Edgartown Yacht Club, Edgartown, MA; 12mrclass.com 7-9 U.S. Multihull Championship - This US Sailing regatta will be sailed in F-18 catamarans.

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AUGUST Continued 7-9 43rd Annual Buzzards Bay Regatta - With classes for Lasers (including Radials & Masters), C420s, I420s,V15s, 5O5s, J/24s, J/80s, F-18s, R18s and PHRF Racing & Cruising boats, this is the largest multiclass regatta on the East Coast.

Beverly Yacht Club, Marion, MA; buzzardsbayregatta.com

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8 Junior Safety-at-Sea Seminar - Presented by the Storm Trysail Foundation and

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sponsored by the Jamie Boeckel Fund for Safety at Sea and Sailing World, this hands-on workshop includes presentations covering safety procedures, particularly man overboard recovery and big-boat organization & crew work, in-the-water demonstration of inflatable PFDs and the inflation of a six-man canopied life raft, and sail handling & man overboard drills, both upwind with jibs and downwind with spinnakers. Community Boating, Inc., Boston, MA; Kelly Robinson: krobins@rutgers.edu; stormtrysailfoundation.org/safety-at-sea. htm 8 45th Annual World’s Longest Sunfish Race Around Shelter Island, 28th Annual Catamaran Race Around Shelter Island & 5th Annual Laser Race Around Shelter Island Southold Yacht Club, Southold, NY; southoldyachtclub.com 8 Women’s Invitational for the Commodore Mendez

Trophy - Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY; larchmontyc.org 8 24th Annual Greenwich Propane Women’s Cup Race - Sprite Island Yacht Club, Norwalk, CT; spriteisland.com 8 New Haven Mayor’s Cup - This ECSA points event is hosted by New Haven Yacht Club. New Haven, CT; newhavenyc.org 8 Women Skippers’ Race City Island Yacht Club, City Island, NY; cityislandyc.org 8 GSBYRA Invitational Regatta - This Great South Bay Yacht Racing Association event is hosted by the Westhampton Yacht Squadron. Remsemburg NY; gsbyra.org 8 Fuller Offshore Race - This PHRF pursuit race is hosted by

Watch Hill Yacht Club. Watch Hill, RI; whyc.net/Fuller.php 8&9 Atlantic City Race Week/ Leukemia Cup Regatta This event to support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s mission to cure blood cancers is hosted by Ocean City Yacht Club. Ocean City, NJ; leukemiacup.org 8&9 Marblehead Corinthian Classic Yacht Regatta This event opens the North American Circuit of the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge. Corinthian Yacht Club, Marblehead, MA; corinthianclassic.org 8 & 10 Twenty Hundred Club Block Island Race - This PHRF event comprises races from Newport, RI to Block and back. twentyhundredclub.org 8 - 16 Nantucket Race Week Co-hosted by Nantucket Yacht Club and Great Harbor Yacht

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AUGUST Continued Club, this Sailors for the Sea Clean Regatta raises funds for Nantucket Community Sailing.

Events include the 43rd Annual Opera House Cup for classic wooden boats, a 12 Metre regatta, PHRF racing, a youth regatta, an open sailboard regatta, women’s fun sail, paddlecraft races and more. Nantucket, MA; nantucketraceweek.org

11 59th Annual Beach Point Overnight Race - This race for the Junior Distance Sailing Championship of Long Island Sound is hosted by the Beach Point Club. Mamaroneck, NY; jsalis.org

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9 62nd Annual CIYC Day Race - City Island Yacht Club, City Island, NY; cityislandyc.org 10 48th Annual Regatta for the Dorade Trophy - Youth sailors race overnight on 29- to 44-foot PHRF boats. Stamford Yacht Club, Stamford, CT; stamfordyc.com; Ray Redniss: rredniss@optonline.net; jsalis. org 10 - 12 NBYRA Junior Race Week/ US Sailing Olympic Festival - This Narragansett Bay Yachting Association event for Optimist, C420, Byte and Laser sailors is hosted by Conanicut Yacht Club. Fort Getty, Jamestown, RI; nbyra.org 11 JSA Marlinspike Seamanship Contest - This Junior Sailing Association of Long Island Sound event precedes the Beach Point Overnight Race. Beach Point Yacht Club, Mamaroneck, NY; jsalis.org

12 - 16 Oakcliff International This GRAND SLAM Grade 2 Match Race Series event will be sailed in Swedish Match 40s.

Oakcliff Sailing, Oyster Bay, NY; Bill Simon: 516-802-0368; bsimon@oakcliffsailing.org; oakcliffsailing.org 12 - 16 Nantucket Opera House Cup - This Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge event is hosted

by Nantucket Community Sailing. Nantucket, MA; paneraiclassicyachtschallenge.com 13 Junior Safety-at-Sea Seminar - Presented by the Storm Trysail Foundation and sponsored by the Jamie Boeckel Fund for Safety at Sea and Sailing World, this hands-on workshop includes presentations covering safety procedures, particularly man overboard recovery and big-boat organization & crew work, in-the-water demonstration of inflatable PFDs and the inflation of a six-man canopied life raft, and sail handling & man overboard drills, both upwind with jibs and downwind with spinnakers. Sail Newport, Newport, RI; Joe Cooper: cooperndn@cox.net; stormtrysailfoundation.org/safety-at-sea.htm 13 6th Annual Zywiec Regatta - This clockwise

circumnavigation of Long Island is presented by the Polski Klub Zeglarski w Nowym Jorku (Polish Sailing Club of New York). Brooklyn, NY; zeglarzeny.org

Yacht Club, Padanaram Harbor, South Dartmouth, MA; Overnight moorings available through NBYC. For info or RSVP, contact Tom Kenney: 508-984-1820; tkenney@amp100.hbs.edu

13 & 14 Nantucket Yacht Club 12 Metre Regatta - Nantucket, MA; 12mrclass.com

14 - 16 Long Island Sound Beneteau Owners Rendezvous This event is presented by Prestige Yacht Sales. Saugatuck Harbor Yacht Club, Westport, CT; Maureen Mazan: Maureen@ PrestigeYachtSales.net; 203-353-0373

14 - 16 13th Annual Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show Maine’s only in-water boat and home show, where “Tradition Shapes Innovation,” features the state’s finest artists, architects, boatbuilders, craftspeople, designers, furniture makers, marine gear vendors, chefs & musicians. There’ll be live music, a Just For Kids activities area, fine Maine food, and the Annual World Championship Boatyard Dog® Trials (Sunday at 10:30).

Gates open at 10am daily. $12 adults; under 12 free (no pets allowed). Harbor and Buoy Parks, Rockland, ME; showinfo@maineboats.com; 800-565-4951; maineboats.com

14 11th Annual Ida Lewis Distance Race - Depending on conditions, the organizers of this “just right” overnighter can choose to send IRC, PHRF, OneDesign, Multihull and DoubleHanded boats of 28 feet LOA or longer on one of four coastal courses between 104 nm and 177 nm. “The Ida” is a qualifier for the New England Lighthouse Series (PHRF), Northern and Double-Handed Ocean Racing Trophies (IRC) and US-IRC Gulf Stream Series, and there are special Youth Challenge and Collegiate Challenge trophies. Ida Lewis Yacht Club, Newport, RI; info@ildistancerace; ildistancerace.org 14 The Stamford Overnight Race - This race, approximately 47 nm from Stamford, around Stratford Shoal and back, is open to monohulls 24 feet LOA or over, owned or chartered by a YRALIS member and with a valid PHRF or IRC certificate.

Stamford Yacht Club, Stamford, CT; stamfordyc.com 14 2nd Annual Leukemia Cup Brigantine Junior Regatta - This event to support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s mission to cure blood cancers is hosted by Brigantine Yacht Club. Brigantine, NJ; Emma Thornton: 908-956-6645; emma.thornton@lls.org; leukemiacup.org 14 & 15 2015 Stone Horse Builder’s Cup - This one-design race is limited to the 23-foot Stone Horse built by Edey & Duff, formerly of Aucoot Cove, Mattapoisett, MA. New Bedford

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15 34th Annual American Cancer Society Regatta Sponsored by the Mount Sinai Sailing Association, this is the second longest running charity regatta in the U.S. PHRF Spinnaker and Non-spinnaker boats (with Double-Handed & One-Design divisions based on entries) will sail a course of approximately 8 to 20 miles, followed by a party at Mount Sinai Yacht Club with live entertainment, food, refreshments, raffle & auction. Mount Sinai, NY; mssa.org 15 11th Annual Ms. Race Hosted by Atlantic Highlands Yacht Club, this PHRF nonspinnaker race for all-female crews benefits 180 Turning Lives Around, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending windcheckmagazine.com

domestic violence and sexual assault. Atlantic Highlands, NJ; Diane Kropfl: 732-872-9190; ahyc.ms.race@gmail.com; ahyc.net/msrace.htm

hosted by Mason’s Island Yacht Club. Mystic, CT; masonsislandyachtclub.com 15 EBYRA Day Race - Eastchester Bay Yacht Racing Association; City Island, NY; ebyra.org 15 HYC Mayor’s Cup Regatta Huguenot Yacht Club, New Rochelle, NY; huguenotyc.com

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15 Long Island Leukemia Cup Regatta - This event to support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s mission to cure blood cancers, and all PHRF, J/22, J/24, J/70, Sunfish, 420, Optimist and dinghy sailors are encouraged to enter. Sayville Yacht Club, Blue Point, NY; leukemiacup.org 15 Mason’s Island Regatta This ECSA points event is

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kayak demonstrations, vendors, music and food. Northport, NY; paddleguru.com/races/ CowHarborPaddleFest2015 15 & 16 Howard C. Hoxsie Regatta - The trophy deeded to Harlem Yacht Club in 1938 to encourage the racing of small yachts in Eastchester Bay has been rededicated to be raced in J/24s. Harlem Yacht Club, City Island, NY; race@hyc.org; hyc.org

15 41st Annual Milford Oyster Festival - Attractions include a canoe & kayak race, a schooner cruise, a boat decorating contest, a car & motorcycle show, kids’ activities, live music

by Gin Blossoms, Fastball, The Rembrandts, Jimmy and the Parrots and other artists, Main Street USA, a food court, lots of oysters and much more. Milford, CT; milfordoysterfestival.org

16 The Masthead Race Hosted by Masthead Cove Yacht Club since 2006 in memory of MCYC Past Commodore Carol Marcinuk, this novice-friendly race benefits the Marcinuk Fund for Ovarian Cancer Research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Huntington, NY; Dave Tuck: racing@mastheadcoveyc.org; mastheadcoveyc.org

15 Cow Harbor Paddlefest This event has something for everyone, with elite races, SUP and

16 43rd Annual Opera House Cup Regatta - The first all-wooden, single-hulled classic

boat regatta on the East Coast, this North American Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge event is co-hosted by Nantucket Yacht Club and Great Harbor Yacht Club. Nantucket, MA; diana@nantucketsailing.org; operahousecup.org 16 Stamford Sail & Power Squadron Race - Halloween Yacht Club, Stamford, CT; hyc.net 16 2nd Annual Providence Paddle Battle - This SUP race benefits Clean Ocean Access. Providence, RI; paddleguru. com/races/2ndAnnualProvidence PaddleBattle 19 & 20 Overnight Junior Big Boat Rendezvous - This Junior Sailing Association of Long Island Sound event is hosted by The WaterFront Center. Oyster Bay, NY; jsalis.org 21 Sam Wetherill Trophy

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AUGUST Continued Overnight Race - This ECSA double points race around Block Island, in memory of EYC’s ardent blue-water sailor, was established to encourage long distance overnight racing for cruising sailboats. Essex Yacht Club, Essex, CT; essexyc.com 21 - 23 Hinman Masters Team Race - New York Yacht Club’s Harbour Court, Newport, RI; nyyc.org 22 38th Annual Fools’ Rules Regatta - Competitors in this event, sponsored by Jamestown Yacht Club, must build a “sailboat” from non-marine materials and attempt to sail a 500-yard downwind course.

Volunteers are needed! Town Beach at East Ferry, Jamestown, RI; Candy Powell: 401-423-1492; cpowell7@verizon.net; jyc.org Rain date 8/23 22 Complying with Offshore Safety Requirements Whether you’re considering the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race or a cruising passage to another continent, this seminar will provide essential information from a panel of experts assembled

by Brewer Yacht Yard Group, the Official Boat Preparation resources of the Newport Bermuda Race. New York Yacht Club’s Harbour Court, Newport, RI; byy.com/NBRSeminar 22 First Annual Western Long Island Sound Governor’s Cup Day Race & Charity Regatta - Presented

by City Island Yacht Club, Huguenot Yacht Club and Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, this inaugural benefit for Sails For Sustenance is a challenging event for PHRF (Spinnaker & Non-Spinnaker) and IRC boats, plus an additional start for unrated cruising boats (PHRF ratings will be assigned).

First, second and third place awards in all divisions with more

than 7 starters. The overall winner will receive the new Walter Cronkite Perpetual Trophy. City Island, NY; cityislandyc.org; yachtscoring.com

event is the best-kept secret in shorthanded racing. Milford, CT; Sue Ratkiewich: 203-530-4146; saildrmr1127@hotmail.com; windjammers.org

22 Newport Unlimited Regatta - This event is open to all multihulls with a New England Multihull Association handicap rating. Newport Yacht Club, Newport, RI; newportyachtclub.org; nemasail.org

23 Ram Island Invitational This ECSA points event is hosted by Ram Island Yacht Club.

Noank, CT; ramislandyachtclub.org

22 SYC Norwalk Islands Race - Setauket Yacht Club, Port Jefferson, NY; setauketyc.com 22 6th Annual Newport SUP Cup - Proceeds from this paddle around historic Newport Harbor (with short and long courses) support Clean Ocean Access. Newport, RI; newportsupcup.coastalurge.com 22 Rose Island Lighthouse Battle of the Bay - This race for SUPs, kayaks, surf skis and rowing craft starts at Fort Adams State Park, with short and long courses taking participants north under the Newport Bridge to buoys along the Newport Naval War College and back to a finish near Rose Island.

Newport, RI; paddleguru.com/ races/RoseIslandLighthouseBattleofTheBay 22 & 23 Herreshoff Classic Rendezvous & Regatta - Part of the WoodenBoat Regatta Series, this event is a weekend of racing on Narragansett Bay and social activities. Herreshoff Museum & America’s Cup Hall of Fame, Bristol, RI; herreshoff.org regatta@herreshoff.org; 22 & 23 PYC Corinthian Challenge Cup - Pequot Yacht Club, Southport, CT; pequotyc.com 23 WSC Single/Double Handed Invitational - This Windjammers Sailing Club

26 - 30 Manhasset Bay Race Week - Opti, Laser, Snipe, Ideal 18, Sonar, MBOD; Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, Port Washington, NY; manhassetbayyc.org 29 Connecticut Leukemia Cup Regatta - Hosted

by North Cove Yacht Club, Duck Island Yacht Club, Essex Corinthian Yacht Club and Brewer Pilots Point Marina, this regatta supports the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s mission to cure blood cancers. Westbrook, CT; Christine Schuff: 203-3889170; christine.schuff@lls.org; leukemiacup.org/ct

and a Corinthian division for youth sailors. Stamford Yacht Club, Stamford, CT; vineyardinfo@stamfordyc.com; stamfordyc.com; vineyardrace.wordpress.com

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4-6 37th Annual Newport Museum of Yachting Classic Yacht Regatta - This final stage of the North American Circuit of the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge attracts dozens of boats for three days of racing on Narragansett Bay. Sail Newport, Newport, RI; paneraiclassicyachtschallenge.com

29 NYC Greens Ledge Trophy Race - Norwalk Yacht Club, Norwalk, CT; norwalkyachtclub.com

4-6 18th Annual Rhythm & Roots Festival - Featured performers at New England’s Hottest Festival of Music and Dance include The Mavericks, Keb Mo, Lake Street Dive, Los Lobos, Marcia Ball, Eilen Jewell, Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, and many more. Ninigret Park, Charlestown, RI; rhythmandroots.com

30 HHC Labor Day Regatta Hempstead Harbour Club, Glen Cove, NY; hempsteadharbourclub.com

5 90th Annual SCYC Stratford Shoal Race - Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, NY; seawanhaka.org

29 NSYC Moonlight Regatta North Shore Yacht Club, Port Washington, NY; nsyc.net

SEPTEMBER 4 81st Annual Vineyard Race - This Labor Day Weekend classic offers three courses: 238 nm from Stamford, CT around Buzzards Bay Light Tower and back, 143 nm to Seaflower Reef and back, and 116 nm to Cornfield Point Shoal and back. IRC, PHRF, Multihulls, Classic Yachts, Double-Handed

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5 FIYC ‘Round Island Race This circumnavigation of Fishers Island is an ECSA points event and open to PHRF boats, International One Designs, Ensigns, Watch Hill 15s, J/70s, and other classes by invitation. Fishers Island Yacht Club, Fishers Island, NY; fiyc.net 5 HRYRA Laser Labor Day Afterthought Regatta This Hudson River Yacht Racing windcheckmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER Continued Association event is hosted by Nyack Boat Club. Nyack, NY; nyackboatclub.org 5 9th Annual Huntington Lighthouse Music Festival The world’s only music festival atop a working lighthouse in the middle of the water features nine great bands. Drop an anchor…raft up with friends…see the light…feel the sound. 11am 8pm; admission is free, although Teens on the Water will be collecting donations for the preservation of historic Huntington Lighthouse. Huntington Bay, NY; lighthousemusicfest.com 5 Onne van der Wal Photography Workshop on the Water: Classic Yacht Regatta - The award-winning photographer will give a guided photographic tour aboard the M/V Gansett, shooting gorgeous wooden boats racing on Narragansett Bay. 10:30am

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- 3pm; $595 fee includes a meal (lobster roll or turkey club), beer, wine, soft drinks, snacks & a swag bag ($50 discount for returning students). Limited to 15 photographers; Reserve at 401-849-5556 or gallery@vanderwal.com; vanderwal.com 5&6 Museum of Yachting 36th Annual Classic Yacht Regatta - This Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge event is sponsored by North Sails, Sail Newport and IYRS. Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI; iyrs. edu/museum-yachting-iyrs/moyclassic-yacht-regatta 6 88th Annual Around the Island Race - This race around Conanicut Island, the oldest continuing yacht race on Narragansett Bay, is open to all sailboats with a PHRF of NB rating. Conanicut Yacht Club, Jamestown, RI: conanicutyachtclub.org; nbya.org 6 Edmund Ward Poor

Memorial Trophy Invitational - This 17.39 nautical mile PHRF race begins in Noyac Bay. Shelter Island Yacht Club, Shelter Island Heights, NY; siyc.com 6 SSYC Labor Day Regatta This North Jersey Yacht Racing Association event is open to Optimists, C420s, Lasers, Laser Radials, Comets, Flying Scots, Sanderlings and Woodpussys.

Shrewsbury Sailing and Yacht Club, Oceanport, NJ; Bob Slook: 732-291-5094; ssyc.us; njyra.org 6&7 Etchells Long Island Sound Championship Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY; larchmontyc.org 11 PYC Falkner Island Overnight Race - Pequot Yacht Club, Southport, CT; pequotyc.com 11 - 13 C&C Northeast Rendezvous - Cedar Island Marina, Clinton, CT; cnc2015.com

11 - 13 38th Annual Norwalk Seaport Association Oyster Festival - Activities include harbor tours, historic and working vessels, arts & crafts, barbecue competition, oyster shucking competition, Pirate’s Coast Adventure, Kids’ Cove, live music, and more.Veteran’s Memorial Park, Norwalk, CT; seaport.org 12 5th Annual Larchmont Yacht Club Leukemia Cup Regatta - With starts for Cruising Yachts, Offshore OneDesigns, Ideal 18s,Vanguard 15s, Etchells, IODs, S-Boats, RS K6s, Viper 640s, Lasers, Laser Radials, 420s and Optis (Red, White, Blue & Green), this is one Long Island Sound’s largest regattas.

Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY; leukemiacup.org/ ctwhv/localchapter/larchmontyc 12 5th Annual Village Cup Regatta - Hosted by Seatauket Yacht Club in collaboration with the Village of Port Jefferson and the Port Jefferson Conservancy,

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SEPTEMBER Continued this PHRF regatta, supports pancreatic cancer research and palliative care at Mather Hospital and the Lustgarten Foundation’s mission to eradicate the disease. Port Jefferson, NY; Chuck Chiaramonte: 516-8106695; chuck@seatauketyc.com; setauketyc.com/villagecup 12 Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island Regatta Co-hosted by the Rhode Island International Sailing Association and Barrington Yacht Club, this event supports compassionate end-of-life care for Rhode Islanders. Barrington, RI; 800338-6555; hospiceregattas.org/ ri.shtml 12 Spirit Rider Regatta - Honoring the memory of firefighter Patrick J. O’Keefe of FDNY Rescue Company One and all who perished in the events of September 11, 2001, this PHRF race supports the O’Keefe Foundation’s mission to award scholarships to students who have lost a parent to violence or are suffering from some radical life change. The Ocean Club; Atlantic Beach, NY; spiritrider.org

12 Philcox Cup - Norwalk Islands Sailing Fleet, Norwalk, CT; norwalksailing.com

NY; Andrea Watson: racecommittee@pwyc.org or agwatson@sailingpress.com; register at yachtscoring.com

12 Captain Island Race Douglaston Yacht Squadron, Douglaston, NY; douglastonyachtsquadron.com

13 50th Annual ValeurJensen Denmark Stamford Race - Presented by the Stamford Yacht Club, Royal Danish Yacht Club, Stamford Sail & Power Squadron and the Consulate General of Denmark, this event is open to boats with PHRF or IRC ratings and classic boats (over 25 years old). Other boats of one-design or level racing classes are also eligible and may race in accordance with class rules. The race will have starts for non-spinnaker classes, as well as courses for Multihulls 18’ LOA and over. Sail like a Dane! Stamford, CT; Ray Redniss: 203-348-3710; rredniss@optimum.net; stamfordyc.com

12 & 13 Blind National Sailing Championship - This regatta will be sailed in J/22s.

Sail Newport, Newport, RI; Kim Hapgood: 401-846-1983; kim. hapgood@sailnewport.org; sailnewport.org 12 & 13 Star Bedford Pitcher Regatta - Cedar Point Yacht Club, Westport, CT; cedarpointyc.org 12 & 13 Harry Anderson Trophy This intercollegiate regatta will be hosted by Yale and sailed in Z420s and FJs. Branford, CT; collegesailing.org 12 - 19 Rolex NYYC Invitational Cup - In this biennial Corinthian event, 20 yacht club teams from around the world compete in Swan 42s. New York Yacht Club’s Harbour Court, Newport, RI; nyyc.org/yachting/invitational-cup/2015-invitational-cup

12 HBC Invitational - This ECSA points event is open to all boats with a valid ECSA PHRF certificate, self-bailing cockpit, fixed berths, galley facilities and the ability to be self-supporting for a weekend. Housatonic Boat Club, Stratford, CT; Lee Henchman: 203-668-5940; lhenchman@gmail.com; housatonicboatclub.org

12 47th Annual Katrina Cup Lloyd Harbor Yacht Club, Huntington, NY; lhyc.org

13 68th Commodore’s Trophy Race - This ECSA pointe event is hosted by Thames Yacht Club. New London, CT; thamesyc.org 13 Fall Edlu - Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY; larchmontyc.org

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12 61st Annual Winkle Cup Centerport Yacht Club, Centerport, NY; centerport-yc.org

13 Brent C. Donahue Cross Sound Regatta - This distance race honors the memory of a great sailor and a friend to all. Black Rock Yacht Club, Bridgeport, CT; blackrockyc.com

12 & 13 18th Annual PWYC Charity Cup Regatta - Hosted by Port Washington Yacht Club, this event raises funds for AVON39: The Walk to End Breast Cancer, benefiting the AVON Foundation for Women. Gala dinner and dancing Saturday; racing and BBQ Sunday. Port Washington,

17 - 20 45th Annual Newport International Boat Show See hundreds of new sailboats & powerboats and thousands of products & services from domestic & international exhibitors. Newport, RI; newportboatshow.com 17 - 20 Newport Brokerage Boat Show - See more than 100 sail- & powerboats from 40 to 140 feet presented by over 30 brokerage firms. Newport

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Shipyard, Newport, RI; brokerageboatshow.com 18 & 19 78th Annual Fall Off Soundings Club Fall Race Series - This ECSA points event comprises a race from New London, CT to Gardiners Bay, NY on Friday and course racing on Saturday. offsoundings.org 18 & 19 6th Annual Indian Harbor Classic Yacht Regatta Hosted by Indian Harbor Yacht Club, this event is sponsored by Atlantis WeatherGear, Gosling’s Rum, Ella Vickers and WoodenBoat Magazine. Greenwich, CT; Shelia Graves: noreaster1926@yahoo.com; indianharboryc.com 18 - 20 56th Annual RPSA Multihull Regatta - Sponsored by Gosling’s Rum, this New England Catamaran Sailing Associationsanctioned event has separate starts (with sufficient entries) for Hobies, F20s, F-18s, A-Class & Open Class (Portsmouth), and a beach party at the most beautiful park on Long Island Sound. Roton Point Sailing Association, Rowayton, CT; rpmr.org 18 - 20 International One-Design North American Championship - Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY; larchmontyc.org 19 Whaler’s Race - This event has an anchored start. Sheldrake Yacht Club, Mamaroneck, NY; sheldrakeyc.org 19 SYC True North Race This race, part of the SYC Distance Race Series, has divisions for Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker and Double-handed boats and (with sufficient interest) OneDesigns and Multihulls. Setauket Yacht Club, Port Jefferson, NY; Jason Richter: 631-312-7140; Paladin32575@yahoo.com; setauketyc.com

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19 Fall Race Around Prudence Island - This Narragansett Bay Yacht racing Association event is co-hosted by the Twenty Hundred Club and Quonset Davisville Navy Yacht Club. twentyhundredclub.org 19 Whalers Race - This 108 nautical mile race dates back to 1932. New Bedford Yacht Club, South Dartmouth, MA; nbyc.com 19 & 20 Storm Trysail & Riverside Yacht Club Long Island Sound Championship Greenwich, CT; stormtrysail.org 19 & 20 Nevins Trophy - This intercollegiate regatta will be hosted by the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and sailed in 420s, FJs and Lasers. Kings Point, NY; collegesailing.org 19 & 20 Stu Nelson Women’s - This intercollegiate regatta will be

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hosted by Connecticut College and sailed in FJs. New London, CT; collegesailing.org 20 Swanson Cup & Bay Challenge Cup - This Narragansett Bay Yachting Association event is hosted by Barrington Yacht Club.

Barrington, RI; barringtonyc.com; nbya.org 20 24th Annual Coastweeks Regatta - This rowing event for singles, doubles & fours is part of the annual Mystic Weekend of Rowing. Mystic, CT; roninracing.com

rating, this fundraiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation is hosted by Richmond County Yacht Club in memory of past member Richie O’Connell.

Staten Island, NY; rcyachtclub. org/pocobayrace.htm 26 Maycroft Cup - Originally raced in 1886, this event has PHRF Spinnaker & Non-Spinnaker and One-Design divisions.

Sag Harbor Yacht Club, Sag Harbor, NY; Rob Camerino: 631-902-6637; race@SagHarborYC.com; SagHarborYC.com

24 - 27 40th Annual Norwalk Boat Show - This is the Northeast’s most popular boat show. Norwalk Cove Marina, Norwalk, CT; boatshownorwalk. com

26 14th Annual Red Lobdell Memorial Regatta - This ECSA points race is open to all boats over 20 feet LOA. Stonington Harbor Yacht Club; Stonington, CT; 860-535-0112; shyc.us

26 Poco Loco Bay Race - Open to all spinnaker & non-spinnaker boats with a PHRF-MA rating and multihulls with a NEMA

26 Heritage Cup Regatta and Rendezvous - This WoodenBoat Regatta Series event is hosted by the Hempstead Har-

bor Club. Hempstead Harbor, NY: Mike Emmert: GoldenI37@ aol.com; heritagecup.org 26 WSC Last Chance Regatta This ECSA points event is hosted by Windjammers Sailing Club. Milford, CT; windjammers. org 26 Cross Sound Challenge Hosted by Essex Corinthian Yacht Club, this ECSA points event has a course length of approximately 15 miles. Essex, CT; essexcyc.org 26 & 27 AYC Fall Series (first weekend) - American Yacht Club, Rye, NY; americanyc.com; event continues on 10/3 & 10/4

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The Marion Bermuda Race Aboard Mischievous

By Jonathan Riley On June 18, I graduated from the 8th grade. On June 19, I left for Bermuda. For the next four days, I lived on a 65-foot sailboat with 15 other people. I was one of the youngest competitors in the Marion Bermuda Race, and it was my second time doing so with the Massachusetts Maritime Academy crew. On my first Marion Bermuda Race, in 2013, I sailed on an Andrews 68 that was described as a sled. Two years later, I was lucky enough to be asked to go aboard the Meriten 65 Mischievous, along with three coaches and 12 Cadets.

The week prior to the race, most of us were tracking the weather that would be coming our way. Looking on radar, we saw Tropical Storm Bill coming from the south, with a big low-pressure system ahead of it. Once our crew heard of the storm, we were concerned because we had never experienced that kind of weather before. We hoped to be in front of the storm, but in the low-pressure system because we would have more wind.

The day before the start was my last day of 8th grade.

Chuck Fontaine, the MMA Program Director, the skipper Charles Cahill, my father (a volunteer coach with Mass Maritime) and I attended the Skippers meeting. They talked about Tropical Storm Bill and the different kind of winds we would see during the race. During the meeting I became a little nervous because I realized we needed to go as far south as fast as possible to miss the high winds of the storm. After the Skippers meeting, we had our last dinner as a crew with Mass Maritime and the Mischievous heads out of Buzzards Bay. © Spectrum Photo/Fran Grenon

Jo (under the backstay pennant) and Mark Riley strike a pose before the start.

Naval Academy before our departure the next morning. With 15 of these races under his belt, my dad looked over at me and said, “Eat while you can, because you know never know when you’ll be stuck in a life raft.” He told me that his old skipper, a veteran, had once said this to him. Great advice, because I didn’t eat much the last time I did the race two years ago.

The morning of the race I woke up feeling excited for another journey to Bermuda. I got all my stuff together, said goodbye to my mom, my two older sisters and my dog for the next week and a half. Once the boat left the dock, the crew and I knew we were ready. At 1330, we crossed the starting line between the race committee boat and Centerboard Shoal. My previous sailing coach and I were working as a team on the main and communicating with my father. We came out of Buzzards Bay sailing at six knots upwind. This year was the first time the race had a special category called the Offshore Youth Challenge, and we were one of five boats competing for the trophy.

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fried at the dock and the only button that would work was the “6,” so we put the hot dogs in for 6:66. Halfway through dinner someone said, “Does that make them devil dogs?”

During the day, we did 6-hour watches, while at night we did four hours. As night fell, the temperature dropped so I put on a couple more layers of clothing. My first night watch was from 2200 to 0200. During that watch we were watching the AIS to see where the other boats were in comparison to us. We had plotted our waypoint for the Gulf Stream, which we had expected to hit Saturday night.

We were worried that we weren’t going to get through the Gulf Stream’s north wall before the rough weather arrived. You can always tell where the Gulf Stream starts. Cloud patterns in the sky sit just above the warm water. On Saturday night, during my watches, the only clothing that I needed to put on to stay warm was a foul weather jacket and shorts. We were in the Gulf Stream and the air temperature was the same as the water temperature: 84 degrees.

Sunday was brutal in a couple different ways. This was the first full sunny day. You cannot forget your sunscreen…I did.

The results weren’t pretty. The “jokester” of the boat, Chuck, made sure to take the opportunity to laugh at the rookie, me.

Until karma came back to him and he took a fall on the way down the companionway. As night came we could see the cold front coming behind us. We hit two major squalls that night.

For our first squall, we decided to be safe and put the first reef in the main. This process took a lot longer than we expected.

Twenty minutes later we were hit by a second squall with a top wind speed of 34 knots. We already had a reef in and a number 3 jib – the perfect combination for the conditions. Some people took the opportunity for a shower during the major downpour.

With the heavy winds still blowing, Chuck decided to have everybody stay on the rail for the whole night to keep the boat flat and fast. I never thought at 14 years old I would pull my first all-nighter on a boat with a bunch of college kids. No matter how tired you are, no spot is comfortable when there’s 100 gallons of water coming over the rail every 10 minutes. At about 0200, somebody decided that it would be a smart idea to have a round of Klondike bars. With a little energy boost, Chuck decided to start singing. At around 0330, I knew morning was coming as it was getting brighter and brighter outside. By my side were my father and my sailing coach Cam Tougas. We watched the sunrise with big bowls of Fruit Loops in our hands.

As morning came, we officially hit less than 100 miles until our arrival in Bermuda.

At about 1800, we started seeing dots on the horizon, which was right after we worked as a team and put up the windcheckmagazine.com

On the dock at the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club © Spectrum Photo/Fran Grenon

number 1 jib. We were traveling at a constant speed of about 9 to 10 knots. Heading past Kitchen Shoals, we headed up and broke our bottom main car. We all looked around at each other and said, “Wow, good thing this happened now, not two days earlier,” because our speed slowed down by 1 to 2 knots.

As we were approaching the finish line, we saw the photo boat coming out to take pictures and celebrate our line honors victory. We crossed at 19:42:11 local time on Monday after 3 days 5 hours 12 minutes and 11 seconds of racing.

We were greeted by the race committee, the Commodore Ed Faries of the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club, and several locals. After motoring for a couple of hours we arrived in Hamilton. At the dock, photographers and reporters interviewed Chuck and Charlie. For those of age, this was the beginning of a celebration with Dark ‘n Stormys.

In conclusion, at times Mother Nature showed us who rules the world. I was wet, tired, wanting my own bed, and wanting to see land. A short six days later, we were back on the boat for the return sail to Marion, which was just as fun and exciting with the addition of some new crew members. I am looking forward to taking part in the Marion Bermuda Race Offshore Youth Challenge again in the 2017. I wouldn’t trade these experiences for anything. Some would say my parents are crazy for letting me do this at 14, but I am proud to say I got to do it with my dad. F Fourteen-year-old Jonathan (Jo) Riley will be attending Old Rochester Regional High School as a freshman in September. His impressive racing resumé includes every Buzzards Bay Regatta and Figawi Race Weekend since 2008, the Ida Lewis Distance Race, the Edgartown Yacht Club Round-the-Island Race, Nantucket Race Week, and the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 Pro Am Race in Newport, RI. He and his parents, Sonia & Mark Riley, are members of Beverly Yacht Club in Marion, MA. WindCheck Magazine

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Symmetrical Spinnaker Basics

By Taylor Martin Adult Sailing Director, New England Science and Sailing Foundation When it comes to racing, so much work is put into figuring out upwind sailing: when to sail through a header, the mythical ‘leebow’ effect in current, etc., and the downwind leg is often left to its own devices. Even worse, once many of us round the windward mark, the beer comes out. The downwind has so much potential for gains and losses that even the best of us should spend time working on downwind trim and tactics. Unless you are sailing in a scholastic program, chances are that you are using a spinnaker on the downwind, either asymmetric or symmetric. Both have their advantages, and each can be tricky in its own way. Even with the increasing prevalence of asymmetricals, most sailors will spend more time on the traditional symmetrical spinnaker, from PHRF cruisers to high-intensity dinghies like 420s or 5O5s.

Symmetrical spinnakers have the advantage of being able to sail deeper downwind angles than can be achieved with asymmetrical spinnakers, especially in lighter breeze. One clear disadvantage compared to asymmetric spinnakers is their complexity.

A successful downwind leg first stems from a change in mindset. For serious racers, the downwind should be as competitive and as much work as the upwind. Once you recognize that you can make massive gains by taking this leg seriously, maintaining focus gets easier. The next step to success is preparation.

Boathandling aside, making sure that all lines for the chute are

run correctly, and that it is packed correctly and the pole is on deck ready to go, can make boat lengths of difference at the windward mark. For most windward-leeward courses, the spinnaker should be rigged to launch on the port side, which means that your halyard and sheet will also be on the port side and your pole, topping lift, and downhaul should be on the starboard side. Your guy should be led around the forestay to the port side, where the spinnaker will be set. Making sure that this rigging gets sorted before it’s too late is imperative. If you’re sailing a dinghy, checking your rigging before launching can often shake out any problems before the race. With all boats, getting a chance to run through a set and a douse before the race starts can be instrumental to success.

New England Science and Sailing Foundation Sailing Program Director Mark Zagol (helm) and Drew Buttner, winners of the 2015 5O5 Midwinter Championship, demonstrate perfect spinnaker technique. © Allen Clark/PhotoBoat.com

When packing a spinnaker, making sure that the ‘belly’ or the middle of the sail gets packed first, with the three corners up and out of the bag, will prevent many twists and tangles. The corner that the sheet is attached to should be facing aft and the guy corner should be toward the bow, with the head clear and on top/inboard.

Inevitably, despite all your preparations the spinnaker may ‘hourglass’ or twist in the middle but be full above and below the twist.

The quickest fix is to briefly lower the halyard 8 to 12 inches, and it should un-twist itself.

Once the spinnaker is up and full, trimming is simply a matter of making sure it stays as square to the wind as possible. You control this with the position of the spinnaker pole. A good general rule is that the pole should be perpendicular to the wind, depending on the type of boat. Vertically, the pole should be adjusted so that the tack and clew of the spinnaker are level. These ‘static’ settings should be adjusted as you change course, the wind shifts, or the velocity changes. Once you are satisfied with these static settings, trimming the spinnaker should be a constant adjustment on most boats. Easing the sheet until the luff curls (between 6 and 18 inches, depending on the size of the spinnaker) and then trimming in slowly is a good place to start. This curl means that the spinnaker’s not overtrimmed, and catching as much wind as possible. The longer you can carry this curl before the chute collapses, the better.

Finding this edge is key to downwind speed.

The ability to gybe quickly and keep the spinnaker full takes lots of practice, but having confidence in your boathandling means you can focus on the tactics of the downwind, and take full advantage of the opportunities to pass people. Making sure that you have the time to get on the water with consistent crew will give you the best chance at success on the downwind. Most errors occur during transitions (sets, gybes, douses), so these are the things to practice most. Straight-line speed comes more easily for most people than coordination during the transitions, but is equally as important to work on. Get out in as many different conditions as possible, and figure out what works best for you and your crew. F

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Junior Sailing 201: Having A Blast!

By Abby Buckley Four years have gone by since I started to sail, and wrote the article “First-Time Sailor” for WindCheck. Since then I have learned so much about sailing, and I love it more and more each time I get on the water.

I started with Optis, moved on to Pixels last year, and I am currently sailing a 420. I have absolutely loved each boat for various reasons. The Opti was the boat I learned on, so of course I liked it, but once I got to the bigger Pixel I was able to sail with a partner and I could move around more. Although both of these boats are great, 420s are my favorite because they have a trapeze. I am so glad I stuck with sailing. I was so scared when I started with Optis and I was out there all alone, but with the challenges came great rewards.

In Optis I was afraid of capsizing, which inhibited me from trying harder. But then there was Grace McGonagle.

She was scared as well. We would beg our instructors to let us sail together. After about a month of begging, they finally let us sail together. It allowed us to get more comfortable with the boat, the water and the wind. It was the start of the best friendship I have ever had.

Since then we have become inseparable. Moving through Pixels and now 420s together, we are constantly laughing. Without sailing, our friendship would never have been, and we both might not be sailing to this day. That’s why I love sailing!

I’m a social sailor; that is to say I am not competitive. I was scared to participate in regattas, the realm of more serious sailors.

Grace and I did our first regatta last year in the Pixel at Pequot Yacht Club in Southport, CT. It wasn’t so bad, and we actually got second place! This year we did a regatta in Noroton Yacht Club, which is where Grace and I met some awesome people we would later get to see at other races. We have just come back from Larchmont Race Week, and although we did not do

remotely well we had fun at such a huge regatta. Suffice it to say, we are not winning any awards – and that’s okay. However, what I love about sailing can be found at regattas: the people. The racing aspect is fun, too, but for me sailing is about making new friends and having a blast.

Now Grace and I are junior instructors for beginner Opti sailors at our club. It’s the coolest thing! I’d have to say that meeting and helping new people is one of the best aspects of Abby (right) and Grace are all smiles as they get ready to head out for a sail.

sailing. In the Junior Instructor program at Black Rock Yacht Club, I get to help young sailors and witness friendships being made.

Sailing is my favorite thing to do now. Not just because it’s fun, but also because you meet amazing people that help you grow as a sailor and, more importantly, as a person.

To anyone thinking about trying sailing, I say, “Do it!” It’s not as scary as you might think, and the people around you will be some of the best people you will ever meet.

Special thanks to all the lovely people who have taught me how to overcome my fears and be a better sailor – Chris Gill, Dan Lent, Mom & Dad, Grace, and all the instructors I have had (it was not easy to put up with me, I’m sure).

With Love, Abby

“The racing aspect is fun, too, but for me sailing is about making new friends and having a blast.”

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Abby Buckley looks forward to sailing a high performance doublehander. Whether it’s a skiff or a cat, if it has a trapeze you can bet she’ll be having a blast.

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Secor Volvo Fishers Island Sound Race Some kids from New England just could not wait three more years for the return of the Volvo Ocean Race. So, with inspiration from the Volvo Ocean Race Newport Stopover in May [See “MudRatz Do the Volvo” at windcheckmagazine.com], the idea of doublehanded dinghy racing beyond the dizzying buoys of the normal Club 420 scene was born.

The Secor Volvo Fishers Island Sound Race, sponsored by Secor Volvo in New London, CT, featured a picturesque racetrack around Fishers Island Sound. The ten-mile, “mini-VOR” course was broken up into four legs, with “stopovers” at Mason’s Island, Ram Island, Groton Long Point and Fishers Island Yacht Club.

Highlights included a kickoff party sponsored by Dime Bank, with grilling and DJs for the teams. Live online coverage, including the Sailors Parade at the Wadawanuck Club, the start at Green Can “6” in Stonington Harbor, the stopovers, and the finish at Red Nun “6” off Fishers Island, was provided by Periscope TV. Each boat carried a GPS unit provided by RaceQs, who offered live race tracking for shoreside spectators and presented a max recorded speed trophy (7.3 knots on Leg 3) to Iain Jaeger and Sierra LaBonte.

MudRatz sailors Zach Champney (helm) and Peter Cronin are the winners of the inaugural Secor Volvo Fishers Island Sound Race. © Clay Burkhalter/burkhalterphotos.com

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Also inspired by the “big Volvo,” the event featured an On Board Reporter competition that was judged by Sam Greenfield, the On Board Reporter (OBR) with Dongfeng Race Team in the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15. Each of the 29 boats was equipped with a GoPro video camera and a “selfie-stick.” In awarding the $100 grand prize to Banning Jones and Dan Hearn for the best coverage from inside a 420, Greenfield noted, “I definitely see the potential for some future VOR OBRs from this crowd.”

Competitors sailed a 10-mile course in Fishers Island Sound. © Clay Burkhalter/burkhalterphotos.com

This inaugural event boasted a bigger fleet than “the other Volvo.” © Clay Burkhalter/burkhalterphotos.com

Keeper trophies were awarded to the top three finishers, and Zim Sailing presented a new perpetual trophy to the overall winners, Zach Champney and Peter Cronin. The inaugural Secor Volvo Fishers Island Sound Race was held in partnership with Sailors for the Sea to educate racers about the importance of implementing the organization’s Clean Regattas program.

Additional event sponsorship was provided by Morgan Stanley.

To see the results and reports by the sailors, check out MudRatz.com. F MudRatz co-founder Brandon Flack contributed to this report.

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By Joe Cooper

Friday morning of Block Island Race Week, I was on the press boat riding out to the Red Circle. I was in company with three photographers, none of whom I had previously known, and their bags of expensive camera kit. We were yakking about the week, the weather, the pictures and so on. I asked them, politely, were they on retainer for the race, magazines or other contractors, or out here on their own dime? “Oh no, our own dime,” all three laughed. One shooter lived on Block and one was from Boston, but one came from Atlanta. On her own dime, with all that stuff?

This struck me as a curious business model, at least for three marine photographers whose names I had not known before the week. The discussion carried on. It transpired that marine photography is only one aspect of their work and, it turns out, one of the less lucrative. One of them described the difficulty in getting even a credit for his marine work in one of the magazines. In this day and age, with the ability to copy and paste anything from anywhere, getting credit for something is hard enough, let alone getting paid. Having your photos pinched, or on a good day, getting some money for, suggests to me that the activity is of low value – low cash value, that is. Why is this, I wondered, since all the people I know would give up an arm or leg to keep sailing? Sail to Prevail and/or the disabled Olympics confirm this thought. This got me thinking on the value of sailing.

Value in sailing terms is an interesting concept. The ‘value’ we all get from it is intangible. It is neigh on impossible to put a dollar amount on the sunsets, beautiful days, a week at BIRW with your mates, landfall in Bermuda and so on that make up a pretty normal round of sailing adventures. Or frankly, the emotions we experience looking at a particular boat that moves us.

What if you added up all the costs of Race Week and said that cash cost was the value of competing? But that seems to be a fairly rigorous and cold green eyeshade way to look at what sailing gives us. Obviously, there are things in life that have value

beyond the cash. Our families, kids and love spring to mind.

I have often remarked on the subject of the cost of sailing, and only slightly in jest that boat owners ought never to total the yearly costs of owning their boats and divide this amount by the hours spent actually using them. If you did, you’d be appalled at the cost per hour that owning a sailboat incurs. I have a vague memory of doing this in 1980 for “Australia” team in the America’s Cup, and it was perhaps $150 an hour (actually sailing), and that was with a volunteer crew paid ten bucks a day all found. I think Larry’s costs per hour are a wee bit higher.

That this dictum - NOT calculating the cost per hour of sailing on your own boat – is being challenged is apparent by the creeping establishment of sailing opportunities that do not require actually owning the boat. Many sailing schools have programs where once you are certified (in the sailing sense, that is…) you can continue to sail by renting their boats. Sail Newport has a pretty thriving business in doing this with their fleet of J/22s. After a brief checkout sail with an instructor, one can rent their boats in three-hour increments (today’s version of “a three-hour tour…”). Ida Lewis Yacht Club has, in summer, a similar scheme using Sail Newport boats one afternoon a week.

I have a mate who is succumbing to age and the financial obligations of owning a boat. When I suggested the Sail Newport option, he wondered how much a membership is…twentyfive bucks for over 65, I found out on my phone. During the week you can, as a member, rent a J/22 for 75 bucks for three hours. This is not quite rental car rates, but close. Yet we generally do not get the same psychic enjoyment from a car rental as from sailing. OK, a week in a Ferrari on the cornice in Monaco may be an exception. But unless you’re going somewhere to sail: Cowes Week, the BVI or the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race and are chartering a boat for the event, the actual sailing (time) seems to be only some portion of the value. Then this means there are other elements to the value of sailing. In the case of Block Island Race Week, it’s the camaraderie, the dinners, the parties, the tent, catching up with old mates, meeting new ones, and of course the Yellow Kittens for the young’uns.

Just being on a boat, at anchor, on the mooring or in the slip can bring an entirely fresh approach to the day. I have written in earlier columns of the effect that a 60-minute beercan race can have on brushing out the cobwebs and its leverage on attitude adjustment. My wife and I both write, and we are getting close to buying a Wi-Fi hotspot for ourselves. The idea being that we can row out to our boat, on its mooring at third beach in Middletown, and simply sit under the awning and write and research as the whim takes us. Admittedly writing, even Coop’s Corner, instead of gazing up or down the Sakonnet, is close to a Herculean task.

At least in my admittedly whacky worldview of sailing and boats, even working on them has value. Not simply because by doing something myself I can avoid paying the yard and save all that cash (assuming I value my own time at about $10 an hour, since I am about ten percent as effective as a yard at doing things on my boat). But I’d much rather come home dusty,

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Joe Harris to Attempt 40foot Monohull Non-Stop Solo Around the World Record

By Julianna Barbieri Longtime shorthanded sailor Joe Harris of South Hamilton, MA has set his sights on breaking the Non-stop Solo Around the World Record for 40-foot monohulls. The attempt, aboard his Class40 GryphonSolo2, will be made in accordance with the rules of the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC), who will time the start and finish in Newport, RI. Additionally, a “WSSRC Black Box” will be installed on the boat, the data from which will be used to ratify any claim by GryphonSolo2, that the existing record of 137 days, 20 hours, 01 minute, 57 seconds, set by Chinese sailor Guo Chuan in 2013, has been broken.

Harris intends to leave Newport on a favorable weather window at the beginning of November. To qualify for an

Joe Harris will depart Newport, RI in November on an attempt to set a new Non-Stop Solo Around the World Record for 40-foot monohulls. © Billy Black

Around the World record, he will sail from Castle Hill Light in Newport and return to Newport, leaving Antarctica to starboard. The attempt is an approximate distance of 26,700 nautical miles. To beat the current record, he’ll need to average 195 miles per day, or roughly 8.2 knots per hour.

“I have been hoping, planning and dreaming of racing around the world since I was about 20 and now I am 55,” said Harris. “I have come dangerously close to doing this twice; first with my Open 50 GryphonSolo in 2008 in the Velux 5 Oceans Race, before it was postponed. I then bought my Class40 windcheckmagazine.com

Joe’s smile will be even bigger if his record attempt is successful. © Billy Black

GryphonSolo2 in 2011 with the express purpose of racing solo around the world, but alas, there is no longer a race, as the Global Ocean Race will not run again. So, being ‘all dressed up with nowhere to go,’ I have decided to ‘just do it’ and in turn attempt to break the speed record for a 40-foot monohull.”

Harris grew up sailing on Long Island Sound, being mentored by his father, Woody Harris and his grandfather Hans Rozendaal, both experienced offshore racing sailors. With four transatlantic crossings, nine Newport Bermuda Races, five Marblehead to Halifax Ocean Races, five Bermuda 1-2 races, three Atlantic Cups and numerous international miles sailed, he has logged over 60,000 offshore ocean miles, while owning five boats over a span of 30 years.

Sailing singlehanded, Harris finished second in the 2004 Transat (Plymouth, UK to Boston, MA). His victories include the 2005 Transat Jacques Vabre (France to Brazil, double-handed), the 2006 Newport Bermuda Race (Open Division), the 2007 Bermuda 1-2 (in which he set a new course record), and the 2014 Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing. He and his wife Kimberly have three children (Griffin, 17, Emmett, 11 and Sophie Grace, 8).

Harris is actively training for his record attempt. In addition to multi-day training sails, he competed in the PHRF Doublehanded division at the Storm Trysail Club’s Block Island Race Week in June and the Marblehead to Halifax Ocean Race in July (also double-handed), and he’s doing the Ida Lewis Distance Race this month.

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A Schooner Experience on the Chesapeake

By Carol and Bob Kubis Photos by the authors Throat halyard, topsail halyard, sweating the line, baggywrinkle, staysail club lift. When we signed up to crew on the Mystic Whaler for the 25th Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race, October 15-19, 2014, we didn’t expect to have to learn so quite so many new sailing terms. But a 110-foot sparred length schooner has a bit more rigging than our 24-foot sailboat. What started as a spur of the moment decision turned into five days of new sailing knowledge, racing with an interesting group of co-adventurers, and wonderful, lasting memories. It’s definitely a Bucket List item.

We arrived at the boat on Tuesday afternoon, October 14, to deposit our gear and to go out and explore around the Baltimore Marine Center at Lighthouse Point where several other schooners were docked, including the Pride of Baltimore II. Although the Mystic Whaler usually sails out of New London, CT, she relocates to Baltimore, MD for a couple months in the fall. After a great dinner at Bo Brooks Restaurant, we returned to the Mystic Whaler to meet Captain John Eginton, “Admiral” Pat Beck – the first

Everyone pitches in when it’s time to raise or lower the sails.

mate, and the rest of the regular and irregular crew. After getting settled in our cabin, we went up on deck to get acquainted with everyone. Besides the regular crew of six, there were two additional licensed captains to serve as watch captains during the race and about 15 others who had signed on for the race as we did. We were a varied group, with a wide range of sailing experience, coming from as far away as Texas. The safety orientation made everyone aware of all of the equipment on board.

Unfortunately, Wednesday dawned cloudy and rainy. The Mystic Whaler was participating in the educational program for the morning, so we had five or six groups of middle school students from Baltimore area schools coming by to learn about schooners.

They had a hands-on activity to learn about buoyancy, hoisted a

A few of the 34-boat fleet at the start, with Mystic Seaport’s Brilliant (#22) closest to the camera.

sail while singing a sea chantey, and learned about navigation.

Later that afternoon, the Mystic Whaler crew divided into our watch groups for race day planning and some team-building activities. Because of the bad weather, the parade of sail around the Inner Harbor of Baltimore was cancelled. The welcoming party at Bo Brooks Restaurant featured an array of delicious food provided by a variety of area restaurants. All of the food served while we were on the Mystic Whaler was delicious, with a variety of hearty homemade soups and desserts as well as muffins, baked chicken, pasta, salads, and fantastic breads. The different watches took turns setting out and cleaning up the meals.

Thursday morning, we headed out for the starting area with very light wind, about three knots. We sailed past Fort McHenry and the special star-spangled buoy marking the location where Francis Scott Key was moored on the sloop, President, when he was inspired to write ‘The Star Spangled Banner.’ As we approached the starting area, it was quite spectacular to see 34 schooners of all different sizes under full sail and maneuvering for position.

The race started at 1330, and it was interesting to see how the different schooners positioned themselves in the bay. Some schooners chose to sail closer to the shipping channel than others.

The commercial traffic on Chesapeake Bay is quite a bit different from Long Island Sound, with oil supertankers, container ships, and other very large vessels requiring room to maneuver.

We were fortunate to have Jeff Holland on board, a longtime resident of the Chesapeake Bay area with a wealth of knowledge about the history and ecology of the Bay. He also entertained us by singing sailing songs accompanied by his ukulele. Another renowned crewmember, Jay Irwin, author of Tale of the Green Dragon, won the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race 2014 Black Dog Award for “loyalty to the race mission and faithful and honorable support for the event without personal recognition.” It was a great treat to have the chance to crew with Jeff and Jay. Their very unique and colorful insights added greatly to the whole race experience.

There were five watches scheduled on a rotating basis so everyone would stand watch at a different time over the course of the race: 1200-1800, 1800-2200, 2200-0200, 0200-0600, and 06001200. Our first watch was 0200-0600. As we were waking up and

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getting dressed to go up on deck, the wind came up noticeably. It went from about 1.5 knots to about 7 or 8. The group coming off watch had had a very frustrating time drifting along in the dark.

About an hour after we came on watch, our watch captain was contacted by an oil tanker that had seen us on the AIS to notify us they would be passing us in about 20 minutes. We all kept a sharp eye out for them. As they approached, they were a confusing mix of a very dark mass in front of a brightly lit superstructure. As they passed us, they blocked out a large extent of lights on the opposite shore. It was interesting to see how observing the absence of light could be just as important to sailing safely at night. In general, there was a lot of chatter between the schooner fleet and the commercial traffic because of the light winds and the limited maneuverability of the schooners in these conditions.

We raced until about 1600 on Friday. Even though the wind had come up, Captain John decided to abandon the “Great Schooner Drift” because there still wasn’t enough wind for us to get to Portsmouth, Virginia in time for the Saturday morning activities.

The Mystic Whaler would once again be hosting school groups, this time from the Norfolk/Portsmouth area. We were scheduled for the 0600-1200 watch on Saturday, but because we were no longer under sail we didn’t have to be up on deck. We decided to keep to the schedule anyhow, and were treated to an amazing feat of docking in Portsmouth harbor by our captain. He had to maneuver through a narrow inlet, past a docked harbor ferry, into a circular area where four or five other schooners were already docked. As he called out commands to dockhands and deckhands, expertly spun the helm, and backed the Mystic Whaler into her just-big-enough

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dock space, we just watched in awe. It was definitely worth getting up at 0600, even though we didn’t have to.

Although we had missed the Friday night party, there was another one Saturday afternoon with a pig roast and other picnictype food, followed by the awards ceremony. We had some free time Saturday afternoon, so we visited the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, the Lightship Portsmouth Museum, and walked around the harbor taking pictures of all of the schooners. On Saturday night there were various parties on the different schooners, with one having so many partiers on board we wondered if it was going to sink.

On Sunday, we packed our gear and said our good-byes. A group of us needed to get to the Norfolk airport, so we all piled into a taxi with all of our gear. As we said our final good-byes at the airport, we all agreed it was a fantastic sailing experience with a fun group of sailors.

This year’s Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race is scheduled for October 11-18. The event was founded to promote awareness of and encourage the preservation and improvement of the Chesapeake Bay. Proceeds from the race are donated to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. For more information, check out schoonerrace.org. If you look under the Fleet heading for the 2014 entries marked with *, you can see which schooners take paying passengers as crew. It really is, as a sailing friend described it, “a five-day party, broken up by a couple of days of racing.” F Carol and Bob Kubis are active members of Housatonic Boat Club in Stratford, CT, where they race their J/24 Loose Cannon.

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Fifty Years of Fun, Friendly Competition Block Island Race Week XXVI First run in 1965, the Storm Trysail Club’s Block Island Race Week is built on a foundation of fun, friendly competition. It attracts rival crews who beat each other up on the racecourse and then laugh about it over a drink afterwards. The competition is intense, but it’s the camaraderie that keeps bringing people back.

“This week is epic,” said Paul Beaudin, owner of the J/105 loulou. “Fantastic weather, no fog or rain, perfect sailing conditions…it’s perfect. This week is as much about bonding with our families as well as our competitors.”

The excellent weather conditions made this year’s Race Week special, and two words say it all – no fog! Rarely has a Block Island Race Week never lost a day, half or full, to fog, but that was the case this year. The fantastic weather conditions allowed the race committee to run 11 races over five days, more than have been run since 2005. Coupled with fantastic wind conditions for the four days of windward/leeward racing and 20 to 30 knots for the Round the Island Race, this year’s week will be remembered as one of the best ever.

“This is probably the best Race Week we’ve had in the past 10 editions,” said Principal Race Officer Dick Neville. “We’ve rarely had five full days of racing. Usually the weather interrupts one day.

But the conditions this week have been spectacular. It might be the best Race Week ever.”

The crew of Don Filipelli’s Caminos (Amagansett, NY) had a stellar week, winning the J/109 North American Championship and the Everett B. Morris Memorial Trophy for best overall performance. © Allen Clark/PhotoBoat.com

This year’s fleet totaled 167 boats in 15 classes, and Donald Filippelli’s J/109 Caminos won the Everett B. Morris Memorial Trophy for best overall performance. Caminos also won the J/109 North American Championship, conducted as part of Race Week.

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for many. With the wind blowing 20 to 30 knots from the southwest, many crews said they reached a new top speed for their boat.

Boats such as Christopher Dragon, Hooligan and Watermark all reported a top speed of 22 knots. The C&C 30 Themis hit a top speed of 19 knots, while the Summit 40 DownTime hit 18 knots.

Even the Sabre 362 Cymothoe hit double digits, posting 11.7 knots.

“That’s the fastest this boat has ever gone,” said owner David Alldian. At one point, the wind built to 30 knots and the seas built to 5 feet. While some had troubles, many scampered through the Linda & Andrew Weiss’ Sydney 43 Christopher Dragon (Mamaroneck, NY) won five races on her way to top honors in the 8-boat IRC 2 division. © Allen Clark/PhotoBoat.com

maelstrom without incident. “I give the race committee heaps of credit for running that race,” said Ken Read, President of North Sails who sailed aboard Watermark. “It would’ve been easy for them to say it was too windy, but for many it was an epic day that they’ll remember forever.”

A notable change occurred for the Anniversary event; a move toward a fully sustainable event. While boaters at Race Week have always done their part to leave the island the same as when they arrived, this year, organizers implemented initiatives to make BIRW a green event. Water filling stations were available at the head of the docks to reduce the number of single-use plastic water bottles used, beach clean-ups were held with the support of Clean Ocean Access, collecting hundreds of pieces of garbage, race documents were not printed on paper, nor was the newspaper daily. Instead, blogs and social media (including the introduction of the STC BIRW App) allowed competitors access to up-to-the-minute information, news and other media surrounding the event. Finally, through the support of sponsors, the carbon output of Race Week was offset by the purchase of carbon credits. The effort and its effects were noticeable and earned the event a Silver Certificate from Sailors for the Sea.

Event information, results, videos and more can be found at blockislandraceweek.com. F Yachting journalist Sean McNeill contributed to this report.

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Port Washington YC Charity Cup Regatta is September 12 & 13 Raising Funds for AVON39: The Walk to End Breast Cancer According to BreastCancer.org, about 1 in 8 U.S. women (about 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. An estimated 231,840 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S. in 2015, along with 60,290 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer. And breast cancer is not just for women: about 2,350 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in men in 2015. A man’s lifetime risk of breast cancer is about 1 in 1,000.

Arthur Buhr, III’s Schock 40 Leverage was the overall winner in the 2014 PWYC Charity Cup Regatta. © Andrea Watson, Sailing Press, Inc.

Everyone has a friend, a mother, a daughter or sister who has breast cancer or is a survivor. That’s why the Port Washington Yacht Club in Port Washington, NY has selected AVON39: The Walk to End Breast Cancer, benefiting the AVON Foundation for Women, as their charity of choice for the 18th Annual Charity Cup Regatta.

The weekend of parties and racing begins with a gala dinner dance on Saturday night, September 12. Music throughout the night under the tent on the south terrace sets the mood for those who stroll down the dock to enjoy the always popular wine tasting from Long Island wineries and beautiful vistas of Manhasset Bay looking north to Long Island Sound. Don’t forget to check out the terrific items in the silent auction and raffle. The evening wouldn’t be complete without the extra-special dinner menu (if you’ve ever been to PWYC, you know the food is terrific) and a great band to keep people dancing throughout the night…well, maybe not all night.

The Charity Cup Regatta takes place on Sunday, with an all-day barbecue for those waiting to greet the racers back at the club for the Awards Ceremony. During the afternoon, Lawrence Chrapliwy, Artist-in-Residence at the Cow Bay Historical Society and a member of the American Society of Marine Artists,

will be painting en plein air. Chrapliwy is widely recognized as an incredibly gifted painter as well as a teacher, and his works are highly prized by collectors. One of his paintings is hanging in the halls of Congress. Chrapliwy has generously agreed to donate a 12” x 16” oil painting of the winning boat again this year. Last year’s overall winner, Arthur Buhr III, won a painting by Chrapliwy. To see the artist’s work, visit lawrencemaritimeart.com.

The regatta is open to single-hull yachts whose owner is a member of the Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound or a recognized club or association affiliated with US Sailing. There will be divisions for PHRF, IRC and One-Design boats, and a special non-spinnaker class. The $75 entry fee includes the BBQ for skipper and up to eight crew. Deadline for entry is 5:00 pm Saturday, September 12.

The PWYC has partnered with Sailors for the Sea to help restore ocean health and protect the waters upon which we sail, and the 2015 Charity Regatta will be a certified Clean Regatta. “The Charity Cup Regatta committee is excited to implement the Clean Regattas Best Practices to reduce our environmental impact,” said Regatta Chair Andrea Watson. “We are also interested in raising awareness about the issues our ocean faces.”

To register, log onto yachtscoring.com.

“Last year we increased participation over the previous year by 100%,” said Watson. “Please consider joining us this year!”

Artist Lawrence Chrapliwy is donating an oil painting to the overall winner of the 2015 Charity Cup Regatta. © Andrea Watson, Sailing Press, Inc.

If interested in donating to the AVON39: Walk to End Breast Cancer, go to AVON39.com, click on “TEAM,” then enter “Team Aurora.” For more information, contact Andrea Watson at racecommittee@pwyc.org or agwatson@sailingpress.com. F

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The Transatlantic Race 2015 Thirty out of 35 starters completed the Transatlantic Race 2015, which had three separate starts on June 28, July 1 and July 5 in Newport, RI for a 2,800 nautical mile crossing to Lizard Point, England. Five boats retired, with three – Amhas, Shearwater and Solution – successfully reaching Horta in the Azores while the remaining two – Brigand and Altair – pulled out earlier in the race and limped back to Newport with technical issues.

Bryon Ehrhart’s R/P 63 Lucky (Chicago, IL) claimed the

overall victory under IRC along with a Rolex timepiece. Jim Clark and Kristy Hinze-Clark’s 100-foot maxi Comanche (Newport, RI) recorded the fastest monohull crossing in 7 days, 11 hours and 35 minutes (outside of the course record of 6 days, 22 hours, 8 minutes and 2 seconds set by George David’s Rambler 100 in 2011), and Lloyd Thornburg’s MOD70 trimaran Phaedo³ (Santa Fe, NM) the fastest multihull in a time of 7 days, 2 hours and 4 minutes. Comanche became the fastest monohull yacht in the world during the crossing, logging 618.01 nautical miles in 24 hours at an average speed of 25.75 knots.

Winning the unofficial double-handed sub-division of the Class40 was Michael Hennessy’s Owen Clarke-designed Dragon (Mystic, CT), which arrived in 11 days, 20 hours and 12 minutes, 1 day and 13 hours after the Class40 winner, Burkhard Keese’s Stella Nova (GER).

While the German boat was sailed by a crew of four, Dragon, along with the other two American Class40s competing, raced double-handed.

“That dictated a lot of our choices,” said Hennessy, who Lucky passes The Lizard © Lloyd images ltd

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made the crossing with Kyle Hubley. “They [Stella Nova] made the choice to get north in front of the low, so that it would catch up to them, and then ride out the heaviest wind there. Whereas I just felt that would break us and the boat and going doublehanded with a cockpit that has very little protection.”

The C&C 41 Dizzy, owned by Paul Anstey and Craig Rastello from Melbourne, FL, claimed the prize for the longest crossing this year, having been among the first starters on June 28 and spending more than 20 days at sea. Coming in just ahead of Dizzy was Persevere, a Hanse 545 owned by Colin Rath from New York, NY. Sailing on board Persevere was the race’s youngest competitor, 14-year-old Breana Rath, the skipper’s daughter.

“Breana has been enjoying the race and has improved greatly in driving and sail trim,” said her father. “Her personal best is driving Persevere at 16 knots, surfing waves. The boat record for the trip is 18.6 knots. All in all, it has been a good first crossing for Persevere and we look forward to the Rolex Fastnet Race to improve further with our amateur crew racing together for the first time.” Look for more on the race in the ‘From the Log of Persevere’ article in our September issue, where we follow the Raths on their ‘round the world adventure.

The Transatlantic Race 2015 was organized by the Royal Yacht Squadron, the New York Yacht Club, the Royal Ocean Racing Club and the Storm Trysail Club. For more information, visit transatlanticrace.org. F Stuart Streuli of the New York Yacht Club and Barby MacGowan and Jan Harley of Media Pro International contributed to this report.

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Phaedo3 recorded the fastest elapsed time in the race. © Richard Langdon

Podium Positions on Corrected Time IRC Overall 1. Lucky, 13d 11h 7m 41s 2. Outsider, 13d 16h 51m 51s 3. Mariette of 1915, 14d 8h 39m 48s IRC Class 1 1. Rambler 88, 14d 11h 38m 10s 2. Comanche, 14d 18h 40m 59s

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2. Maximizer, 15d 12h 59m 30s 3. Prospector, 15d 16h 39m 4s IRC Class 4 1. Mariette of 1915, 14d 8h 39m 48s 2. Dorade, 14d 22h 12m 53s 3. Scarlet Oyster, 15d 2h 34m 18s Class40: 1. Stella Nova, 10d 7h 11m 44s 2. Visit Brussels, 11d 3h 9m 0s 3. Dragon, 11d 20h 12m 7s Cruising: 1. Lady B, 16d 22h 14m 46s 2. Zephyr, 17d 10h 35m 51s 3. Charisma, (still to finish) Classics: 1. Mariette of 1915, 14d 8h 39m 48s 2. Dorade, 14d 22h 12m 53s

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2. Outsider, 13d 16h 51m 51s 3. Grey Power, 15d 17h 6m 29s

IRC Class 2 1. Lucky, 13d 11h 7m 41s

IRC Class 3: 1. Snow Lion, 14d 21h 44m 0s

Rambler 88 (left) and Comanche at the start.

Open Class: 1. Paradox, 12d 7h 33m 33s 2. Phaedo3, 13d 23h 12m 15s Fastest multihull (elapsed time): Phaedo3 7d 2h 4m 5s Fastest monohull (elapsed time): Comanche 7d 11h 35m 11s F

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The Wickford Harbor Mudheads Quarter-Scale Lasers, Full-Size Fun!

By Roger Vaughan Many sports offer electronic or mechanical toy or game versions that are lame compared to the real thing. That’s not the case with sailing. Ask anyone who has raced a radio-controlled model sailboat, and he (or she) will go on about what an exciting, ultimate vicarious thrill it is. Even better, ask any of the Mudheads who race radio controlled, quarterscale Lasers off a 30-foot pontoon boat in Wickford, Rhode Island on Thursday evenings in season.

“My only regret is that I said, ‘No thanks’ the first time the Mudheads called me,” says Jim Pascalides, a foot surgeon. “I said, ‘I’m not old enough, that’s nursing home stuff, too lame.’

Man, was I wrong. I can’t believe how much fun it is.” Pascalides, like most of the Wickford Harbor Mudheads, raced Etchells for 20 years in the Narragansett Bay Fleet #8. These are race-savvy, competitive friends who have downsized in a most satisfying way.

“We’re not racing big boats anymore,” Pascalides says. “The RC Laser has provided a renaissance for us.”

Even good big boat sailors experience the learning curve with radio-controlled boats. Steering a boat that’s coming at you bowon takes some practice. “The guys all had two years on me to work on their psycho-motor skills and depth perception,” Pescalides says. “My first season I apologized a lot. They said no worries, they had crashed into each other a lot their first year.”

Jim Myers, a sailmaker who races the full-size, demanding VX One dinghy – and big Lasers – found the Mudheads online and joined them with a repaired junker he was given by a friend. For several weeks he was turning his whole body to orient himself to Learning to steer an RC Laser takes practice, especially when it’s coming at you bow-on. © Jim Flach

The plank atop the benches aboard the Wickford Harbor Mudheads’ custombuilt pontoon boat has cutouts for RC Laser keels and beverages. © Paul Sollitto

the model in order to steer. “I provided a lot of laughs,” Myers says. “Then something clicked, and the brain got it.” Myers was so impressed he now sells RC Lasers. “It’s the only true one-design boat there is,” he says, “regardless of size.”

The Wickford fleet started when another Etchells sailor, Bryson Hall, spotted RC Lasers racing in Sopers Hole, West End, Tortola during Christmas, 2010. “I was hooked right away,” Hall says. It took him almost a year to talk his friend, Paul Sollitto, into buying boats and begin racing off Hall’s dock on Wickford Harbor. Annoyed by the swirling wind and other limitations of the dock, they went searching for a pontoon boat that would provide a platform for racing in open water.

They found an old 30-footer. Both Hall and Sollitto are handy. The two stripped it and built two park-type benches fore and aft down the centerline. They joined the two bench backs at the top with a plank full of cutouts. “Slots for the Laser keels to drop into, and holders for the beer cans,” Hall says. Sollitto says the pontoon boat is remarkably stable, even when 10 or even 15 sailors crowd to one side. Best of all, they anchor the boat in open water and are able to set accurate courses that take advantage of Wickford’s prevailing southwesterly wind.

What’s a Mudhead? It has something to do with mud dripping off the mast tip of a boat that had turned turtle onto the heads of the crew. Bryson Hall helped found the nearby Mystic River Mudheads Sailing Association, and appropriated the name without hesitation. According to its credo, The Mystic Mudheads was “forged (40 years ago) with a passion for racing…” [an aversion to red pants and blue blazers]… “and christened with rum.”

No action has been taken, so one assumes the Wickford sailors have passed muster. F Freelance writer Roger Vaughan was a founding editor of The Yacht magazine. He sails in the Oxford, Maryland RC Laser fleet. His most recent book is The Strenuous Life of Harry Anderson, the authorized biography of international sailing ambassador Henry Hill Anderson Jr., a 2014 inductee into the National Sailing Hall of Fame. You’ll find an excerpt on page 27. To order a copy, visit harryandersonbook.com.

Editor’s note: The RC Laser is available from Intensity Sails in Warwick, RI, who also sells sails, parts and accessories for several full-size one-design sailboats. For more information, log onto intensitysails.com.

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The 13th C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta

By Sam Crichton After a one-day coaching clinic and three days of racing on Narragansett Bay, the 13th C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta finished up on Sunday, June 28. Hosted by Sail Newport in Newport, RI, “The Clagett” is North America’s premier event for sailors with disabilities. Sailed in the three Paralympic class boats (singlehanded 2.4mR, doublehanded SKUD-18 and three-person Sonar), The Clagett’s mission is to provide sailors with disabilities the opportunity to improve their skills and reach personal goals through world-class coaching and competition.

In the eight-boat Sonar fleet, it came down to the last day of racing to decide who would take home the top prize. The Canadian team skippered by Paul Tingley (Toronto) and crewed

by Scott Lutes (Nova Scotia) and Logan Campbell (Saskatchewan) managed to take the gun in all four of the day’s races. “We got the boat dialed in today to the right settings and found our boat speed and it showed in the results today,” said Tingley. “We have qualified for Rio, so our regatta schedule going forward will include the Open Sonar Worlds in September and then heading down to Melbourne for the ISAF Worlds in November.”

The US Sailing Team Sperry crew of Rick Doerr (Clifton, NJ) and teammates Hugh Fruend (South Freeport, ME) and Brad Kendell (Clearwater, FL), who had been the lead boat for the first two days, had a third and fourth place and took second place overall.

First-time Clagett participants, sailors from the Warrior Sailing Program, took fourth and fifth in the Sonar class. The team skippered by Preston Scholfield (Tampa, FL) were taking part in their first competitive sailing regatta and finished fourth behind the two US Sailing Team Sperry teams and the Canadian Sailing Team Sonar. “We’re really pleased in our joint mission with The Clagett to get new sailors into adaptive sailing,” said Warrior Sailing Program Director Ben Poucher. “The Warrior Sailing ProRyan Porteous and Maureen McKinnon (USA 071) were victorious in the SKUD-18 class. © Clagett Regatta/Billy Black

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gram looks forward to attending many more Clagett events in the future with even more Warrior Sailing Program teams attending.”

One point separated first and second place in the SKUD-18 class. Ryan Porteous (San Diego, CA) and Maureen McKinnon (Marblehead, MA) took the gold spot, with Sarah Everhart-Skeels (Tiverton, RI) and Cindy Walker (Middletown, RI) right on their heels. These two teams are both on the US Sailing Team Sperry Paralympic team. Wrapping up the bronze position was Tracy Schmitt (Toronto), who sailed with Kay Van Valkenburgh. Schmitt sailed a 2.4mR at The Clagett in 2014, and this year wanted to see how the purpose-designed SKUD 18 would be to sail.

Paul Tingley, Scott Lutes and Logan Campbell (CAN 835) topped the eight-boat Sonar class. © Clagett Regatta/Billy Black

“It was great having the two other boats out there with the class,” said Porteous. “It raised the level of competition and both teams are new to the boat. It was great to have them on the start line and pushing us over the three days. We are doing the Newport Regatta next, and will be at the ISAF Worlds in Melbourne, Australia in November.”

In his first Clagett, Dee Smith (Annapolis, MD) topped in the 13-boat 2.4mR class. Peter Wood (Ottawa, Canada), a sixtime Clagett participant, took second place and Tim Ripley (Randolph, NJ) rounded out the podium for the 2.4mRs. “From the Race Committee to the docks and volunteers and the hospitality, this is an incredibly run regatta – one of the best I have been to,” remarked Smith after winning the C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Trophy.

“I’d like to thank both Ted Green II and Ted Green III for loaning me boats and for the opportunity to sail in The Clagett.”

“I’d like to give a huge thank you to so many people,” said Clagett co-founder and President Judy McLennan (Portsmouth, RI). “Without the team we have working, on the race committee, jury, sponsors, Sail Newport and Fort Adams State Park staff, local Newport Yacht Clubs and many others, this event would not happen. We’ve had another great year and look forward to seeing many of you back again next year and some new faces joining the ranks. We can confirm that the dates for 2016 are June 22 for registration and June 23 for the clinic, with racing on June 2426. We will give free entry in 2016 for the first registration once the Notice of Race is published.” For more information, visit clagettregatta.com. F windcheckmagazine.com

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Phaedo3 Breaks Mount Gay Rum Around Jamestown Record

A new outright record for the Mount Gay Rum Around Jamestown Record was set Saturday, June 27. Lloyd Thornburg of Santa Fe, NM helmed his Mod70 trimaran Phaedo3 around Jamestown with an elapsed time of 56 minutes and 36 seconds, besting the previous record of 00:58:31 by 1 minute and 55 seconds.

Thornburg’s record-setting crew, Brian Thompson, Miles Seddon, Sam Goodchild, Warren Fitzgerald, Sam Bason and Pete Cumming, used the Around Jamestown Record as a training session for the Transatlantic Race 2015. They sailed the 17.8 nautical mile course around the island to starboard, sailing south from the start off Fort Adams on an easterly breeze ranging from 10 to 15 knots on the start of an ebbing tide.

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The crew of Phaedo3 have set a new benchmark for the Mount Gay Rum Around Jamestown Record. © Rachel Jaspersen/Phaedo3

mately 30 knots, but the wind was fluky and light on the backside and we never saw more than 15 knots of breeze,” said Thornburg.

“Once we got to the northern tip, the navigator said to us if we’re going to break the record we need to average 20 knots from here on in and we were going 14 at the time. I have to give credit to the guys because they really put their heads down and made it happen.”

The Around Jamestown Record, presented by Mount Gay Rum in association with Café Zelda and IYAC, is a perpetual all out record for sailing around Conanicut Island (also known as Jamestown) in Rhode Island’s lower Narragansett Bay. Similar to other outright speed records, contenders will decide when to make a record attempt and also the direction in which they will sail around Jamestown. This means contenders can choose the most advantageous weather conditions and tidal flow in which to attempt the record.

The 2015 record is open from until October 31 during the hours of daylight. The yacht that wins the 2015 or outright record will be awarded Mount Gay Rum equal to the skipper’s weight at the awards party at IYAC in Newport, RI on Saturday, November 7 at 7pm. For more information, visit aroundjamestownrecord.com. F windcheckmagazine.com

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Coop's Corner Continued from page 48

smelling of paint and epoxy, and with stiff, sore shoulders and a bung knee from kneeling and sanding the bottom, or working inside the cabin of my Mini than pay the yard to do it. (To all my boatyard-owning mates…no offence intended.) To me, that is all part of the fun. And fun, of course, is invaluable. F Australian born, Joe ‘Coop’ Cooper stayed in the US after the 1980 America’s Cup where he was the boat captain and sailed as Grinder/ Sewer-man on Australia. His whole career has focused on sailing, especially the short-handed aspects of it. He lives in Middletown, RI where he coaches, consults and writes on his blog, joecoopersailing. com, when not paying attention to his wife, teenage son, dog, two cats and several, mainly small, boats.

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of Class40s designed by Marc Lombard and built by MC-Tec. She was launched in 2011 in LaTrinite, France. In preparation for the record attempt, the boat has undergone a major refit at Maine Yacht Center in Portland, ME including the installation

of new autopilots, new computer and navigation system, new Iridium satellite communication system, and new solar panels and a hydrogenerator for offshore energy production. The keel and rudders were removed, inspected and reinstalled, and the mast was completely stripped and re-painted. North Sails, one of GryphonSolo2’s Official Suppliers (along with Harken and Headway), is building a new sail inventory specifically for the record attempt.

“There is no other sporting event in the world that runs for 137 days, 24 hours day, in which you are the only athlete on the playing field racing against the clock,” said Harris. “This will no doubt be the greatest challenge I have ever faced and I would be lying if I said that the prospect of being alone on the great oceans of the world for four months is not an intimidating thought. It is. But in the end, this will provide me the greatest test that I can imagine. So, I look forward to engaging with anyone who would like to follow the record attempt, from the preparation, to the start, to the communication from sea, to my return to Newport in, hopefully, anything less than 137 days.” To learn more about this remarkable sailor, visit gryphonsolo2.com. F Julianna Barbieri is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Manuka Sports Event Management (manukasem.com), a Newport, RI-based sports event asset and management company specializing in marine events and environmental sustainability.

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Broker Tips

Thinking of Purchasing a Boat Far From Your Homeport?

By Tom Miller, Latitude Yacht Brokerage So, you’ve been searching for that perfect boat for a while. You started off looking close to home, seeing what the local harbors had to offer. Next, you decided to see what was available in the next state, and before you know it, you were searching halfway down the eastern seaboard! You think you have found the one.

It has everything you are looking for and more, and the price makes it worth the effort. Now, all you need to figure out is how to get it back to your homeport after closing.

There are a few main considerations when making this decision: expense, time, experience, and wear and tear. For most people, this will come down to expense. Does the fuel expense, marina dockage, plane flights and the cost of bringing crew outweigh what it would cost to have it transported over land?

Always remember to add in a budgetary cushion for the unpredictable because as we all know, if anything is going to happen, it’s going to happen out there! If by overestimating your delivery budget you still think you can undercut the shipping company’s quote, get ready to request some vacation time.

If you can take a week or two off to move your boat from down south up to New England, it could be the adventurous maiden voyage you were dreaming of. But if things don’t go as planned and mechanical issues or bad weather delays your trip, you could be looking at leaving your boat in an unfamiliar boatyard to be worked on by questionable mechanics, only to hope they fix your issue in time for you to come back in a few weeks to give it another shot. If you decide this is the way you want to go, there are a few things that you can do to minimize risk.

Hopefully you have a fresh pre-purchase survey in hand, so of course, address the big things. Engine(s) running smoothly?

Thru-hulls all work? How about the shaft glands? Probably the number one issue that stops a boat short on a delivery with a new owner is bad fuel. There is the probability that the boat has been sitting for a year or more, and microbial organisms have been growing in your fuel tanks. The boat sea-trialed fine on the calm day you went out, but now you are pounding around in some heavy chop and the tanks are getting stirred up.

If you’re only going a few hundred miles, a box of fuel filters and the know-how to change them underway should get you home, but if you’re planning a long stretch, inspecting and cleaning the tanks is in order. If you are buying a twin-engine vessel that will be guzzling diesel, you may want to have the surveyor test the fuel for water and bacterial growth, and also inspect the tanks. Did you purchase a sailboat? Most surveyors will only inspect the rigging from deck level. Before you go offshore you should have a professional rigger do a top-to-bottom inspection windcheckmagazine.com

of your rigging to be sure it’s up to snuff. This would be another item to be sure is included in the terms of your purchase process before accepting a distant vessel.

An alternative option is to hire a delivery captain. Depending on the size, type and condition of the boat, and the route and length of the delivery, a qualified captain will cost anywhere from $250 to $500 per day. For experienced crew, an additional $150 to $250 a day is common. Delivery captains know the routes to take in various weather conditions, can competently sail through the night (with the appropriate crew), and are able to deal with situations, mechanical or otherwise, that a new boat owner would not. The ability to log many more miles a day and save you money on things such as where to get the least expensive fuel and where to anchor for the night instead of paying dock fees can quickly help pay for their services. Boat brokers and shipyards are usually the best source of information when trying to locate a local captain to trust with your boat.

Hiring a captain to move your boat traditionally has been a very informal affair. More recently, however; contracts are being used by captains to clearly lay out responsibilities of boat owners and captains before, during and after the delivery. What is paid to the crew if there are weather or mechanical delays when the boat is tied to the dock? What is the per diem allowed to the crew for food, travel and other items? All of these things should be discussed and agreed upon before the boat leaves the dock.

To be sure your insurance will cover you in case of an incident, call your agent and ensure that your policy covers waters to be transited and that the captain meets requirements.

If shipping by land, boat dimensions will be the single most limiting factor in where you can go and how much it will cost.

For most roads, the vertical height limit from pavement to top of boat will be 13’ 6”. The boat’s beam will determine what route you will need to take. Beams up to 20 feet are possible if the right road surveys are available, but this may be a roundabout route and end up costing lots of money. Transport companies are experienced in getting these permits and finding the right route for your boat.

However you end up bringing your new boat home, it will take some thought and consideration. This will be her first journey under your ownership, but certainly not her last. F Tom Miller is a yacht broker with Latitude Yacht Brokerage, LLC in Newport, RI. Tom holds his 200T USCG and MCA captain’s licenses and frequently delivers power and sailboats up and down the eastern seaboard, having recently brought a 55-foot sailboat from Saint Martin to Newport. Call Latitude at 401560-0007 and ask for Tom if you’re looking to buy a boat outside your homeport and need assistance, or email him at tom@latitudeyacht.com.

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BOATS FOR SALE- SAIL 22’ Etchells 1998 - Pacesetter # 1086, 2 sets Doyle sails, open sail card, North full boat cover, 3 spin poles, forward ring frame, Tac Tic compass, double axle trailer w/sail box, new axles 2005, new brakes, bearings 2014 $14,000. 860-227-6135

22’ Laguna Windrose 1977 - Cast Iron swing keel 16” draft when up - “Pop-top” cabin roof, Slide-out galley with pump sink and stove, LED interior lights, solar powered vent in V-berth. Mainsail with cover, hank-on jib sail with quick release at bow. 6 HP Mariner outboard with new 6 gal tank and fuel line. Galvanized single axle trailer with LED lights. Price Reduced! $2,000 Call Chuck 203-645-9189 chuckdenicolo@hotmail.com

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28’ Cal 1986 – This well maintained boat is in excellent condition. Can be seen at Fayerweather Boat Yard, Bridgeport, CT. $22,000. Contact Anne at 203-209-3577

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30’ Vineyard Vixen 1976 - Main, Genoa, Working Jib, Blooper. Dinghy, Dock lines, Lot’s of ground tackle, Chart Plotter, Depth sounder, Wind Indicator, Fender”s, Dodger, Sail cover, Awning, etc. This Vineyard Vixen is a one of a kind and a rare find!!! She has been very customized and upgraded over the year’s. A salty capable sailor and a real head turner where ever I go!! 2014 Survey on hand upon request.

Asking $25,000. Come for a look! Come for a sail!! Contact Kerry at 203-605-1929, Kaloke@live.com

27’ Tartan 1978 - Yanmar Diesel with very low hours. Sleeps 4. Boat is in excellent condition. $12,000 Russ: 203-470-3242

27’ Hunter 1982 - Yanmar diesel, Schaefer roller furling, lazy jacks, more...$5900.

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24’ Pearson-Tillotson J-24 1980 - Good condition white/blue trim. 9.9 hp electric start Johnson outboard runs like new.

North main, Kevlar jib, genoa, and roller reefing jib. All rigging intact. Includes mooring in Black Rock Harbor for 2015 season. In water and registered. Located in Bridgeport. $6,000 Call David 516-721-3991

28’ Albin Cumulus 1980 - Great shape, 2012 North 135, 2009 Doyle main, North Mylar 150, Hild 1.5oz drifter, Harken traveler, Hood furler, Rigid vang, ST winches, rigged for spinnaker, Yanmar YSB12 runs great. Manhasset Bay. Asking $12,900. Contact Lager Yachts 516-767-0141

30’ Pearson Flyer 1981 - Includes full set of sails – new genoa 150 and main, plus older spinnaker. Four wheel trailer.

New Harken roller furler. Also some older sails. Porta potty (head). Sleeps four, stove, sink, dinette table for cockpit or below, large cooler. Inboard Yanmar diesel 1gm10 engine purchased in 1994. Large roomy cockpit, very competitive racer-many trophies won, new teak and holly decking below. Must be seen to appreciate, kept in excellent condition. Asking $10,000. Make offer. For more information or to see the boat call David Riordan 203-259-8814, or email djrio218@att.net

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BOATS FOR SALE- SAIL 30’ Pearson 1971 - Full set of racing sails. 2 spinnakers, 1 Asym. cruising chute. Twin head foil for roller Genoa W/ removable drum. Full instrument display & GPS. Harken deck hardware. Spinlock rope clutches. Cockpit cushions, dodger, bimini. New holding tank, water tank & plumbing. New cooktop. This boat is a race ready winner and a comfortable cruiser. Has Poppets. $8,000 Call Doug @ 860-227-5323 or email at dougmcdonald138@comcast.net

BOATS FOR SALE- SAIL 33’ J Boats J/100 2005 - $94,900 - A J/100 equipped to race and daysail, with both Hoyt jib boom and symmetrical spinnaker, carbon sails, she is waiting for her new owner. Tralfamadore has some key improvements including a Fairclough winter cover, 2011 Awlgrip, 2012 sails.

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34’ Alsberg Express 1987 - Carl Schumacher design well built and fast. Yanmar diesel engine. New mast, full North sail inventory. Asking $39,000.

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32’ C&C 99 2004 - Price Reduced for SUMMER! Original owner, bought new 2004. Options included: Spinnaker package, Leatherette seat cushions in main cabin and macerator. Very clean, well maintained. Carbon fiber mast, a custom canvas cover, auto-pilot and instruments. Two sets of sails plus a spinnaker. $82,900. Will cooperate with brokers.

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33 Raider built by Cherubini 1983.

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34.5’ J/105 1993 - Very clean & well updated 105. Mast awlgripped, sprayed VC Offshore bottom, Pre-scrimp = light & fast. Very dry boat. Asking $82,900 Willis Marine Center 631-421-3400

35’ Catalina 350 2004 - Single berths: 2 / Double berths: 2 Cabins: 2 /Head w/ shower Electric windlass, hanging lockers, large galley w/ refrig. , propane stove, microwave, Inner spring mattress & AC. Fresh water Electric flush head. $ 119,900 SecureYourDream.com 860-415-4810 / Mystic, CT

BOATS FOR SALE- SAIL 35’ Freedom 1995 - Excellent condition, clean and well equipped. New sails, nice canvas, Yanmar diesel with low hours.

Interior is Bristol. Raytheon instruments, radar, GPS & autopilot. 4’6” shoal draft, Newer custom canvas winter cover. $82,500 Call Bruce at 203-314-7584

36’ Hunter 2008 - Trades Welcome! $ 109,900 2 Cabins; 1 head, Sleeps 7.

Single diesel Yanmar engine; wide beam; large sail locker; Lewmar steering system; AC/ Heat; TV / DVD; easy access stairs; quiet flush head with shower. SecureYourDream.com 860-415-4810 / Mystic, CT

36’ Pearson 1972 - Great condition, very clean and well equipped. Universal dsl, Quantum Main/Genoa & more, Lazy Bag (2014), roller furling, spinnaker(s) & pole, Metalmast Mast & Rod Rigging (1999), Raymarine ST60 Plus, deck washdown, custom winter cover, many extras. $24,900 Contact Dave: 631-944-0967 dtuck@quarksoft.com

37’ Endeavour 1978 - B Plan Original owner at 87 feels it is time to pass along this great bluewater cruiser in fine condition including RF Genoa. FB Main, Harken Batcars, Cruising Spinnaker/ snuffer, 50 Perkins Diesel, Windspeed, Radar, Chart Plotter, Autohelm and more.

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BOATS FOR SALE- SAIL 38’ C&C 115 2006 - $165,000 - 2006 Sailing World Boat of The Year! With an epoxy hull and carbon fiber rig this boat is a great setup for racing or cruising.

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44’ Hardin Voyager Ketch 1979 $124,000 - This boat has been meticulously maintained by the original family since it was bought in 1979. Boat with world cruising and liveaboard potential. Check the listing for all that has been done to keep her in top shape. Tom Miller, tom@latitudeyacht.com, 401-835-7215

44’ Beneteau First 44.7 2006 - Great performance cruiser, North 3DL Sails, Asym. Spin., Raymarine electronics, full canvas, winter cover. Mint. $225,000 Willis Marine Center 631-421-3400

BOATS FOR SALE- SAIL 44’ Island Packet 1994 - Dawn Trader is, without a doubt, the best equipped Island Packet 44 on the market. Her inventory, which includes roller furling mainsail, bow thruster, electric winches, windlass, air conditioning, and generator. Vessel has additional features and equipment too numerous to mention. $188,000 Tim Norton, tim@latitudeyacht.com, 401-575-8326

BOATS FOR SALE- SAIL 57’ Swan 1982 044 - Extremely well maintained & updated. Engine, generator, decks, hull Awlgripped, bottom redone.

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49’ Hinckley REDUCED PRICE! Classic center cockpit ketch. Comfortable live-aboard and blue water cruiser with two private staterooms, galley, salon and fireplace.

Well-equipped for short-handed sailing with integrated GPS map and radar, bow thruster, and ICW height mast. $99,000. Northeast partnership possible. 518-744-2825

32’ Nordic Tug 2006 - Cummins 270, low hours (580), thruster, full Northstar electronics: 15” plotter, autopilot, radar, Bose stereo, microwave, refrigerator, stove, ultra-leather, reverse cycle A-C’s, dinghy, Mercury, television, Seagull water purifier, wash down systems, PRISTINE! $185,000 860-550-1719, lesserlight1941@gmail.com

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On Watch Shelley Brown, Ph.D. As the Education Director at Sailors for the Sea in Newport, Rhode Island, Shelley Brown, Ph.D. has turned a lifelong affinity for sailing and ocean conservation into a rewarding vocation.

“I’ve always been passionate about the ocean,” says Shelley, who lives in Newport. “I grew up right on the beach in Saunderstown, and became interested in the ocean at a very young age. I took swimming lessons, and played in tidal pools whenever I could.

My parents, Chris & Kathleen Brown, owned a Pearson Triton, and I was sailing before I could walk. My dad started sailing when he moved to Rhode Island and became a professor at the University of Rhode Island, and after that he could never leave the Ocean State. I learned a lot from him, and he inspired me to go into the marine world. My parents tell me that I used to wear a bathing suit all the time, under a dress or other clothing, just in case there might be an opportunity for me to go swimming!”

“I received my Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the University of Rhode Island,” says Shelley. “My research focused on how human-caused environmental conditions impact nitrogen cycling microbes in coastal environments, including Narragansett Bay. I was really interested in things like warming water temperatures and low oxygen, how those things impact the microbes, and what that means for our environment. During my Ph.D., I did some work as a visiting scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Atlantic Ecology Division. We would go out into the field to collect sediment cores, bring them back to the lab in Narragansett, and put the cores under different environmental conditions such as ranging oxygen levels. We would monitor what the microbes were doing, and my job was to identify the different microbes and determine when they were active and what was driving their activity.”

“I felt that there was a gap between the research and that information getting out to the public, so I did a lot of outreach work during my Ph.D. I wanted to get into the educational field, so I joined the team at Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. The Clearwater sails between Albany and New York City, and we’d take school groups out twice a day, about 50 kids each time. We’d teach them about what’s living in the Hudson River, the river’s history, and navigation, and they’d help raise the sails. Pete Seeger had passed away just before I started working aboard the Clearwater, but his legacy definitely lives on. A lot of the crewmembers are musicians, and they always brought their instruments aboard and played. We’d have a moment of silence during each cruise so that everyone could experience what was happening on the river. To break the silence, someone would start playing a guitar, ukulele or violin. It was amazing! Next, I worked at the Block Island Maritime Institute, where I designed marine science activities for kids and adults. We’d do things like squid dissections, and I’d bring them out in the field to learn about beach ecology and all types of

other things.”

“Sailors for the Sea’s mission is to educate, inspire and activate the boating community towards healing the ocean. We’re at an interface where we can get ocean science out to a community that already loves the water and being on it, and it’s an honor to work with this group to educate sailors and boaters so that they can also take action. As Education Director, one of my primary responsibilities is our KELP program, which is Kids Environmental Lesson Plans. I work with leading marine education and research institutes to develop lesson plans for informal educators that don’t have a strong science background, such as sailing instructors and camp counselors. We take ocean health topics such as overfishing and ocean acidification, and design lesson plans that use minimal materials while making it easy for these educators to teach students about those topics. I also promote KELP to schools and various sailing groups to broaden our reach.”

“A lot of students receive a ‘terrestrial-centric’ education, and many people don’t know how much the ocean influences our lives. One out of every two breaths we take comes from oxygen produced by phytoplankton, and the ocean is responsible for our weather, much of our food, and transportation of goods. I think it’s really important to take a ‘marine-centric’ view. Pollution from marine debris, runoff from fertilizers are major problems, and excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes ocean acidification, which is very harmful to a lot of creatures. I’m helping to edit our Clean Boating Guide, which will provide information about what boaters can do to be more environmentally friendly.”

“Our President, Mark Davis, co-chaired the Education Committee for the Volvo Ocean Race Newport Stopover. Working with Sail Newport, we designed the Exploration Zone, with about 20 educational partners from Clean Ocean Access to the URI Graduate School of Oceanography. We had nearly 3,000 school kids come from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York, and many of them did the Try Sailing at Sail Newport.

It was very inspiring.”

“Our latest campaign is the No Trash, No Trail, No Trace Pledge. People can take the NT3 Pledge at sailorsforthesea.org, and we send monthly emails about things they can do in their daily lives to help the ocean, such as using refillable water bottles and bamboo utensils instead of plastic ones. There are many things sailors can do, like using a more efficient engine or renewable energy sources. We can’t keep going on the same path, or our oceans aren’t going to make it.”

“I love getting out on the water any time I can – canoeing, kayaking, and sailing on my parent’s Alberg 37 Inisfail,” says Shelley. “Sailors for the Sea is doing incredible work to raise awareness about our ocean’s health and the importance of preserving it for future generations, and it’s an honor to be working with people that have the same passions and goals.” F

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