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I’ve always identified with a quote from Benjamin Franklin: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Great mentors involve their students. In my academic studies, as well as instructing, coaching and now parenting, I often think of these words. Involve me and I learn. Hands-on training, immersion in a project, even inclusion in brainstorming all help a person to become a better learner, a better crewperson, captain and future mentor. I recently spent a few days working with my cousin Sarah and her husband Matt, who’ve recently reintroduced themselves into boating. They’ve purchased a powerboat so that they and their children can enjoy time together on the water, as well as afford them the opportunity to spend special time with friends. Sarah is a sailor by training – my training. I was her junior instructor for four years, and saw her advance from an Optimist novice to an avid 420 crew. She had a natural talent for being on the water, but she had never maneuvered a powerboat. I was pleased to get a call from her looking for a little help. I know how to run a powerboat, and working with my cousin and her husband was a breeze. All they needed was that little bit of confidence afforded by time on the water and behind the wheel. I was pleasantly surprised that Sarah retained much of what she’d learned as a junior sailor. I was also pleased to see that after a short while she was taking on the mentor role with Matt and passing along the Rules of the Road, how to read wind on the water and other tips about a boat’s momentum, drift and more. Really, it was just a nice boat ride for me with a few questions about maneuvering at the dock and a few of the boat’s bells and whistles. Sarah looks to me as a boating mentor, and I’m honored to be thought of as such. I got to thinking that although there are numerous great resources for boaters, novice and pro, young and old, having a role model and mentor is perhaps the most important and effective way to become a confident, capable sailor. Equally, there are many people out there with so much to offer through mentorship. I am fortunate to have had a couple of strong mentors in my time, and now I am lucky to offer what I have learned in return. In this issue we have an article by the Women’s Sailing Mentor at Rockland Yacht Club in Rockland, ME, who maintains that passing knowledge along is fundamental to sharing our love of sailing. You’ll also read about another sailor – a Volvo Ocean Race veteran and one of the sport’s supreme rock dudes – who inspired seven teenage mentees to an amazing achievement in the Newport Bermuda Race, in no small part by demanding more frequent sail changes than they might otherwise have been inclined to make. How did that work out? Well, consider that the only boat to reach Bermuda ahead of these young sailors was a custom-built, pro-crewed 100-footer. Another quote that I also happen to agree with – one that applies to both teacher and student – is from is writer and physician Alfred Mercier: “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” What a great feeling people such as Peter Becker (a mainstay of the Junior Big Boat program at American Yacht Club in Rye, NY) or Spike Lobdell (the founder of New England Science & Sailing in Stonington, CT) must derive from their ongoing devotion to engaging and empowering junior sailors. Equally special are the memories that juniors like Carina Becker will have of the Newport Bermuda Race, thinking back on how the crew excelled by being pushed outside their comfort zones, working harder than they may have thought they needed to, and exceeding their own expectation of themselves. These lessons will forever be seared into their psyches, and I’m sure they’re eager to pass them on to others. See you on the water.

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Calendar of Events

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Sound Environment

Captain of the Port

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50th Newport Bermuda Race

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18 Refitting a Modern Classic Refitting an older boat is an attractive alternative to buying a new one, but as the old saying goes, “a project will always take longer and cost more than you think.” Andrew Cooley, the owner of Cooley Marine Management, LLC in Stratford, CT, describes the refit of Alerion Express 28 Hull #1 and provides advice for keeping your refit on schedule and within budget. 24 A Busy Season in the Mystic Seaport Shipyard With several historic vessels including Mayflower II and the Freedom Schooner Amistad undergoing renovation, the shipwrights at Mystic Seaport’s Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard in Mystic, CT have been quite busy. Dan McFadden, the Museum’s Director of Communications and a classic boat enthusiast/restorer himself, shares the story. 30 Sailors Growing Sailors As with any challenging yet rewarding endeavor, sailing is easier to master when you have someone with experience guiding you through the process. Molly Mulhern, the Women’s Sailing Mentor at Rockland Yacht Club in Rockland, ME, says inviting novices aboard is a wonderful way to grow sailing. 60 The Newport Bermuda Race Aboard High Noon Representing American Yacht Club in Rye, NY and sailing a Tripp 41 on loan from the USMMA Sailing Foundation in the Newport Bermuda Race, seven members of the Young American Junior Big Boat Sailing Team are the first winners of the event’s new Stephens Brothers Trophy. Carina Becker reports on the experience of a lifetime.

On the cover: Photographer Mary Alice Fisher risked a super-soaking to capture this shot during the 4th Annual FunGatta at Indian Harbor Yacht Club in Greenwich, CT. Unleashing a frothy fusillade from the “gun deck” of a Hobie Getaway are (l - r) Sadie Moulton, Elizabeth Cutting, CC Cutting, Mia Reyes, IHYC Commodore John Cutting and Holli Cutting. Created by Commodore Cutting (who also founded the Indian Harbor Model Yacht Club) to get families together on the water, the FunGatta is ostensibly about steering one’s boat around a racecourse, although its primary objective is to drench the opposition (including race committee, mark boat volunteers, etc.) and have a blast! © Mary Alice Fisher/maryalicefisher.com

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Newport International Boat Show is September 15 - 18 Newport Exhibition Group has announced that its 46th Annual Newport International Boat Show will take place September 15 - 18 at the Newport Yachting Center in downtown Newport, Rhode Island. To accommodate the growing number of exhibitors this year, Newport Exhibition Group is adding more docks to the North and South side of the marina. In addition to the boats, products and services, there will be a number of events to educate and entertain visitors. At The Helm, presented by Confident Captain in conjunction with US Sailing/US Powerboating, returns with an expanded lineup of on-the-water training courses for beginners and seasoned boaters. These courses are ideal for individuals or families who are interested in learning how to sail or operate a powerboat, or for those who simply need a refresher course. The 2016 series will also include a kid’s on-the-water program and women-only courses. The highly anticipated Newport For New Products (NFNP) program provides attendees with the exciting opportunity to view boats and products making their first ever debut in the U.S. Each NFNP entry is judged by a panel of experts and awards are given for best new powerboat; sailboat; navigation product; and boating operation, maintenance or safety product, at a ceremony on Friday, September 16.

Adding to the visitor experience, and running concurrently with the Newport International Boat Show, the inaugural Newport Wooden Boat Show will take place at Bowen’s Ferry Landing Marina, and the annual Newport Brokerage Boat Show will take place at Newport Shipyard. All events are within walking distance or can be accessed by water taxi shuttle. Show hours are 10 am to 6 pm Thursday, September 15, 10 am to 6 pm Friday, September 16, 10 am to 6 pm Saturday, September 17, and 10 am to 5 pm Sunday, September 18. Advance tickets are now on sale. For more information, visit newportboatshow.com. ■

CruiserPort University at the Newport International Boat Show PassageMaker Magazine is presenting a series of Cruiserport University seminars next month during the Newport International Boat Show in Newport, RI. The seminars will be held directly across Thames Street from the show at the Newport Blues Cafe, and the “headliner” is author and researcher Nigel Calder, who is returning to Rhode Island for the first time in a decade to deliver two technical seminars in his inimitable style. An Englishman by birth, Mainer by choice and storyteller by inclination, Calder will present “Diesel Engines: Maintenance & Troubleshooting” all day on Wednesday, September 14, beginning at 8:30 am. His seminar “Troubleshooting Electrical Systems” will be taught over two mornings on Thursday and Friday, September 15 and 16, also beginning at 8:30 am. Calder’s books Marine Diesel Engines and Mechanical & Electrical Nigel Calder Manual have saved many a mariner who found himself in a dilemma but was wise enough to carry them on board as a reference. Attendees at the diesel and systems seminars will receive a certificate of completion that may help them earn a discount from their insurer. Calder will also join AIM Marine Cuba specialist Peter Swanson from 3:30-5:30 pm Thursday for “Rum, Rhumba & Revolution: Go To Cuba Legally With or Without Your Boat,” in which they’ll discuss how to cruise to Cuba and what you’ll find there. Other seminars include “Weather Basics for Boaters” with Jeremy Davis, operations manager at Weather Routing, Inc.; “Navigation for Husbands & Wives” and “Getting the Most from Your Radar” with Bob Sweet, a senior navigator and author of The Weekend Navigator, GPS for Mariners, Using GPS, Using GPS with Charts, and consultant to OceanGrafix; “The Physics & Psychology of Hull Shape” with naval architect Lou Codega; “Onboard Communications & Entertainment” with marine electronics expert Paul Comyns; and “The Great Loop: How To Prepare, What To Expect” with Kim Russo, Executive Director of the American Great Loop Cruisers Association. CruiserPort University is “propulsion-agnostic,” with seminars applying equally to those who would cruise under sail or power. For more information, visit passagemaker.com or call 443-745-7785. ■

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The NARC Starts November 1 The 17th annual North American Rally to the Caribbean (NARC) departs from Newport RI on November 1, 2016 (or the best weather window near that date). The NARC’s primary purpose is to encourage boats heading south from the U.S. East Coast to join together for socials, discounts, and shared weather routing. “Plan to be at the Newport Yachting Center no later than

October 29,” said NARC organizer Hank Schmitt, CEO of Offshore Passage Opportunities, a Huntington, NY-based crew network service.” We ask boats to be ready to depart a day early if the weather router says it looks good or there is a need to depart sooner.” “Our Rally is free to veteran offshore sailors and professionally crewed boats,” Schmitt explained. “There is no head fee to defray the costs of the socials and to cover general overhead. Everyone will pay their own dockage and for their own meals and drinks unless otherwise surprised by a sponsor. Of course, we get discounts along the way.” “If you have not made this passage before in the fall, call our office at 631-423-4988 and we will be happy to advise you,” said Schmitt. “We can help find a qualified skipper or get experienced crew for you through our crew network. Smaller boats and less experienced sailors should spend September and October heading down to the Chesapeake and check out their boat and systems while they are still close to land. There are two [other] rallies that depart from Hampton Roads/Norfolk, Virginia area.” The NARC Rally makes a stopover in Bermuda before continuing on to St. Maarten. “In Bermuda, we will be hosted by the St. Georges Dinghy & Sports Club,” said Schmitt. “We receive discount dockage and the $35 per head fee is waived. We will have a fish fry when everyone has arrived at the club. After filling up on duty free fuel, most boats will head to St. Maarten in time for the final Rally party hosted by IGY Marina Group, with a special two days of free dockage upon arrival.” For more information, visit sailopo.com. ■

Classic Yacht Owners Association A large group of classic sailboat owners have formally come together to create and support the newly formed Classic Yacht Owners Association (CYOA), which will be based out of Newport, Rhode Island. The association’s goal is to bring owners together to create a positive and cohesive voice to the issues, challenges, and opportunities facing the yachts and their programs today, and to support and unite the building, restoration, sailing, organizing and racing of classic wooden and spirit of tradition sailing yachts in the U.S. “The CYOA mission is to promote the ownership, knowledge and appreciation of classic yachts and those yachts built in the spirit of tradition of classic yachts,” said Matt Brooks, owner of the classic 1930 Sparkman & Stephens yawl Dorade and a founding member and catalyst for the new group. “It is the direct intention of the CYOA to preserve and champion these yachts to insure their survival and enjoyment for future generations while encouraging, partnering and unifying the cruising and racing opportunities these yachts are able to participate in throughout the United States.” “The association was formed to be a catalyst for unity, transparency, and inclusiveness in the Classics community at all levels,” said Executive Director Clark Poston. “Ultimately, the CYOA was created to facilitate communication among active owners in the class and sport, and to create renewed clarity and excitement about participation in classic and spirit of tradition yacht cruising, racing, and interest in ownership and restoration.”

Built in 1938, the 68-foot Sparkman & Stephens yawl Black Watch exemplifies the vessels served by the Classic Yacht Owners Association. © Allen Clark/PhotoBoat.com

The CYOA is a member driven, non-profit organization with offices at Newport Shipyard. Membership during its inaugural year is free. For more information, or to become one of the 100-and-counting members, contact Poston at clarkposton@ USCSYOA.com or visit ClassicYachtOwnersAssociation.org. ■

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Elio Betty Promoted to Publisher at BoatUS Magazine

Sail Newport Launches Campaign for Blue Space

Boating industry advertising and marketing veteran Elio Betty, who joined BoatUS Magazine in 2009, has been appointed Publisher. Betty came to BoatUS after six years with Soundings Publications, where he was National Sales Manager and credited with significantly growing Soundings Magazine’s national advertising base. Betty previously held service and managerial positions in the Connecticut marina industry and was the Harbormaster in Rowayton, CT. Betty developed BoatUS Publications’ digital advertising solutions, helping advertisers tap into online and social media, and he also contributes to the Association’s marketing efforts working to grow partnerships. A resident of Madison, CT, Betty enjoys sailing and fishing on Long Island Sound with his two sons. BoatUS Magazine is one of many benefits of membership with Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS), the country’s largest recreational boater advocacy, services and safety organization. For more information, visit BoatUS.com/ magazine. ■

Sail Newport, a community sailing center in Newport, RI, has launched a $10 million Campaign for Blue Space to expand public access sailing programs, broaden its marine education programming, and build a new Mid-Park Marine Education and Recreation Center on the waterfront at Fort Adams State Park. Sail Newport already hosts over 1,000 youth sailors in the summer and tens of thousands of adult sailors each year, although the non-profit organization wants to do more for the community by tripling their educational endowment. The funding will allow Sail Newport to offer more public access programs and free programming to the community. With an opening planned for next summer, the new 8,500 square foot Mid-Park Marine Education and Recreation Center will provide more classrooms, offices, meeting spaces and restrooms open to the public year-round. Sail Newport is more than halfway to their $10 million goal. With the new building as a platform, the organization anticipates attracting more world-class marine events, which have been proven to be economic engines for Rhode Island. “We are excited about being able to do more to serve our community,” said Sail Newport Executive Director Brad Read. Visit sailnewport.org to learn more. ■

Tom Rossi Takes the Helm at Hall Hall, Inc. (Hall Spars & Rigging and Hall Composites) in Bristol, RI has announced that Tom Rossi is the new President and CEO. He will be responsible for all Hall operations in the U.S., Holland and New Zealand. Rossi succeeds company founder Eric Hall, who will remain as Company Chairman. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Rossi is a veteran of 20 years Naval service, reaching the rank of Commander before retirement in 2000. He was the Commanding Officer of the Guided Missile Destroyer USS John Hancock (DD981). “Tom’s proven professional management and leadership skills are ideal for executing our company’s vision of not only maintaining Hall’s respected place in the high performance sailing industry, but also moving our company’s place in the aerospace and other commercial industries to the next level,” said Eric Hall. Rossi and his wife Joan have four children – Christina, Mariann, Michael and Andrew – and live in Portsmouth, RI. For more information visit hallspars.com. ■

Pantaenius Now Offers Coverage for Cuba Pantaenius America Ltd., a premiere provider of U.S. yacht insurance headquartered in Harrison, NY, is now offering coverage for American yacht owners who wish to take their boats to Cuba. The island nation has been off limits to most U.S. yacht owners for over 50 years, but last fall American citizens with a legitimate reason to travel to Cuba were granted the right to do so by boat. A major hurdle stood in their way, however. Due to American laws prohibiting American companies from paying U.S. dollars to Cuban government entities or individuals, no U.S. marine insurance companies were authorized to offer coverage. Although this marks the first time an American company is able to insure boats going to Cuba, the Pantaenius Group (through its European offices) has decades of experience insuring non-U.S. yachts traveling to Cuba and handling their claims. This expertise makes Pantaenius the unparalleled experts in navigating the significant red tape involved should a claim arise in Cuba. Coverage to Cuba will be limited to yachts valued at $200,000 or more. For a quote and more information, visit pantaenius.com/CUBA. ■

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Waterfront Brewery to Host 30th Anniversary Quantum Key West Race Week Quantum Key West Race Week has reached an agreement with the Waterfront Brewery in Key West, FL to host all shoreside activities for the 30th anniversary of the regatta, scheduled for January 15-20, 2017. Located in the Key West Historic Seaport and Bight, the Waterfront Brewery has a spacious area for the nightly awards ceremony and morning weather briefings, and four big screen televisions and two projector screens to broadcast the daily video of racing. “Moving the shoreside activities to the Waterfront Brewery will help enhance the sailors’ experience of Key West Race Week,” said Event Chairman John Fisher. “We’ll be able to accommodate a great number of people and also host private functions in adjoining rooms. The new venue should be a great meeting spot.” The 30th anniversary of an event that started as a mostly fun series among casual racers and became the most important international regatta in the U.S. is shaping up to be memorable. The new venue brings the nightly action back to the waterfront, close to where many boats berth during the regatta. Quantum Sails is back as title sponsor and entries are building. Quantum’s return is testament to the growth of Key West Race Week in the first year of management by the Storm Trysail Club. Total entries in last year’s event grew by 15 percent from the previous year. The regatta will host starts for IRC and ORC-rated boats as well as one-design classes. The Notice of Race outlines the deadlines for the entry fee, which is based on length overall and there are three different classifications: 18-26 feet LOA, 27-45 feet LOA and 46-85 feet LOA. Two other length designations are stipulated

for the Performance Cruising Classes and include 19-45 feet LOA and 46-85 feet LOA. “The cruising classes were a new feature at last year’s Race Week and were enjoyed by the competitors, and we hope to attract more boats this year,” said Dick Neville, the On-the-Water Director. “It’s a way for the cruiser/racers who do the Ft. Lauderdale-Key West Race to stick around and enjoy a week of racing.” For more information about Quantum Key West 2017, and results, photos, and videos from 2016 and other previous events, visit keywestraceweek.com. ■

Spike Lobdell Awarded the Crawford Achievement Prize

Spike Lobdell, founder and President of New England Science & Sailing Foundation (NESS) in Stonington, CT, will receive the National Recreation Foundation’s 2016 Robert W. Crawford Achievement Prize in recognition of his service to the youth of New England. Lobdell will be formally presented with the award on Saturday, November 5 at a ceremony at Hotel Emma in San © nessf.org Antonio, TX. Lobdell founded NESS in 2004 and has served as President and CEO since 2008. For over 12 years, Lobdell has selflessly devoted his time to the development of NESS, one of the most successful community sailing programs in the U.S. As a youth, he was encouraged to sail by his father, also an avid sailor. Today, he is dedicated to building a community of talented Next Generation sailors and providing access to the water for all students regardless of their abilities or financial means. Lobdell is a full-time volunteer and has never received a dollar of compensation for his efforts. NESS is a non-profit ocean adventure education organization that creatively links a STEM-based education with water-based activities. It engages students in experiential learning that builds confidence, teamwork and leadership skills through sailing, marine science, and adventure sports. The core values of inclusiveness, experimental learning, self-discovery, and stewardship remain Lobdell’s passion in leading NESS today. Today, NESS is a year-round educational organization that served close to 5,000 students last year. More than half of these students are from low-income communities and receive scholarships or other financial aid that enables them to participate. In 2015, NESS provided more than $430,000 in such financial assistance and more than $1.4 million since 2008. A Past Commodore of the Stonington Harbor Yacht Club where he is a founding member, Lobdell sails a Hinckley Sou’wester 42, Legacy, and races J/24s locally. To learn more about NESS, log onto nessf.org. ■

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SlipShare App Allows Instant Marina & Mooring Reservations SlipShare is a free app that makes same-day booking seamless for boaters and the marinas they visit. Once registered users have entered their boat’s specifications, SlipShare provides availability and pricing for nearby marinas. Detailed information, amenities and shore options allow users to select and book a slip for that night with an instant confirmation. Featured marinas can update their real time availability in just two minutes a day using SlipShare’s proprietary dashboard. SlipShare was founded when lifelong boaters Sherrie and Paul Norton of Stamford, CT saw that while the overall technology of boating had improved dramatically, simplifying the process of booking a slip had not. After winning the 2015 Stamford StartUp weekend, they made their idea a reality. “We wanted to echo the flexibility, spontaneity and reliability of apps like Hotel Tonight by allowing the cruising community to book that day for the same night,” said SlipShare co-founder and CEO Paul Norton. “We also want to provide the community with a convenient tool that offers a safety element. That’s why we put over 2,500 marinas at your fingertips,” Norton continued, referring to SlipShare’s catalog of contact information for thousands of marinas nationwide. Even if they are not a featured location with in-app booking capability, boaters can still use the search function to locate a nearby marina in a pinch. SlipShare is available on the web and in the Google Play store, and is launching in the Apple Store this month. ■

Sail the Sound for Deafness Regatta is August 18 On Thursday, August 18, the Mill Neck Family of Organizations is co-hosting the Fifth Annual Sail the Sound for Deafness Classics Regatta and Cocktail Party in collaboration with Oakcliff Sailing, The WaterFront Center, and Oyster Bay

Marine Center in Oyster Bay, NY. A fun and elegant race around Oyster Bay and into Long Island Sound, the regatta, is expected to draw sailing enthusiasts from across the area. Participants are invited to either enter their own classic yacht or race on one of Oakcliff’s classics. Proceeds from this event will benefit Mill Neck’s mission of serving people who are deaf and/or have other communication needs, locally, nationally and around the world. Spectators are invited to watch the action aboard The WaterFront Center’s Christeen, the oldest oyster sloop in North America. A post-race party will be held at the Mill Neck Manor House, a spectacular Tudor Revival mansion in Mill Neck, NY. For more information and to register, visit millneck.org/community-events/sail-the-sound-for-deafness. ■

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Refitting A Modern Classic By Andrew Cooley Boat refits can take many sizes, shapes and forms. Refitting a boat can involve mechanical, electrical, and auxiliary systems as well as aesthetics and structural renewals, but most often these projects touch on a part of all of these, and then some. Refit is by definition “to be fit again,” and that can have a different meaning for each boat owner. To some, a refit means an engine(s) repower and mechanical upgrades for greater fuel efficiency and cruising range, or just piece of mind. To others, it means new rigging and sailing hardware to gain the edge on the racecourse. Other refits are designed to equip the boat for safety or comfort. But more often than the not the initial purpose of the refit is to restore and preserve the soul and aesthetics of the vessel for years to come. This often starts with an exterior coatings renewal, either with new gelcoat or paint. For the purposes of this discussion, we’ll highlight the recently completed refit of Alerion Express 28 Hull #1, s/y Moonrise. In 1989, Ralph Schacter of Southport, CT commissioned naval architect Carl Schumacher to design the Alerion Express 28 because he wanted something a little more substantial than the Alerion 26 with a cuddy cabin that offered overnight possibilities for cruising. After building about four boats, Schacter sold the mold to TPI in Rhode Island. The Alerion Express 28 quickly became a classic American daysailer, with elegant lines evoking a bygone era while its comfort and speed make it a dream to sail. For her owner, finding and renewing Hull# 1 has evolved organically. After years of competitive racing and big boat ownership with a Santa Cruz 52, he was looking to downsize and simplify his boating life. Although more than 450 Alerion Express 28s have been built, surprisingly there were few on the market. Those didn’t last long, with offers often made and accepted sight unseen, which speaks to the desirability of these boats. After Schacter’s death in 2005, Moonrise was inherited by his son. An avid kiteboarder, the son hoped to bring her to the San Francisco Bay area, but that never happened and after 10 years he put her up for sale. Despite her age, she was in unusually good condition because she’d been kept indoors for all those years at Brewer Stratford Marina in Stratford, CT. Unlike many boats left fallow for that long, Moonrise sat comfortably out of the elements, biding her time. When the family decided that paying storage fees for an unwanted boat no longer made sense, she was listed. Luckily for her new owner,

this happened at the right time. After discovering the new listing and seeing the boat an offer was made and accepted. Having some trepidation for purchasing Hull #1 and for an older boat than originally planned, he quickly set about getting up to snuff and finding out if this was a wise purchase or not. This is where my company, Cooley Marine Management (CMM) first became involved with Moonrise and her owner. The owner knew he needed to address several items immediately; the rest could wait until he got a feel for her through a full season. We all know what happens as age and weather take their inevitable toll on our beloved boats – the chalkiness of a oncevibrant gelcoat, spider cracks emanating from fastener holes, the not-so-nonskid, and other signs of a well-enjoyed boat. Like any big investment, at some point you have to give back what she’s given you. So you’re ready for a refit…

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When you decide you’re ready to undertake a major project such as a refit, I strongly recommend that you approach it as such – a major project – during which unexpected items will appear and things won’t go as quickly as you’d planned. Plan for the unexpected! Due to these discoveries and unexpected changes, refits have a tendency to evolve and sometimes end up outside the scope of the original intent. As with any major project, time and money are generally the driving forces.

The plans for refitting Moonrise included reconfiguring the deck hardware and repainting the nonskid. © cooleymarine.com

Needs What does your boat need to make your time on the water more enjoyable, efficient and productive? This need is what starts the process, prompting you to make that first call or visit the boatyard to ask about the new engines or who is recommended for fiberglass repairs and painting. At this stage, you should start

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a list of needs and wants that will become the framework of the project plan. Once the list is in hand, you can start prioritizing items. During the first year after Moonrise came out of hibernation, her owner’s objective was to address the systems required to make her an efficient daysailer and club racer: modernizing her rigging and spars, upgrading electronics, renewing her bottom, and some general cosmetics. This was Phase I of the refit. Having brought her to where he could comfortably and safely take her out with family and friends, he began racing in the local weeknight series. She began posting some good finishes, giving her new owner another level of enjoyment and excitement. After that first full season, he brought Moonrise back to Brewer Stratford Marina for inside winter storage…and back to CMM for Phase II. When the owner and I sat down in the fall of 2015 to discuss Phase II, the needs were concentrated on revamping the deck for safety, efficiency and aesthetics. The initial punch list included renewal of several teak planks on the cockpit coaming, repainting the tired nonskid throughout the deck and cockpit, reconfiguring deck hardware to reduce years’ worth of unused blocks and cleats, modernizing others, renewing the varnish, re-fairing the keel, and applying a sprayed coat of BaltoPlate antifouling.

The deck was stripped and all hardware was removed. © cooleymarine.com

Money With your list in hand, you have several options. You can hand that list off to your preferred service provider and let them take care of it, regardless of cost or project duration. Most people don’t choose that route, because most don’t have unlimited time and funds for their boat. You’d do well to have your service guys windcheckmagazine.com

come back to you with an estimate for each item on your list. The boat business, in many ways, is still the Wild West when it comes to industry standards. Estimates, for example, come in many forms and can vary widely. Understanding these estimates is essential to grasping the true final cost of a project. Some estimates provide a lump sum price for each task or item requested. These are assumed to include both the labor and materials. An estimate may be broken down into individual costs for labor and materials, while others may provide only the known materials, with labor quoted as a billable hourly rate. No matter what format, always remember that an estimate is just that. Unlike other durable goods, boats vary so dramatically that there’s no one single expert on all. This variation is why estimates are often a service provider’s best guess. That’s not to say that they are not accurate or won’t be honored as final billing figures, but rather from the service provider’s experience and what can be readily seen, felt, the estimate is what is believed to be true. Nonetheless, there is always the understanding that unknown issues lurking below the surface may become abruptly apparent and alter the cost and time of the project. A mutual understanding by service provider and customer is critical in both the planning and execution of the refit. Once Moonrise’s owner handed us his Phase II list, we got to work providing a detailed estimate for the tasks at hand. Our project managers compiled a preliminary schedule of sequential tasks. From this, we broke down the specific items and calculated estimated time (man hours) and materials needed for each. We had a pretty good handle on what we would encounter, and included that in the pricing. However, as in any refit project, there’s always the possibility of unforeseen damage arising once work is started. In those instances, we reserve the right to requote the project as needed. These issues are often minor and don’t have any real impact on the budget, but other times they can be quite costly. Our most important task during the project is to keep the owner as informed as possible, to mitigate the surprise factor when work is complete. These types of discoveries are often exponentially larger the larger the boat is, and are most commonly found during the repainting process. To help offset this discovery, CMM urges clients considering these larger scale projects and where we suspect there may be hidden damages to the substrate, such as a rotten core and/or fiberglass delamination, to have the vessel inspected by an independent surveyor. In areas of question we provide thermal imaging survey. This helps to establish from WindCheck Magazine

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the onset whether or not there will be discoveries and we then provide at least a budgetary cost estimate to include these repairs as well as known. If the customer chooses to proceed with the work, then the survey is provided at no cost and they have a great baseline for both future work and a potential resale. If the survey indicates damages beyond the intended budget, or if repair costs will exceed the value of the boat, the owner can choose not to proceed with the work and simply pays for the cost of the survey.

by limited physical access and specific product curing and drying times. Therefore, understanding the scope and intent of a project before starting is critical to gauging its duration. With Moonrise, our original schedule (combined with our other work) had us completing the refit in about two months. The first phase was to have the keel media blasted to remove all

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The final major influencer of refit evolution is time. Time, to many of us, is the single greatest commodity in the world, and when it comes to our boats, it’s all about time. Here in the Northeast, most of us are limited to enjoying our time on the water to half the year, so it’s imperative that the off-season is utilized for refits and other major repair projects. With this mindset, forethought and planning become your best tools for successfully completing the refit. In boat repair and refit work, many processes are sequential in nature and dictated

This photo shows the new paint on the deck, topsides and bottom. © cooleymarine.com

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of the old damaged fairing and to provide a nice profile to build progress. With the dramatic changes to the Moonrise project, the on. As it happened, we had several snowstorms the week we’d schedule increased to an estimated 10-12 weeks. scheduled for the blast, and that delayed the project right from We initially focused on getting the entire boat ready for the start. primer. To do this properly, all hardware was removed from the Once the boat was back inside, we had several meetings exterior surfaces. Once an item was removed it was identified to with the owner to discuss such details as nonskid colors and be reused, replaced or eliminated, then catalogued and stored. paint blend lines. During one of these meetings we discussed Using our revised deck layout plans, our fiberglass techs filled the feasibility of carrying the deck paint down and including the any unused or altered hardware mounting holes. To ensure these hull. Once that subject was starting to be explored, the quesrepairs would never be visible, especially through the shiny new tion of restoring the remaining exterior wood was posed as a full topcoat, each repair was filled with an epoxy resin and fiberpaint job gave the best opportunity to start over with the wood. glassed if needed, coated with epoxy fairing compound, sanded We put together a revised schedule and budget for the owner to to the match the existing area, overcoated with High Build consider. Primer, and again coated with finishing primer. After sanding At this point it was already mid-February and on paper, the the entire deck down, we noticed considerable highs and lows, revised plan had us completing right as everyone wants to be particularly where the nonskid had been, so we decided to coat launching in April. With the revised numbers and timeframe in the entire deck surface with a full high build primer. This decihand, the owner decided to move forward with the full exterior sion added approximately a week to the project; but was deemed refit. This included a complete respray of hull and deck, new necessary to ensure the high quality finish the owner envisioned. nonskid with a new layout to incorporate the revised hardware The next phase was the brightwork. The chosen system placement, and full teak restoration in addition to the previously required that all the wood be completely stripped of its existplanned keel fairing and bottom paint. ing varnish, sanded and thoroughly cleaned. Two coats of clear Once we’d settled on price and schedule the guys dove right primer were applied to the bare wood, followed by 10 brushed in, fully stripping the boat, sanding and prepping for the first coats of Awlwood Clear Coat. After our wood finish had been stages. To accurately coordinate both manpower and materiproperly built up, we started the various topcoat paint shoots als, our project management team creates a detailed MS Project on the previously primed surfaces. On most projects, we prefer Gantt Chart that serves as a framework to both predict major to work from the top down, and we started with the deck and milestones and the projected completion schedule, while givhouse paint shoots and working our way down to the hull and yanmar_dealer_ad_7x4.75_windcheck_Layout 1 6/11/15 3:43 PM Page 1 ing the guys on the floor and management a tool to judge our bottom.

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With new deck hardware installed, a pattern was created for the new nonskid. ÂŠ cooleymarine.com

This gleaming brightwork was achieved with the Awlwood system.

Once the gloss paint was shot, we installed all the new deck hardware and created the new nonskid patterns. Leaving the area around the hardware high gloss helps with bedding the hardware securely and allows for easier cleaning when the boat is back in use. Since Moonrise never had this feature, we spent a great deal of time and effort to ensure the patterns were consistent and aesthetically pleasing. Finally, we sprayed two more coats on all of the wood. Â As the final paint phases were nearly complete, the owner

threw us a curveball. The builder of the Alerion is now outfitting new models with a bracket designed to accept a swim ladder that also serves as the mount for the backstay, and he wanted this feature. When we received the stainless fitting from the builder, we discovered that Hull #1 did not have the same geometry as newer hulls. We opted to slightly modify and reinforce the transom. This involved beefing up the balsa-cored transom by laminating G10 in place of the core. This in turn, needed to be adequately bonded, faired, the bracket fitted and the transom resprayed.

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The craftsmen at CMM modified the transom to accept this boarding ladder, which was unavailable when Moonrise was built. © cooleymarine.com

As the final stages were completed and Moonrise was back in the water, rigged and ready for sail, all involved in the refit have a large sense of pride in the final product. The technicians, carpenters, fiberglass laminators, painters and project managers see a transformation; through many hours of sweat, patience and craftsmanship, Moonrise has come back to life. The owner has completely revamped an icon, and now owns a beautiful piece of history. In the end, the refit was not without its share of discoveries and challenges, but as with anything worth doing it was worth doing right. ■

A modern classic, reborn and ready for years of enjoyment. © cooleymarine.com

Andrew Cooley is the owner of Cooley Marine Management, LLC in Stratford, CT. With a background in marine repair and project management, he is well versed in both new construction and refits. To learn more about CMM’s repair, refit, project management, consulting and marine general contracting services, visit cooleymarine.com. windcheckmagazine.com

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A Busy Season in the Mystic Seaport Shipyard By Dan McFadden For anyone who has stopped by the shipyard at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut over the last six months, it has been a beehive of activity with multiple vessels being worked on at the same time. Officially named the Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard, the facility was created to enable the museum to maintain and restore its collection of historic watercraft, a task that would be prohibitively expensive to carry out at commercial yard rates. However, the shipyard also has the mission to preserve and teach traditional skills and techniques, and to be a leader in the development and practice of maritime preservation. The shipyard has been doing all of these things in the last year as it comes off an intense period of work on a variety of interesting projects. “This has been an unusual period in terms of the number of projects under way at the same time, and to be entrusted to work on vessels for two other organizations,” said Dana Hewson, Vice President of Watercraft Preservation and Programs at Mystic Seaport. “We appreciate being recognized as a center of excellence in the maritime preservation community.”

work and other necessary tasks could be completed in the shipyard. While this would take her out of operation, the extended period in the yard would permit a comprehensive restoration to preserve her for the next 25-30 years. Over the last year, the shipwrights replaced the stairs, forward deck, the horn timber, the shaft log, some of the deadwood, and a number of frames, as well as the keel bolts and about 20-25 planks of varying lengths. She also underwent some repairs to her bulwarks and upper deck. The mandate is always to preserve as much as possible of

Steamboat Sabino’s boiler being lifted out of the hull early in the restoration. The stack, canopy and pilothouse have already been removed. © Mystic Seaport

Sabino

The primary focus of the shipyard for the last year and a half has been the restoration of the museum’s steamboat Sabino. Built in 1908 in East Boothbay, Maine, the Sabino is an example of a small passenger ferry common in coastal areas in the years before the automobile. The 57-foot steamboat came to the Mystic Seaport in the early 1970s and has been designated a National Historic Landmark. Her role at the museum is as a working exhibit, and she has been operated seasonally offering visitors 30-minute cruises above the Mystic River bascule bridge during the day and a 90-minute cruise downriver each evening. By 2014, Sabino had reached a point where regular maintenance had been superseded by the need for some involved restoration work. This is a natural occurrence for any historic vessel. The primary issues were to replace the keelboats, replace some frames and planking, and attend to some deterioration around the shaft log and deadwood in the stern. (The shaft log is the wood timber through which the propeller shaft exits the hull.) The difficult decision was made to take her out of service for at least one year so this

Sabino’s pilothouse being removed. The house and canopy top had to be removed to access the engine and boiler and to permit the steamboat to clear the entrance doors to the main shop where the restoration would take place. © Mystic Seaport

the original fabric of the vessel, and when that is not possible to replace with the same materials. However, at times it is prudent to make a change. Instead of white oak, live oak left over from the Charles W. Morgan restoration was used. “We’ve sort of made a policy that when we can we shift over to live oak for framing just for the durability,” said Walter Ansel, the lead shipwright on the project. “It’s similar to our practice of switching over to bronze screws instead of iron – you get more time out of the option.” For similar reasons, the upper deck received a plywood top layer sheathed in fiberglass. While obviously not original to her

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1908 construction, the durability and stiffness of the modern the New World in 1620. The vessel is owned by Plimoth Plantation, which has plans to sail the vessel as part of the celebration materials will greatly protect the top of the vessel from freshwaof the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival. To be able to ter intrusion and wear and tear from the feet of the thousands do so, Mayflower II needed a of passengers who tread the comprehensive restoration, deck each year. Once painted, and the organization needed the new deck surface will not someone who understood appear notably different from historic preservation. the one it replaced. “We required partners for As the restoration of the the Mayflower II restoration hull began, Sabino’s mechaniwho will remain faithful to cal systems were lifted out of the integrity of the ship’s the boat and moved into the builders’ work and intent in machine shop. The original 1955,” said Kate Sheehan, 1908 engine, a 75 hp, twospokesperson for Plimoth cylinder, compound steam Plantation. “Mystic Seaport’s engine built downriver in team has demonstrated time nearby Noank, will continue Shipwrights work on Mayflower II’s new deck beams. © Mystic Seaport and again their dedication to power the boat. Unfortuto maintaining the utmost nately, a full inspection of the standards of preservation. It 1941-vintage boiler indiwas also important to have cated it needed to be replaced. a degree of flexibility on the Marine boilers of this small work schedule, as our goal size are a rarity, and a new has been to keep the ship on one would have to be custom exhibit as much as possible.” designed and built. This The result has been a added potentially $125,000 to productive collaboration for the project and also affected both museums. Mayflower the timeline, as a designer II spends the summers and and manufacturer had to be fall on exhibit at her berth in identified and contracted to Plymouth harbor, and then is do the work. towed to Mystic Seaport after The decision was made A shot of the stern of Sabino below the waterline showing the new Thanksgiving to be worked early this year to finish the planking and rudder post. The compound curves in this section made on over the winter and spring. hull restoration and launch this one of the most challenging parts of the project. © Mystic Seaport The first year was dedicated Sabino in July without a new to a thorough survey and the boiler to provide time to development of a restoration raise the funds and get one plan along with some repairs fabricated. In the meantime, and cosmetic work. The Sabino will function as a just-completed second phase dockside exhibit. The goal is began to address some of the to have her fully operational structural issues. for summer 2017. “Over the last six months, “We are disappointed Mystic Seaport’s shipwrights in the decision we needed to and Plimoth Plantation’s marimake, but we believe it is in time artisans have continued the best interest of the vesnecessary stabilization efforts,” sel,” Steve White, President said Sheehan. “This past of Mystic Seaport, said at Sabino in the main shop. Having her indoors facilitated all-season winter, the team focused on rethe time. “We maintain our work. © Mystic Seaport placing much of Mayflower II’s commitment to returning Sahalf-deck area, installing new bino to steam operation.” topmast rigging, and attending to improvements in the tween deck that may not be as obvious to visitors.” Mayflower II Mayflower II is scheduled to return to Mystic in November. For the second winter in a row, the shipyard has been home to The plan is for the ship to spend an extended period of nearly Mayflower II, the replica of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to windcheckmagazine.com

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after and had a reputation for being swift sailors and good sea boats. The Berry is presently rigged as a sloop, which was her original configuration. Later in her career, she was re-rigged as a schooner for the ease of sail handling and carried that rig when she was sold down to Maine and later New Jersey. When she was donated to Mystic Seaport in 1969, the museum decided to return her to a sloop rig to represent her as she would have been seen at her launch in 1866. (For more information about the boat’s history, please see the newly published book Celebrating the Emma C. Berry, by the late Lawrence R. Jacobsen.) The Berry is in very good condition and has only required regular maintenance in recent years. That said, she was hauled out late last fall to receive a fresh coat of paint and some primping for the anniversary. One issue that was addressed this spring was her mast. Rot had compromised the spar, which dates to the Mystic Seaport shipwright Chris Taylor squares up a mortice on early 2000s. The first option was to fabricate a new mast from Mayflower II. © Mystic Seaport another one in the yard. This had two years in the shipyard to move the project the advantage of long to meet the 2020 anniversary deadline. recycling existing material, but once Amistad the turning proReturning to the shipyard for the past winter cess began pockets was the Freedom Schooner Amistad, Conof rot were disnecticut’s official state vessel. Now under the covered beneath stewardship of Discovering Amistad, a nonthe surface and profit organization newly created to manage the project had and operate the vessel, the ship was hauled out to be abandoned. for her crew to begin to address a number of Instead, a new maintenance issues that were a result of her base was “scarfed” neglect over the past few years. Mayflower II departing Mystic for Plymouth under tow by the onto the existing Amistad was hauled out so the shipyard tug Jaguar on June 5 © Mystic Seaport mast and placed and her crew could repair some planks, caulk back on the vessel. the seams, and repaint her topsides and botIn recognitom, as well as work on her systems and other tion of the 150th tasks. Her engines were removed, and remanuanniversary, the factured ones ordered. The bulk of this work Berry was the was done by a combination of Mystic Seaport featured vessel staff and volunteers and Amistad staff and of the museum’s volunteers. Antique & Classic The schooner was launched on June 7 and Boat Rendezvous had her masts stepped the following week. Fitlast month, and ting out, including reinstallation of the engines, she led the annual continues with the goal to return her to operaboat parade down tion this summer. the Mystic River on that Sunday. Emma C. Berry Plans are to have A milestone of sorts will be reached this year her joined by as the Noank smack Emma C. Berry turns 150 Emma C. Berry with her new (old) mast © Mystic Seaport other Noank-built years old. The Berry is a type of fishing vessel boats. know as a “well smack,” notable for the wet This spring has seen the shipyard at its best: a busy hub of well in its hold that permitted sea water to circulate and keep the activity on a variety of vessels. Mayflower II is now back hosting catch alive while it was transported to market in the age before tourists in Plymouth, Amistad is afloat, and Sabino is being readrefrigeration. Boats like the Berry were once common a sight up ied to go back in the water. But the work continues. Next up is and down the East Coast. In fact, Noank smacks were sought 26 August 2016 WindCheck Magazine

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Freedom Schooner Amistad hauled out of the water in the shipyard © Mystic Seaport

a new rig for the 1921 Grand Banks fishing schooner L.A. Dunton. The goal is to have her lower masts stepped by Columbus Day and the full rig complete by next spring. Shipwrights will work over the summer milling wood and parts to be installed when Mayflower II returns for her next round of work, and of course every vessel, small or large, needs its regular maintenance. The work never ends. Those interested in supporting the fabrication of a new boiler for Sabino are encouraged to contact Mystic Seaport at (860) 572-5365 or online at mysticseaport.org/supportsabino.

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which, for only $60, introduces new sailors to the sport via a 4-week mentored sailing program. The program attracts around 60 folks per year, with 10 to 14 member boats hosting new sailors. By Molly Mulhern They focus the sailing introduction on 30- to 45-year-olds, 30% of whom later join the club. BHSC also runs a Learn to Race Can you remember how you learned to sail? Chances are you were program that assigns an experienced racer to a boat for three weeks taken aboard someone else’s boat — your family’s, the one at of racing. Included is a dockside lecture on starts and procedures. your local sailing club, your neighbor’s — where someone else was Participants in the program are allowed to race for the rest of the at the tiller, had commissioned the boat, had planned the outing. year for the cost of a crew membership ($50). The Learn to Race Sailing is unique in that it involves a host of things that have to program attracts anywhere from two to four new boats each seabe coordinated: the boat, a crew, access to water, etc. Of course, son. you can dive in and buy a boat and struggle on your own to learn Buffalo sailor Greg Toole tried the Discover Buffalo Sailthe ropes, literally, and many do. But rewards come in spades for ing Program in 2013, then quickly found a regular crew spot on those of us who were lucky enough to have a mentor or teacher one of the race boats. Toole reports, “In only three years with the who took our sailing education as their responsibility. And it is just club I’ve gone from knowing next to nothing about racing rules, this realization that has prompted many yacht and sailing clubs to strategy, and tactics to learning that it will take the rest of my life begin and foster mentoring programs. The organization and aims to learn everything! Perhaps more importantly, I’ve made some of these programs vary, as does their age, from long-term to brand really good friends in the process.” Toole is now a mentor for the new, but they all share the idea that sailors grow sailors. program. Nicholas Hayes, the author of Saving Sailing and an ardent To the south, the Percy Priest Yacht Club in Nashville, Tennessee — another strong “paper club” with no facility but boasting 280 members — began a mentoring program five years ago to ensure that members who enrolled in their boat program had the appropriate skills to use the club’s O’Day 23 or Catalina 22. The club’s boats can be used for a nominal fee — thereby removing boat ownership costs — and with the help of the mentors (all approved by the Vice Commodore) new skippers gain the confidence and skills to sail off on their own. Piercy Priest also takes a warm and welcoming approach to gain new members by offering two free Learn at the Helm sessions. After those initial tastes of water and wind, the club hopes participants have caught the bug and will join the club for its very reasonable fee, continuing their lessons throughout the rest of the season. On the left coast, the Santa Cruz Yacht Club in Santa Cruz, California has a highly structured mentoring program that acThe Discover Buffalo Sailing Program has proven to be a great way for commodates three to five new sailors a year. This member only skippers and eager crews to meet one another. © Diana Augspurger program — a big contrast to Buffalo’s public program — matches a mentee with a mentor as a means for the mentee to “become supporter of the sport, is lukewarm about mentoring programs proficient in racing, seamanship, cruising under sail, power, and in clubs, seeing them flawed because they depend on passionate regatta management.” Because each mentor-mentee relationship volunteers. Such programs often start in a flutter of enthusiasm is unique, the learning can be tailored to the new member’s needs. and then sputter out as those who started them move on or away. A club volunteer interviews the mentees to assess their learning This is a legitimate observation, yet not a reason to say “No” to desires and matches them to the appropriate mentor, sealing the this enthusiasm. We should foster any and all sailing mentoring, deal with a contract so that goals and feedback are shared. however imperfect. It is simply a core way to pass along our love of For many clubs informal is best, as it has been for the sailing. women in the Beverly Yacht Club in Beverly, Massachusetts, who If you doubt the value of such programs, consider what menhave benefited from a women’s racing network since 1925. This toring has done for the Buffalo Harbor Sailing Club (BHSC) in program encourages veteran women racers in the small boat fleets Buffalo, New York. This paper club, with no facilities, boasts over — the Bullseyes and H-12s — to pass the tiller to crew in the 350 members, with high retention rates from its various mentorsecond race during the Ladies’ Racing Series. These second races ing programs. Established in 1977, BHSC is the antithesis of the aren’t scored in the traditional manner so they don’t impact the stuffy, blazered pedigreed yachting scene. Its focus is sailing, with a boat’s standings, but they are competitive (and the first race in the good dose of racing thrown in. For years, the club has run a popu- series is scored) and provide the novice helmswoman a dynamic, lar women’s mentoring program that attracts over 200 women mentored way to skipper. New skippers quickly learn tactics, boat annually. handling, and live racing rules. As Deborah Elfers, a winning H-12 Recently the club began a Discover Buffalo Sailing program, 30 August 2016 WindCheck Magazine

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Participants in Rockland Yacht Club’s women mentoring program prepare to set sail. © John and Helen Kuhl

skipper in the Beverly Yacht Club says, this program “has encouraged impressive fleet growth, with women buying their own boats, and racing them as they move up in the fleet.” You won’t find it on the website, but if you are around the club you’ll hear about it; if you’re female and itching to hop on a race boat your way will be easier because of this legacy. For the first time in its long history my club, the Rockland Yacht Club on the coast of Maine, is unveiling a mentoring program to share knowledge and promote networking. Amongst us we have lots of varied sailing experiences and interests — offshore, singlehanding, night racing, women’s boat ownership — that could shared by such a program. It’s too early to tell if members will raise their hands to seek mentoring. We are beginning with

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a dryland, informal evening for women sailors, where we aim to create a program to help one another increase our sailing comfort, experience, and knowledge. Sailing mentoring programs certainly come and go, as Hayes suggested. Search the web and you will find a few clubs that have mentoring programs. Go one step further and attempt to contact them and you may find a dead end. Passionate volunteers gone missing? Perhaps. But don’t let those realities stop you. All it takes is one of us to ignite another sailor to make it worthwhile. So what about it? Can you find a way to invite someone with less knowledge aboard this summer? Maybe just share a picnic without actually leaving the mooring if they seem apprehensive (and many are). Of if they seem the adventurous type, invite them aboard for that weeknight race. You never know what you might learn from each other, or how you might influence one another. If each sailor in the U.S. and Canada invited just one newbie aboard this summer, we’d grow sailing. ■ Molly Mulhern is a nautical publisher, editor, writer, and champion of all things book- and sailing-related. As past editorial director at International Marine, Molly’s aim has always been to publish books that improve the quality of life for sailors and outdoorspeople, helping them achieve their dreams. She is now consulting and acquiring books for a New York trade publisher. Molly sails and races her Tanzer 22 Ripple out of Rockland, and her J/34C Astraea out of Camden, Maine. Molly is helping the Rockland Yacht Club set up a sailing mentor exchange, volunteering her services as Women’s Sailing Mentor.

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From the Log of Persevere: San Blas Islands and the Panama Canal By Colin Rath Editor’s note: This is the thirteenth installment in a series of dispatches from the Rath family (Colin & Pam, daughters Breana, Mariel and Nerina), who departed Stamford, CT in the fall of 2014 for a worldwide cruise aboard their Hanse 545 Persevere. You’ll find previous articles at windcheckmagazine.com. The San Blas Islands, located in the Caribbean off the northern coast of Panama, are a paradise from a lost time. They consist of 400 cays that are the property of the Kuna Indians. The Kuna only actually inhabit 49 of the islands, so you can find your own unpopulated oasis pretty much everywhere. These are beautiful islands, but treacherous since there are encircled with reefs everywhere that aren’t particularly well represented on the charts, which meant that Breana and Pam spent a lot of time on the bow, yelling directions based on what they could see in the crystal clear water…which is always fun when you draw 9 feet. It’s also suggested that you don’t go too far inland on these isolated, deserted islands since smugglers often use them for contraband caches, and those are folks you don’t want to run into unexpectedly on a deserted island. The islands are also covered with insects, and even drenched with OFF! we could only last a few hours ashore before being eaten alive. Other than that we loved the islands, and spent two weeks discovering and claiming our own cays. We only saw three other boats the first week, and not many more until we came across vacation spots as we cruised further down the chain. We enjoyed our days snorkeling, diving and spear fishing after the girls finished school each day. Lobsters were abundant on the reefs, so seafood was the full diet and life was good. After a few days, a local Kuna canoed by and charged us $10 for a month of anchoring in the islands. Eventually, we had to check into Panama. That’s a lot easier to do in a remote area where with customs and immigration are in the same building, rather than searching for two different offices spread out all over town. So, we went to the island of El Porvenir, which are actually three small islands. One island has the government offices, a small hotel and an airstrip, and the two others are overpopulated with thatch roof huts for 500 families and cement block stores. Several canoes full of families came

out to greet us and sell us their wares as we dropped anchor. They have fresh fish, lobsters, intricate hand-stitched native artwork called Molas, traditional clothes, and beads. They hopped up on the boat, spread their goods out all over the cockpit, and the store was open. The girls had a blast trying on Kuna dresses. We befriended The girls enjoyed trying on colorful Kuna dresses Lester, and were invited in the San Blas Islands. ashore to meet his family and explore his © persevere60545.com village. It was like being All cruising yachts must back in the Stone Age, be fumigated before with bits of modern making landfall in the technology everywhere: Galapagos. bamboo huts with © persevere60545.com thatch roofs and dirt floors, whole families living in a 200 square foot space, sleeping in hammocks, with a TV in the corner covered in tarps so it doesn’t get wet. Water is from a faucet in the town square next to the basketball court. Basketball is the Kuna’s national pastime, which is interesting because the Kuna are not particularly tall. They have annual inter-island tournaments, with the championship in El Porvenir. Lester proudly showed us the island’s trophy room, which had 50 or so life-size trophies that his island had won over the years. He showed us around the island and we met his huge family (20 plus). We stayed there for two days to get our Zarpe (departure clearance) done so that we could enter Colon, Panama without a problem and start the canal procedures. Shelter Bay Marina is on the old American Base for the Panama Canal, just outside Colon. The U.S. gave the Canal to Panama, and the base is now ransacked and deserted. I think the Panamanian Army use it for war games now. The marina is a good place for preparing for passage through the Panama Canal and obtaining certification for Galapagos. Colon and Panama City are good places to provision up and that’s advisable because cruisers will not see another reasonable supermarket until making landfall in Marquesas (about 60 days later). We also had to get the boat measured, clean the bottom, rent fenders and hire rope handlers for transiting the canal, and fumigate the boat. This is a good one, 30 days out of the Galapagos, you have to hire this company whose owner is related to the Chairman of the Galapagos Department of Tourism to fumigate your boat for bugs… right. A guy shows up, looking like a Ghostbusters character and smokes out your boat. Once he leaves, you air out your boat and you get a certificate to enter

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Galapagos. You also have to schedule an advisor from the Panama Canal Authority to accompany you aboard for the two-day trip through the locks. The advisors are tugboat captains for the canal, who are hired out on their off time for extra money. There are three ways your boat can pass through the locks. One is being tied to one of the lock walls while the lock is being filled and drained (Bad idea for any cruising boat – your boat will be destroyed). The second is being tied up to two other cruising boats as you go through the lock (This is better – you have boats and fenders on both sides and their rope handlers do most of the work). This is what we did when we made passage through the canal. Finally, you can opt to be alone and set in the middle of the lock, which is safest, but that option is usually not available since the canal only makes money when each lock is filled with ships. Plus realize, this is just cruising boats – a container ship will also be in the lock with you, taking up the other 800 feet and using his engines to exit the lock ahead of you, giving you a little turbulence in the water. We were scheduled to go through the canal on April 10, but there was a small strike and we were delayed until April 14, so we rented a car and set off to discover Panama City. We went on Airbnb and found a cheap hotel with a rooftop pool. Seems businesses are starting to use apps to their advantage in this wired world. Panama City is a diverse city. There are some top class restaurants and avant-garde nightclubs mixed with Spanish architecture and real new world charm. Pam and I enjoyed some adult time in the city listening to music on the rooftop clubs of old Panama. After a few days of shopping in actual malls, provisioning for the next two months and sightseeing we headed back to Shelter Bay Marina to start our canal passage. Our rope handlers arrive at 8 am the morning of passage through the canal (we only got two because I had Pam and Breana). They wouldn’t accept the twins as rope handlers because they were under 15 years old and the canal requires four rope handlers aboard. Once aboard, we motored out to a holding area by the canal entrance and waited for our advisor. He was due to arrive, like the Verizon service guy, between 10 am and 4 pm. We were lucky and only waited for an hour for him to arrive. Our group of cruisers doing the passage at the same time included a 45-foot cat and a 30-foot sloop. Since we were the largest vessel windcheckmagazine.com

Transiting the locks © persevere60545.com Mariel enjoyed jamming in the canal. (Can you hear the sound of Peter Rowan’s “Panama Red”? – Ed.) © persevere60545.com

and had deepest keel, we were to be in the middle with the two others rafted up on either side. On the first day, you go through the three Gatun locks on the Atlantic side that raise your boat up 93 feet to the Largo Gatun (artificial lake). The locks open up and monkey's fists are thrown to rope handlers, who manage the ropes as the water rises and tie into place when the lock is filled. With a container ship just 50 feet in front of us during the ascension of the Gatun locks, we were thrown around a bit when the container ship moved out of the lock. All of a sudden, we were bursting with water thrusted from all sides once the gate to the lock was closed. It’s a lot of water. I read that “the passage of each ship releases a staggering 52 million gallons of fresh water into the ocean” (Lonely Planet, Panama 6th edition). After doing this sequence three times, we reached the Gatun lake. The advisor was picked up at the end of the day and we spent the night anchored off the old American Yacht Club (used to be U.S. military) until 7 am the next morning, when a new advisor came aboard to proceed. We spent the night rafted up. There was a birthday celebration next door and all were invited. Guitars and rum were broken out. It was a lot of fun seeing Mariel play guitar with another player. The next morning, we enjoyed a fresh water swim. It was a nice change before our six-hour motor across the lake and through the Panama Canal to the Miraflores and Pedro Miguel locks. Along the way, we got to see the prison where Noriega remains today. Interestingly, the canals to the locks are not straight. It was worried that during World War II that a sub could get in and sink ships in the canal, so they made them serpentine. We rafted up again to enter the locks and descended through the three locks. This time we were in front of the container ship, which was kind of intimidating. Once we cleared the last lock, a boat came alongside and picked up our advisor, rope handlers and all the fenders. Our agent gave us our papers and passports, Zarpe. Persevere entered the Pacific Ocean for the first time and set sail towards the Galapagos. ■ As a competitive sailor, Colin Rath has owned and captained several racing yachts. Follow him on the Rolex Sydney-Hobart Race this year. Colin’s book, It Is What It Is, can be purchased on www.ColinRath.com, at any major bookstore or Amazon.com. Also, keep eyes out for Colin’s next book coming out in fall of 2017. Look for updates on Persevere’s journey in future issues of WindCheck, and track their progress on their Facebook page, “Persevere60545.” WindCheck Magazine

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Calendar 2016 AUGUST Ongoing through October River Cruises Aboard Schooner Mary E Enjoy a river excursion (1.5 hours) or a sunset cruise (2 hours) aboard a 110-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&2 JSA Pixel Invitational Regatta This Junior Sailing Association of Long Island Sound event is hosted by Cedar Point Yacht Club. Westport, CT; cedarpointyc.org; jsalis.org 3-7 C. Raymond Hunt National Championship This International 210 Class regatta is hosted by Newport Yacht Club with support from Sail Newport. Newport, RI; 210class.com 4 Singles Under Sail Thursday Social Prospective members are invited to come and mingle. Dinner is available for purchase. 6pm; Ponus Yacht Club, Stamford, CT; Check out SUS on Meetup, Facebook and singlesundersail.org. For more information, message or call 203-847-3456. 4 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 4 3rd Annual Leukemia Cup Brigantine Junior

V15s, 5O5s, J/24s, J/80s, F-18s, R18s, and PHRF Racing & Cruising boats. Beverly Yacht Club, Marion, MA; buzzardsbayregatta. com

6 Howard C. Hoxsie Regatta This event is sailed in J/24s. Harlem Yacht Club, City Island, NY; race@hyc.org; hyc.org

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

5-7 Buzzards Bay 420 Championship This event is open to C420 and I420 sailors. Community Boating Center, New Bedford, MA; communityboating.org/bb420champs

6 Special Olympics CT Unified Sailing Regatta Cedar Point Yacht Club, Westport, CT; cedarpointyc.org

4-7 34th Annual Knickerbocker Cup Sailed in Swedish Match 40s, this match race regatta is the first event in the US Grade 2 Grand Slam Series. Manhasset Bay Yacht Club Port Washington, NY; manhassetbayyc.org; usmatchracing.com

5-7 Long Island Sound Beneteau Owners Rendezvous Presented by Prestige Yacht Sales, this event is hosted by Brewer Essex Island Marina. Essex, CT; Maureen Mazan: Maureen@PrestigeYachtSales. net; 203-353-0373

5 Fishers Island Junior Overnight Race In this event, 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 - 18 and adult safety advisors. The course will be 80 to 100nm, depending on wind and conditions. Fishers Island, NY; fiyc.net

5-7 6th Annual Lighthouse Weekend Events include the 6th Annual Light Keeper’s Gala aboard the Cornucopia Destiny (8/5; 6:30pm boarding; 7pm departure); presentations, panel discussions, free tours and public events at the Museum site (8/6: free); and the Signature Lighthouse Boat Tour (8/7 at 11am); National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY; 718-390-0040; info@lighthousemuseum.org; lighthousemuseum.org

5 RYC Monkey Cup Regatta This event is open to Opti Green Fleet sailors. Riverside Yacht Club, Riverside, CT; riversideyc.org 5-7 44th Annual Buzzards Bay Regatta presented by Mozzone Lumber featuring Marvin Windows and Doors The largest multi-class regatta on the East Coast has divisions for Lasers (including Radials & Masters), C420s, I420s,

5 - 21 The Games of the XXXI Olympiad Fifteen members of the US Sailing Team Sperry are going for the gold! Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; ussailing.org/ Olympics

Paris Henken (helm) & Helena Scutt, 49erFX © Will Ricketson/US Sailing Team Sperry

6 GSBYRA Invitational Regatta at Westhampton Hosted by the Westhampton Yacht Squadron, this Great South Bay Yacht Racing Association event includes the ‘Tuck East Cup for the Narrasketuck Class. Remsemburg NY; gsbyra. org 6 Boardman Cup Invitational This ECSA points event is hosted by Milford Yacht Club. Milford, CT; milfordyachtclub. com 6 Central Long Island Sound Lighthouse Cruise This 5-hour cruise aboard the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk’s unique hybrid-electric research vessel Spirit of the Sound will make close passes by five beacons: Peck Ledge, Greens Ledge, Sheffield Island, Penfield Reef, and Stratford Shoal. Maritime Aquarium educators will offer details, histories and anecdotes about the lighthouses. Binoculars will be provided. Passengers must be over 42” tall. 10am; $70 fee ($60 for Aquarium members) includes a box lunch. Advance reservations are required. The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, CT; 203-852-0700, ext. 2206; maritimeaquarium.org 6&7 YRA Championship Regatta Sponsored by Thomson Reuters and co-hosted by Riverside, Indian Harbor & American Yacht Clubs, this Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound event is open to dinghies, inshore & offshore one-designs, and PHRF & IRC boats. Greenwich, CT & Rye, NY; yralis.org

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6&7 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 6&8 Twenty Hundred Club Block Island Race This PHRF event comprises races from Newport, RI to Block and back. twentyhundredclub.org 7 AYC Windsurfing Champs American Yacht Club, Rye, NY; Kevin Broome: juniorayc@gmail. com; americanyc.org; jsalis.org 8&9 JSA Pixel Championship Noroton Yacht Club, Darien, CT; jsalis.org 9 Rye Rumble This event is open to O’Pen BIC and RS Feva sailors. American Yacht Club, Rye, NY; Kevin Broome: juniorayc@gmail.com; americanyc.org

9 & 10 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 9 - 11 USODA New England Championship A qualifier for the 2017 Team Trials, this Optimist regatta is hosted by Sail Newport. Newport, RI; usoda.org 11 7th Annual Zywiec windcheckmagazine.com

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 11 HYC Junior Regatta This event for Optimist, Feva and Laser Radial sailors is a very informal series of races with a focus on fun and education by the coaches. Huguenot Yacht Club, New Rochelle, NY; Iris Vogel: irisvogel@gmail.com; juniorsailingclubhouse.com 11 - 14 Oakcliff Invitational The second event in the US Grade 2 Grand Slam Series, this match race regatta is sailed in Swedish Match 40s. Oakcliff Sailing, Oyster Bay, NY; oakcliffsailing. org; usmatchracing.com 12 Sam Wetherill Trophy Overnight Race Honoring the memory of an ardent bluewater sailor, this ECSA double points race around Block Island was established to encourage long distance overnight racing for cruising sailboats. Essex Yacht Club, Essex, CT; essexyc. com 12 NBYC Cocktail Party With elegant food, a silent auction and the camaraderie of sailors and landlubbers alike, this event supports Center for Hospice Care. Niantic Bay Yacht Club, Niantic, CT; purchase tickets at hospicesect.org/events/what/ regatta-series. 12 - 14 13th Annual Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show Maine’s only in-water boat and home show features the state’s finest artists, architects, boatbuilders, craftspeople, designers, furniture makers, marine gear vendors, chefs & musicians. Events include a Boston Whaler Rendezvous, live music, a Fun For Kids area, fine Maine food, and the Annual World ChamWindCheck Magazine

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AUGUST Continued pionship Boatyard Dog® Trials. Gates open at 10am daily. Harbor and Buoy Parks, Rockland, ME; showinfo@maineboats. com; 800-565-4951; maineboats. com 12 & 13 Stone Horse Builder’s Cup This one-design race is open to sailors of the 23-foot Stone Horse built by Edey & Duff, formerly of Aucoot Cove, Mattapoisett, MA. New Bedford 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 35th 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 13 Fuller Offshore Race This PHRF pursuit race is hosted by Watch Hill Yacht Club. Watch Hill, RI; whyc.net/Fuller.php 13 36th Annual Women Skippers’ Race City Island Yacht Club, City Island, NY; cityislandyc.org

12 - 14 Marblehead Corinthian Classic Yacht Regatta This first event in the North American Circuit of the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge is hosted by Corinthian Yacht Club. Marblehead, MA; corinthianclassic.org 12 - 14 Mystic Blues Festival There’s a new venue for this popular family event, and a powerhouse lineup including Dr. John and the Nite Trippers, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez, Roomful of Blues, Jay Stollman with special guest Debbie Davies, Paul Gabriel, and many more. North Stonington Fairgrounds, North Stonington, CT; tickets are available at mysticbluesfestival.com.

13 New Haven Mayor’s Cup This ECSA points event is hosted by New Haven Yacht Club. New Haven, CT; newhavenyc.org 13 NYC Greens Ledge Trophy Race Norwalk Yacht Club, Norwalk, CT; norwalkyachtclub.com 13 39th 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 13 39th Annual Save the Bay Swim for Narragansett Bay With 500 swimmers and nearly 200 kayakers making the journey from the Newport Navy Base to Potter Cove in Jamestown, this event supports Save the Bay’s mission to protect and restore the Narragansett Bay region. Newport, RI; savebay.org

14 63rd Annual CIYC Day Race City Island Yacht Club, City Island, NY; cityislandyc.org 15 49th 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

13 & 14 Corinthian Classic Yacht Regatta This Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge event is hosted by Corinthian Yacht Club. Marblehead, MA; corintinaclassic.org 13 & 14 J/Fest New England All J Sailors are invited to enjoy this fun-filled weekend of sailing, racing and socials. One-Design, J/PHRF & J/Cruise; Bristol Yacht Club, Bristol, RI; jfestnewengland.com 13 - 21 Nantucket Race Week Co-hosted by Nantucket Yacht Club and Great Harbor Yacht 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 14 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 14 HYC Mayor’s Cup Regatta Huguenot Yacht Club, New Rochelle, NY; huguenotyc.com

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15 & 16 JSA Optimist Champs This Junior Sailing Association of Long Island Sound event is hosted by The WaterFront Center. Oyster Bay, NY; jsalis.org; thewaterfrontcenter.org 16 & 17 60th 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 16 - 18 NBYA Junior Race Week/ US Sailing Junior Olympic Festival This Narragansett Bay Yachting Association event is open to Optimist, C420, Byte, Laser and O’Pen BIC sailors. Compass Rose Beach, North Kingstown, RI; nbya.org 18 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 windcheckmagazine.com

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; Lisa Schinella: Lisa@stormtrysailfoundation. org; stormtrysailfoundation.org/ safety-at-sea.htm

19 12th Annual Ida Lewis Distance Race “The Ida” is a part (along with the Sid Clark Offshore Race) of the Rhode Island Offshore Challenge. Depending on conditions, the organizers of this “just right” overnighter may send IRC, PHRF, One-Design, Multihull and Double-Handed boats of 28 feet LOA or longer on one of four coastal courses between 104 nm and 177 nm. Ida Lewis Yacht Club, Newport, RI; info@ ildistancerace; ildistancerace.org

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19 & 20 Sail Nantucket Regatta This Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge event is hosted by the Nantucket Yacht Club, Great Harbor Yacht Club and Nantucket Community Sailing. Nantucket, MA; nanntucketcommunitysailing.org; paneraiclassicyachtschallenge.com 19 - 21 Hinman Masters Team Race New York Yacht Club’s Harbour Court, Newport, RI; nyyc.org

First held at Larchmont Yacht Club in 1997, the Storm Trysail Foundation's junior safety at sea seminars are now held in Annapolis, MD, Boston, MA, Newport, RI, Shelter Island, NY, Stonington, CT and Perth Amboy, NJ.

of approximately 47 nm from Stamford, around Stratford Shoal and back, this race 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

19 The Stamford Overnight Race With a course

20 12th 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 domestic violence and sexual assault. Atlantic Highlands, NJ; Diane Kropfl: 732-872-9190; ahyc.ms.race@gmail.com; ahyc. net/msrace.htm

20 2nd Annual Western Long Island Sound Governor’s Cup Charity Regatta Presented by Huguenot Yacht Club, City Island Yacht Club and Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, this 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

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AUGUST Continued (PHRF ratings will be assigned). New Rochelle, NY; yachtscoring. com 20 Mason’s Island Regatta This ECSA points event is hosted by Mason’s Island Yacht Club. Mystic, CT; masonsislandyachtclub.com 20 NSYC Moonlight Regatta North Shore Yacht Club, Port Washington, NY; nsyc.net 20 SEA Paddle NYC Now in its 10th year, this 25-mile paddle around Manhattan for Sups and prone paddlers is the Surfers’ Environmental Alliance’s primary fundraiser, supporting environmental preservation and numerous autism non-profits. New York, NY; seapaddlenyc.org 20 42nd 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 Blue Öyster Cult and The Marshall Tucker Band, oysters aplenty, and much more. 10am - 6pm; free; Milford, CT; milfordoysterfestival.org 20 & 21 PYC Corinthian Challenge Cup Pequot Yacht Club, Southport, CT; pequotyc.com 20 & 21 25th Annual Antique Marine Engine Exposition More than 300 full-size and miniature 19th- and early 20th-century inboard and outboard engines running on steam, gasoline, diesel, electricity and naptha will be in display for your viewing and listening pleasure. Saturday 9 am - 5pm; Sunday 9am - 3 pm; Mystic Seaport’s Henry B. DuPont Preservation Shipyard, Mystic, CT; mysticseaport.org

20 & 21 32nd Annual Boat Show at Hudson River Maritime Museum This event features a variety of antique and classic boats at beautiful Rondout Creek. Kingston, NY; acbs-hrc. org 21 44th Annual Opera House Cup Regatta The first allwooden, 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; operahousecup.org  22 Storm Trysail Foundation Golf Tournament This event supports STF’s mission to effect promote and enhance the education of young sailors in safety at sea, safe boat handling in all conditions through seminars, regattas and other on-water training. Eligible players are those that can play golf. Newport National Golf Club,

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Middletown, RI; stormtrysailfoundation.org 22 & 23 USODA New Jersey State Championship A qualifier for the 2017 Team Trials, this Optimist regatta is hosted by Brant Beach Yacht Club. Brant Beach, NJ; usoda.org 24, 26 - 28 Manhasset Bay Race Week This event is open to Opti, Laser, Snipe, Ideal 18, Sonar and MBOD sailors. Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, Port Washington, NY; manhassetbayyc.org 26 & 27 Aeroyacht Demo Sail & Ownership Seminar Led by multihull expert Gregor Tarjan, this popular workshop is held aboard a brand new 2016 Bavaria-Nautitech 40 Open and at Aeroyacht’s office. Topics include an introduction to this high performance cruising catamaran and an overview of a business charter-ownership program that will allow you to own this beautiful cat for substantially

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less. General subjects such as catamaran and option selection as well as tax savings will also be included. This event is free, but register early as spaces are limited. Port Jefferson, NY; also offered 9/2 & 3 and 9/23 & 24; sign up at aeroyacht.com. 26 - 28 Herreshoff Classic Regatta This event includes a weekend of racing on Narragansett Bay and social activities. Herreshoff Museum & America’s Cup Hall of Fame, Bristol, RI; regatta@herreshoff.org; herreshoff.org 26 - 28 49er & 49er FX North American Championship Sail Newport, Newport, RI; sailnewport.org; 49er.org 26 - 28 Offshore New England Championships 2016 Presented by Sea Bags Hosted by Eastern Yacht Club along with Boston Yacht Club and Corinthian Yacht Club, this Mass

Bay Sailing Association event, the ONE Regatta comprises One-Design and PHRF racing, and also serves as the Viper 640 New England Championship. Marblehead, MA; oneregatta.org; massbaysailing.org 27 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; leukemiacup.org/ct 27 First Annual Wind Jam Regatta Created by Windjammers Sailing Club to give new sailors, new boat owners, families, junior sailors, and anyone looking to practice or simply go sailing an opportunity to learn and experience how a weekend regatta works, this inaugural event will have a long starting line and short triangle

courses. Milford, CT; windjammers.org 27 EBYRA Day Race Eastchester Bay Yacht Racing Association; City Island, NY; ebyra. org 27 7th 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 27 & 28 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 28 HHC Labor Day Regatta Hempstead Harbour Club, Glen Cove, NY; hempsteadharbourclub.com

28 Ram Island Invitational This ECSA points event is hosted by Ram Island Yacht Club. Noank, CT; ramislandyachtclub. org

SEPTEMBER 2 82nd 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, with divisions for IRC, PHRF, HPR, Multihulls, Classic

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SEPTEMBER Continued Yachts and Double-Handed boats and a Corinthian Challenge for college sailors. Stamford Yacht Club, Stamford, CT; vineyardinfo@stamfordyc.com; stamfordyc.com; vineyardrace. wordpress.com 2&3 Aeroyacht Demo Sail & Ownership Seminar Led by multihull expert Gregor Tarjan, this popular workshop is held aboard a brand new 2016 Bavaria-Nautitech 40 Open and at Aeroyacht’s office. Topics include an introduction to this high performance cruising catamaran and an overview of a business charter-ownership program that will allow you to own this beautiful cat for substantially less. General subjects such as catamaran and option selection as well as tax savings will also be included. Free, although you’re advised to register early as spaces are limited. Port Jefferson, NY; also offered on 9/23 & 24; sign up at aeroyacht.com. 2-4 37th Annual Newport Museum of Yachting Classic Yacht Regatta This Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge event is sponsored by North Sails, Sail Newport and IYRS. Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI; paneraiclassicyachtschallenge.com 2-4 19th Annual Rhythm & Roots Festival New England’s Hottest Festival of Music and Dance features performances by Lucinda Williams, Taj Mahal Trio, Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers, David Grisman

Sextet, Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin with The Guilty Ones, and many more. Ninigret Park, Charlestown, RI; rhythmandroots.com 3 91st Annual SCYC Stratford Shoal Race Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, NY; seawanhaka.org 3 Onne van der Wal Photography Workshop on the Water: Classic Yacht Regatta Onne will give a guided photographic tour on Narragansett Bay aboard the M/V Gansett, shooting the Classic Yacht Regatta or the 12 Metre Nationals. 3 - 7:30pm; $595 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 3 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 3 10th Annual Huntington Lighthouse Music Festival The world’s only music festival atop a working lighthouse in the middle of the water features lots of great bands. Drop an anchor and raft up with friends…see the light…feel the sound. Music begins at 11am and runs through 8pm; admission is free, although donations for the preservation of historic Huntington Lighthouse will be collected. Huntington Bay, NY; lighthousemusicfest.com 4 89th Annual Around the Island Race The oldest continuing yacht race on Narragansett Bay, this race around Conanicut Island is open to all sailboats with a PHRF of NB rating. Conanicut Yacht Club, James-

town, RI: conanicutyachtclub.org; nbya.org 4 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 5 Sailing Heals Pursuit Race In this Mass Bay Sailing Association fundraising event, the slower boats start before the faster boats, with each one starting at an assigned time based on its PHRF rating. Based in Bradford, MA, Sailing Heals has a mission to “partner with volunteer host captains to offer VIP patient guests and their caregivers a spirit-lifting escape at sea.” Boston Yacht Club, Marblehead, MA; regattaman.com 7 - 18 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games The US Paralympic Sailing Team is going for the gold in three classes. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; ussailing.org/olympics 9 PYC Falkner Island Overnight Race Pequot Yacht Club, Southport, CT; pequotyc. com 10 6th Annual Village Cup Regatta Hosted by Port Jefferson Yacht Club in collaboration with the Village of Port Jefferson and the Port Jefferson Conservancy, 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; portjeffersonyachtclub.com 10 62nd Annual Winkle Cup Centerport Yacht Club, Centerport, NY; centerport-yc.org 10 48th Annual Katrina Cup Lloyd Harbor Yacht Club, Huntington, NY; lhyc.org

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10 Captain Island Race Douglaston Yacht Squadron, Douglaston, NY; douglastonyachtsquadron.com 10 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 10 & 11 132nd Annual Shattemuc Regatta This Hudson River Yacht Racing Association PHRF event is hosted by Shattemuc Yacht Club. Ossining, NY; shattemucyc.org; hryra.org 10 & 11 39th Annual Norwalk Seaport Association Oyster Festival Attractions include a New England Seaport Village, harbor tours, historic and working vessels, arts & crafts, barbecue & oyster shucking competitions, Pirate’s Coast Adventure, Kids’ Cove, live music and more.Veteran’s Memorial Park, Norwalk, CT; seaport.org 10 & 11 Star Bedford Pitcher Regatta This event is hosted by Star Fleet #2, the oldest active star fleet in the world. Cedar Point Yacht Club, Westport, CT; cedarpointyc.org 10 & 11 Harry Anderson Trophy This intercollegiate regatta is hosted by Yale and sailed in Z420s and FJs. Branford, CT; collegesailing.org 10 - 12 C&C Northeast Rendezvous Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT; Rob Gallagher: 860-3896900 or trysail@gmail.com; cncnortheast.com 11 69th Commodore’s Trophy Race This ECSA points windcheckmagazine.com

event is hosted by Thames Yacht Club. New London, CT; thamesyc.org 11 51st 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 11 Brent C. Donahue Cross Sound Regatta Honoring the memory of a great sailor and a friend to all, this distance race is hosted by Black Rock Yacht Club. Bridgeport, CT; blackrockyc.com 15 - 18 46th Annual Newport International Boat Show See hundreds of new sailboats & powerboats and thousands of products & services from domestic & international exhibitors. Newport, RI; newportboatshow.com

15 - 18 Newport Wooden Boat Show This inaugural event will be held at Bowen’s Ferry Landing Marina. Newport, RI

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15 - 18 Newport Brokerage Boat Show More than 100 select sailboats and powerboats from 40 to 140 feet presented by over 30 brokerage firms will be on display Newport Shipyard, Newport, RI; brokerageboatshow.com 16 & 17 79th 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 16 & 17 7th Annual Indian Harbor Classic Yacht Regatta This event is hosted by Indian Harbor Yacht Club and sponsored by Atlantis WeatherGear, Gosling’s Rum, Ella Vickers and WoodenBoat Magazine. Greenwich, CT; Shelia Graves: noreaster1926@yahoo.com; indianharboryc.com

16 - 18 57th Annual Roton Point Multihull Regatta Sponsored by Gosling’s Rum, this New England Catamaran Sailing Association-sanctioned 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 17 Stand Up for Veterans Hosted by Downunder and featuring a 6-mile race, a 3-mile race and a 1-mile fun paddle, WindCheck Magazine

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this SUP and kayak event supports Companions for Heroes, Help Our Military Heroes, and Proudly We Stand. Paddlers of all ages, skills and physical abilities are encouraged to participate (the venue on the Saugatuck River is handicapped accessible, and dogs are welcome!). 9am - 12pm; Downunder, Westport, CT; downunderct.com/events/ stand-up-for-veterans/

has an anchored start. Sheldrake Yacht Club, Mamaroneck, NY; sheldrakeyc.org 17 & 18 Storm Trysail & Riverside Yacht Club Long Island Sound Championship Greenwich, CT; stormtrysail.org 17 & 18 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 17 & 18 Stu Nelson Women’s This intercollegiate regatta is hosted by Connecticut College and sailed in FJs. New London, CT; collegesailing.org

17 International Coastal Cleanup More than 18 million pounds of trash was collected by nearly 800,000 volunteers in this Ocean Conservancy event last year. To help turn the tide on trash and fight for a healthy ocean, visit oceanconservancy.org. 17 Whalers Race This 105 nautical mile race dates back to 1932. New Bedford Yacht Club, South Dartmouth, MA; nbyc. com

17 & 18 Nevins Trophy This intercollegiate regatta is hosted by the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and sailed in 420s, FJs and Lasers. Kings Point, NY; collegesailing.org 18 19th 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. Port Washington, NY; Andrea Watson: racecommittee@pwyc.org or agwatson@sailingpress.com; register at yachtscoring.com

17 33rd Annual Barnegat Bay Antique & Classic Boat Show Presented by the Barnegat Bay Chapter of the Antique & Classic Boat Society, this judged event features 50 to 60 vintage boats, marine vendors, marine artists, flea market, antique and classic American & British cars, radio control boats, food and more. 8am 5pm; free; Johnson Bros. Boat Yard, Pt. Pleasant, NJ; Stu Sherk: snsherk@gmail.com; acbs.org

18 Swanson Cup & Bay Challenge Cup This Narragansett Bay Yachting Association event is hosted by Barrington Yacht Club. Barrington, RI; barringtonyc.com; nbya.org

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18 25th Annual Coastweeks Regatta This rowing event for singles, doubles & fours is part of the annual Mystic Weekend of Rowing. Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT; mysticseaport.org

Boat Show There’s something for every boater at the Northeast’s most popular boat show. Norwalk Cove Marina, Norwalk, CT; boatshownorwalk. com 24 American Yacht Club Leukemia Cup Regatta This brand new event combines the joy of sailing with the important task of raising money to find a cure for blood cancers. American Yacht Club, Rye, NY; leukemiacup.org 24 15th Annual Red Lobdell Memorial Regatta This ECSA points race is open to all boats over 20 feet LOA. Stonington Harbor Yacht Club; Stonington, CT; shyc.us 24 WSC Last Chance Regatta This ECSA points event is hosted by Windjammers Sailing Club. Milford, CT; windjammers. org 24 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 24 Heritage Cup Classic Yacht Regatta  This event is hosted by the Hempstead Harbor Club. Hempstead Harbor, NY: Mike Emmert: GoldenI37@ aol.com; heritagecup.org 24 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 24 Boating Safety Class This U.S. Coast Guard approved and taught course satisfies all CT Licensing requirements. $65 fee includes all course materials. U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Clinton Flotilla, Cedar Island Marina,

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Clinton, CT; David Aresco, FSOPE: 203-623-0861; darescocgaux@earthlink.net; uscgaux.org Also offered on 10/22 & 11/19 24 & 25 27th Annual East End Seaport Maritime Festival Presented by the East End Seaport Museum & Maritime Foundation, this event features classic boats on display and racing, a parade, live music, ship tours, children’s activities, arts & crafts, pirates, whaleboat and kayak races, fireworks, a clam chowder contest and more. Greenport, NY; eastendseaport.org 24 & 25 and 10/1 & 2 AYC Fall Series This twoweekend event is hosted by American Yacht Club. Rye, NY; americanyc.com 25 38th Annual Bud Humphrey Memorial Race This circumnavigation of Prudence Island is hosted by Barrington Yacht Club. Barrington, RI; barringtonyc.com 25 MYC Last Chance Regatta This ECSA points event is hosted by Milford Yacht Club. Milford, CT; milfordyachtclub. com 25 NBYC End of the Summer Regatta This PHRF distance race is hosted by New Bedford Yacht Club. South Dartmouth, MA; nbyc.com 26 Poco Loco Bay Race Open to all spinnaker & non-spinnaker boats with a PHRF-MA rating and multihulls with a NEMA 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

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Celebrate Setauket Harbor N 40° 57.168 W 73° 5.914 By George Hoffman

Local sailors know Setauket Harbor as a small, protected harbor on the western shore of Port Jefferson Harbor, situated roughly at the midpoint of the northern coast of Long Island. Legend has it that during the Revolutionary War, Setauket Harbor was Caleb Brewster’s favorite hiding spot to evade British soldiers when rendezvousing with other members of the Culper Spy Ring who had gleaned important information about enemy troop movements that needed to get to General Washington in West Point, New York via Connecticut. In later years, Setauket Harbor was home to ship captains and boat builders who made their living from the sea. Many were in the whaling trade, and you can find evidence of their involvement in the legend “Made in Setauket” stamped on one of the last remaining whaleboats on display at the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum. Today, the harbor is home to about one hundred recreational boaters and sailors who moor their small boats along its inner channel, knowing well that the harbor’s geography will protect them from late season storms. Over the years, however, as more and more homes were built along its shores, the harbor’s sandy bottom filled with mud and muck from erosion and its natural treed shoreline was cut back to provide views and lawns for new residents. With the new residents came septic issues, which led to nitrogen seeping into the harbor waters and causing algae blooms and seaweed growth. Furthermore, runoff from roads and properties, much going directly into the harbor, caused shellfishing to be restricted by New York State. Fast forward to 2014, when a group of Setauket residents, some of whom lived on its shore and others who just loved the specialness of the harbor, got together to see what they could do to reverse the plight of the harbor and its waters and bring it back to health. Laurie Vetere, a local attorney, Charlie LefkowThe Riverhead Aquarium’s Touch Tank exhibit fascinated both kids and adults alike.

itz, a former town councilman, along with Mike Kaufman and I, founded the Setauket Harbor Task Force with a mission of increasing public awareness of the harbor’s plight, improving its water quality, and protecting its critical marine habitat. “Setauket Harbor Free boat tours of the harbor were a big hit at Setauket Harbor Day. is a special place that is woven into the history and founding of Setauket back in the 1700s, says Task Force founder Laurie Vetere. “Seeing it struggle because of neglect, bad environmental practices and lack of awareness was why we formed the Task Force, and we are starting to turn things around.” In the two and a half years of the Task Force’s existence, the group has become a clearinghouse for information about the harbor and was named “Men and Woman of the Year” by the local community newspaper for its activism and success in getting people together to begin to save the harbor. Last year, the Supervisor of Brookhaven, Edward Romaine, in partnership with the Task Force, hired Cornell Cooperative Extension to undertake a comprehensive water quality analysis of the pathogens in the harbor, the findings of which will be the basis for a harbor water improvement plan that will assure cleaner waters in the near future. Last month, the Task Force hosted its second annual “Setauket Harbor Day,” a free all-day family event with marinethemed exhibitions, music and food that was enjoyed by scores of harbor lovers. The biggest attractions of the day were the free boat rides, kayak, paddleboard and sailing lessons offered by local Setauket businesses which got a lot of people off the land into the harbor waters. The entrance to Setauket Harbor is through a marked channel just north of the power plant. There are no transient moorings available, but there are plenty of transient moorings in Port Jefferson Harbor (VHF channel 68 or 631 796-4462) and visiting boaters can tie up dinghies at the Setauket Harbor town dock on the southwestern shore and walk to several restaurant and stores. To learn more about the Setauket Harbor Task Force and join our efforts to protect this lovely body of water for future generations, please visit us on Facebook at facebook.com/SetauketHarbor. ■ In addition to being a founder of the Setauket Harbor Task Force, George Hoffman is an avid sailor. He is busy sailing and restoring a 1983 Cape Dory 28 which he keeps in Setauket Harbor.

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from the captain of the port Seamanship – Set and Drift – “Leaning In” By Vincent Pica Commodore, First District, Southern Region (D1SR) United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Imagine that you are walking along the sidewalk, trying to get to the coffee shop on the corner. But the person next to you is leaning against your shoulder, keeping pace with you and pushing you away from it. There is only one way you are going to make it to the coffee shop (short of belting the guy!). You have to lean into him to such a degree that you overcome the force of his push and the speed at which he is applying it. This is the essence of “Set and Drift” when navigating as well.

to show that you’ll end up well to the east of your mark – and you’ll get there ahead of schedule! Using your helm, you start to “lean in,” i.e., in this case, you would have to turn your helm over towards starboard until the GPS says that your XTE is zero. Now, assuming that all these forces stay constant, you’ll arrive exactly where you intended (even if you get there ahead of schedule!) But how many degrees should you have turned to starboard in this example? Rather than trial and error (“Turn a little more, dear…Wait, now a little more, dear, wait…”), couldn’t you calculate it precisely? Yes, you can! Take a quick look at the diagram:

Set and Drift The force that this rude dude above is applying to your shoulder is the “drift”; the speed at which he is walking while applying that force is the “set.” If he were the tide, or the wind for that matter, the set is the direction of the force against your hull and the drift is the speed the current is running at. The combination can be considered the force that is keeping you from (or speeding you to) the “coffee shop.” Sailors are more concerned with these forces, as they typically travel at far slower speeds than a powered vessel and thus need greater distances to apply countervailing force to overcome it. But imagine yourself heading out to the Canyons to do some shark fishing. You leave Moriches Inlet and your pal told you to make your point of sail 200° magnetic and put the hammer down for 60 nautical miles… “Plug 39° 40’ 29” N and 071° 14’ 36” W into your GPS and fish all night…” So, you do – and when you’ve traveled the amount of time specified, you find yourself way to the east and south of your mark. Why? Because the tidal forces of the Hudson have been just like that guy outside the coffee shop. The set (direction) of the tidal current – on your starboard quarter in this example – pushed you to port (to the east of the rhumbline), while its force (drift) added to your speed – and pushed you further south than engine speed alone would have taken you. In reality, once you plugged a waypoint into your GPS, the GPS is calculating the “cross track error (XTE).” What is that? It is the computer doing the calculations (see below) that we all used to do by hand – except the computer can do it constantly and continuously. (We had to wait for errors big enough to matter to the human computer!) It is calculating how far off course you’ll be, taking into account your true course over the bottom, if you continue to ignore the set and drift of the current (or wind, for that matter!) In the example above, it would start windcheckmagazine.com

In upcoming issues, we’ll spell out exactly how you relate all these vectors – as well as your boat speed since that adds more countervailing power as you run at higher speeds – into a precise calculation and give you a new Course To Steer (CTS). And become a better seaman… If you are interested in being part of the USCG Forces, email me at JoinUSCGAux@aol.com or go direct to the D1SR Human Resources department, who are in charge of new members matters, at d1south.org/StaffPages/DSO-HR.php and we will help you “get in this thing.” ■ Captain Andrew Tucci is the Captain of the Port and Sector Commander for US Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound. Captain Tucci is responsible for all active-duty, reservist and auxiliary Coast Guard personnel within the Sector. As Commodore of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary First District, Southern Region, Vin Pica works closely with Captain Tucci and his staff to promote boating safety in the waters between Connecticut, Long Island and 200 nautical miles offshore. Sector Long Island Sound Command Center can be reached 24 hours a day at 203-468-4401.

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The Boating Barrister Time, Tide And Statutes of Limitation: What the Prudent Sailor Should Know By John K. Fulweiler There’s an increasing constant in my life. It’s a metronome click that reminds me I’m on an ebbing tide. Don’t forget they say; you’re born on flood tide and your voyage ends when the dock ramps are angled and the shore birds are picking at the perimeters of the marsh. Weekend trips on my sailboat with my wife and electron-charged nine-year-old distract me. My friend Johnny Walker does, too. But distraction is a fool’s game, I know that, and you’re always better turning into the wind and scrambling forward to fix whatever needs repair. The maritime law business doesn’t help me much forget the tide’s burbling past the breakwall. The law is full of deadlines and schedules. The courts tell you to do that by this date and this no later than that date. They’re time frames within which to accomplish certain litigation endeavors and up forward there’s stowed all the bits and pieces associated with running a business, from hourly billings to monthly revenues. The only thing around here as constant as the passage of time is that southerly breeze that pipes in each afternoon for which Narragansett Bay is rightly proud. Still, for the prudent sailor, knowing a little about time frames in the maritime law is just good seamanship, akin to having a sharp knife available or keeping some wire cutters in the aft locker. Like always keeping a set of oars aboard even though the dink has an outboard, understanding the law almost always imposes deadline on claimants by which to bring a claim is equally wise. These deadlines, and you’ve surely heard the phrase, are referred to as the “statute of limitations” period. To put this phrase in sailor-speak, a missed statute of limitations deadline is about as terminal as losing a keel. Yeah, you might have an argument or two for getting a reprieve, but those circumstances are rare and not often encountered. Likewise, knowing that settlement discussions and carefully crafted letters extolling the virtuousness of your claim almost never toll the statute of limitations period puts you ahead of the fleet. Some maritime law claims are governed by something other than a bright-line statute of limitations period. For example, a maritime lien claim may be governed by “laches,” which means that the claim holder’s diligence in pursuing the claim will be analyzed. That is, when laches applies the courts tend to look at how promptly the claimant pursued his or her interest and what, if any, prejudice to the other side has arisen by such time has already passed. In these laches cases, the courts will also sometimes compare the claim to a similar state-based claim with a statute of limitations period. Whatever the case, the takeaway

is to heed that burbling tide and get going. Don’t delay pursuing your maritime lien claim. I know what you’re asking: “But, John, where’s the beef? What’s the statute of limitations period in which to bring a claim arising from a vessel collision or personal injury? Or, how much time do I have to pursue that warranty claim on my defective boat?” Nope, I’m not going there. You see, calculating the statute of limitations period can be tricky. There are different statutory time periods to bring different types of claims. A tort claim (a claim for injury to persons or property) might have to

Knowing a little about time frames in the maritime law is just good seamanship. be brought more promptly than a contract claim. Remember, statutes of limitation are like those gnarly Bahamian coral heads where one wrong interaction is terminal. If you have claim, know and understand its shelf life. Know and understand that society doesn’t let your claim bob around all season – you almost always have to take action within a certain period of time. Of course, your admiralty attorney can be a good resource. You don’t need to decide whether to bring the claim or interrupt your friendly (so far) negotiations with the boatyard to pick up the telephone and speak to your admiralty attorney about when the deadline is for bringing your specific claim. In the meantime, go burn up some nautical miles and don’t look too closely at the receding shoreline! 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. Underway and making way. ■

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John K. Fulweiler, Esq. is a licensed captain and a Proctor-In-Admiralty. His legal practice is devoted to maritime law and he represents individuals and marine businesses throughout the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. He does not represent insurance companies. He may be reached anytime at 1-800-383-MAYDAY (6293), or at his Newport, Rhode Island desk at 401-667-0977 or john@saltwaterlaw.com.

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A practical guide to repairs, installations and maintenance By Andy Johnson Published by Adlard Coles Nautical, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc 192 pages hardcover $45 Electrical systems are a notoriously tricky aspect of boat ownership and maintenance, especially when you consider the damp, salty and bouncy environment in which marine electrical components have to operate. If you want to build confidence and boost your self-sufficiency by learning how to find, prevent and resolve onboard electrical problems, The Boat Electrics Bible is an indispensable, comprehensive guide. With hundreds of detailed photographs and step-by-step diagrams, author Andy Johnson provides expert advice on understanding electrical circuits, keeping batteries

charged, finding faults, installing new equipment, hooking up to shore power, grounding and bonding, safety issues, renewable energy systems, and much more. Andy Johnson is an electronics engineer with extensive experience in a variety of commercial and marine settings. As a qualified Yachtmaster Instructor, he provides training in navigation, radar, boat electrics and electronic systems. He and his wife Sue enjoy heading off in their boat to wherever the weather allows. â&#x2013;

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Fast Times at “The Law” By Cooper Nefsky The Commodore Law Trophy, one of junior sailing’s oldest regattas, was hosted by Indian Harbor Yacht Club in Greenwich, CT on June 27 & 28, and saw a variety of conditions from champagne to drifting. Throughout the regatta the atmosphere was buzzing, as the Law Trophy signals the start of the Junior Sailing Association of Long Island Sound’s regatta season. The Law Trophy is a quarterfinal for US Sailing’s 2016 Chubb U.S. Junior Championships, which will be sailed in August in San Diego. The top two finishers in the 420 and Radial class receive sponsorship from JSA of LIS to compete in the Area B semi-final. Sailors arriving at Indian Harbor YC on Monday, June 27 were greeted with words from PRO Jonathan Nye, and quickly got to racing. After two general recalls, the C420s were sent to the back of the queue and the Laser Radials started next. Eventually, the 420s got off and had their first race. All racing featured twice around W4s. By finishing the fleets on the opposite side of the start line, the race committee was able to keep the action

Julia Reynolds and Hobi Lew scored a decisive victory in the C420 class. © Mary Alice Fisher/maryalicefisher.com moving. Day one featured six races for the Lasers and five for the 420s. “It was a long day of great racing,” said Oliver Knight of Noroton Yacht Club, who placed second in the Laser Radial fleet. The race committee knew they would not see the same conditions on Tuesday, and they were correct. Tuesday brought less than ideal conditions with courses changed from W4s to W2s. The Radial fleet was able to squeeze out two races, while

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the other classes got one each. Pequot Yacht Club’s Julia Reynolds and Hobi Lew sailed very consistently, finishing no worse than second to win the 420 class and defeat last year’s winner Max Anker (Riverside Yacht Club; sailing this year with Christopher Lukins) by six points, with Charlotte Costikyan and Isabel Infurna (Noroton YC) Lindsay Powers notched three bullets on her way to winning the Laser Radial class. © Mary Alice Fisher/maryalicefisher.com

in third. Racing was close in the Laser Standards, with Burke Anvari (Cedar Point Yacht Club) finishing two points clear of Richard O’Leary (American Yacht Club) in second and four ahead of David Ingraham (Larchmont Yacht Club) in third. In the Radials, Lindsay Powers (American YC) moved up from her fourth place showing in 2015 and was the clear winner, six points ahead of Oliver Knight and William O’Leary (American YC) who tied, with the countback breaking in Knight’s favor. Indian Harbor Yacht Club served up an array of delicious options when the sailors arrived back at the club, and awards for the top finishers were presented shortly after the barbecue. Knight and many other sailors said they can’t wait to come back to compete next year. Full results are posted at jsalis.org. ■ Cooper Nefsky is the Junior Sailing Association of Long Island Sound’s Media Coordinator. He will be entering his senior year at Connecticut College this fall, where he currently studies film. Cooper grew up sailing out of Orient Yacht Club on the East End of Long Island and now competes on the Connecticut College Sailing Team.

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Spectacular Weather, Intense Competition

The 50th edition of the Newport Bermuda Race was one to remember By John Rousmaniere

The Newport Bermuda Race has long been well known for the variety of challenges it throws at sailors. Sometimes there are calms, at other times storms, often there’s overcast, and occasionally there is the distraction of a stunningly beautiful night. This year, a full moon rose over the fleet with such brilliance that one sailor (Bermuda Race Organizing Committee Chairman A.J. Evans, sailing on Lenny Sitar’s J/44 Vamp; Holmdel, NJ) took a break from his steering and sailtrimming duties to send out an email at 2 o’clock one morning saying, “Spectacular evening of sailing here on a gentle sea with a decent breeze under a full moon and stars.” The sea is not always so pleasant. When weather forecasters predicted before the start on June 17 that the entries would be battered by storms, 50 crews dropped out, leaving 133 boats to start the race. The forecast turned out to be correct only in the far eastern part of the course. Boats there had 45-knot winds and no reported damage. The crews were also resilient as well as creative in the strategies they chose to deal with the race’s other challenges. Jim Clark & Kristy Hinze Clark’s 100-foot sloop Comanche (Newport, RI), in the race’s Open Division, set out to break the 635-nautical mile Newport-Bermuda sailing speed record. The intricate course chosen by navigator Stan Honey to find favorable wind and avoid unfavorable current led to a speed record of 34 hours, 42 minutes and 53 seconds, for an average speed of 18 knots.

That elusive cold eddy Well astern of Comanche, boats in the race’s four other divisions (another, Gibbs Hill, had no entries) managed the typical rough Gulf Stream waters, and then dealt with a cold eddy, a large pool of swirling cool water, that forecasters had predicted would provide a favorable boost of current toward Bermuda. Some navigators intentionally sailed their boats into the eddy. Others who believed this was too good to be true kept their distance— correctly, it turned out. The eddy had shifted position and the boats in it were set back, not forward. There were more surprises all the way to the island. “I’ve

sailed many Bermuda Races,” said Brad Willauer, who skippered the Cruiser Division entry J/46 Breezing Up (Prouts Neck, ME) with a family crew, “but I don’t recall ever sailing one when we didn’t get a push from a favorable current.” The boat in the St. David’s Lighthouse Division that came out best in these perplexing conditions was Christopher Sheehan’s Xp44 Warrior Won (Larchmont, NY). Hard-working Navigator H.L. Devore set a course miles east of the eddy, going so far as to sail at right angles to the rhumbline to Bermuda in order to get farther away. Obsessively checking the weather forecasts—he claimed he did 200 downloads to Warrior Won’s computer in two days—Devore and his shipmates neared Skippered by Ken Read, Jim Clark & Kristy Hinze Clark’s 100-foot Comanche (Newport, RI) made the ‘Dash to the Onion Patch’ in less than a day and a half, setting a new course record of 34 hours, 42 minutes and 53 seconds. © Stephen Cloutier/photogroup.us

Bermuda with a light following wind in a pack of six similarly sized boats, all of them jibing aggressively down the course to St. David’s Head as though they were small boats racing for an Olympic gold medal.

The kids are alright The first boat to finish in this group (and the second in the race after Comanche) was the Tripp 41 High Noon (Kings Point, NY) with a crew of seven well-trained teenagers and three adults (see page 60.) Warrior Won finished close enough for her time allowance to bring her ahead of High Noon and win the division. These changing forecasts and conditions affected the other divisions, too. In the Double-Handed Division, Zachary Lee and his crew Gus Stringos felt some pressure not to enter Yankee Girl, a Morris 36 Justine-class sloop (Chilmark, MA), but they did start under an agreement that should conditions become threatening, they would turn back. They went hunting for the cold eddy, but the wind did not cooperate and so they sailed to Bermuda within 30 miles of the rhumbline, mostly reaching and running, and with some interesting company. “There were a

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the Spirit of Tradition Division. Until this year, the replica Bermuda “sloop” Spirit of Bermuda (Hamilton, BER) has not had any competition in Bermuda Races. But this year America, Troy Sears’ semi-replica of the yacht whose name is on the America’s Cup, came around from San Diego and entered the race against her along with Bob Eichler’s S&S 96 Altair (Seattle, WA) and Frank Blair’s cat-rigged schooner Farfarer (Port Mahon, DE). The sight of these yachts on one starting line was entrancing. Spirit of Bermuda went on to win the race. ■

The crew of Christopher Sheehan’s Xp44 Warrior Won (Larchmont, NY) turned in a strong performance to win the St. David’s Lighthouse Trophy.

Sailor-writer John Rousmaniere’s books include The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, Fastnet, Force 10, and a history of the Bermuda Race, A Berth to Bermuda. He has sailed in ten Bermuda Races.

lot of nice spottings of whales, porpoises, and birds,” Lee recalled after the race. “A Minke whale came up alongside and swam with the boat.” Their AIS (automatic identification system, required in Double-Handed boats) tracked opponents’ positions and maneuvers as they ran before the wind to the finish. Lee hand-steered through all but one of the last 24 hours of the race. When he later told a visitor, “I’d like to attribute my success to a good crew and lots of luck,” what went unstated was the power of aggressive sailing tactics.

Cruisers can be racers, too The Cruiser Division’s name suggests that these boats are sailed in a more relaxed way than the others. In some ways that’s true. “I don’t like beating to Bermuda,” said Brad Willauer. “Nobody does.” As Jim Murphy’s 44-foot F&C yawl Inisharon (Rye, NY) neared Bermuda on the last night of their race, crewmember Mark D’Arcy posted the night’s menu: “Tonight, chicken and rice for dinner washed down with a lovely vintage of sports drink topped off with some butterscotch cookies. What more could one need?” And yet D’Arcy later wrote, “We are approaching Bermuda and as other boats converge our angles of approach will continue to get narrower and we will once again see boats which will be an exciting sight. Currently, we have a competitor on our tail, and hope we can keep them there.” The division winner, which avoided the eddy, was Daniel Biemesderfer’s Mason 43 Shearwater (Guilford, CT), a powerful, heavy boat that, to judge by reports, was raced as hard as the high-performance entries. The oldest boats in the fleet, at least in design, were in windcheckmagazine.com

Zachary Lee and Gus Stringos sailed Lee’s Morris Justine 36 Yankee Girl (Chilmark, MA) to victory in the Double-Handed Division’s Class 2. © Allen Clark/PhotoBoat.com

Daniel Biemesderfer’s Mason 43 Shearwater (Guilford, CT) claimed top honors in the Cruiser Division’s Class 12. © Allen Clark/PhotoBoat.com WindCheck Magazine

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Veterans Compete in the Sail To Prevail Belle Haven Challenge Cup The Belle Haven Club in Greenwich, CT hosted the 18th Annual Sail To Prevail Belle Haven Challenge Cup On Sunday, June 19. In this unique competition, disabled Armed Forces veterans from Connecticut and New York served as active crewmembers on one of three vintage America’s Cup 12 Metre yachts. Teams competed off Greenwich Harbor aboard American Eagle, Weatherly and Intrepid.

A dozen disabled Armed Forces veterans raced on American Eagle in the Sail To Prevail Belle Haven Challenge Cup. © Mary Alice Fisher/maryalicefisher.com

This was the fourth year that Bank of America has participated in the Belle Haven Challenge Cup, and their team included 12 disabled vets. Bank of America’s boat, American Eagle, finished second overall after three competitive races. Joining the vets were Bank of America employees including members of the company’s Disability Advocacy Network and Military Support & Assistance Group. Local veteran support organizations including Hope for the Warriors and the Veterans Administration Hospital were invited to share in this unique experience. “Sail To Prevail’s Belle Haven Challenge Cup provides an excellent opportunity for our veterans to demonstrate their full range of abilities to the community,” said Bill Tommins, Bank of America’s Southern Connecticut Market President. “Each year, we look forward to working with Sail to Prevail in expressing our thanks to those who have dedicated so much to our country.” Among American Eagle’s crew was former U.S. Marine Corps Captain Paul Mayhugh. Through his participation in the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Veterans Associate Program, Mayhugh successfully transitioned in 2015 from the military to private sector employment. Today, he works in Bank of America’s Equities Asset Management division in New York City. 54 August 2016 WindCheck Magazine

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“This year’s Challenge provided a memorable opportunity for myself and my fellow veterans,” said Mayhugh. “Bank of America’s employee networks bring multiple opportunities to our veteran employees and those impacted with disabilities, and I was happy to take part in this experience alongside colleagues.” Proceeds from the 2016 Belle Haven Challenge Cup fund Sail To Prevail’s expanding therapeutic sailing program for disabled veterans throughout New England and New York. During the same weekend, 22 members of the New England Chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America participated in a two-day disabled sailing program in Newport.

With sunny skies and plenty of breeze, spirits were high aboard the classic “12.” © Mary Alice Fisher/maryalicefisher.com

“We are proud to state that Bank of America has empowered our organization to develop and expand programs that serve an increasing number of disabled veterans each year,” said Sail To Prevail CEO Paul Callahan. “This is a direct result of the company’s charitable commitment to Sail To Prevail and its impressive dedication to our country’s veterans.” Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Newport, RI, Sail To Prevail has created opportunities for over 17,500 disabled children and adults to use sailing as an experience to overcome adversity. The organization has a growing commitment to serving veterans and works closely with the Paralyzed Veterans of America in hosting therapeutic sailing programs, as well as advanced racing clinics and regattas. Sail To Prevail, the National Disabled Sailing Program, is a non-profit organization and accepts charitable contributions to support its work with disabled children, adults and veterans. Last month, more than 100 vets from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System participated in the organization’s Summer Sports Clinic in Newport. To learn more about Sail To Prevail’s therapeutic sailing programs including their Confidence is Cool Camp for physically disabled children ages 7 to 17, Sail Away From Cancer for pediatric cancer patients, their resident doctors and family members, as well as upcoming events, visit sailtoprevail.org or contact Callahan at 401-849-8898 or paulcallahan@sailtoprevail.org. ■ windcheckmagazine.com

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Coop’s Diary of a Weekend By Joe Cooper

Congratulations on their remarkable success in the Newport Bermuda Race to the High Noon crew from American Yacht Club’s Young American Junior Big Boat Sailing Team. There, I said it. By now I reckon every else has said it, but I could not let the chance pass. Good going, ladies and gentlemen. A remarkable thing happened the week of Fourth of July this year. The Coopers had their boat in the water…Yup, really. This is something like a month earlier than ‘normal.’ Just goes to show you what can be done when your wife gets hold of the really big stick. (Joke, dear.) A couple of weeks prior, I had gone to the Hinckley yard in Portsmouth and started to put the boat together in anticipation of launching. The Bermuda Race was getting ready to go, so I made some brownie points with Bob Hood, my service manager at Hinckley by telling them to get the ‘hot’ boats all teed up and out of the way. It is always good to be in the yard's good graces, you know. On the Wednesday prior to end of June, I got an email from Bob: Boat is in the water…Wife very happy. (Note from her, not Bob). Thursday: Mast in, ready to roll…Yikes, now what? I thought. Being somewhat neurotic about things boat like, in the fall I strip everything out of the boat – cushions, engine spares, sheets, towels, galley bits, tools, docklines, fenders, etc. – and bring them home. I generally find places to store it all in the areas of our house not taken up by now obsolete lacrosse and soccer kit, clothes from middle school and high school (son is to be a junior in college in a few minutes), books for which I have yet to find a shelf, let alone read, and all the stuff from the Mini, the Laser, the kayak, the two Interclub dinghies, and the Dyer Dhow. It is a good thing we used to live in an apartment in New York City. Friday afternoon and evening were a bust, with thunderstorms and rain. Saturday morning dawned fine and clear, the front having passed and the Coopers on the road to Hinckley

in two cars, completely illegal in terms of overloading and so traveling on all the back ways I know. I always think of the Gary Larson cartoon, ‘the Holsteins go on vacation’ with a family of cows standing on the train station platform with piles of luggage when doing this dance. It helps keep me sane. Odd to get Gary Larson cartoon and sane in the same sentence, but there you have it. The Cooper Family Cruising Yacht, a lovely old Ranger 33, is in the work dock, and very accessible as it turns out. (Thanks, Bob!) We have a mooring at Third Beach, on the east side of Aquidneck Island. This was actually the first thing Jill (Mrs. Cooper) did after getting an accepted offer on the house we bought years ago – she went to Town Hall and got on the mooring field waiting list (only one year at the time and currently about 10 years). But I rather liked the idea of sailing around Narragansett Bay for a bit before rounding the southern end of the island. This time of year the prevailing winds are from the south, and there are large fish traps – the kind with one-inch diameter steel cable holding the nets to 55 gallon drums and stretching for several hundred yards – just off the southern shore of Cliff Walk and the occasional reef or two lurking underwater, ready to embarrass one in the event of something failing. The boat is 1971 vintage, after all. As sailors we all live in hope of great conditions and other aspects of good fortune, so it was with this mindset I called the Ida Lewis Yacht Club dock office and inquired of a guest mooring for the weekend. Yes, I know, I too thought it was a bit like the Charge of the Light Brigade with respect to the futility of the call. Imagine my complete shock when the lovely young Irish exchange student replied, “Yes, for how many nights?” Jumping on good fortune, just like an unanticipated lift right at a critical time, said, “Three, please.” “No problem. What is the name of the boat?” The gods may be crazy (bonus points for the movie reference) but they were also shining on me, or at least the Irish Eyes were. Back at Hinckley, we loaded the boat with all ‘The Stuff’ and checked the boat and the engine for all the usual things. Rangers came with an Atomic 4 back in the day, and some were upgraded to a Universal diesel along the way. Our boat has a mighty Westerbeke 27, the presence of which is a six-beer, two-column story in itself. One particular advantage is our boat has a bridge deck that I love. To file under the ‘They don’t make them like this anymore’ heading, this monstrous old beast fired up in about two seconds. Smiles all around. Saturday was a lovely summer day, sunny and warm with the breeze fresh from the WNW. I bent on the small jib, had a look at the tides, made sure all was secure below, and cast off. We had a delightful power reach down the bay to Brenton Cove and got squared away with our mooring. There we were. On a mooring in Brenton Cove, weekend of July 4th, the boat in pretty reasonable shape and in short term need of only about 15% of the items on the 83-point work list. What a life. In much the same vein as the dog that finally gets to the car it is chasing then wonders what to do with it, we had to figure

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out the rest of the weekend’s logistics. This largely encompasses The Teenager, who is now self-sufficient except for laundry and meals and Annabelle the Wonder Dog, our beautiful and delightful English Springer Spaniel. We wanted to stay on the boat that night since it was a great evening for same, but we did not think bringing her onto the boat for the first time on an overnight and being reliant on only the launch was a good thing. We finally figured that out by bringing her on the boat the next day for a bit, and she was as always very much at home anywhere next to us. The previous owner of the boat, a colleague at Hood Sailmakers, had made a remarkable tent-awning, the likes of which are rarely seen. Stretching from the mast to the backstay and lashing off on the top lifelines, it makes the deck and cockpit into a large porch. The Ranger has long bench seats in the cockpit, just right for stretching out on with one’s back propped up by the cabin. One can thus can gaze out at other various navels on the bay under the awning and contemplate life in some balmy, sun-drenched island. We made a fast round trip back home for some Shiraz, and very yummy munching supplies from one of the local farms on the island and back to the boat. So equipped, we broke out the square throw cushions and made ourselves comfortable on our respective cockpit seats, Shiraz in one hand and cheese and crackers in t’other. One of my strongest memories of early sailing with my dad was the smell of the kerosene he used in the hurricane lamps with which he illuminated the boat, and so the purchase of such a lamp was just about the first thing I did after we bought the boat. This Saturday the evening the sun set over the Jamestown Water Tower in a remarkable show of reds, complimenting the orange glow of the lamp hanging off the boom at the aft end of the tent. The breeze had abated and the mooring field was calm, with just the occasional splash of water from a passing launch. Over at Sail Newport, the Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island group was holding a fundraiser and so we had the benefit of their music. We had sailed only from Portsmouth, half a dozen miles up the bay for a couple of hours and not to Bermuda in 80 or so hours, but the satisfaction of our arrival was at least equal to the AYC kids. I never cease to find wonder in the vast breadth and depth of all the experiences one has in this funny old game we all play called sailing. And this was just one weekend of many. ■ 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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Inaugural Viper 640 International Championship to be Held in Bermuda This year marks the 20th anniversary of the design of the Viper 640 and the 10th anniversary of the relaunch of the Class Association. The Viper 640 is now a truly international class, with active fleets in seven nations across three continents. The Class Association is celebrating these milestones by hosting the first Viper 640 International Championship, with sailors competing for a prestigious new trophy open to Viper teams from around the world. The International Championship will be hosted by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club and the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club on Bermuda’s Great Sound November 16-19, preceded by a warm-up regatta November 13-14. More than 50 Viper 640s are already registered for the International Championship, and with teams coming from North America, Europe and Australia, this will be the largest one-design keelboat regatta ever hosted in Bermuda. Combining the stiffness of a keelboat with the acceleration and planing abilities of a dinghy, the 21-foot Viper 640 was originally designed and built in 1996. With a goal of reinvigorating amateur one-design sailing with a fast, fun, easy-to-sail and affordable sportboat, the class was relaunched in the U.S. in 2006 with a new, self-governing Viper 640 Class Association and a new builder (Rondar Raceboats in the UK). The International Championship will be held concurrently with the 20th Anniversary North American Championship. The overall winner will be crowned as the first Viper 640 International Champion, and the highest-placing North American team will receive the Class’s coveted North American Championship trophy. “Hosting the Viper 640 International Championship in Bermuda is a perfect fit,” said 2016 International Championship Chair Doug De Couto. Royal Bermuda Yacht Club immediate

Past Commodore Somers Kempe added, “With the America’s Cup to be sailed in these same waters in 2017, the sailing world’s eyes are on Bermuda. We are the newest national fleet in the Viper 640 Class and we intend to throw a memorable competition and even more memorable parties.” The Viper 640 International Championship and North American Championship Regatta is made possible thanks to the generosity of its sponsors: The Bermuda Tourism Authority, EFG International, Bermuda International Shipping Ltd.,

The world’s best Viper 640 sailors will be competing in the first International Championship and the 20th Anniversary North American Championship in Bermuda in November. © Allen Clark/PhotoBoat.com

Bermuda Container Line, Somers Isles Shipping, Bermuda Forwarders, Goslings, Gubinelli Wines, Oleander Cycles, and Newstead Belmont Hills Resort. Regatta documents can be found at yachtscoring.com. For more information, visit viper640.org or contact Viper 640 Class Association Administrator Ed “Buttons” Padin at epadin@padesta.com. Anyone interested in chartering or purchasing a Viper in Bermuda should contact Rondar Raceboats’ Dan Tucker at Dan@rondarboats.com. For more information about the International and North American Championship Regatta, contact event chair Doug De Couto at decouto@alum. mit.edu or Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Commodore Somers Kempe at somers@mahoganyreef.com. ■

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The Newport Bermuda Race Aboard High Noon By Carina Becker Editor’s note: On June 21, seven members of the Young American Junior Big Boat Sailing Team were among the very first finishers of the 50th running of the Newport Bermuda Race. Sailing High Noon, a Tripp 41 on loan from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Sailing Foundation, these remarkable sailors (ages 15 to 18) won their class in the St. David’s Lighthouse Division and were the first recipients of the new Stephens Brothers Youth Division Trophy. In my first year in the American Yacht Club Junior Big Boat program, I could remember my dad, Peter Becker, and the older team members daydreaming about sailing in the 2014 Newport Bermuda Race, which was happening the following year. At that point I was still figuring out my way around our newly named J/105, Young American, and beginning to learn the basics and some tricks here and there. For most of us, the Bermuda Race was just a dream. When I was little I would shadow my dad when he completed his inspections, just to see the boats that would be competing in the Bermuda Race. When the start date rolled around, I made sure I was there on the water, watching the boats cross the line. Watching boats sailing into the distance made me wonder what it

would be like to be isolated from land. I was curious about what it would feel like to wake up the following morning and be in an ocean, so far from land that you can only depend on yourself and the people around you. I felt a pull. I held a desire that made me want to seek out those boats. I hoped to follow them out into the Gulf Stream and experience the open ocean for myself. I could say that is where my thirst for ocean sailing started, but I think it was actually when I got out there for real. About a week later, my dad, my brother Key Becker, Will McKeige and I got on a plane and flew down to Bermuda. We stayed one night and then headed out to help deliver Maximizer, a Swan 72, back to Newport. I learned so much about ocean sailing during that delivery, and my eagerness to race to Bermuda grew. Fast forward about a year to August 2015, about 340 days before the start of the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race. The Young American Junior Big Boat Sailing Team was up to par, and ready to get a boat and go race. We had all put the time in on the Vineyard Race, the Block Island Race and the Around Long Island Regatta, and were excited for the challenge. Of course, the first obstacle was finding a boat. As the fall flew by, the team could not secure a boat and nerves began to flare. There were definitely times when I thought our team would be on the sidelines and not on the racecourse that following June, but thankfully a deal with High Noon was struck and the team could start getting to work. Just as the High Noon operation was getting underway, I was preparing to leave home for four months at a semester school. Next stop: Bermuda! © John Rousmaniere

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With champagne delivered just after they crossed the finish line, the Young American Junior Big Boat Sailing Team celebrates on the foredeck. © Barry Pickthall/PPL

Being on the other side of the country while the race was coming together was agonizing, because all I wanted to do was help. So much work had to be done, from paperwork to boat maintenance, and the effort seemed inordinate. I felt my dad getting stressed, worrying if the boat would make it to the starting line, prepared to sail the next 640 miles. I also saw my teammates feeling overwhelmed from school, sports, and boat work all needing to be done at the same time. I knew if I were home I would have been a big help. I also missed out on learning the boat backwards and forwards when she was ashore. When the Block Island Race rolled around, the team was all home and ready to race. Ideally, we hoped everyone would be one with the boat and work seamlessly with each other, but that just was not the case. We all saw that there was work to be done, but nothing that could not be accomplished by June. Being on a 40-foot boat with six other teenagers and absolutely no personal space was definitely an experience. Our team consisted of Collin Alexander (age 18) as the helmsman, Will McKeige (18), Hector McKemey (17) and Richard O’Leary (17) as the trimmers, Maddy Ploch (15) as pit, and Brooks Daley (17) and myself (17) on bow. The seven of us have been sailing in the same water most of our lives and have a similar passion for sailing. The seven High Noon Juniors’ special bond was derived from not only our history and our shared eagerness, but also from the tight quarters. We were able to find humor and joy in the more “painful” moments of the race, like when someone called to set the Code 0 for the tenth time, or being handed a bag of freezedried food that was supposed to suffice as “dinner.” The Juniors also brought moral support – we were all there for each other. We helped out packing kites when others weren’t feeling very well, or consoled one another when the wind and seas got a little too big for our comfort. Not to mention that our go-to medic, Will McKeige, was only 18. He took care of us by making sure we all had our patches on, stayed hydrated, and didn’t cause enough trouble to make him use his real medical skills! I really enjoyed racing with Juniors because we brought an energy that couldn’t be matched by an older, more experienced windcheckmagazine.com

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crew. One of my fondest memories of the race was one of the last days, when we felt close to Bermuda but actually had many more sea miles. We had the kite up and a solid breeze that came with some seas. All the kids were on deck the whole day because we made a pact to push it to the approaching finish, while the adults were up and down getting their needed shuteye. Everyone was so happy just to be where we were. We were all taken aback by what we were doing, and the fact that we were surfing seas in the Atlantic and having a blast. It was a time when our lack of experience drove us to enjoy and push ourselves harder. When people ask me, “What was High Noon’s secret for doing so well?” I think of that day, because it was our “lack” of experience that made us go so fast. We were seven fresh sailors giving 110% percent because we were just so ecstatic to be ocean racing. We had so much pure joy from our inexperience that we were just running on adrenaline the whole time. Another of High Noon’s secrets was the three adults on the boat. Guillermo Altadill, Peter Becker and Rob Alexander were the backbone of the operation. They brought to the table all the knowledge that we lacked, and constantly taught us how to improve. They acted as crewmembers, just like the Juniors. Each of them were watch captains and were paired with two or three juniors per watch. They led navigating and Peter, my dad, was the un-named cook. Having Guillermo aboard was one of my favorite parts of the race. A veteran of four Volvo Ocean Races, Guillermo was

The team strikes a pose at the Prize Giving at the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club. The author is holding the large plaque. © Barry Pickthall/PPL

tough on the crew and had high expectations that we all wanted to live up to. His presence kept us on track and energetic about moving fast. He taught us that “sailing fast isn’t free” and that there is always risk involved when you are pushing yourselves and your boat. But he taught us how to manage that risk. When needed, Guillermo was never shy of a reef or a smaller headsail, but he was always ready to get more sail area whenever possible. He definitely pushed all of the Juniors out of our comfort zones, and made us better sailors for it. Our success in the race would have not been possible without the adults, because of the support and knowledge they shared with us. ■

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A Successful Mudhead Benefit Cup for Center for Hospice Care The Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association held their annual Benefit Cup Regatta and MegaParty in support of Center for Hospice Care on July 15 & 16. More than 60 boats in 11 classes set sail in light wind on three different racing circles in the waters of Fishers Island Sound. Thanks to the dedication of these sailors plus many volunteers, sponsors and donors, this event raises much-needed funds for Center for Hospice Care. Congratulations to all of the competitors. First Place Honors in four PHRF classes, two non-spinnaker classes and five onedesign classes go to: Dire Wolf, Lawrence Hennessy Patriot, Toby Halsey Arabesque, Robert Bruno  n/a, Shawn Pelissier Nunnehi, Mark Dixon Mentor, Mark Kondracky Rip, Dan Van Winkle Cluster Duck, John McCrea Ripcord, Paul Bergendahl Mo Grins, Moise Solomon Polar, Kevin Dooley Every dollar makes a difference. Funds raised by the Mudheads make it possible for Center for Hospice Care to provide

Team Patriot is this year’s top fundraiser, donating over $6,000 to Hospice. Pictured at the Mega Party at Mystic Shipyard are ( l – r) Gowan McCavity, Paul Phillips, Sean Burridge, Toby Halsey, Courtney Moore, Carol Mahier (Executive Director of Center for Hospice Care), Tom Longo, Skip Whitaker and Dave Doyle.

their annual Cocktail Party to benefit Center for Hospice Care. To purchase tickets, log onto hospicesect.org/events/what/regatta-series. For additional information, email events@hospicesect.org. ■

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10’ Dyer Dink 2008 -Sailing version, original owner, mint, light summer use only, teak trim & seats, tilt-up rudder, spar envelope, SEITECH dolly, boat cover. This is the same boat used by Riverside Frostbiting Association in CT. Asking $4,800-Warren, RI 401-245-3300.

24’ C&C 1976 - Dark Blue. Well Maintained. Main and furling 150% Genoa by Kappa Sails. 8hp Johnson Sailmaster Outboard. Comes with slip on floating dock in Westbrook for the 2016 season. Small enough to sail single handed; sleeps four. $5,000. e-mail: pjay14@outlook.com

19’ Rhodes Mariner 2005 - Centerboard model, 3.5 hp Tohatsu 4 stroke outboard, cabin and cockpit cushions, porta-pottinew-never used, roller furled jib-100%, mainsail cover, cockpit bimini, tiller extension and lock, custom sling, trailer 2005 - very little use with new spare tire. Located at Milford Yacht Club. $10,000. Contact Steve at 203 506-5825.

27’ Santa Cruz 1977 - Is a complete package – newly painted, large sail inventory, Honda 4-Stroke, yard trailer. Tiller steering, deck mounted mast sloop. Harken furler, sail covers, tiller cover, and instrumentation. $9,500 Call for details 631-987-9989

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

23’ Com-Pac 23/3 1988 - Good condition, lightly used, nicely rigged. 130% genoa, Harken roller furling. 2000 8hp Johnson w/ alternator, very low hours. $6,900. Trailer available separately. Galvanized frame in excellent condition, new keel rollers. Needs some additional work, can provide parts and labor as part of purchase. More info/photos contact: ctmellorbldr@aol.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. $15,000. Contact Anne at 203-209-3577

29’ Beneteau First 1986 Racer/cruiser Two cabins, six berths, stereo, CQR/300’ rode, dodger, roller furling jib, recent UK racing genoa and main, spinnaker, rod rigging, Raymarine ST2000 autotiller, Nexus speed, depth and compass, windward sheeting traveler, all lines led to cockpit, and much more. 18 HP Volvo Penta diesel. Great operating condition, but numerous cosmetic issues. In water, Jamestown, RI, ready to sail. Priced to sell $7000. Bob: 202-714-4975 (call or text) ”

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30’ Soverel 30 MH 1981 - Scarecrow is a versatile 30 foot racer/cruiser that has been meticulously maintained and upgraded. She is perfect for weekend getaways and nimble for racing. More details at www. sailscarecrow.weebly.com or call Jim at 973-368-7342. Asking $29,750.

31’ Island Packet 1985 - New rigging, roller furling. Yanmar diesel, new Awlgrip paint. Freshly refurbished. Asking $46,500. Call Bruce 860-235-5035 or Dana 860-912-0042

33’ Abbott 1983 “PIRATE” - Fractional rig easy to handle sail plan and narrow hull form make the Abbott 33 a great all around racer and has a finished cabin for overnights. The sail inventory includes Doyle race sails and new asymmetric spinnaker. Double axel Triad trailer. $17,000 wjbaxter1@comcast.net 772-285-0877

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BOATS FOR SALE- SAIL 33’ Cheoy Lee Clipper, Cutter, Ketch, 1977 - 30HP Yanmar diesel engine, 240 hours. Fiberglass decks. Teak cockpit. Fiberglass hull. Wood masts. Bluewater sailing. For Sale $25,000. Or for share half ownership $12,000, choice of weekends, weeks or months. John 203-876-1417.

33’ Pearson 10M 1976 - Beta Marine 25 diesel with less than 100 hours. November 2015 surveyor said, “Good to very good condition with high level of equipment”. Hard-bottom dinghy and Tohatsu 3.5 new in 2014. Steady upgrades by 12 year owner. $29,500. Call 401-935-9084

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42’ Sabre 426 2004 - Fresh Awlgripped in 2014 flag blue with a white boot top. New sails in 2012. She looks beautiful and is ready for a new owner. $273,500. Call Willis Marine 631-421-3400 35’ Island Packet 1991 – Winter cover by Fairclough. Cold plate. Price at $79,900 or best offer. Call 860-729-3314

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42 Peterson 1981 Settler - Extensive sail inventory. Many recent upgrades including new paint job, keel, rudder, rig, winches. Too many trophies to name, but they include numerous Block Island Race Week 1st Place the last in 2011, Several Buzzards Bay Regatta wins. $59,900. Call Craig Nann at Northstar Yacht Sales at 401-6839200 or email craig@northstaryachtsales. com for a full listing.

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Shannon McKenzie As the Director of Watercraft Programs at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut, Shannon McKenzie is responsible for the operating vessels at the Museum including schooner Brilliant, the boathouse livery fleet, and the launches. She also manages annual events at Mystic Seaport such as The WoodenBoat Show and the Antique & Classic Boat Rendezvous. She is a licensed captain with a 500-ton offshore ticket and many years of experience in the traditional sailing community. “The first time I ever went sailing was when I was in college,” recalls Shannon, who lives in Mystic. “I was a Science major studying marine science at Colgate, and had never been on a boat. I stepped on board S/V Westward at the dock in Woods Hole as I was doing a semester abroad program with Sea Education Association (SEA) and I remember the feeling that I was finally at home, and had all the things that were a part of me were there on Westward.” “That six-week trip from Woods Hole to the Caribbean changed my life. I went from having never been a boater to working aboard large, traditional sailing vessels after college, and I eventually ended back at SEA. I worked there as a mate on the boats and then continued to work in their office as the Marine Operations Coordinator, doing crew and port logistics and related tasks.” Shannon and her husband relocated to Connecticut about nine years ago when he took a faculty position at the University of Connecticut. She was able to secure a position in the Watercraft Department at Mystic Seaport. “It was a natural fit to start working at the Museum,” she says. “I like that there is a lot of variability in what I do every day. I get to see many schooners and large vessels come in and tie up at our marina, which means I get to see friends I’ve sailed with and then watch them come in and experience everything we have to offer at the Museum. I get to work on all of the different events we orchestrate, and of course I get to work with so many great people.” If she had to pick, what vessel in the Museum’s collection means the most to Shannon? “Of course, I love schooner Brilliant!” she enthuses. “I get to go out sailing on her on occasion. She’s a fast, lovely boat with a wonderful captain in Nicholas Alley, and we have a great program for teens and adults. Brilliant has been constantly maintained to such a high standard. She’s never undergone a major refit of any type, and the vast number of people who have been out on the boat has created a community that holds her in their hearts.” “I was involved in the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan. I did a lot of the logistics for the ports, the crew hiring, the calendar planning, and a lot of the behind-the-scenes preparation work. I worked on that for a number of years leading up to the voyage in 2014. I think that Mystic Seaport has a longstanding tradition of restoring our vessels and then taking them

sailing. We did that with the Emma C. Berry in 1992, the 1880 sandbagger Annie, the Morgan, and our Eastern-rig dragger RoAnn, which has been to Menemsha and Cape May for festivals in just the last year. Hopefully, we will be able to continue that as we continue to restore our landmark vessels.” “I got to sail on one of the Morgan’s day trips out of New London. The most meaningful thing to me was when the ship first sailed off the dock on her first sea trial. I was standing on the pier and the crew set sails and cast off the dock lines, and the ship got underway under sail alone. That was really powerful to witness after all of the restoration work, and the time and energy, focus – and care – that everyone involved with the project had put in. It was a joy to see her get underway under sail.” In addition to her work at Mystic Seaport, Shannon also enjoys boating with her family. “Our present boat is an Eastern 19, a center console motorboat that is perfect for operating up and down the Mystic River in the evenings with my family, including our young son who has informed me that he prefers motorboats over sailboats. He told me, ‘Even though you love sailboats, Momma, does not mean that I do,’” she laughs. “A favorite place that I like to sail, even though the sailing is not that great, is Southeastern Alaska. The vistas are just so majestic, the wildlife is amazing and the icebergs are everywhere. It is unlike anything I have ever seen. Sailing in the Caribbean or the South Pacific is great, but those northern latitudes of Alaska or Newfoundland are the most beautiful to me.” “I have had some phenomenal days of sailing in my life,” says Shannon. “One of my really strong memories that I always carry with me is when I was working on a fast schooner that operated out of the West Coast. She was a low-slung boat with no deckhouses and it was Thanksgiving Day, so all of the crew and all of the students were down below eating turkey dinner. I was the mate on watch and we were sailing between a couple of the Channel Islands off California on a beam reach just ‘schooning’ through the area, and it was just perfect.” ■

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