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Issue #94

December 2010

M a r i n e rA Publication For Where Land Ends

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A M a g a z i n e F o r T h e M a r i n a d e l R e y B o a t i n g C o m m u n i t y

The

Remembering Peggy Slater

Rowing

Long Beach to Cabo

More...

Talkin Americas Cup

With Pete Melvin

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The Mariner is

Editor/Publisher/Writer

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2 The Mariner - Issue 94 2010

FROM THE EDITOR

WHATS INSIDE

Thanks for

picking it up!

RO W M Y BO AT

Pete Melvin at the helm of aReynolds 33. Photo by Pat Reynolds

Coming Events 4

Off the Wire 6

A Sport on the Rise The Growing Sport of Rowing

AC Pete An Interview with Pete Melvin

Let the Parade Commence 14Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade Announcements

Coastal Currents 16

Peggy Slater Rememberd by Richard Schaefer

Powertails 18Life Preserver Design Contest

Racing 20

Ask the Expert - Lightening Prevention 2

Ask Mookie

Classifieds 25

As I was writing the rowing story in this issue, I

was brought back to my childhood where I rowed

quite a bit.

It wasnt the same brand of rowing I witness from

the perch on my E Basin end-tie where I see all themodern looking shells

going by every morning.

I didnt wear spandex

shorts and a hat with a

little rear view mirror. I

was keeping it real

I rowed a beat up faded

blue 12-foot aluminum

boat with mismatched

oars, across a creek to

my friends house (the

house in the center of the photo) nearly every day.Until I somehow lost one of the oars and then I

paddled with one, until someone hooked me up

with another oar - then I was back to two.

I wasnt working out or in training; I was going

somewhere - I had a destination.

Im grateful that boating wasnt introduced to me

as a sport I like that it was an integral part of

my growing up a tool, a vehicle, a means to ge

out of the house and make a small voyage acros

a small sea.

I never thought of rowing as hard or fun orsomething I wanted to

get better at. I never

wanted to get a newe

boat, although a few

boats came and went for

whatever reason I jus

wanted to get across the

creek, and rowing was

a simple, no nonsense

way to make the shor

trek.

Its these reflections of innocence that remind meof why I still find myself wanting to travel along

the water in a boat and just like when I was a young

kid - I really dont care what kind.

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4 The Mariner -Issue 94 2010

November 25

Thanksg iv ing I s land S ty le

Enjoy a traditional family style Thanksgiving

dinner complete with all the trimmings

in a unique Island setting. Reservations

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December 1

Cupdate 2010

The next Americas Cup will be raced in 2013in exotic 72-foot catamarans with wingsails

multihulls capable of speeds of 30 knots

or more. To prepare the syndicates for the

new AC72s, one-design AC45 catamarans

will be launched next year, and a lineup of

World Series regattas will be scheduled

for 2011, 2012 and 2013 at venues around

the world. Join us at California YC for this

years Cupdate, as Tom Ehman from BMW

Oracle Racing will provide unique insight

about this exciting new era of the Americas

Cup. He will be joined by designer/engineer

Pete Melvin. 7:30 p.m. Free Admission &Beer. California Yacht Club 4469 Admiralty

Way | Marina del Rey 90292

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December 11

Marina del Rey Annual Hol idayBoat Parade

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New Years Eve a t Two Harbors

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We want to see the start-line packed with boats, big and small, said co-founder Bob Long. Every year were trying figure out ways to get more sailorout there to have a blast with us. I think people are going to love the short course idea.

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Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. To that end they have set up a number of ways to earn free entries and tons of boating gear.

Were confident that if people get into it, this years Border Run will be really special. The sailors can get a bunch of cool stuff including the free entry

and, at the same time, LLS can make money to help cancer patients, said Long. The charity aspect is totally voluntary, but were hoping that, based

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I hope people check it out, Long said. Were hoping that this race helps people who are hurting while were fortunate enough to be sailing the SoCal waters.

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The Del Rey Junior Program gets a new start with 22 new boats to replace the older Sabots that have been the cornerstone of the program for years. The

Optimist, nicknamed Optis will allow the kids in the program opportunities for more competition. Other junior programs have been changing from

Sabots to Optis. It is now time for DRYC to join the mainstream and offer our young sailors the best possible experience.

Twenty of the boats were purchased with donated funds from the successful FUBAR Odyssey, powerboat rally held in 2007. The rally was conceived

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Winship was purchased in honor of William Winship Tarr, a DRYC board member and long time mariner from donations made in his name. The other

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nce a year early on a November morning, the main channel of Marina del Rey becomes a racetrack for the rowing breed. Sleek

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Marina hosted by the California Yacht Club.

Seeing large teams of young men and women from the local colleges and a slew of other competitors of all ages and genders is a

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In the last couple of decades, junior and particularly womens programs have soared in participation numbers. The surge in the womens divisions is

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When womens rowing became a NCAA sport about 13-years ago it really exploded, said former UCLA rowing coach Paul Mokha. And following

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The sailing world is buzzing with the recent announcements regarding

the next Americas Cup slated for 2013. The news that the Cup will be

raced on 72-foot state-of-the-art catamarans equipped with rigid wings

has some fans out of their minds with excitement and others angry that

tradition is being bucked. In the eye of it all is Huntington Beach engineer

Pete Melvin, from Morrelli & Melvin Design and Engineering, a world

champion A-cat sailor who has been part of such high profile projects

as Steve Fossetts record setting Playstation and last year working with

BMW Oracle on the over-the-top monster trimaran that won the 33rd

Americas Cup for the American team.

Melvin and his associates have most recently gone through the painstaking

task of writing the Americas Cup Multihull Rule, which tackles the many

specifics that make up a level and fair playingfield for the most prestigious

sailboat race in the world. Prior to a visit by BMW Oracle Spokesman

Tom Ehman who will be giving a presentation on the Americas Cup at the

California Yacht Club on December 1st at 7:30. The Mariner caught up

with Melvin, who will also be on hand that night, to ask some questions

about the next Americas Cup.

Mariner: Now that youve written the AC multihull rule what are you

doing now?

Melvin: We are done with rule writing and such. So we instantly put our

hat on with a team we signed up with and now were...(smiling) looking

for loop holes in the rules!

Mariner: So youre signed with another team?

Melvin: Yes.

Mariner: Can you say what team yet?

Melvin: I cant because they dont want to announce it yet.

Mariner: Are you surprised that youre not with the defender in this

capacity?

Melvin: No, not really. First, of all, last time it was such a crazy dea

where you never knew what was going to happen next and there just

wasnt enough time to develop anything.

Mariner: With the 33rd you mean?

Mariner: Yes, exactly. Oracle basically threw bodies at it. It wasnt an

efficient or inexpensive process but it got done. We started out with work

for 2 years with those guys on that. Ultimately, they had to skinny thei

design team down to about a third of what it was last time. And they

have basically gone to everyone in-house, they arent having any outside

firms doing design work for them at least at this point. And also with

the rule writing, politically it would have been hard for them to hire us

back. Because they announced they were having an independent party

write the rules - when we had the choice to write the rules or not, it kind

of disqualifies us from being on their design team. But we decided to jus

do it anyway.

Mariner: And you decided to do it anyway because it sounded like an

interesting thing to do or because it was a sure fire gig? What was the

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decision process there?

Melvin: Yeah, both of those. We thought it was interesting work and it

was good work to do. Lots of hours went into it and income came from

it.

Mariner: Had you done something like this before?

Melvin: No.

Mariner: So the next project you do will be right in your wheelhouse

- just doing straight up design work?Melvin: Exactly.

Mariner: How does Americas Cup work compare to the Playstation

stuff that you did? Is it similar?

Melvin: I guess its similar in a way that weve got more resources in terms

of specialists and things like that - we can drill down much deeper into

areas. In normal design or a normal race boat, you just dont have those

kind of resources and budgets to go into that kind of depth. You always

learn a ton from those kind of projects because of all the technology that

goes into it. Theyre great to be involved with and they dont come along

everyday so were real happy to be involved with it.

Mariner: Coming from a multihull place, you guys must be out ofyour heads that the Americas Cup is in multihulls.

Melvin: Yes, its amazing. You know we built our business never really

thinking about the Americas Cup, so for the last 20 years weve been

diversified we designed racing boats, cruising boats, production boats,

custom boats, commercial boats, just about anything that anyone will

throw at us. But all of us in the office pretty much come from a racing

background - our first love is to design racing boats. So its a dream come

true for all of us.

Mariner: What do you say to the critics who say multis wont make

for good match racing in the Americas Cup?

Melvin: With BMW Oracle last time, one of the things I was involved

with, was doing some match racing where we used the Reynolds 33s

for some of the practice and everyone found it was very exciting. It was

different, but certainly no less exciting and thrilling. So I think it will be

spectacular.

Mariner: Why do you think that people think that?

Melvin: Because they have no experience doing it and thats totally

understandable. Very few people have matched race on multihulls so its

really an unknown. The match racing will be different than how we know

it but on the other hand the acceleration will be much more dramatic and

the tactics will be totally different. For instance, on the Americas Cup, the

one match where Oracle came in from the committee boat side andAlinghi

came in from the other side you dont have much time to react coming

into the box like that. You only get one chicken-wiggle of the tiller and its

all over if you guess wrong. Its kind of a sudden death showdown in that

way. The first 5 or 10 seconds of the race will be extremely exciting. Who

knows what will happen after that. Should be great.

Mariner: What is your take on the British and the Germans snubbing

it?

Melvin: Well, the Germans, I dont really know anything about their team

- I dont know if they ever had the resources to compete in the Americas

Cup regardless of what kind of boat. The same could possibly be said about

the British too, I guess. I dont know what their financial wherewithal was

but there were some rumors that that was the real reason and it wasnt

really anything about multi-hulls or anything. But once again, Im not

really privy to their information.

Mariner: Is this much more expensive than the 32nd Americas

Cup?

Melvin: I think it will be comparable to that. There is a lot of debate going

on.

Mariner: Was your team involved in the cost control aspect?Melvin: That was one of the things we were involved in when writing the

rules. The monohulls that were proposed for the 34th Americas Cup and

the multi-hulls that were proposed were actually quite similar in cost. So

then it comes down to how many boats can you build, how big your team

is, logistics and those sort of things.

Mariner: You cant have two boats with this, can you?

Melvin: Well, you can build up to two boats.

Mariner: So you can practice with two boats?

Melvin: Youre not allowed to do two boat testing. You have to read the

protocol about that. Youre only allowed to sail it at certain times before

events and stuff like that. Theyre really trying to limit it its extremelycostly to have your entire design team having two complete boats going

out and testing every day. Its just a ton of people and quite expensive.

Mariner: Every time, when the AC happens theres always this

trickle down talk, do you foresee trickle down with these kind of

things given that its so far out of the box. Is the wing something

that were going to see in the mainstream or do you think the wing is

always going to be kind of fringe?

Melvin: I think they will always be a bit of a fringe.

Mariner: Because of practical reasons?

Melvin: Yeah. A wing like that I think there are applications, like this

hover wing with the free standing mast and rig where the wing can rotate

around it. You can park it at a dock. I think there will be some commercia

and recreational applications for wings maybe just not the type you see on

the Americas Cup catamarans.

Mariner: Whats your take on the wing versus the soft sail from an

engineers perspective is it more interesting? Is there as much to do?

Melvin: Theres a lot to it. Its a little more technical. The wing doesn

talk to you like a sail does. Its not a moving membrane that you can see

how its twisting or if its luffing, you know that sort of thing so you have

to sail a little bit more by the numbers but the performance benefits are

huge.

Mariner: Sail makers often seem to have an edge in racing but now is

it going to be the engineers that have the edge? If it is by the numbers

where is the innate talent with the wing, does it exist the same as i

does with a soft sail?

Melvin: I mean, I guess some people have a good eye for shaping a sail

theres a whole art with matching masts to sails and all that stuff and some

people are better at that than others. Its just a little different discipline

now. Instead of saying maybe Ill change the shape here, put a tuck here

or poke this batten outnow itll be - lets change our slot geometry or

twist the aft flaps more so its not entirely different its just a differen

tool doing the same job.

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Now that fall is here boaters are starting

to look ahead to the holidays. Boat Parade

officials recently announced the first entry

has signed up for the 48th Annual Marina

del Rey Holiday Boat Parade scheduled

for Saturday, December 11, 6:00 - 8:00p.m. in the Marinas main channel with a

spectacular fireworks show at 5:55 p.m.

This years parade theme is A Rock n Roll

Christmas with boat owners competing

for numerous prize packages. Boat Parade

sponsorships are also available from $100

up to $25,000.

The 33-foot Crystaliner power boat, Westbound, is the first entry in the

Boat Parade and is Marina del Reys only legal scuba dive charter boat.

The captains and the owner of Westbound Diving are long-time Marina

del Rey private boat owners and participants in the parade.

Boat Parade organizers have also announced that DJ Larry Morgan from

100.3 FM, The Sound, will serve as Grand Marshal for the 48th Annual

Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade scheduled for Saturday, December

11.

Larry Morgan is a perfect fit as our Grand Marshal this year with our

Boat Parade theme, said Holiday Boa

Parade President Cindy Williams. The

Marina should get ready to rock out as

he cruises along the parade route. We are

looking for a Grand Marshal boat 60-fee

or more, if anyone is interested in being theGrand Marshal boat contact Boat Parade

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Morgan started his radio career at the age

of 15 running Casey Kasems American

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USC and worked part-time at then TOP 40

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lines. Two of Larrys former friends from

KFI were now a part of the new KIIS-FM where he joined the legendary

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L.A. Times - Rich Roberts

Slater Gave No Quarter at the Helm

November 23, 1990

The sailing community was stunned by

the recent, sudden death of Peggy Slater

at 72. She seemed indestructible. As sailor,

yacht broker or all-around good person,

with herflaming red hair and a trademarkflower over her left ear, Slater was a match

for anyone.

Well, 20 years have passed since that evening in

November when Peggy died of a heart attack in

the parking lot of Pacific Mariners Yacht Club.

She had been an irresistible force in sailing

for more than 50 years, and was scheduled

to address a meeting of the Womens Sailing

Association of Santa Monica Bay. She died as

she had lived - immersed in sailing and things

of the sea.

Peggy grew up in a prosperous family in Los

Angeles. Her father had a 50-foot cutter, theJolly

Rover, berthed in Newport Harbor. The family

spent every available weekend at Catalina. Her

father taught her early that sailing to the island

was only a small part of boating - the rest

included: varnishing the brightwork, scrubbing

the deck, polishing brass, mending cotton sails,

and the hundred other tasks necessary aboard a

gaff rigged cutter.

By the age of 9, Peggy was single-handing

her own 14-foot boat around Newport Bay. At

fourteen, Peggy raced her boat to Catalina, and

that night danced in the Casino Ballroom. Her

long love affair with Catalina and the sea began

to blossom.

At 16, she was a freshman at UCLA, majoring

in English Literature. Her father had bought her

a larger boat, a 26-foot sloop she christened,

Seventh Heaven. She spent weekends and

summers at Catalina for the next four years.

The years from the 1930s through the 1950s

were the golden years for Catalina. Hollywood

stars came there in droves. Bonfires and tiki

torches lit the beach at the Isthmus, and live

bands performed nearly every night during the

season.

Peggy would make the long row from her boat

moored in Cherry Cove, splash ashore, and

throw herself among the laughing dancers.

During the day she earned extra money by

freeing fouled mooring lines from rudders,

props and keels and occasionally baby-sitting

the children of Hollywood families. These

Hollywood friendships were to serve her well

in the future.

It was during one of these first solo voyages

to the island that Peggys life was nearly cut

short. She was about midway between Catalina

and the mainland when a fitting failed on he

towed dinghy. She hung over the transom to

secure the dinghy when a large wave hit the

boat and pitched her into the sea. The tiller wa

tied off and the boat sailed away, leaving her in

its wake. Her only hope was to swim after the

sailing boat and hope the boat would luff up, o

otherwise slow down. Instead, the boat tacked

and sailed away. She felt that she was doomed

but then the boat tacked again, and on a course

that she might hope to intercept. She swam with

all her strength - barely managing to catch the

trailing dinghy and pull herself aboard. Anothe

moment and she would have been lost - leaving

everyone to speculate about what had become

of the adventurous young girl.

Peggy graduated from UCLA in 1940 and found

work managing a small marina and chandlery

in San Pedro. Within minutes of closing

the shop she was hoisting sail, and was soon

heeled and reaching across the large harbor. Her

father wondered at the wisdom of working on

the docks after obtaining a degree in English

literature - but Peggy was happy and so no more

was said.

Then one Sunday, returning after a long

blustery race in the San Pedro channel, Peggy

and fellow racers found the entrance to L.A

Harbor blocked by Navy ships. As the fleet o

sailboats approached the blockade their crews

called to the sailors lining the decks of the

C O A S TA L C U R R E N T S

By Captain Richard Schaefer

REMEMBERING ALOCAL LEGEND

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warships, whats going on?...soon after, the

loud speaker on the nearest ship blared, The

Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor...we are at

war. It was Sunday, December 7, 1941.

Peggy wanted to join the war effort and soon

went to work for the War Department driving

trucks throughout Southern California, and

even convoyed war materials to Alaska on

the newly competed AlCan Highway. In time,

Peggy found herself missing the sea and soon

signed on to a 65-foot schooner, Hispaniola,

which was headed south to Guatemala on a War

Department mission to catch sharks. At that time

shark livers were the primary source of vitamin

A and the Army needed vast amounts for rations

and vitamin tablets. She made two adventure

filled voyages south during the war.

After the war, Peggy became the first woman

Yacht Broker in the United States. Her business

was an instant success and she soon capitalized

on all the Hollywood stars she had met on

Catalina before the war. Errol Flynn, John

Wayne, director John Ford, Raymond Burr,

Dick Powell, Tyrone Power, Howard Hughes,

James Cagny, Burl Ives, James Arness, Sterling

Hayden, Lauren Bacall and hubby, Humphrey

Bogart were all friends, sailing buddies and

many were also clients.

Peggy met Bogart when he owned a 35-footpowerboat, named, Sluggy. Not coincidentally,

Sluggy was also the nickname of Bogarts first

wife. Their drinking and onboard brawls were

legendary at Catalina.

Bogart, who wanted to learn to sail, knew of

Peggys skills and asked her to instruct him.

Bogarts drinking and temper were well known

and at first Peggy was reluctant. But Bogart

finally convinced her that he could control his

drinking and his temper during their lessons.

After a few weeks Bogart could be seen sailing

a small sloop between the anchored yachts with

grand aplomb. Peggy had taught him well.

A few months later, Bogart took Peggy bow

hunting for wild pigs on Catalina, along with

director and movie star, Dick Powell. They

struggled up the hills above Whites Landing

and Peggy stopped to enjoy the view of the

bay below. Anchored there was the beautiful,

47-foot yawl, Santana. Peggy had previously

pointed out the yachts graceful lines to Bogart

when he was taking lessons with her at the

island. Bogart turned back on the trail and stood

next to Peggy - both admiring the yachts lines.

Bogart said to Peggy, What would you think of

me buying Santana? Peggy beamed, If you do

Ill even go sailing with you!

Bogart did buy Santana, and Bogie, Bacall and

Slater spent many sparkling days sailing the

San Pedro Channel and the waters surrounding

Catalina. The last outing Bogart made before

his death was to Newport Harbor. Too sick to

sail her, he wanted to simply stand on the deck

of his beloved Santana - one last time. Bogart

insisted that no casket be present at his funeral

- but instead, a glass encased model ofSantana

was to be placed next to the lectern.

Even though she ran a busy and successful

yacht brokerage Peggy always made time tosail - doing many local and long distance races.

She won more than 800 sailing trophies during

her lifetime. She was the first woman skipper

in the Transpac and Acapulco Race. She cruised

all over the Pacific, and the Mediterranean. She

sailed to Hawaii and Mexico several times. She

cruised the Caribbean often, and even sailed

alone, 1,400 miles, in a 14-foot open, native

sloop. Her voyage took her from the Virgin

Islands to Trinidad - camping and sharing beach

fires with the locals at dozens of islands along

the way.

In 1956, the Los Angeles Times named her

Sportswoman of the Year.

In 1965, she sailed to Tahiti and met Marlon

Brando who was there filming, Mutiny on

the Bounty. The two became friends and he

asked her to work with the film crew for several

weeks.

During these years she continued to run her yacht

brokerage and built an ocean view home on the

bluffs of Palos Verdes and another on the beach

of Kauai. She hired help as needed, but tried to

do as much of the work as she was able.

Peggys two most harrowing experiences took

place en route to Hawaii.

In 1951, she skippered LApache on the

Transpac race. About 800 miles from Honolulu,

in 35 knots of wind and heavy seas one of her

crew, Ted Sierks, fell over board. A life ring

was thrown, but soon the crewman disappeared

among the cresting waves. LApache was

running downwind with the spinnaker and it took

several minutes to douse the huge sail and turn

back. For the next eleven hours Peggy stayed on

the wave lashed foredeck, calling and scanning

the frothing waves for the crewman. A navy

convoy overheard the distress transmissions

and joined the search. After several hours the

commanding officer declared Sierks lost at sea

and ordered the search called off. He detached

the destroyer Munro to standbyLApache unti

their rig - damaged in the rough seas during the

all night search - could be repaired. Peggy and

her navigator hurriedly worked out what they

believed to be the most likely position of the

lost crewman. Peggy contacted the Captain o

the destroyer and said she would refuse to leave

the area unless he agreed to search the indicated

area one more time. The Captain reluctantly

agreed and the destroyer pulled away fromthe damaged LApache, but before doing so

he made Peggy give her word that she would

resume course to Honolulu as soon as repairs

were made.

A few hours later, as LApache limped toward

Honolulu, the radio crackled - the Munro had

found Sierks - alive. He had been in the stormy

sea over 30 hours. Peggy and the crew o

LApache hugged one another - smiling through

their tears.

The second time death knocked at Peggys doowas in 1968, when Peggy set sail, aboard her red

Kettenberg 43, Valentine, yet again, for Hawaii

But this voyage was different - this time she

went alone. All went fairly well for the first 19

days. Then, just a day out of Honolulu, Peggy

fell overboard during a sail change in rough

weather. Peggy was tethered to the boat and

became entangled in the headsail and halyard

The boat, steered by a wind vane, continued on

course - dragging her, spinning and splashing

alongside.

Peggy had broken her hand during her fall and

wasnt able to free herself from the sail turned

death shroud. For more than 12 hours she was

dragged through the surging seas. Finally, a

the end of her strength, she was able to loosen

her bonds and pull herself back on board as the

gunnel dipped low on a swell.

She was bruised, beaten, dehydrated, and badly

hypothermic. When body temperature drop

below 95 degrees anxiety and confusion take

over the mental process - if it drops another

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was in this state that Peggy made contact with the

Coast Guard and after three harrowing days, and

the world watching, she was finally rescued and

her boat towed into Oahu.

It took more than a month for the nightmares and

hallucinations to end - and three years before she

again attempted long distance sailing.

Throughout the 1970s and 80s, Peggy continued

to run her brokerage on Marquesas Way. And, as

was her custom, sneak away whenever possible

for a weekend at Catalina, or, if time permitted,

more exotic locales.

In 1980, Peggy worked closely with her friend,

client and dock-mate, actor Hal Holbrook, during

his preparations for his solo crossing to Hawaii.Mr. Holbrooks crossing was difficult and he

was suffering from sleep depravation. Recently,

Mr. Holbrook sent me a note about the incident.

It reads in part, Peggy was so concerned about

me she flew to Hawaii to meet me when I finally

arrived in the early dawn at Kauai. She took me

home to her house there and I passed out on the

sofa for 12 hours.

Peggy closed her brokerage in December of

1987. About a month or so earlier, I shared a fried

chicken lunch with her, and her ever present dog,

at the picnic table in front of her office. She saidshe was saddened to close the brokerage, but

thought it was the right time. The boat business

was dying, many manufacturers were closing their

factories, and Marina del Rey had changed from

being about boats and sailors to being about profits

and parking places - boats had become merely

a necessary evil. She said also that she wanted

time to write, and perhaps, squeeze in a few more

adventures. I am happy to say she was able to do

both. Her autobiography,Peggy, An Affair With the

Sea, was published after her death. She also made

arrangements to leave her considerable holdings

to the Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles.

Peggy, you stood your long watch well - now sleep

peacefully, Skipper.

Captain Richard Schaefer is a U.S.C.G. Licensed

Sailing Master and has instructed, delivered

vessels, skippered charters and written articles on

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P O W E R TA I L S

ANNAPOLIS, Md., November 1, 2010 - The BoatUS Foundations Innovation in Life Jacket Design Competition is once again calling for out-of-

the-box life jacket design entries.

Five years ago, the Innovation in Life Jacket Design Competition resulted with the introduction of several new and innovative life jacket designs to the

public, the U.S. Coast Guard and recreational boating industry. Since then, the interest in new, more comfortable designs has not faded. While curren

models of life jackets save lives every day, many are still bulky and uncomfortable, leaving boaters reluctant to wear them.

So the BoatUS Foundation, along with Underwriters Laboratories and the Personal Floatation Device Manufacturers Association, decided another

competition was necessary to keep the momentum going to seek out the newest technologies and design innovations that could rethink a 100-year-old

design.

We all have the mindset of what a life jacket looks like - and thats what we need to be challenging, said Underwriters Laboratories Joe Waters.

Entries that embrace new technologies and non-traditional thinking are being encouraged from armchair inventors to high school science clubs and

collegiate design programs. There are no rules regarding types of materials to be used or whether the design meets any current U.S. standards. The

deadline to enter is February 1, 2011.

The entries will be judged based on four criteria: wearability, reliability, cost and innovation. Wearability relates to the level of comfort. Reliability

will take into account the chances for potential failure, while cost will look at the affordability of the design. Innovation will take into account

originality or the employment of new technologies.

In early February, video of all entries will be posted online at the BoatUS Foundations channel at YouTube.com, and the public will be asked to select a

group offinalists. The finalist entries will then be reviewed by a special panel of judges convened at the International Boating and Water Safety Summi

in Savannah, Georgia, on March 6 - 9, 2011, and the winner announced. A $5,000 cash award goes to the winning designer.

We believe that out-of-the-box thinking may lead to the next generation of life-saving devices, said BoatUS Foundation President Ruth Wood. We

anticipate designs that will be creative and unconventional.

To enter, video footage of an actual working prototype must be submitted by providing a URL link to the video (no actual prototypes are submitted)

The video must clearly demonstrate how the design floats a person in the water. For more information on how to enter and for contest rules, visit www

BoatUS.com/Foundation/lifejacketdesign. You may also contact Chris Edmonston at 703-823-9550, x8356.

Out of the BoxBoatUS Invites the public to design a new PFD

images courtesy of BoatUS

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Weve been lucky lately that water

temps have stayed in the mid tolow 60s these past months itcould be worse this time of year.The evening bass bite has beengood and with squid still around,we still have had a chance foryellowtail or white seabass as wellas calico and sandbass.

As for lobster season it changeswith the weather patterns. Usefresh bait like mackerel, sardines,or barracuda it attracts the bugs

easier if there walking and dontforget they sometimes go todeeper water.

As this season moves on, look forthe rockfishing to pick up and usemore lead to keep your bait down.

For all you lingcod fishermen,the season will be closed fromDecember 1 through April 1. Soget out there while you can.

On the Bait Seine Look for Larryand Mike to have sardines andsquid as long as its in the bay.

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R A C I N G S C E N E

LB to Cabo

Doug Baker, Long Beach, skippered the Reichel/Pugh 78Akela to first-to-finish honors Tuesday and was first in Division 1 on corrected ORR handicap

time in Long Beach Yacht Clubs biennial 2010 Long Beach to Cabo San Lucas International Yacht Race.

Bob Lanes Andrews 63Medicine Man , also from Long Beach, finished first in Division 1 on corrected PHRF time.

Finishing the 804 nautical-mile race within about three hours of each other the two skippers fell short of breaking fellow LBYC member Peter Tong

Santa Cruz 70 OEXrecord set in 2008 of 2 days 22 hours 50 minutes 9 seconds.

Unlike in 2008 where there was consistent wind of 20 plus knots for the entire race, this years breezes fluctuated just enough to put the race record

out of reach.

The closest battle during the race was between Brack Dukers Santa Cruz 70Holua from Marina del Rey and Per Petersons Andrews 69Alchemy from

Oceanside YC with Perterson finishing just 4 minutes, 23 seconds ahead of Duker.

Alchemy finished second on ORR corrected time and third on PHRF corrected time while Holua finished third on ORR time and fourth on PHRF

time.

Both boats were in close proximity to each other throughout the race. So close at times that there was a near miss late Sunday night between them

under a moonless cloudy sky in a very dark ocean.Alchemy executed a crash-jibe and avoided what could have been an unfortunate encounter for both

boats.

Ricardo Brockmanns Reichel/Pugh 52 Vincitore from Acapulco rounded out the order with a fourth place finish on ORR corrected time and fifth on

PHRF time.

Since all boats have already finished, race officials have decided to move up the trophy presentations from Thursday evening to Wednesday at 6 p.m

allowing teams and race committee volunteers to return home a day early should they wish.

OEXs record is safe for another two years until these racing sleds will once again attempt to break it in the Fall of 2012.

Chuck Skewes ofAlchemy commented on the race, Of all the distance races I have done this has been one of the best with close racing and boat to boa

tactics. These old 70-foot sleds are such a great boat for these races and truly amazing at the speeds we average.

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Mariner: Are there levers that change the trim on the wings or is it a

machine?

Melvin: You can do whatever you want, just as long as its human

powered.

Mariner: So does the rule allow for teams to have their wings slightly

different from each other?

Melvin: Oh yeah. The plan form shape - the height and core lengths and

stuff, are controlled within a certain boundary and theres a maximumand a minimum of area of the wing just so everyones wing is about the

same size, but the section shape what air foils you use, how many slots

you have, what kind of control systems you have, and what the internal

structure of the wing looks like is completely open. So theres a huge

amount of design latitude for teams to explore.

Mariner: So these wing design choices could significantly impact the

amount of speed youre getting out of the boat?

Melvin: Oh yeah, the wing could perhaps and probably will be the

deciding factor who is the most innovative and comes up with the best

concepts in engineering.

Mariner: But isnt the rule written in such a way that they are hopingfor a lot of close competition as well?

Melvin: Yes, thats the idea. This one, since all the boats are likely to be

the same length and beam and have the same size wing - it might be closer

to a development box rule class like T252, A-Class Catamarans, Formula

18s or C Class Catamarans, they are all various flavors of the box rule.

Mariner: Is it possible to have different wings for different days if its

really blowing?

Melvin: On the measurement certificate theyre allowed to have one

tall wing, which is the normal sized wing, and youre also allowed

and required, after the second year, to have a short wing that also has

parameters on maximum and minimum size. The idea is that if its windy

and the race committee competitors think its dangerous to go out with the

tall wing, they can say today is a short wing day and everyone puts up

their short wing up. That was one problem with the last few cycles of the

Americas Cup in the monohulls is that the wind range was actually fairly

small and they lost lots of days and media interest because they couldnt

go out in the breeze. So the idea is that we open up the wind range and sail

in big breeze and its real exciting.

Mariner: Will the boat foil at all? Is there allowance for that?

Melvin: Youre allowed a pair of rudders and a pair of dagger boards

and they can be lifting daggerboards. I dont know if youll see boats

fully flying with hulls above the surface of the water but certainly a large

percentage of the way the boat will be carried [may be] on foils, especially

downwind.

Mariner: What are the projected top end speeds for the AC cats?

Melvin: We think the 72 will hit 35-knots something like that.

Mariner: Has anyone addressed the possibility of a capsize, if one

were to go over, what would happen?

Melvin: Yeah, it would be bad. Chances are you would break your wing

or damage it enough so that theres no way you could use it the next

day. Like with any catamaran theres probably not a lot of damage to the

platform but with the wing you would need to put a new wing.

Mariner: I read that they are going to have camera men on board, is

that true?

Melvin: Yes.

Mariner: Are there concerns about those guys inhibiting teamperformance?

Melvin: There are cameraman positions that they have to stay in - they

might have to move and for instance go the windward side every time, bu

there are specific locations dedicated to camera men on the boat.

Mariner: And thats a definite, thats going to happen?

Melvin: Yes.

Mariner: How is this changing your business? Its nothing but positive

Im imagining.

Melvin: Yeah, its definitely keeping us all busy.

Mariner: Have you had to expand?

Melvin: We are in the process of growing a bit. Our biggest concern is tha

we maintain our diversity and client base that weve managed to build up

over the years and our reputation and other areas - cruising yachts, racing

yachts, commercial boats and other sort of things. We definitely want to

keep that other side of our business going. But I think well be okay.

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Michael Kasten is the owner and operator of

Kasten Marine Design, Inc. Mr. Kasten is an

award winning designer who has created plans

in a wide variety of categories, from sea plane

floats to offshore multi-hulls and everything in

between, Kasten is as prolific as he is proficientin the field of Yacht Design.

Q: What are your views on what makes a

good lightning protection system?

Kasten: A lightning protection system aboard a

boat should have a dual purpose:

1. It should primarily serve as a lightning

preventionsystem, the purpose of which should

be to continuously shed any charge built up by

the boat, thereby rendering the boat invisible

to lightning.

2. It should secondarily be asked to serve as

a lightning strike protection system, to safely

conduct a direct strike to ground.

Q: That being said, what should the system

consist of?

Kasten: The lightning protection system should

consist of a robust primary path, which

should be designed to safely conduct a direct

strike to ground. Then, a series of secondary

paths should be designed to safely dissipatethe accumulation of charge by the boat, which

should feed into the primary path. This primary

path, should consist of an air terminal connected

to a ground plate immersed in the water and a

robust conductor leading vertically in a straight

path to a ground plate immersed in the water.

The top-most end, or air terminal, should be

a sharply pointed spike. As for the so called

robust conductor of the system, which takes

the path from the top-most end of the system to

the water, it must be as direct as possible and

use long radii, rather than sharp bends along the

primary path to the grounding plate.

The connections must offer low electrical

resistance or the energy of a strike may instantlyheat and melt the connection. An ABYC rule

recommends a minimum of a #4 AWG copper

wire for the primary lightning protection system

conductor and a minimum of a #6 AWG copper

wire for the secondary conductors. Tinned wire

is recommended, as usual.

For the grounding plate, an area of about

one square foot is considered by ABYC to

be sufficient. The plates should be located as

close to the base of the primary conductor as

possible to minimize any horizontal runs in the

primary conductor. It is recommended that the

conductor and ground plate be made of copper.

The edges of the external ground plate or strip

need to be sharp, exposed, and not painted,

caulked, or faired into the adjoining area.

The ABYC actually suggests the use of a

grounding strip, rather than a plate. The

rule states: A grounding strip shall have a

minimum thickness of 3/ 16 inch (5 mm),

and a minimum width of 3/4 inch (19 mm).

A strip approximately one inch (25 mm) wide

and 12 feet long (3.7 m) has nearly six timesthe amount of edge area exposed to the water,

which will improve the dissipation of charges.

The grounding strip, if used, shall extend from

a point directly below the lightning protection

mast, toward the aft end of the boat, where a

direct connection can be made to the boats

engine.


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Dear Mookie,

Im 13 and getting sick of my mom and dad

always bothering me to stay on top of myschoolwork. They keep saying I have to do

good now if I want to get into college later.

The latest thing is a science project I have to

do, which I have no clue what to doI feel

like Im too young for all this pressure.

Signed

Maxed out in the Marina

Dear Max,

Youre 13 and you think your young? Thats

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