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While reading the Editor’s Note by Molly Winans in the March issue of Spinsheet, I made a decision – and one entry into my calendar. Molly’s article “The Spaghetti Solution” talked about planning the season’s sailing adventures with friends over a spaghetti dinner in March, and as her skip-per noted in the article, “If it’s not on the calendar, it’s not happening.” So, thanks Molly. Although there was no spaghetti served, I have inked (well, selected, highlighted, named and ‘remindered’) a week into my phone calendar that will be spent aboard the boat with family. I am just like many of you – and those mentioned in Molly’s article who, during the long winter here in the Northeast, lament letting last summer get away, and who long for more time aboard. Despite the ambitious predictions of daysailing, overnighting and destination cruising I made this time last year, my family had only a handful of short sails on the boat and didn’t spend a single night aboard. It happens. Life gets in the way (the other ‘life’…earning money, unsway-able obligations, etc.). Throughout this winter, my wife and I spoke often about the many reasons why we ended up blowing off those sailing plans and we have vowed to do better this year – for sake of our sanity, and our boat – which, over the years, has taken on a role of family member. In fact, during times of crisis or an impending epic weather event, I think of the wellbeing of my wife and boys, my parents, my sister Alexis, then Tena-cious, then my brother Tom. Just kidding, Tom, I think of Tenacious before Alexis, too. Even with our favorite family and friends, we often make lots of flighty or provisional plans. “Hey, we need to get together soon!” we shout as we pass one another at the supermarket. When I drive past Tenacious on my way to a board meeting at the club or dinner at my parent’s house on Thursdays, I find myself silently promising the boat, “Hey, we’ll get together soon.” It’s remarkable how everything else seems to find a way to hold a place in the schedule of our lives – taking out the garbage on Sun-day night, those meetings at the club and Thursday dinners… On the pages of this issue, you’ll find an article that beautifully il-lustrates how the quality of time spent on a boat with a special shipmate surpasses almost any other way of using that allotment of hours, and the latest installment from a family that’s enjoying the trip of a lifetime. These people have figured out how to weave sailing into their lives – and in a big way. I have to commit to do the same, albeit on a smaller scale for now. But that’s okay. It’s a start. So, for the first week in August, don’t call me. I’ve dropped a marker on a date with my family and Tenacious. Don’t call me unless, of course, it’s on the VHF. See you on the water.

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18 Learning to Sail: Reclaiming the Boat The rewards for an early commissioning and getting out on the water before

the beginning of the season are plentiful, says Molly Mulhern, who recounts a spring day when she, her partner Jim and their J/34C Astraea had the fresh breeze and beautiful waters of Maine’s Penobscot Bay almost completely to themselves.

28 Spring Events Calendar As Benjamin Franklin said, “For every minute spent organizing, an hour is

earned.” To help you organize, we’ve compiled all of the important events, from certification classes to spring regattas, to allow you the precious time needed to get the boat in the water early this year.

42 Is Your EAP Ready for Action? Following a tragedy in a junior program on the Chesapeake and a subsequent

study commissioned by US Sailing, many clubs and sailing centers around the country established an emergency action plan (EAP). Clemmie Everett, one of the creators of the EAP at Noroton Yacht Club in Darien, CT, shares informa-tion to help ensure a safe season at your facility.

50 The Newbies: First Time to Bermuda Dinghy racers Sarah Angell and Sheehan Commette each competed in her

first Newport Bermuda Race in 2014, aboard the C&C 41 Jackknife II and the Concordia yawl Westray, respectively. As Chris Museler reports, these first-timers enjoyed the experience of a lifetime.

58 Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series New York is May 6 - 8 Much has changed in the 96 years since America’s Cup racing was last held in

New York Harbor. The crews of Resolute and Shamrock IV could scarcely have imagined the velocities at which the AC45 foiling cats will shred the Hudson, nor foreseen the amazing spectating opportunities and other attractions of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Event Village at Brookfield Place Waterfront Plaza.

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On the cover: It’s all smiles aboard Chris Miller’s Rodgers 26 Miller’s Crossing in last year’s Valeur-Jensen Stamford Denmark Race. On the rail are (l - r) Mark Pavletich (Somerville, MA), Lynne Petrocelli (Ridgefield, CT) and Christian Miller (Stamford, CT). Not pictured are Rodrigo Tamayo (Southport, CT) and John Thomas (Norwalk, CT). Mark and John connected with Chris through WindCheck’s Crew Connection, and Miller’s Crossing finished second in class (16 seconds out of first) and fourth in fleet.

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Editor’s Log 6

Letters 10

Checking In 12

Springing the Rode 20

Springtime Pre-Launch Checklist 22

Toss Your Calendar Before 24 Heading Offshore

From the Log of Persevere 26

Tide Tables 36

Captain of the Port 38

Book Review: Salt in the Rainbow 39

Book Review: Sailing Alone 39 Around the World

Sound Environment 40

The Ida Lewis Distance Race 44

Newport Bermuda Race Youth Prize 46 and Society

Comic 47

Crew Connection 47

Women’s Sailing Conference 48

Coop’s Corner 52

The Atlantic Cup 54

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Mudheads to Compete at Hospice 60 Regattas Nationals

Brokerage 62

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LettersWhy knot?After reading the review of Voyages in the January/February 2016 issue of WindCheck (thank you very much!), I settled down to read much of the rest of the issue. Specifically, I was reading the article “On the Bus with Joe Harris” on pages 54 & 55. It is a great story, but near the middle of page 55 I quote: “To set a new record (albeit unofficially), Harris will need to maintain an average speed of 195 nautical miles per day, or roughly 8.2 knots per hour.” As one who used to teach celestial navigation for many years, I always stressed to students that a knot was already a unit of speed – specifically, one knot is defined as one nautical mile per hour, and that “knots per hour” would actually correspond to a unit of acceleration. I hate to be picky, but someone at WindCheck needs to catch that sort of thing.All the best,Paul Jacobs, Saunderstown, RI

Paul – You’re absolutely right – we shouldn’t have let that one slip through. Thank you for the correction, and for sharing a great anchoring tip with us “Springing the Rode” (page 20). It’s surpris-ing that such a simple and effective technique remains largely unknown, and we look forward to trying it this season.

Good On Ya!Editor’s note: Our interview with sailor, author, historian, and safety-at-sea pioneer John Rousmaniere appeared in our March is-sue. In case you missed it, you’ll find it at windcheckmagazine.com.

I’m Joe Rousmaniere, one of John’s many younger brothers. I am now a weekend sailor – one weekend every 15 years – but when I was a kid we went sailing with John often enough, usually when he couldn’t find any other crew. Seared into my memory was a time we had a nice easy passage south on the Cape Cod Canal; the sun was warm and all was smooth... When we came out into Buzzards Bay, we were met with a violent squall and terrifying waves. Going below and curling up in a bunk not being an option for me, John shouted at me to do this and do that, including a death defying sail change on the foredeck that left me a wreck. All throughout he was enthusing about how we were handling the boat and the wind and the seas. He actually enjoyed it! Here it is 50 years later and he still enjoys it! Good on him.Joe Rousmaniere, via email

Joe – Sailing with family can be one of the most challenging ways to enjoy (or experience terror in) our sport – but it can also be one of the most rewarding! Regardless of the conditions, we’re sure that a big brother’s support and approval made that day sunny and warm. And no doubt about it, you were in good hands! ■

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checking in.Adventure at Sea for Teen Campers If you are looking for a truly “off the beaten path” teen camp opportunity, this one makes its course on the ocean and offers life at sea aboard a tall ship. And not just any tall ship; it’s this country’s brand new 200-foot full-rigged Sailing School Vessel Oliver Hazard Perry. Two trips – one 11-night and one six-night – are open to teens ages 13-18 and will explore the New England coastline between Boston, MA, Portsmouth, NH, and Newport, RI, while participants witness the natural magic of the ocean and its inhabitants. They’ll take responsibility for themselves and their fellow shipmates, learning to work as a team as they hoist and brace the yards on the ship’s 13 ½ story rig and stand watch at the helm to guide the ship’s course on a voyage of discovery. Camp Dates• July 31 - August 11 (Boston, MA - Portsmouth, NH) • August 14 - 20 (Portsmouth, NH - Newport, RI)

Although above decks SSV Oliver Hazard Perry looks like a historical ship, she is in fact a fully modern and technologically sophisticated steel-hulled vessel. Below decks is a modern galley and Great Cabin (where captains, in days of yore, entertained); high-end navigation and communication systems; a state-of-the-art science lab, and classroom spaces outfitted with monitors displaying real-time navigation and meteorological data as well as laptop computers and an interactive SMART board. Availability is on a first-come, first-served basis, and registration is open at OHPRI.org. For more information, call 401-841-0080 or email [email protected]. Follow OHPRI on Facebook and Twitter for current news and developments. ■

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checking in.Hanson Medal Awarded to the Crew of Martha Seabury

The US Sailing Safety at Sea Committee has awarded the Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal to the Martha Seabury, a new wooden schooner, whose sailors rescued three individuals from a capsized sailboat in Buzzards Bay on September 10, 2012. While on its maiden voyage at 7:30 pm, deckhand Allison Phillips spotted a capsized 15-foot sailboat with three people clinging to it and waving their arms. With winds approximated at 23 mph and seas at two to three feet, Captain Michael Moreland ordered the sails to be dropped, and with the engine running they came alongside the stricken sailors. The victims, in their 20s, swam to the Martha Seabury and were hauled aboard. Each was hypothermic, vomiting seawater and barely responsive. Phillips took the victims into the cabin, changed their clothes and wrapped them in dry gear and sleeping bags, while Chief Mate Paul Bracken called the US Coast Guard who deployed a cutter onto which the rescued sailors were transferred. US Sailing awarded the Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal to Captain Michael Moreland, Billy “Ollie” Campbell (owner), Paul Bracken, Allison “Ali” Phillips, Gabe St. Denis, Dan Rutherford and Oliver Cote. US Sailing Board Member and Safety at Sea Committee Member Sheila McCurdy presented the medal at the American Schooner Association Annual Meeting in Mystic, CT. The Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal is awarded to any person who rescues or endeavors to rescue any other person within the territorial waters of the United States, or as part of a sailboat race or voyage that originated or stopped in the U.S. The medal was established in 1990 by friends of the late Mr. Hanson, an ocean racer from the Chesapeake, with the purpose of recognizing significant accomplishments in seamanship and collecting case studies of rescues for analysis by US Sailing’s Safety at Sea Com-mittee. ■

Volvo Ocean Race Returning to Newport in May 2018The Volvo Ocean Race has announced that the next stopover in Newport, RI will take place May 8 - 20, 2018. It was also announced that the boats will leave Newport for a first-time stopover in Cardiff, Wales. The Newport, RI stopover in 2015 was a remarkable suc-cess as the race’s only North American stop, and the City-by-the-Sea was quickly reselected as a host port for the next edition. The public Race Village at Fort Adams State Park opens on May 8. The boats are expected to arrive in Rhode Island between May 8 and 10. The In-Port racing will take place May 17-19 and the leg departure to Cardiff is scheduled for May 20. “Newport hosted the most successful North American stopover in the race’s history,” said Sail Newport Executive Director Brad Read, “and Rhode Island will be ready again with an enthusiastic family-friendly public festival and celebration in May 2018.” The 2,900-nautical mile transatlantic crossing is tradition-ally one of the global race’s biggest highlights and toughest tests for sailors in often challenging conditions. A sailor was lost over-board and a boat sunk in separate incidents during the Transat-lantic crossing in 2006 on a leg from New York to Portsmouth, England. “We are thrilled that the race will connect Newport with another historic seaside community in Cardiff,” Read continued. “The North Atlantic leg between our cities could break the 24-hour speed record in the fierce North Atlantic conditions.” Cardiff has been chosen as the destination for the first Volvo Ocean Race transatlantic leg to the United Kingdom in 12 years, when the world’s leading offshore race makes its debut visit to Wales. Other stopovers already announced for the 2017-18 edition include Alicante, Spain; Cape Town, South Africa; Auckland, New Zealand; Lisbon, Portugal; and Gothenburg, Sweden. For more information, visit volvooceanracenewport.com. ■

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US Sailing Board Member and Safety at Sea Committee Sheila McCurdy presented the Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal to Michael Moreland, Captain of the schooner Martha Seabury. © US Sailing



checking in.Brewer Spring In-Water Used Boat Show is April 30 & May 1Brewer Yacht Sales and the Brewer Yacht Yards have announced their fifth annual Brewer Spring In-Water Used Boat Show at Brewer Pilots Point Marina in Westbrook, CT on the weekend of April 30 and May 1, from 10 am to 4 pm. This event is New England’s largest in-water used boat show, with more than 55 power and sailboats from 20 to 62 feet on display in the water and ready to go. “The Brewer Spring In-Water Used Boat Show is unique and the only show of its kind,” said Jackie Joslyn, Office Man-ager and Show Coordinator for Brewer Yacht Sales. “There’s no charge for dockage at the show as long as the boat is centrally listed with Brewer Yacht Sales, and our sellers remain aboard to showcase and answer questions. Contract negotiations are conducted by Brewer brokers, and a sea trial is only after there’s been an agreed price and terms.” “Last year we had a gate count of over 1,300 and sold 15 boats at the show or as a result of the show – our sellers were extremely happy at the turnout,” said David Pugsley, General Manager of Brewer Yacht Sales, Inc. “In fact, Brewer Yacht Sales has moved this year’s show to Pilots Point South to accommo-date show goers and participants.”

In addition to the large variety of boats, other exhibitors include local marine vendors to assist with yacht transport, sail design & repair, yacht finance/re-finance, insurance, canvas, saltwater tackle, boat detailing, Brewer Awlgrip/gelcoat special-ists, Brewer mechanics, boat lettering, boat towing & assistance, slips/storage, junior & adult sailing instruction, surveyors, and more. This show will be held rain or shine, and admission and all parking is free. For more information, visit breweryacht.com/boat-shows. ■


checking in.NEW for 2016 – CT Spring Boat Show is May 13-15The Connecticut Spring Boat Show has announced show dates of May 13-15, 2016 at the new Brewer Essex Island Marina in downtown Essex, CT. WindCheck Magazine is spearheading the merger of the two previous shows, Essex Spring Boat Show and SailQuest Mystic, in an effort for members of the boating in-dustry and Connecticut boat dealers to combine and share resources to get people excited about boating. The CT Spring Boat Show features sponsorship and support from the Yacht Brokers Association of America. Visitors attending the free show will enjoy seeing a wide range of power and sail models from American Tug, Bavaria, Beneteau, Bennington, Catalina, Chris Craft, Cutwater, Elan, Everglades, Hallberg-Rassy, Hunt, Hunter, Impression, J Boats, Jeanneau, Jupiter, Lagoon, Legacy, Limestone, Mag Bay, MJM, Monterey, Nordic Tug, Nordstar, Release, Sargo, Sealine, Southport, Viking and more. The larger location of the new Brewer Essex Island Marina will allow for visitors to view power and sail models of all sizes. Dealer participation will be increased and will feature select opportunities for

sea trials throughout the weekend. Historical Downtown Essex is located on the Connecticut River, a few short miles from Long Island Sound. The small waterfront town is a boating, sailing and tourist destination featuring quaint shops, markets, and restaurants. Visit www.ctspringboatshow.com for specific event details. Contact Anne Hannan of WindCheck Magazine at 203-332-7639 or [email protected] for dealer and vendor information. ■


Learning to Sail: Reclaiming the BoatBy Molly Mulhern

Not many folks were out and about cruising in Penobscot Bay over Memorial Day Weekend last year. With forecasts of air temperatures in the upper 40s and 40-knot gusts on Saturday, the impulse to stay home was certainly understandable. Still, the winter had been long and there Astraea sat on the mooring in Rockport on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, so off we went on Friday afternoon between the fog and the showers to get aboard her. We left the truck with all the gear and the dinghy at the dock as we hopped a ride out to the boat via one of the yard workers who helps launch boats, and there we were, aboard the J/34C that has been our summer cruising home for three-plus years now. We purchased the boat in the middle of one summer season, renamed her before the next season, then last year had a two-week-only season due to work obligations in London. So this, our fourth season, we were anxious, hence the hopping aboard, waiting out one of last Friday’s many showers, loading her, and then heading out, with a magnificent double rainbow greeting us as I turned Astraea’s wheel to port at the Indian Island Light and headed off to the east. There was not another sailboat on the horizon, and that was to be the case for most of the next three days – Penobscot Bay pretty much to ourselves. (Astraea, a boat name also used by one of our nautical heroes, Nathaniel Bowditch, means the virgin goddess of inno-cence and purity, and the name is also associated with the Greek goddess of justice. Renaming a boat, as we did, is a two-step pro-cess: first, the many months of searching for the appropriate new name, and second a renaming ceremony that includes offering a libation to Neptune over the bow, among other sailor-ly must-dos.) At ages 61 and 55 respectively, Jim, my partner, and I are not exactly young, nor are we totally new to sailing. Jim was thrown in the bilge of an A-Scow as a three year old and has never looked back to second guess his sailing heritage. I, on the other hand, although sailing on other peoples’ boats for many years – including a six-year stint as a schooner cook on the Maine windjammers (do any of you remember the Roseway? I cooked on her for years under the tutelage of Andrea Young) – did not own my first real cruising boat until 10 years ago, so still consider myself a rank beginner. (There are so many things to learn about sailing I don’t expect to ever call myself anything but a beginner.) I am always learning to sail and how to be a sailor. This trip the primary lesson was: it takes awhile to reclaim the boat and remember all the important stuff. Sailing is not so much like riding a bike, mostly because of the huge amount of technical knowledge and doing that goes with running a 34-foot boat. With a bike you’ve got the wheels, the brakes, and the derailer

as key operating parts. On a sailboat on a cold day (45 degrees with a howling NW wind – that is, Force 8), there are many, many operating parts….and while we can readily remember the sail trim (maybe), after nine months with only a short season last year, remembering all the details like how the second reefing line is run, where to tie off the pole topping lift so it does not clang mercilessly in a evening gale on the mooring, or which combina-tions of prayers and solenoid switching turned on the propane-fired “Cozy Cabin Heater” (not so cozy on this trip for us, alas!) is not so easy. One major aspect to the sailing life that is dusted off is being weatherwise. It starts days before the trip, monitoring the NOAA offshore forecast online. The screen information is good, but you also begin to pay attention to the wind in the trees, and on the flagpoles, pondering if it is a slight ripple – Beaufort Force 2 – or if the flag is fully extended – a Beaufort Force 7 day. Then aboard one has to remember how to tune the VHF to the weather (WX) forecast so that updates can be had while on the water. The more challenging part becomes one of living in the wind and weather…getting used to the howling in the rigging at night on the mooring, remembering how many layers of fleece are needed under the foul weather gear, getting accustomed, if one ever were, to sailing on edge.

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Jim at the helm of our J/34C – many layers and huge smiles


I remember reading someplace that sailing before the sum-mer solstice and after the autumnal equinox in our corner of Maine was when you’d find wind, and this weekend was not a disappointment. Some sailors relish the kind of wind we saw out there. Only for me, as a newbie, I am still scared to death when the boat heels over, thinking an imminent tip is in the cards. Now, I do know better, understanding intellectually, any-way, that some angle of heel is required in a monohull. But I also know that reefing – shortening sail – is another way to deal with this heeling, and I insist upon it, nearly every time the wind threatens to blow above 17 knots (Force 5). (And much to Jim’s credit, he knows that burying the rail with too much sail aloft not only does nothing to improve speed, but also has negative affects in interpersonal dynamics once arriving at the mooring after such excessive displays of bravado and imprudent risk of expensive hardware...) And reefing makes a huge difference. The boat sails a little flatter, hence I am a bit more comfortable going to windward. And as we experienced this weekend, reefing does little to hurt our boatspeed, as we hit 7.5 to 8 knots several times on Sunday, and more so on Monday, as we were sailing more off the wind and had the benefit of the planing to add to our speed.

In addition to the cold air temps and the high windspeeds, the other challenge of Memorial Day weekend sailing is the hypothermia-inducing water temperatures. At 50 degrees F or less, there are many reasons to make sure a sailor stays out of the water at this time of the year. Do you remember the tragic drowning of a doctor in Rockport Harbor seven years ago on Memorial Day weekend? The trauma surgeon and his buddy were rowing their dinghy out to their sailboat, eager to hop aboard for a weekend sail. Something went awry on the row, and somehow the dinghy became unstable and they both went into the harbor. Minutes are all that are between you and death. So, take precautions – wear the PFD, have your submersible VHF in your PFD pocket, and for God’s sakes (and the sakes of all your loved ones, and you) stay in the boat.

Are there compensations for dusting off the cobwebs early and getting out there early in the season, or according to some, before the sailing season? Indeed. Having East Penobscot Bay to ourselves on Sunday, with the exception of a small tacking duel

with the schooner Stephen Taber at the eastern end of the Fox Island thoroughfare, watching an incred-ible sunset over the Camden Hills on Friday night with no other sailboats at Pulpit (unheard of!), and finally, jumpstarting the learning process so next weekend won’t be so full of oops and fits and starts. Not to mention choice anchoring in just about any cove on the Bay. ■

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 out-doorspeople, 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

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Approaching Pulpit Harbor, without the usual crush of boats on a late Friday afternoon.

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By Dr. Paul Jacobs1990 C-34 #1068

My partner Nancy and I have had the good fortune and great joy to sail our 1990 Catalina 34 Pleiades throughout the splendid and historic cruising grounds of New England. She is based out of Wickford, Rhode Island, only five miles from our regular home, but from early May through late November she effectively becomes our floating home. Last summer we sailed Pleiades to Third Beach, Cuttyhunk, Mattapoisett, Red Brook, and one of our favorite cruising spots: Kettle Cove on Naushon Island. While many other New Eng-land harbors are listed in various cruising guides, Kettle Cove is not. In a way, that is fortuitous, since it is rarely crowded, and on some summer days when Block Island is literally “wall-to-wall” with powerboats and sailboats, we have actually found ourselves completely alone on the hook at Kettle Cove. The good news about this “off the beaten track” location is: (1) a beautiful, long sandy bight protected from winds ranging from SE around to W, (2) very clean water that is great for swimming, (3) a tiny freshwater stream running down to the bay, (4) the absence of houses, stores, roads, cars, and streetlights, so that on a clear night one has a fabulous view of the dark night sky, and finally (5) a sand bottom out to 20 feet depth which provides outstanding holding. The only negative is that if the prevailing SW wind is strong, ocean swells can refract around the west end of Naushon Island, through Robinson’s Hole, and into Kettle Cove. This happened to us a few years ago, and the night was spent listening to pots and pans clattering, and plates and glasses sliding side to side in their galley storage compartments. Surely, at one time or another all sailors have confronted this situation. The wind is from one direction (e.g. SW) but the swells are from another direction (e.g. NW). In our case Pleiades aligned herself primarily into the wind, but the swells were arriving from very nearly perpendicular to her starboard beam. At this point you will either: (A) suffer a brutal night with much obnoxious rolling, or (B) you may choose to put out a second anchor, or (C) you may finally decide in desperation to move to another harbor that is better protected from the prevailing wind and swells. Or (D)…and this is of course the point of this article…there is another wonderful alternative. You may choose to simply “Spring the Rode.” I learned about this technique from a book describing some of the Royal Navy ships-of-the-line in the

Sailing Pleiades on the East Passage of Narragansett Bay. © Daniela Clark/PhotoBoat.com

early 1700s. One of their standard techniques in cross-swells was indeed to “Spring the Rode.” Springing the rode is so simple that the first time we employed this historic method, Nancy and I looked at each other afterwards and wondered why we had never thought of doing that before! Let me illustrate schematically with the situation we encountered at Kettle Cove; the wind was SW at about 12 - 15 knots, there were 1 to 1.5-foot swells from the NW, the bow was pointed SW, the anchor chain and rode had been paid to 7:1 scope, (i.e. seven times the sum of the 15 feet water depth plus the approximate 4 foot height of the C-34 bow roller above the water), or about 135 feet. The anchor was holding beautifully, but unfortunately the hull was rolling back and forth in a nasty manner, and Nancy and Paul were not at all happy sailors. It was time to “Spring the Rode.”

Springing the Rode

Step 1. Select a strong line longer than your sailboat. A spare halyard or jib sheet is perfect. Step 2. Tie that line snugly to your anchor rode just forward of the bow, with a running hitch. Step 3. On the side opposite from the waves, lead the line aft, and outboard of everything. Step 4. Using a fairlead to avoid overrides, run the line to a primary winch, and snug it taut. Step 5. Gradually ease out on the anchor rode, until the bow points into the swells. Step 6. If the wind shifts, make fine adjustments to the ship’s heading, using the primary winch. Step 7. When the rolling motion is replaced by modest pitch-ing…SMILE! Not only is this much simpler to accomplish in the dark than setting a second anchor, but if the wind or swells should happen to change direction during the wee hours of the night, it is very easy to let out or grind in a few feet of the spring line simply using the primary winch, until the rolling has again been greatly reduced or totally eliminated. After you have “Sprung the Rode” even once, you will never again put up with extreme rolling at anchor. Fair winds, following seas, and smooth anchoring. ■

Dr. Paul Jacobs and his partner Nancy Kaull are frequent Wind-Check contributors. Excerpts from their highly recommended book, Voyages: Stories of ten Sunsail owner cruises, can be found at windcheckmagazine.com.

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BEFORE Swell Direction AFTER "Springing the Rode"


Spring Pre-Launch Checklist By Beth Leonard

It’s almost time for summer fun! Working your way through this checklist will help make sure your boat’s ready to go when you are. And while it is nearly impossible to cover every aspect of commissioning a sailboat for spring, this list will get you on your way.

Getting Started If necessary, reinstall batteries. Top up lead acid batter-ies with distilled water. Fully charge your batteries. Clean and tighten electrical connections, especially terminals of battery cables. Coat battery terminals with insulating film of grease, or apply protective battery terminal spray. Open and close seacocks; handles should move freely. Hoses should be double-clamped with stainless-steel hose clamps. Replace any that look rusted. Inspect the raw-water intake strainer to be sure it has not cracked, and is clean and free of corrosion. Make sure the strainer’s top fits snugly. Check running lights. Clean/tighten connections or replace bulbs to assure that all are operating properly. Check the VHF and GPS antenna connections by discon-necting and spraying with moisture-displacing lubricant, then reconnect and test. Make sure the stuffing box or shaft seal is completely dry when the boat is at the dock. Inspect portlights, hatches, and deck fittings for dirty or displaced caulking, water trails, dirt, and green corrosion, any of which signals a leak that needs to be recaulked. A leak, or moisture that has intruded may have left mildew behind. Check for signs on your headliner and in the fridge and lockers first. Test bilge pump and high-water switches and alarms. Test smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, LPG and gasoline fume detector. Check flares (expiration date) and fire extinguishers (charge), and replace/ recharge as necessary. Check and service safety gear (life jackets, MOB).

Boats Ashore Inspect props for dinging, pitting, and distortion. Make sure cotter pins are secure. Grip the prop and try moving the shaft — if it’s loose, the cutlass bearing may need to be replaced. Replace plastic fittings near the waterline with bronze or Marelon. Inspect the zincs on the shaft. Replace any that are close to half-deteriorated. Check to make sure the rudderstock hasn’t been bent. After the boat is launched, be sure to inspect around the rudder and all thru-hulls for leaks, and check the stuffing box while underway to make sure there is a steady, but slow drip.

Engines and Related Systems Flexible gasoline lines should say “USCG Approved, J1527.” Replace any that don’t. Are fuel hoses supple, with no cracks, bulges, or soft spots? Do the lines smell like gasoline (wipe the lines with a clean rag and then smell the rag)? Did you also use a rag to detect odors at connections? Cooling hoses should fit snugly and be solidly double-clamped. Replace any hose clamps that show signs of corrosion. Replace fuel filters. Clean or replace the air filter. Change engine oil unless done in the fall (preferable). Check fluid levels: transmission, coolant. Check belts for tension and wear. Check raw-water and freshwater pumps for seepage, which indicates a gasket needs to be replaced. Replace raw-water impellers if they are more than a year old. Examine exhaust manifolds for signs of corrosion and water seepage that indicate blockage. If you suspect a problem, remove the manifold. Replacing the (inexpensive) gaskets at the heat exchanger every year helps prevent corrosion at the housing and also lets you look for gunk that can clog the stacks. Test bilge blower and inspect hose. Inspect outer jacket of cables for cracks and swelling, either of which indicates the cable must be replaced. Use waterproof grease at the ends.

Sailboat Rigging Inspect swage fittings for rust and cracks. Running rigging should be supple and free of chafe. Run a rag over stays and shrouds to find “fishhooks” that indicate the wire needs to be replaced. Rod rigging may need professional inspection by a rigger. Ensure that spreaders bisect the shrouds. Ends should be protected to prevent chafe. Remove tape at turnbuckles and lubricate threads (prefer-ably with Teflon). Check all cotter and clevis pins for a proper tight fit. Run a water hose over the chainplates/deck fittings to check for leaks. Look for rust streaks inside and out. If necessary, remove and recaulk. ■

Beth Leonard is the Technical Editor for BoatUS publications and Assistant Director of Technical Services. She is the author of The Voyager’s Handbook, a how-to guide for those who want to head offshore in their own boats, and narratives about her two circum-navigations: Blue Horizons and Following Seas. This article originally appeared in Seaworthy, the BoatUS Marine Insurance publication dedicated to helping members avoid injury and boat damage in accidents and storms, and is reprinted with permission. Special thanks to Scott Croft, AVP Public Relations at BoatUS.


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By Andrew Burton

I enjoyed the interview with John Roumaniere in the April issue of WindCheck. John’s words are always worth paying attention to, especially if you have the pleasure of doing so in person. I would like to add a little from my own experience to his comments about Safety at Sea and returning boats home after the Newport Bermuda Race. As a delivery skipper for several decades, I have made the passage between the East Coast and Bermuda more than 100 times. That piece of ocean has dished out the worst conditions I’ve ever seen in the process of logging around 350,000 offshore miles. Due to the Gulf Stream and the frequent lows that form off Cape Hatteras and track northeast, experienced sailors know to treat the area with respect. At the time of year boats are coming back from Bermuda to the East Coast after the race, it is usually easy to pick a good weather window, provided you practice a little patience. Condi-tions that time of year are generally benign, but sometimes you can encounter truly awful gales and several people have been lost or badly injured on boats making the return passage. Trouble mostly comes to crews for one reason alone; scheduling. They leave when they must, in order to get home and back to work on time. That’s just asking to get clobbered by the wind gods. Occasionally, you can’t find a window that promises a nice sail all the way back. Usually that’s because a cold front is approach-ing, and you know that at some point you are going to get hit with very strong winds on the nose. When this is the best I can get for a window, I do two things; I make sure I time my depar-ture so I meet the front south of the Gulf Stream, and when I do meet the front – after conditions have gone downhill enough that the sailing is getting truly uncomfortable – I heave to. Heaving to is a technique that many experienced offshore skippers find invaluable to have in their bag of tricks. Some skip-pers who lack a ton of offshore experience or are in a hurry to get home don’t have the patience to lose time waiting for the wind to shift. And shift it will – if you’re patient. At that time of year, it’s rare for the breeze to stay strong and on the nose for more than a

day. It’s worth noting again: Sailing offshore and tight schedules are a dangerous mix! One June trip heading home from Bermuda, we encountered a front that came through much stronger than forecast – which, thanks to the influence of the Gulf Stream, happens often in those waters – and we ended up hove to in 50 knots of wind and waves that resembled nothing so much as the Swiss Alps. A 42-foot race boat came smashing to weather close by, under greatly reduced canvas (thus satisfying one requirement for the crew to join my favorite club) and called us on the VHF to see if we were OK. We explained that we were simply hove to and relaxing with a cup of tea in the cockpit while we waited for the wind to shift from northwest to south. The shift was due in about 15 hours. We wished each other well and they crashed off over the horizon. The next morning at sunup, sure enough the wind had shifted and the seas were just long swells as we got underway. Just after breakfast we came upon our friends on the race boat, still hun-kered down and hove to, obviously catching up on sleep. Another mistake sailors returning the boat after the Bermuda Race make is to overestimate the average speed the boat will

Toss Your Calendar Before Heading OffshorePatience is the key to planning your passage home from Bermuda

Hunkered down under deep-reefed main and staysail the Swan 59 EMK heads north toward the Stream. We could have carried more sail, but sacrificing a knot of boatspeed gave us a much safer and comfortable ride.


make. They may forget that they won’t be sailing with a full racing crew and probably won’t be setting the boat’s best sails. To take one boat I know well as an example, a Swan 46 is capable of mak-ing the passage back to Newport in a little more than three days; an average of 8 knots. However, under delivery conditions, the trip always takes me within an hour of four days, for an average of 6.6 knots. Having a good idea of the actual speed the boat allows the skipper to plan for weather conditions where the boat will be at a given time when studying grib files before departure. A quick word about seasickness. Once a crewmember has decided on the best seasick medication for them, have them get it into their system thoroughly before you leave. Starting to take it a full three days before departure will almost always prevent “gulf stream gastritis.” I figured this out years ago when I had an offshore sailing program. On what was to be the last voyage of the program, I had 54 sailors on nine boats heading south from New-port in November. Each of them took their meds the day before our planned departure; we ended up being delayed three days, though each day we thought we’d leave the next day. It didn’t mat-ter which medication the person chose, as long as they got it into their system. When we finally left, still with strong breeze and big leftover seas, the only person who got seasick was a “mighty-man-of-the-sea” who had never been seasick and didn’t take any meds. My wife, who would feel nauseous on a dewy lawn, now enjoys our cruises from start to finish because she follows this practice. Sailing back after the Bermuda Race can be the best part of the whole experience. Just leave your calendar at home, pick a good weather window, take your seasick meds in advance, and then enjoy the warm sunshine. ■

Andrew Burton has been a delivery captain for more than 30 years. He makes his home in Newport, RI, and with his wife, regularly cruises his C&C 40 between there and the maritime provinces of Canada.

Dave Aibel and the author aboard the Swan 651 White Knight just before heaving to in a Mediterranean Mistral.


From the Log of Persevere: One Word: GaudíBy Colin Rath

Editor’s note: This is the eleventh installment in a series of dispatches from the Rath family (Colin & Pam, daughters Breana, Meriel 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.

Pam and I had been looking forward to Barcelona. Everyone who has visited our condo in New York City (TerrapinDesign.net) thought that we were inspired by Gaudí architecture. We had read about the work of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí and seen pictures, but they don’t do justice to what was actu-ally built. The craftsmanship and design is amazing. I’ve never seen such detail in the woodwork, with complex curves on wood pieces 10 feet long and same wide. We rode our bikes from the Port Olímpic Marina to the old town. (It seems every city in Europe has an “old town” going as far back as the Romans.) Barcelona has a rich history and lots of alleys to ride through, playing bike tag and sightseeing. Barcelona has a great bike lane system throughout the city. We were able to go everywhere on bikes. The first Gaudí stop was Casa Batlló, built in 1877. Gaudí was highly criticized for its radical design while it was being built. He used constructive elements of the Mod-ernisme (Catalan Art Nouveau) that include ceramics, stone, and forged iron. The apartment complex was completely designed by Gaudí as freeform; no plans were drawn. He built models for his crafts-men to build from. The place was full of compound curves, not a right angle in the whole building (which Pam & I love). The

entire building is a piece of art, from ceramic tiles cut to curve with each intricate detail, massive, hand-carved doors, and brass apartment numbers designed to Gaudí’s personal alphabet. It was truly incredible. But that was nothing compared to La Sagrada Familia. Work on Gaudí’s cathedral began in 1892, and it’s still under construction and not expected to be finished for another 15 years. He designed an inverted arch that was made from models, as with Casa Batlló. A lot of natural patterns were used in his design. The arches resemble the spreading branches of a tree. The stained glass windows were different on each side of the church,

invoking a differ-ent emotion as you walked. The Museum below the cathe-dral was remark-able, with all of Gaudí’s models and concepts of his architecture. Get a guide to have a complete view – there are a lot of hidden gems. Gaudí is actually entombed there. There are little Gaudí touch-es throughout the city, with the street lamps, bus stops and market signs everywhere. We spent a week touring the city and loved La Boqueria Food

Market, a great place for inexpensive lunch and fresh produce. There are little booths that sell fresh cooked seafood and local dishes. It’s a terrific place to meet the locals and have a drink. We decided to visit Ibiza next, to hear some world music and have an adult night at the clubs we heard so much about. It was off-season when we arrived, which was nice because we got to meet the locals and the chandleries were actually hav-ing sales to clear stock for next year. Ibiza has great flea markets and live bands entertaining you as you shop. The girls loved the beads and incense, as well as beautiful beaches that transform into nightclubs during happy hour. The stadium nightclubs, which have fog and bubble machines galore, don’t get going until 2 am. You usually quit around 8 am and go out for a big breakfast. We were there for a week and decided to change our itinerary. We had planned to stay in the Med for a year, but after the Paris attack we decided to head to warmer climate after spending a summer in England.

The amazing architecture of Antoni Gaudí can be seen throughout Barcelona. © persevere60545.com

Construction of Gaudí’s La Sagrada Familia cathedral has been underway since 1892. © persevere60545.com


We signed up for the Atlantic Odyssey with Jim Cornell that departed on January 9, 2016 from the Canaries to Martinique. They had 17 boats signed up, some with families. The kids liked the idea of meeting new sailing kids, and we liked crossing the pond with a group. We sailed back to Gibraltar to get supplies (cheap diesel, duty free provisions and Christmas gifts). We stayed for a week and got the new cat shots done for travel abroad, caught the James Bond flick Spectre, did some minor repairs, filled up with some 80 pence diesel, and off we went. Now, we couldn’t just go to the Canaries directly and not see Morocco (espe-cially since it was in the Bond film). We sailed into Rabat on the way. Sailing in was quite an introduction to the country – every fisherman came by to see if we were willing to trade cigarettes and real Coca Cola for fish, and we got a standing ovation heading up the river to the marina. Fortunately, we had a little time waiting for the tide to come into make into the marina to take it all in. The Bouregreg Marina is across from the city of Rabat, but you could get ferries rowed across for two Dirhams (about 50 cents) or take the train to Rebat, Medina and Casaba. We had a great time bargaining at the Medina (huge flea market). They sold anything and everything. The best was restaurants selling camel meat – yes, camel – that had it cooking right in front of you. They pick the meat off the head and serve it with sauces. Every-

where we went we had tea – a really potent, sweet tea, like Red Bull with a saucer. The spices, rich, full and raw, were wonderful. We ran into another British couple that had converted an Irish trawler and are sailing around the world with their two kids. They’d spent seven years gutting the wood trawler, and actually cut down a tree and shaped it for the mast. Truly unbelievable. They can be followed at Trawlertravels.blogspot.com. Nicest people around. Our families spent eight days exploring Rabat and bargaining. They actually sailed to Tenerife with us. We got there ahead of them, but we did a lot of exploring together. More next month as we prepare to sail across the Atlantic. ■

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2Radar and Electronics Course - This comprehensive class includes hands-on practice with a real-time RADAR simula-tor. 9am - 5-pm; Landfall Marine Training Center, Stamford, CT; 800-941-2219; landfallnav.com/mtc

2Maritime Aquarium Lighthouse Cruise - Ven-ture out on the hybrid-electric research vessel Spirit of the Sound™ for an close-up look at five historic lighthouses on Long Island Sound: Peck Ledge, Greens Ledge, Sheffield Island, Penfield Reef, and Stratford

Shoal. Maritime Aquarium educators will offer details, histories and anecdotes about the lighthouses, and also point out visiting winter waterfowl. Binoculars will be provided. The vessel has a climate-controlled cabin, but the best view’s on deck so bring plenty of warm clothes. Passengers must be over 42” tall. The 4.5-hour cruise departs at 10am. $70 fee includes a box lunch. Advance reservations are required. The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, CT; 203-852-0700, ext. 2206; maritimeaquarium.org

2 & 3US Sailing Advanced Race Management Seminar Led by Tom Duggan and Peter ‘Luigi’ Reggio, this two-day course provides the training and objective test for regional and national race officer candidates. 8am -5pm both days; $125 fee includes continental breakfast, lunch and snacks. Oakcliff Sail-ing, Oyster Bay, NY; register at raceadmin.ussailing.org

2 & 3Lynne Marchiando Team Race - This collegiate regatta is hosted by MIT and sailed in FJs and Fireflies. Boston, MA; collegesailing.org

2 & 3Dellenbaugh Women’s Trophy - This collegiate regatta is hosted by Brown and sailed in Z420s. Providence, RI; collegesailing.org

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2, 9, 16 & 23Music of the Sea: Bal-lads, Chanteys and Songs of the Sailor - Sharpen your musical skills in this four-class series while exploring the rich connections between music and the sea. Class registration includes a set of “Bones” and a Songs of the Sailor booklet and CD. All skill levels are wel-come. 10am - 12pm; $90 ($110 non-members); Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT; call 860-572-5322 to register; mysticseaport.org

4 - 8Flying Scot Midwinters St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club, Panama City, FL; fssa.com

5 and subsequent Tues-day eveningsSeamanship - This 8-session U.S. Sail & Power Squadron course is the ideal next course after qualifying for your CT Boating Certificate or having taken the Piloting course. It is geared towards making your time on the water safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable. Many topics from the Coastal Boating Competence Course are covered in more depth, and new topics are introduced. Seamanship will make your time on the water safer, less stress-ful, and more enjoyable! This is information that everybody who boats should master, whether you’re typically the captain or crew. Norwalk, CT. For location and times, contact Peter Adler: [email protected]

7Shoreline Sailing Club meeting - If you’re an active single over 35, this club’s activi-ties include sailing, fishing, kayak-ing, dances, dockside parties, golfing, skiing and more. Meet-ings are held the first & third Thursdays of each month (lite bites/cash bar available); 7:30pm; Westbrook Elks Lodge, West-brook, CT; shorelinesailingclub.com

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9Charts, Navigation & GPS Course - Presented by U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 24-3, this course ties together electronic navigation and the method of plotting a course on a paper chart. Instructions on basic satellite navigation (GPS) and its functions are presented, as well as pros and cons of rely-ing on electronic nav devices. 8am - 3pm; $60; Flotilla 24-3 Training Center, Milford, CT; 860-663-5505; [email protected]; cgaux.org

9US Sailing Race Manage-ment Seminar - Topics of this 1-day class, led by Steve Purdy, include RC objectives & responsibilities, regatta safety, writing sailing instructions, RC jobs, RC equipment, setting the course, starting system, starting penalties, before the start, during the race, finishing, and scoring. 8am - 5pm; $45 fee includes breakfast, lunch, course materi-als, cash bar, DOOR PRIZES!! Milford Yacht Club, Milford, CT; Register atussailing.org/race-officials/find-a-seminar/

9 & 10Emily Wick Trophy - This collegiate regatta is hosted by

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the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and sailed in FJs and Z420s. New London, CT; collegesailing.org

10Chantey Sing - Bring voices, instruments & friends to sing maritime songs of all kinds. 4 -7pm; $5 suggested donation for food & drink; Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton, CT; Deirdre Murtha: [email protected]

11 - 16Les Voiles de Saint Barth 7th Edition - With a goal of “competition on the water and conviviality on the shore,” this regatta attracts sailors from around the world. St Barth, FWI; lesvoilesdesaintbarth.com

13Maritime Author Series with Steven Berry - In this Mystic Seaport presentation, the author of A Path in the Mighty Waters: Shipboard Life and the Atlantic Crossing to the New World, will discuss James Oglethorpe’s Georgia Expedition, which set sail from London, England in 1735. Light refreshments will be served, and one person will win a copy of the book. 6 - 8pm; $15 for Museum members ($20 non-members); Collections Research Center Library, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT; call 860-572-5331 to register; mysticseaport.org

14 - 1721st Annual Sperry Charleston Race Week This great regatta turns 21 this year, and that means it’s all legal now – three days of racing in 18 classes, four nights of beach par-

ties, daily free race debriefs and seminars, and plenty of Southern hospitality. Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina, Mt. Pleasant, SC; charlestonraceweek.com

16Hands-On Safety at Sea Seminar - Moderated by Storm Trysail Club Past Com-modore Rich du Moulin, this US Sailing certified event includes on-the-water sessions for man overboard recovery, pool ses-sions featuring liferaft and PFD use, fire fighting, use of distress flares and more. This seminar meets the Safety at Sea require-ments for the 2016 Newport to Bermuda Race, and attendance at this seminar along with suc-cessful completion of a test that will be given will bring full ISAF certification for those who wish to achieve it. 8am - 5pm; SUNY Maritime College, Throggs Neck, NY; stormtrysailfoundation.org

16Waterscapes: A Marine “Pop Up” Exhibit - Art-ists are invited to submit work with a maritime/marine theme for this one-day, juried show presented by the Milford Arts Council and Milford Yacht Club. Work may be for sale; 30% commission on sales goes to MAC Receiving is from 8:30 - 10am; reception is 5:30 - 7pm; cash awards will be announced at 6 pm, and winners will be displayed at the MAC Center for the Arts until May 31. All artwork must be taken home immediately following the recep-tion. Milford Yacht Club, Milford, CT; for more information, call 203-878-6647 or visit milfordarts.org.

16 & 17Thompson Trophy - This collegiate regatta is hosted by the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and sailed in FJs and Z420s. New London, CT; collegesailing.org

16 & 17President’s Trophy Wom-en’s - This collegiate regatta is hosted by Boston University and sailed in FJs. Boston, MA; collegesailing.org

17Sea Shanty Sing - This event for musicians and music lovers of all ages is co-hosted by the Folk Music Society of New York. 2-5 pm; free (donations are appreciated); Noble Maritime Collection, Snug Harbor Cul-tural Center, Staten Island, NY; noblemaritime.org

18 & subsequent Monday evenings until 5/23 Rusty Racing - Has it been a while since you raced? Just look-ing for a rules refresher before your summer season kicks into gear? Join New England Science & Sailing Foundation (NESS) for a rules discussion that focuses on clarifying what can be a con-fusing book of rules! A different topic will be announced prior to each class, and each night will have plenty of time for ques-tions and group discussion. 5:30 - 6:30pm; $10/night $55 for the season; NESS, Stonington, CT; nessf.org

18Right Whale Day - Family activities include an inflatable whale and calf, an obstacle course, magnet, drawing and origami workshops, Waltzes with Giants readings, and more. 10am - 2pm; New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA; 508-997-0046; whalingmuseum.org

19 - 21Sailing The Collegiate Dinghies - This 3-day clinic is for youth sailors who wish to learn collegiate sailing tech-niques and practice like one of the country’s top college sailing teams. Crimson Sailing Academy, Cambridge, MA; crimsonsailingacademy.com

20JSA Event Management Seminar - 7 - 9pm; Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY; Ju-nior Sailing Association of Long Island Sound; jsalis.org

21 Lessons from Olympic Sailing - Dave Dellenbaugh will present on Olympic sailing and offer some lessons that sailors can apply to their racing. Topics

will include sailing in current, how to play wind shifts, regatta routines, the value of extra wind pressure, the cost of maneuvers and upwind strategic choices. 6pm, Shennecossett Yacht Club, 1010 Shennecossett Rd., Groton, CT. syc-ct.com

2 - 24O’Pen BIC North Ameri-can Championships - By combining conventional race formats with unorthodox “Un-Regatta” events including man-datory capsizes and freestyle routines, this event puts fun at the forefront. James Island Yacht Club, Charleston, SC: Nevin Sayre: 617-584-5784; [email protected]; entry at yachtscoring.com

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22 - 3049th Antigua Sailing Week - Antigua, BWI; sailingweek.com

23Advanced Celestial Navi-gation - This is the second of two consecutive courses that will put the new student of celestial navigation on the path to proficiency in this time honored, defining skill of the competent sailor. 10am - 5pm; $150; Landfall Marine Training Center, Stamford, CT; 800-941-2219; landfallnav.com/mtc

23 & 24Admiral’s Cup - This col-legiate regatta is hosted by the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and sailed in 420s, FJs and Lasers. Kings Point, NY; collegesailing.org

23 & 24 and 30/5/137th Annual AYC Spring Series Regatta - One-Design,

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IRC & PHRF; American Yacht Club, Rye, NY; yachtscoring.com; americanyc.org

24Peter Milnes Memorial Regatta - Hosted by Laser Fleet 413 and Sail Newport, this event honors the man who founded Fleet 413 in 1988. Newport, RI; newportlaserfleet.org

24 - 28US Sailing Small Boat Instructor Level 1 Course The WaterFront Center, Oyster Bay, NY; ussailing.org

2919th Annual New York Harbor Sailing Founda-tion Sailors Ball - All sailors and sailing enthusiasts in the New York City area are invited to attend this black tie gala, which celebrates the start of the new sailing season. This event raises money for Operation Op-timist, the largest junior sailing program in New York Harbor. In addition to an open bar, light hors d’oeurvres and dancing

in many theme rooms, Tucker Thompson, the TV and Public Host of the 35th America’s Cup, will discuss the past, present and future of the oldest international sporting trophy (which will be on display!), in advance of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event in New York (May 6-8). 9pm - 1am at a private club at 60 Pine Street in lower Manhattan; Regular Ball tickets are $95 on or before April 26 ($120 at the door if available); Special VIP tickets which include a “12 Meter Dinner from 7 - 9pm are $250; New York, NY; nyharborsailing.com/sailors-ball

30 Marine Tag Sale - Come to buy, reserve a table or sell through the club consignment table. 9am-1pm, Shennecossett Yacht Club, 1010 Shennecossett Rd., Groton, CT; syc-ct.com

30Tucker Thompson America’s Cup Presenta-tion - The TV and Public Host of the 35th America’s Cup will

discuss the past, present and future of the oldest international sporting trophy, in advance of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event in New York City (May 6-8). The Auld Mug itself will be on display as well. American Yacht Club, Rye, NY; americanyc.org; americascup.com

30 & 5/1Brewer Spring Boat Show This show is for the used boat seller and buyer, and it’s free to the public. There’s no charge for show parking, attendance, or slip (based upon availability). More than 50 boats from 16 to 60 feet will be in the water and ready to go! 10am- 4pm; Brewer Pilots Point Marina, Westbrook; CT; breweryacht.com/boat-shows

30 & 5/1 Hartford Power Squadron 3rd Annual Marine Swap Meet & Cookout - Searching for treasure? Stop by and find what you’ve been looking for at a great bargain. Not buying? Sign up for a space and free yourself of no-longer-needed treasures.

Grab a burger on the banks of the beautiful Connecticut River. 10am - 4pm; Portland Riverside Marina, Portland, CT; Tim Tyler: 860-561-0669; [email protected];hartford.powersquadron.org

MAY4 Sail4Sanity Fundraiser Dinner and lecture benefits 9/11 First Responders. Wap-pingers Falls, NY; 845-243-0886; sail4sanity.org

5Can One Thursday Night Series begins - New Ro-chelle, NY; canone.org

5Cow Bay Cruising Asso-ciation Thursday Night Series begins - Port Washing-ton, NY

6 - 8Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series New York - AC 45 foiling catama-

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7 & 8 and 14 & 15US Sailing Small Boat Instructor Level 1 Course Town of Yarmouth Sailing Center at Englewood Beach, Yarmouth, MA; ussailing.org


10Breakwater Irregulars Tuesday Night Spring Series begins - Stamford, CT; breakwaters.org


11EBYRA Wednesday Night Race Series begins Eastchester Bay Yacht Racing Association, City Island, NY; ebyra.com

11Maritime Author Series with Roger C. Taylor - The

author will discuss his lat-est book, L. Francis Herreshoff: Yacht Designer, the first of two volumes chronicling the life and work of the most remarkable yacht designer of his time. Light refreshments will be served and one person will win a copy of this remarkable book. 6 - 8pm; $15 for Mystic Seaport mem-bers ($20 non-members); Mystic Seaport Collections Research Center Library, Mystic, CT; Call 860-572-5331 to register; mysticseaport.org

12WSC Thursday Night Series begins - Windjam-mers Sailing Club, Milford, CT; windjammers.org

13 - 15Connecticut Spring Boat Show - Sail and power. A great event to see boats and talk with dealers and manufacturers.Free parking and free admission. Brewer Essex Island Marina, Es-sex, CT; ctspringboatshow.com

1461st Annual Distance Race - “The Edlu,” a 32-mile race from Larchmont Break-water to Gong 11B off Eaton’s Neck and back, is open to IRC & PHRF boats (Double-Handed IRC, PHRF Spinnaker & Non-Spinnaker with sufficient entries). Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY; [email protected]; larchmontyc.org

14Alfred Roosevelt Cup Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, NY; seawanhaka.org

1410th Annual Opening of the Bay Celebration - This night of dining and dancing helps the Community Boating Center make a difference in the lives of underprivileged kids who otherwise could not participate in their sailing and boating pro-grams. 6 - 11pm; Fort Taber Park, New Bedford, MA; Andy Herlihy: 508-992 6219; communityboating.org,[email protected];

14Central 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 bea-cons: Peck Ledge, Greens Ledge, Sheffield Island, Penfield Reef, and Stratford Shoal. Maritime Aquarium educators will offer details, histories and anecdotes about the lighthouses, and also point out visiting winter water-fowl. Binoculars will be pro-vided. The vessel has a climate-controlled cabin, but the best view’s on deck so bring plenty of warm clothes. Passengers must be over 42” tall. The 4.5-hour cruise departs at 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

14 & 1528th Annual Scrimshaw Weekend - This is the world’s only regular forum where col-lectors, dealers, curators and whaling history buffs share their interests in the indigenous art of whalers. New Bedford Whal-ing Museum, New Bedford, MA; 508-997-0046; whalingmuseum.org

14 & 15 and 21 & 22US Sailing Small Boat In-structor Level 1 CoursePettipaug Yacht Club, Essex, CT; ussailing.org

15Sea Shanty Sing - This event for musicians and music lovers of all ages is co-hosted by the Folk Music Society of New York. 2-5 pm; free (donations are appreciated); Noble Maritime Collection, Snug Harbor Cul-tural Center, Staten Island, NY; noblemaritime.org

18NYC Wednesday Nights Invitational Regatta begins - Norwalk Yacht Club, South Norwalk, CT; norwalkyc.com

21107th Annual Henry E. Abbott Memorial NYAC Stratford Shoal Race New York Athletic Club Yacht Club, New Rochelle, NY; 914-738-0065; nyac.org

216th Annual Connecticut River Dinghy Distance Race - Open to Lasers,Force 5s, Sunfish, MC Scows, JY15s, and all monohulls or multihulls with an accurate Portsmouth Yardstick rating, this fun race has a course of ap-proximately 10.5 nm from Eagle Landing State Park in Haddam, CT downstream to Calves Island and back upstream to the finish just south of Brockway Island off Hamburg Cove. Awards ceremony (trophies to the top three finishers in single-handed, crewed & multihull divisions) at Pettipaug Yacht Club in Essex. Contact Dan Rennie at [email protected] or find the event on Facebook.

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21IHYC Spring Sprint Dou-ble-Handed Race - Indian Harbor Yacht Club, Greenwich, CT; indianharboryc.com

21 & 22LHYC Race for the Case Spring Series - A case of rum is the prize for the best overall performance in this regatta. Lloyd Harbor Yacht Club, NY; lhyc.org

21 & 22 and 28 & 29US Sailing Small Boat Instructor Level 1 Course Community Boating Center, Inc., Providence, RI; ussailing.org

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21 - 27Fourth Annual Hunting-ton Safe Boating Week Presented by the Greater Huntington Council of Yacht and Boating Clubs, this event kicks off the boating season with safety at the forefront. Activities include an expanded Waterfront Festival at Mill Dam Park, safe boating classes and an historical lecture. Huntington, NY; Hun-tingtonSafeBoatingWeek.com

21 - 6/13Introduction to Sailing Presented by SEAS (Society for the Education of American Sailors) and taught by Red Cross certified instructors, this Introduction to Sailing course comprises 12 classroom hours and 14 hours on the water in Sunfish. $195 fee includes book and a 1-year SEAS member-ship. Kingsland Point Park, Sleepy Hollow, NY; 914-631-4161; also offered at other times during the summer; visit sailseas.com/westchester for full schedule.

2226th Annual Pret Glad-

ding Memorial Race Crews comprising family and friends are strongly encouraged for this is ‘round-the-island pur-suit race. Barrington Yacht Club, Barrington, RI; barringtonyc.com

22YRALIS Commodore’s Cup - This Yacht Racing As-sociation of Long Island Sound regatta for the Drake Sparkman Trophy is hosted by American Yacht Club. Rye NY; yralis.org

25CPYC Wednesday Night Series begins - Cedar Point Yacht Club, Westport, CT; cedarpointyc.org

2771st Annual Block Island Race - First held in 1946 and presented by the Storm Trysail Club, this 186-nautical mile race from Stamford, CT, around Block Island, RI and back to Stamford is a qualifier for the Northern Ocean Racing Trophy (IRC), the Double Handed Ocean Racing Trophy (IRC), the New England Lighthouse Series (PHRF), and

the Gulf Stream Series (IRC), as well as the YRALIS Caper, Sagola and Windigo trophies and the ‘Tuna’ Trophy for the best combined IRC scores in the Edlu (40%) and the Block Island Race (60%). stormtrysail.org

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27Long Island Sound Day By governor’s proclamation in 1997, the Friday before Memo-rial Day each year in Connecti-cut shall be celebrated as Long Island Sound Day “to encour-age citizens to acknowledge and celebrate the economic, recreational and environmental values of the Sound, an estuary of national significance.” The

Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk offers guests the opportunity to learn how we all can be better Sound stewards, with educators at marine debris & water quality stations. 11am - 3pm; Norwalk, CT; maritimeaquarium.org

27 - 30US Sailing Small Boat Instructor Level 1 Course Pequot Yacht Club, Southport, CT; ussailing.org

27 - 30US Sailing Small Boat In-structor Level 1 Course Longshore Sailing School, West-port, CT; ussailing.org

27 - 30US Sailing Small Boat Instructor Level 1 Course Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, NY; ussailing.org

27 - 30US Sailing Small Boat In-structor Level 1 Course The Waterfront Center, Oyster Bay, NY; ussailing.org

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27 - 30US Sailing Small Boat Instructor Level 1 Course New York Athletic Club Yacht Club, Pelham Manor, NY; ussailing.org

27 - 30US Sailing Small Boat Instructor Level 1 Course Bring your own 420, Pixel or Laser. Centerport Yacht Club, Centerport, NY; ussailing.org

27 - 30US Sailing Small Boat Instructor Level 1 Course Breakwater Yacht Club, Sag Harbor, NY; ussailing.org

27 - 30US Sailing Small Boat Instructor Level 1 Course Sail Newport, Newport, RI; ussailing.org

27 - 30US Sailing Small Boat

Instructor Level 1 Course Bring your own Sunfish or La-ser; Toms River Yacht Club, Toms River, NJ; ussailing.org

2833rd Annual Mitchell Me-morial Day Regatta - This race from Newport to Block Island has an emphasis on fun. Newport Yacht Club, Newport, RI; newportyachtclub.org

28Western Long Island Sound Lighthouse Cruise This 6-hour cruise aboard the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk’s unique hybrid-electric research vessel Spirit of the Sound offers good look at eight lighthouses: Greens Ledge, Sheffield Island, Harbor Ledge, Great Captain Island, Execution Rocks, Sands Point, Stepping Stones and Eaton Neck. Maritime Aquarium educators will offer details, histories and anecdotes about the lighthouses, and also point out visiting winter waterfowl. Binoculars will be provided. The vessel has a climate-controlled

cabin, but the best view’s on deck so bring plenty of warm clothes. Passengers must be over 42” tall. The 4.5-hour cruise departs at 9am. $75 fee ($65 for Aquarium members) includes a box lunch. Advance reservations are required. The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, CT; 203-852-0700, ext. 2206; maritimeaquarium.org

28King’s Cup - Minuteman Yacht Club, Westport, CT; minutemanyc.com

28 - 3045th Figawi Race Week-end presented by vine-yard vines® - Comprising a pursuit race from Hyannisport to Nantucket, weekend revelry and a return race, this very popular event raises funds for several charities. Hyannisport and Nantucket, MA; figawi.com

28 - 30Fleet 5 Long Island Sound Memorial Weekend Cruise - Fleet 5 is a group of

Sailors with a Passion for Cruising. fleet5lis.org

29WSC Pierce Invitational This Eastern Connecticut Sailing Association points race is spon-sored by Windjammers Sailing Club. Milford, CT; windjammers.org

30Mystic Seaport Decora-tion Day - In this all-day event, the Museum of America and the Sea pays tribute to fallen Civil War soldiers. 9am- 5pm; Mystic, CT; mysticseaport.org

31 - 6/3US Sailing Small Boat Instructor Level 1 Course Norwalk Yacht Club, Norwalk, CT; ussailing.org

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A New Perspective to Advance SailingBy William Granruth and Alex Pugliese, Osprey Imaging

Game-time footage has long given sporting teams an edge when preparing for contests and improving technique. Sailing is a sport in which drones can redefine the methods by which crews advance skills and boat performance. Defined as any remote controlled aircraft, drones were previously accessible only to military and scientific organizations. Concerns over safety and inexperienced pilots are fueling a debate over the introduction of drones into national airspace. Regardless of recent controversy surrounding these small battery powered aircraft, their cameras can provide transformational perspectives to the sailing world. Experienced pilots operate drones within close range of sailboats at speeds up to 30 knots while capturing a previously impossible viewpoint. Drones add significant value in racing applications, providing an intimate and revealing view for sailors. Teams can analyze starts, crew positioning and reaction, mark roundings, sail trim, tacking and boat handling from an angle that shows crew, sail, and boat position. The elevated vantage points are near-range, which is optimal to observe both fine detail of crew operations, while removed enough to observe the course and other boats. Reviewing high definition video recorded by

drone, allows crews to see their actions precipitate within the larger context of a race. Hull speed, wind direction, and GPS coordinates can be overlaid onto video, enabling precise analysis of all racing parameters. Video is shot up to 100 frames per second — if additional detail is required, up to 6,000 still images can be extracted from one minute of video. Sailing is a classic sport, which drones elegantly display with intimate photography or cinematographic quality video. Owners can showcase their yacht with wholesome images, seizing epic moments without disrupting a race, unlike helicopters. Sailmakers and riggers are able to observe sail configurations from an aerial perspective, and identify necessary modifications. Brokers can use drones to film a revealing perspective of listed yachts in a range of settings. Yacht clubs utilize drones to document events for record, awards, distribution, and promotion.

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April 2016 These tide tables are predictions and are to be used as a reference only. The times of high and low are approximations and are affected, in part by onshore and offshore winds, full and new moons as well as changes in currents. Always use caution when entering or leaving any harbor and navigate in areas that are well marked. WindCheck assumes no liability due to the use of these tables.

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Fishers Island, NY Woods Hole, MA Newport, RISource: noaa.gov

April 2016 These tide tables are predictions and are to be used as a reference only. The times of high and low are approximations and are affected, in part by onshore and offshore winds, full and new moons as well as changes in currents. Always use caution when entering or leaving any harbor and navigate in areas that are well marked. WindCheck assumes no liability due to the use of these tables.

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from the captain of the portGentlemen (and Ladies)! Start Your Engines! By Vincent PicaCommodore, First District, Southern Region (D1SR)United States Coast Guard Auxiliary

Back in the fall, we talked about how to get the boat ready for a long, cold and dank winter. Time and tide is now on our side. Most bay constables allow moorings back in the water as of April 1 – and the weather will turn our way too. So, BEFORE you start your engines, ready the boat!

As with any project, starting at the beginning is the best place to start, and for “commissioning,” i.e. getting the boat ready for service, the beginning is the front of the boat. For those that trailer their boats, the front of the boat is the trailer. Who wants to go flying down Route 27 and see their boat doing somersaults along the side of the road? How do you prevent that? Well, start with the strap that comes out of the winch. Connected to the bow eye, it is the first line of defense. Pay out a few feet and make sure there aren’t any frayed or torn segments. If there are, you will need to cut out that entire segment and re-attach the strap. If you aren’t sure how, and you need to be since this strap IS the first line of defense, get help from a competent mechanic or dockmaster. While you’re at it, why not spray the winch and all the moving parts with some penetrating oil. Pay out the entire strap if need be and re-coil it so that you are sure you get a good covering of the moving parts with penetrating oil. Take a walk around the boat and be sure the binding straps are all equally in good shape. If not, replace them. As to the boat itself now, open the anchor locker and flake out the anchor rode (the line and chain attaching the anchor to the “eye” in the bottom of your anchor locker/your boat) and lay the anchor “on the hard.” Again, check the shackles for excessive wear as well as the rode itself. Replace or repair, as needed. No sense having the boat float away one day because the anchor rode wore through or a shackle pin gave out. Be sure that the navigation lights (red and green) are working. If not, take the bulb with you to the marine hardware store and replace it – plus spares. The gas is more expensive than a few extra bulbs… Your storage area(s) might be forward so open them up and ensure that PFDs, tools, etc., etc., etc. are all in good condition. Check that there is no standing water in the compartment. If so, the “limber holes” are clogged and the water can’t get to the bilge to be pumped overboard. Every ounce of weight that wasn’t on the boat when the boat was manufactured changes its centers of buoy-ancy and gravity. In heavy seas, that just might matter a whole lot. Next are the cockpit and the electronics. Disconnect them,

spray them with some “white grease,” reconnect and test the gear. If a connector is corroded, replace it. This all will keep salt in the air from penetrating your electronics. If you haven’t checked the PFDs yet, do it now. Check your whistle, your horn, your flares – any and all safety equipment. Don’t forget your fire extinguisher(s). If it isn’t “in the green,” chuck it. Also, gently shake it side to side, head over end. If you hear a “thunk,” the dry chemical has solidified. It is now a good door stopper but not much else. You should hear a low “Shh…” sound as the suppressant moves back and forth. Check the fuel tank. Is the “sender wire” (wire that runs from the top of the tank (usually) to the fuel gauge) in good condi-tion? How about the filter? And check the fuel lines too. Weak or cracked hoses must be replaced, along with rusted hose clamps. Use only stainless steel clamps. How are the battery and the clamps that attach to the posts? Just like a car, all this has to be in good condi-tion. The engine is the most obvious component to ready for service. Change the oil – all the oil – including the oil down in the foot of the engine. You’ll need a large straight-slot screwdriver for the two screws (high and low) that have to be backed out, a bucket and a quart of oil. Find all the grease fittings and gently pump new grease in until it comes out somewhere else. Don’t forget steering cable fit-tings. Be sure that the oil dipstick is properly seated. By the way, if you have a trailer, check the tires and the lube the bearings. As with the engine grease, pump it in gently. Who wants to push out a seal? If your boat has an outboard auxiliary, reset the spark plug(s) in the engine before you put the cover back on – unless you’re going to work on the prop. Some old models might start up when you turn the prop – and that will definitely ruin your Saturday. Once ready to start the boat, be sure it’s in water! You need the coolant! It will smoke at first from the fogging oil you laid in the fall, but that will quickly pass. OK, there are surely more things to do but you are well on your way to heading out to the high seas – or at least in our bays and creeks. ■

If you are interested in being part of the USCG Forces, email me at [email protected] 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 Ed Cubanski is the Captain of the Port and Sector Com-mander for US Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound. Captain Cubanski 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 Cubanski 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.


book reviews.Salt in the RainbowBy Jonathan MuhiudeenPublished by Jonathan Muhiudeen 360 pages paperback $25

Jonathan Muhiudeen started sailing relatively late in life, in his mid-twenties. After learning from books he borrowed from the library, he put theory into practice at the Royal Selan-gor Yacht Club in his native Malaysia. His “sabbatical” from a successful career as a banker stretched into a four-year cir-cumnavigation. The nightlife, the fancy watch, sports cars…all traded for salt in his rainbow. The author is one of the few

Asian circumnavigators to have written a book about what it’s like to be from a non-western country and sail into foreign ports. With no real practical experience when he began crewing, Muhiudeen bluffed his way through the first year. Leaving home as a captain of a 75-foot cutter, and with almost no blue water or mechanical experience, the first half of the book recounts a baptism of fire. While sailing around the world, mostly as a paid crew, captain, engineer or cook but sometimes just seeking passage from others, the author’s adventures include storms, a shipwreck, and romance. By the second half of the book, he’s comfortable both at sea and in strange ports. He returned home an experienced ocean sailor and a totally changed man. Jonathan Muhiudeen lives in Piedmont, CA, and sails with his wife Linda and two boys whenever he can. A fascinating tale by a great storyteller, Salt in the Rainbow is available on Amazon.com in paperback, or in ebook format for $8.50. The author’s Facebook page, facebook.com/saltintherainbow, has plenty of photos from his adventures and information about his other books. ■

Sailing Alone Around the WorldThe Complete Illustrated Edition

By Joshua SlocumIntroduction by Geoffrey WolffPublished by Zenith Press 242 pages hardcover $35

Most sailors have read Joshua Slocum’s firsthand account of the world’s first solo circumnavigation. You probably own a well-worn copy of Sailing Alone Around the World, but it’s nothing like this

beautifully produced, illustrated edition from Zenith Press. In the summer of 1898, Joshua Slocum, a naturalized Ameri-can seaman and adventurer who was born in Nova Scotia, sailed into Fairhaven, Massachusetts, from which he’d departed more than four years earlier aboard his sloop Spray. Slocum crossed the Atlan-tic twice (to Gibraltar and back to South America), negotiated the Strait of Magellan, and crossed the Pacific. He also visited Australia and South Africa before crossing the Atlantic (for the third time), returning home after sailing 46,000 miles. First published in 1900, Sailing Alone Around the World became an international bestseller and has inspired many sailors to follow in Slocum’s wake. Lavishly illustrated with 150 paintings, photographs and maps, the book also includes excerpts from other circumnaviga-tors, as well as other well-known sailors and writers including Henry Dana, Geoffrey Wolff, William F. Buckley and Nathaniel Philbrick. The definitive edition of a classic sailing memoir, this exceptional book would make a fine gift. Geoffrey Wolff is an American novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer. His honors and recognitions include the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships of the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He’s the author of Slocum’s biography, The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum. ■


sound environment.Characterizing Ocean Recreation in New EnglandBy Katie Lund & John Weber

Sailors know that the ocean is a vital part of New England’s economic and social fabric. People in this region greatly value our maritime heritage and are seeking basic needs from the ocean - jobs, food, energy, and recreation, among others - in new and increasingly complex ways. At the same time, environmental changes are affecting the health of the ocean and its creatures. A New England-wide effort has been underway since 2012 to tackle these issues under the direction of the National Ocean Policy, established by Presidential Executive Order and building on state efforts, particularly in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Representatives from the six New England states, federally recognized tribes, federal agencies, and the New England Fishery Management Council have come together to create the North-east Ocean Plan. The planning effort to date has had two main underpinnings: public engagement and development of peer- and expert-reviewed data and information that describe uses of the ocean as well as species and their habitats. This past October, a study was completed that characterizes several elements of recreational activity including long distance

sailing races, commercial whale watching, SCUBA diving, and board and paddle events. The study also contains a chapter focused on sailing races and regattas throughout the region, depicting the general cruising route for distance races and many high-profile regattas. Results include both a map of 12 distance races along with a table describing their general route and time of year. This information filled a previously identified gap in information – while anecdotally such routes were known by some, this study provides the first publicly available information describing these races. Results are available online through the ocean plan’s online atlas, the Northeast Ocean Data Portal (maps of many other human uses and natural resources are also avail-able). Previous work done as part of the ocean planning effort focused on a recreational boating survey to capture data on boat-ing trips and expenditures. This survey included input from over 10,000 boaters across New England, and results revealed that in 2012, 907,000 boating trips on the ocean generated approxi-mately $3.5 billion and the equivalent of nearly 27,000 year-round jobs in the Northeast region alone. The data collected was also used to generate maps of popular recreational boating locations, which are available through the Northeast Ocean Data Portal. These two projects are examples of the approach taken to develop the Northeast Ocean Plan by combining development


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of information with public and expert engagement. Similar proj-ects have focused on shipping, fishing, marine life and habitats, and other topics - producing maps developed through extensive public input that show the “footprint” of activities and resources. See the Northeast ocean planning website for more information and additional overviews of the process and results to date. The draft Northeast Ocean Plan will generally include results from these projects and describe how federal agencies will use data and information in their decision-making in the future (for example, related to siting new activities in the ocean). The draft NE Ocean Plan will be released this spring, followed by opportunities to comment and attend a public meeting to learn more. For information on these events, check the Northeast ocean planning website, neoceanplanning.org. It is also important to note that a similar planning effort is now underway in Long Island Sound. Recent passage of “Blue Plan” legislation established a process by which Connecticut will develop an inventory of Long Island Sound’s (LIS) natural resources and uses and, ultimately, a spatial plan to guide the future of the Sound’s waters and submerged lands. Over the next three or four years, there will be many opportunities for LIS enthusiasts to get involved in this local planning effort. ■

Katie Lund and John Weber are members of the ocean planning staff at the Northeast Regional Ocean Council. A study by the Northeast Regional Planning Body provides the first

publicly available information about the general routes of distance races throughout the region, including those depicted on this map.


Is Your EAP Ready for Action?A well-designed emergency action plan could save a lifeBy Clemmie Everett

Imagine this: it’s a summer day, and you’re in your junior sail-ing office calling 911. What happened? With a junior sailing program, regardless of the effort you put into prevention, there are myriad possibilities that could lead to a crisis. Now, let me press pause – do the instructors and staff know what to expect in this situation? Do you know who will be answering the phone when you call? Do you know who they will be sending? Do the medical responders know where to find you and what to expect when they arrive? Are you feeling anxious yet? In an emergency situation, no one has time to think about what might have been done to alleviate the stress and anxiety of the mo-ment and streamline the process of getting appropriate help. You can give yourself that time, but you need to start thinking about it now. Sailing is a safe sport, but it does come with an element of risk and danger, which is magnified by the number of moving parts in a junior sailing program. An integral part of your club’s preparation for the sailing season should be creating an emergen-cy action plan (EAP) and doing a run through drill to practice the steps in case something goes wrong. Make this trial as realis-

tic as possible by including your local emergency responders in the drill. After all, would you rather meet those 911 responders for the first time in June when you can debrief what happened over a soda, or in August when the crisis hits? An emergency action plan is not a substitute for safe prac-tices, nor a plan for managing a crisis after the fact, although those are also important components of your preparation for the sailing season. It is a list of steps, agreed upon and understood by all, to be taken when an emergency strikes.

Some questions to consider: • Who will be the first responders to an emergency? How should they respond? • What training do they need in order to respond as needed? How will they communicate that they need help? • What equipment and materials will you need to respond before emergency services arrive? Where are these kept? Do instructors know how to use equipment like defibrillators?

• Who will call 911? What information will he/she need to know? (More information is better, as emergency services would rather send more resources and then cancel some than to try to bring in additional support mid-crisis. Also, a land line may be better to call from than a cell phone.) • If the crisis is on the water, who will bring injured sailors in? Where will they go? Which dock is best for carrying an injured sailor to an ambulance? Who will supervise other sailors in the class? Will they remain on the water? • Who will meet the emergency responders? • Where will you meet them and where will

Any one of your instructors might have to initiate your EAP, so it’s essential that they’re all trained in every step of the process. Drew Leibrock, lead mechanic at American Yacht Club, shares some power-boat wisdom. © Kevin Broome

In addition to First Aid, CPR and Safe Powerboat Handling, your instructors should be certified in the use of a defibrillator. © Kevin Broome


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they be directed to go? Your EAP should not be top secret. Post it visibly. Laminate copies for your coach boats. It’s also not a dissertation. Your lawyer might want to write a complex booklet with a how-to plan for all imaginable possibilities, but you need some-thing that your instructors will understand and remember. Ask for help when writing your EAP. Try to include as many perspec-tives as you can

from your sailing program and don’t be afraid to think creatively.

Your EAP should be a collaborative plan, not a directive from on high. And once created, it should be a living document that is amended and updated as your sailing program changes. And of course, run a drill to test your plan. Expect some hiccups during the drill (this is why you practice!) and don’t be afraid to try something new if it seems to make sense in the mo-ment. For instance, when running a drill at Noroton YC several years ago, the sailing instructors realized that the area they had been told to land with an injured sailor didn’t make sense, so they went to one that would be easier. We also learned that we needed two people to direct the ambulance and help it back into the drysail area. After your drill, hold a debrief with all involved to determine what worked and what could be improved. If you do not have an emergency action plan, you need to develop one. This applies to any sailing program, be it large, small, year-round, seasonal, at yacht club or community sailing center. And once you have one, you need to revisit it at least once per year to ensure that it is up to date and everyone is familiar with it. Good luck and safe sailing! ■

Clemmie Everett teaches History at Rye Country Day School in Rye, NY. She spent many springs coaching high school sailing, many summers coaching junior sailing, and was the Sailing Director at Noroton Yacht Club.

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“The Ida” is August 19Designed as the perfect overnight race for IRC, PHRF, One-Design, Multihull and Double-Handed boats of 28 feet or longer, the twelfth edition of the Ida Lewis Distance Race has a start and finish off Newport’s historic Ida Lewis Yacht Club. The “Ida” starts on Friday, August 19, and includes turning marks at Castle Hill, Brenton Reef, Block Island, Montauk Point, Martha’s Vineyard and Buzzards Tower. A further element of intrigue: which of the four coastal courses – between 104 nm and 177 nm – will the Race Committee choose based on weather, wind and sea condition predictions? Grand prix racers and cruising sailors alike have embraced this race as a late-summer tradi-tion, and with the inclusion of special trophies for Youth and Collegiate Challenges, the mix of ages on the water allows experienced racers to share their knowledge with sailors new to distance racing. The Ida Lewis Distance Race is a qualifier for the New England Lighthouse Series (PHRF); the Northern and Double-Handed Ocean Racing Trophies (IRC); and the Rhode Island Offshore Challenge. Ida Lewis Yacht Club, famously situated on Lime Rock in Newport Harbor, will host a skipper’s meeting and social on Thursday, August 18, and a Sunset Awards Party will celebrate

the conclusion of racing on Saturday, August 20. For more information, visit ildistancerace.org or contact Race Chair Skip Helme at [email protected] or 401-641-2109. Follow the race on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

Jan Harley at Media Pro International contributed this report.

Just a few of the 37 boats in last year’s race. © Meghan Sepe


Competing in the Youth Challenge division of last year’s “Ida” are (l - r) Sarah Simkevich, Hanna Bove, Mikaela Kimpton and Kerrin Basso, aboard Shaun Ensor’s Baltic 55 Fearless. © Meghan Sepe


The Newport Bermuda Race Organizing Committee has an-nounced two new efforts to recognize the younger members of the fleet, as has been done in the Marion Bermuda and other races. All competitors between age 14 and 23 as of June 17, 2016 will be inducted into the Stephens Brothers Society. Olin and

Rod Stephens famously raced their family’s yacht, Dorade, which Olin designed, to Bermuda when they were 22 and 21 years old, and continued racing offshore in this race and others for many years. In their lives, the boats they designed and sailed, and their writings, Olin and Rod Stephens have inspired or helped count-less sailors to realize the rewards of offshore sailing. Their legacy continues. Inductees will receive a small keepsake after the race, and organizers hope that they, like the Stephens brothers, will help encourage sailors of all ages to venture offshore. A new Youth Trophy will be presented to the yacht with the best performance in the St. David’s Lighthouse and Cruiser divisions (combined) that satisfies the following terms: At least 50% of the yacht’s crew + 1 person shall be be-tween the ages of 14 and 23. The average age of the Youth Crew shall be at least 17. All yachts applying to enter this competition shall be subject to review by the Qualifications Committee and may be required to submit records of the crew’s sailing experience. Winner(s) will be determined in the manner used for other Cross-Divisional prizes, i.e., based on the yacht’s corrected place rank within her division. For example, a yacht whose corrected time is ranked 10th place in a 50-yacht division will have a 0.2 score (10 / 50 = 0.2). In addition to the standard safety training requirements established for all competing yachts, 100% of the Youth Crew (ages 14-23) must have completed either a safety at sea seminar satisfying NBRSR 5.2 or a Storm Trysail Foundation Junior Safety at Sea Seminar within five years of June 17, 2016. Yachts eligible for this competition will receive a 50% discount on the yacht’s entry fee. For more information, visit bermudarace.com. ■

Olin Stephens (second from left) and his brother Rod (third from right) and their crew relax before Dorade starts the 1931 Transat-lantic Race. With the exception of their father (far left), the crew’s average age was 22. They won the race by two days. © Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection

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The young Naval Academy crew trims sheets aboard Constellation at the 2014 RBYC Anniversary Regatta as skipper Josh Forgacs advises the helmsman, Bermuda Governor George Fergusson. © Talbot Wilson/PPL


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Women’s Sailing Conference Slated for June 4 in Marblehead, MAThe 15th Annual Women’s Sailing Conference, organized by the National Women’s Sailing Association (NWSA), will take place Saturday, June 4 at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Marblehead, MA. Through hands-on workshops, seminars and on-the-water experiences, participants will learn or hone sailing skills, and network with other women sailors from all areas of the country. Contributing sponsors include Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) and New England-based Black Rock Sailing School. The gathering begins with a continental breakfast and winds down with cocktails, dinner, a speaker and final raffle distributions. Donna Lange, a sailor, author and musician from Bristol who is currently on her second solo circumnavigation, will be speaking. The day offers many opportunities for women to pick up a Wednesday night race berth or meet a new pal for an afternoon sail. “Women of all sailing abilities are encouraged to attend,” said NWSA President Linda Newland. “There’s al-ways something of interest for everyone. By sharing experiences, women leave with skills and knowledge that contribute to better days on the water.” The workshops are numerous. Always popular are the hands-on Diesel Damsels, Suddenly Singlehanded, and Prepar-ing for Heavy Weather at Sea. There are 10 other workshops that run the gamut from Knots to Know to Demystifying NMEA Networks and how a boat’s fresh water system really works. This year, one can hear how one team put together an all female crew for the Marion to Bermuda Race, and can learn on board a race committee boat just how the races are run as well as a running through a primer on race strategies. Crew Overboard starts with a retrieval demonstration at the float and then participants take out boats and practice the drill on the water. Other workshops include Sail Care, Personalizing Your Boat, Rules of the Road, Culinary Food & Provisioning,

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The Newbies: First Time to BermudaChris Museler reports from the finish of the 2014 Newport Ber-muda Race

There’s a first time for everything: first steps, first unassisted bike ride, first kiss. And if you’re lucky enough, you will have a first Newport Bermuda Race. Like all of the “good” firsts in our lives, the anticipa-tion is easily 50 percent or more of the overall experience. For first-timers Sarah Angell and Sheehan Commette, both dinghy sailors, the anticipation of sailing to Bermuda was the only tenu-ous aspect of their experiences. How was the actual sailing? Pure enjoyment. “I can’t believe it took me so long to do this,” Angell, a 34-year-old-Rhode Islander, said on Wednesday, fresh from her first shower. “I did some big boat stuff but teams were always looking for experience for long races.” Angell, who sailed aboard the new C&C 41 Jackknife II, saw her opportunity this spring when her company, C&C Yachts (a division of Waterline Sys-tems), was building the new 41 Redline Series. She convinced her boss that it was critical to her marketing strategies to gain intimate knowledge of the new boat and measure the customer experience. He bought it, and Sarah and a co-worker sailed on Jackknife II, skippered by Andrew Hall. “Anxiety” would not be the word Angell and Com-

mette would use to describe their pre-race feelings. Almost the contrary, the two had long been eager to sail offshore but were frustrated with the lack of opportunities. Commette, a 24-year-old from Boulder, CO, arrived Thurs-day on Juan Corradi’s Concordia yawl Westray, the last-place boat (meaning that she had the longest experience of the two). “I’d been trying to get into offshore sailing,” she said. Then she met a member of Westray’s crew. “We stayed in touch and here I am.” Sheehan’s father is former Olympian and Laser world champion Peter Commette. For Commette, a champion dinghy sailor herself, the slow pace but smooth motion of her ride in the traditional boat was

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tuck in a reef at night. “I had a brief moment of, ‘Shouldn’t I be scared?’”she recalled.“It was 20-25 and turned out to be fast and really fun. But I was actually looking to experience more rough conditions.” A first-timer’s perspective is enlightening to both seasoned sailors and those contemplating joining the Bermuda Race fam-ily. Angell has a brief list of recommendations after her trip. Don’t over-pack. “I wore every item for more than two days.” Be hydrated before you start. “I did and it was good, oth-erwise I wouldn’t have felt well.” Remember to eat something at the beginning of each watch. “I felt stabilized with something in my stomach.” Angell’s final assessment was that, at sea, you are apart from the world on land, and this liberation changes you in a very good way. “On the first day, I thought it would be boring,” she said. “Then I got into a routine and was forced to be discon-nected.” All who race to Bermuda begin to anticipate the relief of leaving shore well in advance of the start. It may not be as exciting as a first kiss, but when asked about the other end of the Bermuda Race sensation, reconnecting, Angell laughed. “I’ll check in briefly today,” she said, “but I don’t plan on checking my phone now until Monday.” ■

Freelance journalist Chris Museler lives in Portsmouth, RI. He is the Newport Bermuda Race On-board Reporter.

Sheehan Commette (second from right) and her Westray teammates and the Hamilton Galley Slave Trophy © Barry Picktall/PPL


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Zen and the Art of Sailing By Joe Cooper

Let’s have a show of hands! Who has taken formal sailing les-sons? You know, signed up for sailing camp or school and/or spent a week (24 hours) and learned ‘how to sail’? A few of you, righty-oh. So, it went something like this, based on how it was done at Offshore Sailing School 22 years ago (I worked at the one on the Hudson River in Jersey City). A long weekend, three 8-hour days, first four hours in a classroom, looking at a white board, hearing new terms, some very basic basics, and a bit of theory. Then onto the boats, hoisting sails and taking turns reaching back and forth, apparent wind, points of sail, tacking and gybing. Second day more sailing, getting better at tacking and gybing, telltales, sailing by the lee, luffing, sail trim and so on. Third day more of the same, a MOB drill, a bit on the Rules of the Road and sailing up to the moorings, and your diploma. There was in no particular order: lots of new words, half a dozen or so new concepts including a few things that, in the cold clear light of your third beer, harken back to high school science, plenty of things going on, the boat heeling, other boats to look out for and/or avoid, people talking loudly so as to be heard above the wind noise, lots of load or none at all on the tiller/wheel, and a high degree of exhaustion at the end of the day. You did get to learn 70% of the words and could define half of them. If you’re reading this, chances are you were hooked for life… Now pay attention, because the following is very expensive information wrought over many years and brought to you as part of your subscription to WindCheck. All of this stress, input overload, mild confusion and weariness was brought to you by the following three principles. Sailing a boat is the only activity humans engage in where we are required to process three-axis motion…all the time. In sailing we need to process eight or so ‘inputs’ in parallel, not in series. Sailing is the resolution of forces as they resolve at the rudder. The act of sailing – that is, steering – is the result of how

you respond to that resolution. Three-axis motion. By and large, humans process in two axes: yaw or pitch, left-right or up and down. OK, some folks get three-axis motion a bit but they are highly skilled and trained…I’m thinking F-18 (the fighter jets, not the catamarans) pilots. But by and large only when they are engaged, the rest of the time it is like driving a car. There is the Lexington Ave. downtown express first thing in the morning, but there you are not awake enough for anything to penetrate, ‘cept hanging on and not spilling coffee. Only in sailing do we experience three-axis motion all the time. This is one of the reasons why (when learning) when the boat heels we are not sure what to do, apart from hang on. It’s OK, we learn. Our brains retrain for the extra axis. It penetrates so quickly after a summer by now you don’t even think about it. Inputs. Oh yeah, there were a lot of inputs. In no particu-lar order: Wind: Apparent and true strength and apparent and true angle; the pitch, roll and yaw; pressure on the tiller; other boats, and rocks, docks and so on. The issue here is we are not used to parallel inputs. We usually (multi-tasking at work not-with standing) process in linear or series-one after the other. We wake up, hit the head, clean teeth, shower, dress, breakfast and so on. In sailing, all these are all moving forward all at once and changing every microsecond. It’s no wonder your brain hurts. Force resolution. All of the foregoing is the background to stating the following Cooper theorem: Sailing is the resolution of all the forces acting on a boat as determined through the force on the rudder. And I bet you a bottle of Gosling’s sailing has not been described to you in this fashion. Take a thinking break here for a second. Sailing boats operate based on forces acting on the boat. These forces create a series of vector sums all fighting each other. This is made more complex, since the boat is operating at the interface of two gases with vastly different densities and all the forces are subject to wind speed and direction and these are changing all the time, even minutely. I bring all this up because it has become my default way to describe sailing to people, especially new high school sailors. The forces resolve in the rudder and this ‘pressure’ transmits up to the tiller. We know when the helm feels heavy and wants to pull our arm out. Usually the boat is heeling a lot, too. This is an indication that the boat is unbalanced. Too much heel, caused by maladjusted sails or, often, too much sail for the wind speed. Or, when the boat feels ‘good’ and then a moment later feels not good is usually due to a shift in wind angle or speed and so on. Are you one of those folks who has a large screen display-ing GPS, RADAR, AIS, wind and boat speed information and how many sugars the crew has in their coffee and obliterating the view down the boat and blinding you at night? Here is a tip. Turn all that stuff off, yes the meters too. Go sailing without any electronics turned on…well, then after you get out of the harbor. Ever read anything on the nature of Buddhism, and in particular Zen? It’s OK, the kids look at me that way too when I


come up with that question, but I have come to the conclusion one of the reasons we feel so great after even just a few hours sailing is because, especially steering, the act of concentrating on the pressure in the rudder is a very Zen-like, ‘in the moment’ moment. Yeah, I know it is changing every moment, but that’s why it is Zen. When you look at the meters, they are telling you what just happened. The pressure in the tiller is telling what’s going on now, so be in the now. That is Zen, being in the now. Think back to a great sail you have had. You came in and said something that included the idea that the boat felt great. Well, you cannot measure a feeling in the same way you can measure any of the physical inputs acting on the boat and her response to them. On the race boats I sail on, the guy or girl driving does not say, “Oh great, we are sailing at 6.23 knots.” He or she will say something like, “Yeah, feels OK,” with “Feels a bit, slow, too fast or sluggish” the most popular. The driver might look at the meters once in a while but in the same way we, when driving a car, do not concentrate on the pavement ahead of us. Rather we scan, taking in all the inputs used in driving. This summer, sail for a while with all the electronics turned off or put a tote bag over the TV screen, and learn to sail by the feel. Wind in your face, neck, side of your head or hair, the angle of heel (roll), the pressure on the helm (yaw), or even the noise of the wake. Notice how the boat feels as the wind speed and direction changes. Much is made in today’s culture about the balance of life. Soccer practice or violin, drive or train, re-spond to dumb question or let it pass…As with life, so is sailing all about balance in the moment: Very Zen-like. ■

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.


Mike Hennessy's Dragon won the PHRF division of the inaugural Miami to Havana Race in February and has also competed in every Atlantic Cup competition.

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water access to the local Brooklyn community, New Yorkers, and boating enthusiasts from around the globe. At present, a total of ten Class40 teams are registered for the Atlantic Cup, the longest offshore race in the Western Atlantic. Of these teams, seven have been officially announced. The re-maining teams will be announced in the coming weeks. Infor-mation about announced teams can be found at atlanticcup.org/teams. This year’s running of the Atlantic Cup starts May 28 in Charleston, SC. Teams of two will race 648nm from Charleston to Brooklyn, NY. After a brief stopover, teams will race a second leg of 350nm to Portland, ME where the race will culminate the weekend of June 11 in Portland with the third a final leg, an inshore series. For more information, a complete schedule and listing of events including Kids Days in Charleston, Brooklyn and Portland, visit atlanticcup.org/in-race-events. The Official Guide to the Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing will appear in the May issue of WindCheck. ■

Dragon (left) skippered by Mike Hennessy and Amhas, skippered by MacKenzie Davis were two of three Class40s that raced in the inaugural Miami to Havana Race. Dragon was first in PHRF with Amhas second.

At press time, these seven teams were registered for the Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing

Amhas 127Co-skippers Rob Windsor & Micha Davis

Dragon 154Co-skippers Mike Hennessy & Merfyn Owen

Longbow 154Co-skippers FK Day & Linc Day

Oakcliff 118Co-skippers to be announced

Pleiad Racing 139Ed Cesare & co skipper to be announced

Tales II 123Co-skippers Gonzalo Botín & Pablo Santurde

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A Moveable Maritime Feast: Jurisdiction and Possessory LiensBy John K. Fulweiler Unfamiliar waters, confusing dockage arrangements and sorting out the unexpected repair will have you mumbling the shopworn phrase: I’m going to need a vacation after this vaca-tion! Inconveniences aside, every prudent sailor pursuing new ports should possess a basic understanding of how the maritime law deals with jurisdiction and possession. That is, it’s worth knowing when a court has jurisdiction over you and when your sailboat may be held by someone else against your will. When it comes to the law, there are two types of jurisdic-tion. Subject matter jurisdiction is concerned with whether a court has the power to rule on a particular type of case. For instance, federal courts aren’t afforded the power to issue rulings on every claim in the lazarette and the claim must fit through its cabin door before the court is invested with jurisdiction. (Ad-miralty claims and claims with multiple parties from different states and a certain amount of money in play are two examples of claims that’ll slip into the federal court unfettered.) On the other side of the capstan is the concept of personal jurisdiction which is concerned with whether the court has jurisdiction over you so as to bind you to its rulings. For example, I’ve never been to or conducted business in Kansas and so in this crude example a court in Kansas would likely not have any power to bind me to its rulings. The traveling sailor who ventures into strange ports should mostly be concerned with personal jurisdiction and can confine the largely academic arguments surrounding subject matter jurisdiction to the bilge space. An evening’s mooring rental and the purchase of supplies may be sufficient to make you amenable to the jurisdiction of that locale’s courts with respect to certain claims. Indeed, the navigational law in some states will find you amendable to suit in that state in cases of personal injury and property damage. Repair and wharfage contracts will work a similar result if they contain language in which you concede to the jurisdiction of that particular location. The practical effect of being amenable to suit in another lo-cation is you may have to resolve a dispute in a location far from your homeport. The recent decision in which a deeply tanned Florida wrestler sued a New York-based media company in his hometown and won more than $100 million sort of underscores the homeport advantage. All this aside, there’s no meaningful worry necessary in this jurisdictional topic and you should treat it like the distant warning a cirrus cloud broadcasts of the faint possibility for foul weather. Many (if not most) sailors will enjoy a lifetime of sailing without encountering this jurisdictional nonsense. Still, understand that the nature and extent of your contacts with a locale or your written agreement can have you

facing a jury of unfamiliar faces. If your sailboat is where your heart is, having someone else maintain possession of it and refuse to turn it over to you can be particularly distressing. There are several situations where this can occur in the civil (as opposed to governmental) setting, but the two most common are the boatyard dispute and the wary salvor. Whether by law or by contract term, the boatyard will likely be familiar with its right to maintain possession of your vessel until receipt of full payment. However, most boatyards in my experience don’t want a dispute and will try and reach an amicable resolution. Consider trying to resolve the problem on the countertop and, if the numbers or issues don’t allow, your admiralty attorney can assist in freeing your vessel from the boat yard’s grasp. Should you scrape bottom and require the services of a salvor, a maritime lien of salvage may arise. This is sometimes regarded as a possessory lien and a salvor may refuse to release your vessel until it receives security for its claim of salvage. The salvor may also keep possession of your vessel based on the lan-guage in its salvage contract. Whatever the case, remember this maxim: I’ve never met a salvor that wants your boat. Consider placing your salvor in contact with your insurer so that the insurer can arrange for security. Alternatively, it may be that just keeping an amicable dialogue going with the salvor will result in the salvor foregoing any interest in keeping hold of your yacht.Jurisdiction and possessory liens seem like the savagery a law student might endure, but no mind. The takeaway should be an understanding that these issues can arise. Where your good nature can’t carry the day, contact your admiralty attorney to help you navigate safely. 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. ■

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 insur-ance companies. He may be reached anytime at 1-800-383-MAYDAY (6293), or at his Newport, Rhode Island desk at 401-667-0977 or [email protected].


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Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series New York is May 6 - 8America’s Cup racing is returning to New York, NY for the first time in nearly a century, with the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series visiting the City on the weekend of May 6 - 8. With six international teams racing superfast AC45 foiling catamarans and vying for points that count towards the final competition for the 35th America’s Cup in Bermuda in 2017, it’s going to be spectacular! The venue is Brookfield Place Waterfront Plaza on the lower West Side of Manhattan, where the LVACWS New York Event Village will feature entertainment, food vendors, a kids zone, and sponsor activity and hospitality. Located at 230 Vesey Street, along the iconic Hudson River waterfront and across from the Statue of Liberty, Brookfield Place will be unrestricted for public to access during the event, with views of the racing from the shore-line. The Event Village main stage will host music and performances as well as the ‘Dock Out Ceremony’ where fans can cheer the teams before they head out to the racecourse. Big screens near the stage will also broadcast racing live. Racing for the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series New York will take place on the lower Hudson, directly in front of Brookfield Place. The racecourse will be set just off the Battery Park City Esplanade, between Pier 25 to the north and Battery Park City to the south. If you’re planning to watch the action from the water on your own boat, please register with the organizers via the event website to receive all the racing details at americascup.com/en/spectator-boats.html.

Friday, May 6Event Village Opens 11:00 am Practice Racing Begins 12:00 pmPractice Racing Ends 2:00 pmEvent Village Closes 8:00 pm

Saturday, May 7 Event Village Opens 11:00 am Dock-Out Show 12:30 pm Racing Starts (races 1, 2 & 3) 2:00 pm Racing Ends 3:30 pm Dock-In Show & Poster Signing 4:00 pmEvent Village Closes 6:00 pm

Sunday, May 8Event Village Opens 11:00 am Dock-Out Show 12:30 pm Racing Starts (races 4, 5 & 6) 2:00 pm Racing Ends 3:30 pm (Awards follow)Dock-In Show & Poster Signing 4:00 pmEvent Village Closes 6:00 pm *All times are subject to change.

Getting thereThe organizers recommend using public transportation to the on shore spectator zones. From points in New York City, take the E trains to the World Trade Center, A and C trains to Chambers Street, 2 and 3 trains to Park Place, N and R trains to Cortland Street, and 4 and 5 trains to Fulton Street. From New Jersey, take a PATH train to the World Trade Center. For schedules and

Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Overall Standings 1. Emirates Team New Zealand 192 points2. ORACLE TEAM USA 1863. Land Rover BAR 1854. SoftBank Team Japan 1615. Artemis Racing 1616. Groupama Team France 150

After finishing second in the America’s Cup World Series Oman in February, ORACLE TEAM USA is keen to stand atop the podium in New York City. © ORACLE TEAM USA/ Photo Ricardo Pinto


routes, visit panynj.gov/path. For ferry schedules and routes to the World Financial Center, visit nywaterway.com.

Hospitality packagesFor the best seats in the house, contact Shannon McCoy at Quint Events: [email protected] or 704-790-7692. For official on-water charter packages, contact Alistair Spiers at [email protected].

Tune in to watch all the actionIf you can’t make it to New York, racing will be broadcast live on NBC Sports Live Extra at 2pm on Saturday, May 7, and live on NBCSN and NBC Sports Live Extra at 2pm on Sunday, May 8. Highlights will be televised on NBC and NBC Sports Live Extra at 2pm on Saturday, May 21.

Stay connected with the Cup when you’re on the goTo follow your favorite sailors and teams and receive breaking news, features, photos, live leaderboard and more, download the official

America’s Cup App. It’s free for Android and iOS devices. For more information, visit americascup.com. ■

There will be plenty of prime spectator zones, both on the Lower West Side of Manhattan and on the Hudson.

Young Gun, Auld Mug: ORACLE TEAM USA skipper Jimmy Spithill with the Cup © Rob Tringali/America’s cUP


Mudheads to Compete in Hospice Regattas National ChampionshipBy Courtney Moore

Southeastern Connecticut sailor Prescott Littlefield will lead a team of Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association sailors in the Hospice Regattas National Championship, which will be held April 28 - May 1 in Galveston, TX. Littlefield’s crew includes Claudia Koerting, Matt Wilson, Liz Sistare and Matthew Little-field. Littlefield has raced his J/29 Zig Zag Zoom in the Mudhead Donzo Wednesday Night Race Series and countless other Eastern Connecticut Sailing Association regattas for the past decade. He has also been an active frostbite racer in Essex (Frostbite YC) for over 20 years in a JY-15, and more recently, in a Laser. He is the Waterfront Programs Manager at the University of Connecticut Avery Point campus and a sailing coach for the Avery Point Sailing Club and The Williams School Varsity Sailing Team. The regatta venue, Sea Scout Base Galveston, offers reliably outstanding sailing conditions and a racecourse that’s “steps away in the front yard.” Competitors will race Sonars in a round-robin series that will maximize time on the water for all teams. The Hospice Regattas National Championship was the first U.S. charity sailing championship to promote local regattas’ ef-forts to support hospice programs. The event offers three days of sailboat racing for one winning skipper and crew from each local hospice regatta that has completed at least two regattas. For more information, visit hospiceregattas.org. The National Hospice Regatta Alliance is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) association of hospice regattas that independently raises money and awareness for hospices in their communities. It supports a rapidly expanding nationwide network of regattas that publicize hospice care — from the East to the West Coast, from the Great Lakes to Florida. NHRA is an all-volunteer organization helping hospice regattas grow and learn from each other, and promoting hospice care nationally. Since the first Hospice Regatta in 1982, more than 20,000 sailors, sponsors and volunteers have raised more than $12 million to provide hospice care to terminal patients and their families without regard for ability to pay. “We are thrilled that a competitor like Prescott is representing the Mudheads,” said Mudhead Commodore Dan Lettiere. “We are proud to have a team sailing in the Hospice Nationals; and proud of the Mudheads’ continued work with Center for Hospice Care.” Locally, the Mudheads work with Center for Hospice Care, a community based, non-profit organization serving Eastern Connecticut since 1985. It provides end-of-life care to over 700 patients and their families each year regardless of age, disease or ability to pay. In addition, more than 1,500 friends and family members receive bereavement support free of charge regardless of whether their loved one’s death occurred under hospice care, and special programs like Expressive Arts for children, teens and adults


help the bereaved cope with their loss in a non-threatening and creative environment. Local sailors have raised money through the Center for Hospice Care Regatta Series for over 26 years. This year’s Mudhead Benefit Regatta is July 16. For further informa-tion, visit mudhead.org. ■

Courtney Moore is a longtime Mudhead, and her Baltic 39 Patriot is a peren-nial contender in the Mudhead Benefit Cup for the Center for Hospice Care.

Prescott Littlefield will lead a team of Mudheads (pictured aboard his J/29 Zig Zag Zoom) at the Hospice Regattas National Championship.

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Saturday, July 16 at 11 amMudhead Benefit Cup at Mystic Shipyard, Mystic, CT

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on watch.Judy GibbsCurrently serving as Rear Commodore of the Eastern Connecticut Sailing Association (ECSA), Judy Gibbs is an accomplished racer, a race committee veteran, a tireless and exemplary volunteer, and a strong advo-cate for the advancement of the sport. “I grew up in Joppa, Maryland on the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay, but my first sailing experience was on my honeymoon in 1964, when my husband Bob and I sailed a little dinghy,” says Judy, who lives in Mystic, Connecticut. “We didn’t start sailing actively until 1980, when our son Brian was seven. Our first boat was a Catalina 30.” “We joined the Thames Yacht Club in 1988. We had just started gaining an interest in racing, and we bought an old IOR racing boat. Everyone at the club wanted to encourage us to race because we had the boat for it, and Kenny Brent, who was Rear Commodore at the time, really urged us to get out and race, and he was quite free with advice. We were actively club racing by 1989, and we did one long overnight race and the Governor’s Regatta. Those were both ECSA races, and we started out big because we won both of them! We have had a series of successful boats, and I actively raced from 1989 to 2002, on our boats and others. I did 40 races in 1993, mostly on other peoples’ boats.” “Thames Yacht Club is a special place because everybody’s willing to help everybody, it’s very friendly to outsiders, and the friends we’ve made there over the last 25 years have become our family,” says Judy, who has served as the club’s Vice Commodore and Commodore and is one of its ‘go-to’ people on the subject of the Racing Rules of Sailing. “I’ve been doing race committee at Thames and other places since 1991. Dick Roberts and Cal Brouwer were my mentors. Cal did race committee for 50 years! I’ve been involved with ECSA’s Race Management training for years, and I enjoy it. I think every sailor should spend at least one day on a race committee boat – it’s a wonderful way to learn.” “I’ve been on the present ECSA board for six years, although I had been on the board in the late ‘90s and worked my way up to Vice Commodore. I stopped before I became Commodore, because I was involved in four other sailing orga-nizations at the time. I was on the board at Thames and on the Off Soundings Club race committee, and I was helping the US Sailing Area B Race Officer and with New London Community Boating.” In fact, Judy is a co-founder of New London Community Boating, an organization dedicated to offering sailing lessons free of charge to New London children, providing opportunities to develop self-confidence, cooperation, communication, and leadership skills in all participants. “After hearing Paul Risseeuw [ECSA’s Junior Sailing Chair from 1992 until his passing in 2015] talk at an ECSA meeting in 1999, my friend Katie Brad-

ford and I decided to see if we could do something for the inner city kids in New London. Katie got her mother, Carolyn Leuze, and Beth Robinson, who had a company called 2B Sailing, and I was Treasurer, and we started out that first year with cocktail parties to raise money for scholarships. It

was a new experience for the kids, many of whom didn’t know that they had access to the water. One of our premises was to enlighten them and further their education so that they could get jobs on the water if they like it.” Judy’s also a member of the Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association. “I’m a Certified Race Officer,” she says, “and last year they invited me to run their Donzo Wednesday Night Series because their Certified Race Officers were going to Block Island Race Week. I’m on the Off Soundings Race Committee and I’ve done Race Committee at Race Week, and now that we’ve moved to Mystic I’m going to get more involved with running Mudhead races. Racing is huge to me because of all the people I know.” “I am very proud of my more than 10 years on the Hos-pice Regatta committee for The Center for Hospice Care,” says Judy. “I was chairman for about five years, and it was the biggest fundraiser the Center had every year. The regatta is now known as the Mudhead Benefit Cup for the Center for Hospice Care. “The event has really taken off, and the Mudheads have done a great job! I may be involved this year, depending on what Bob and I do for cruising.” Judy and Bob presently own a Nonsuch 33, Cringle. “We bought her mainly to cruise,” she explains, “although Off Soundings has a Nonsuch class and Bob and our son Brian decided to race. They got second overall for the year in 2012 and ‘13, and they won in 2014 and ’15. In 2012, we cruised to Maine for the month of August. Some of the highlights were going through the Cape Cod Canal and stopping at one of our favorite places, Scituate, Massachusetts, and we enjoyed the lobster boat and tugboat races in Portland, Maine. One boat had a Corvette car body, and another had an old Ford van body. We cruised as far as Boothbay, and it was just a great trip.” “In the fall of 2013, Bob and three fellows sailed Cringle to Baltimore. I got on the boat there, and we went to Key Largo, Florida, mostly on the Intracoastal although we did some sailing outside. We stayed in Key Largo for a month with two other boats from Thames Yacht Club, and I did race committee for the Force 5 Midwinters, which was really fun. On the way back, we stopped in Baltimore for a week to attend my 50th high school reunion. We’re planning to do it again next year.” “I like the freedom of sailing,” Judy enthuses, “but what really turns me on is the challenge when the weather gets bad. I enjoy every minute of it!” ■

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