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S cofi's B if the same emphasis œpsize. Bychoosing to sail Wharram designsthis is not something - have to bepreoccupied with. James quite rightlydefines a sepamtion point betweendesigns - skill I agility or form stable.The Iatter (your yacht) Iooks afterdself. . . . ,No. your greatest fears and ttle onlytime you should think of abandoningship. are fire and collision. Both haveaccounted for a number of W haframIosses and you must consider how tocope with, or preferably avoid them .

Articles are coming in. I have part 2of Rick & Joe on the Oro ''KaleCoolie'' but hope to reœ ive photo'sbefore the next Magazine. If you aresending an artide in - don't forget tosend explanatofydrawings or photo'sif senöing leqers keep them sborl &to the point. lf you have started aiocal group anye ere ln the worldsend me some details & I shall giveyou a mention there may be otbers

who e uld like to join you.My next request is to support an ideaI have had for some time. W hen lvisit a new area I buy an aerial viewpostcard of the harbour/anchorage -very useful for pilotage & to pointfeatures out to ethers Iater. W hat lK ulö Sike to staft now, to be afeature of the PCA office, is, from aI1over tbe world. the largest colledionof this lype of postcard everassembled. If each member serlt oneeach season e colled 500 a year! 2d 1 wouid have to soon enlarge thean

ofru ! As a ssight incentive, if youneed one we will have a draw at theend of eaV summer and the senderof the dlawll oald will receive one of1he new PCA sweatshirts. (Named atSept. AGM, winner published in theDecember magazine)No zim's Column thi: time. but he isback from Podugal in May and will bepuqing something togelher for thenext issue.

W ell the saiiing season has stadedin England but Iooking out of thewindowyou K uld not know it. Strongwinds have been blowing here sinceIate November, without a single threeday window! I know this because Ihave had a tug standing by to tow thenew PCA office nere (it sits on abarge).The Chader Season started lastweek with the lssue. for Multihulls ofa temporaly Iicence because the DTphave not managed lo come up with a''Model Stability Book'' whic.h we canuse as the basis for our ownsubmissions. Anyone rsakllng underlbe British Flag, anywhere in theA rld must now be registered as aSmall Commercial Vessel if they usethe yacbt for any ceommercial adivilyincluding letting it for bare-boatchader. Sklppers of Charter yachtsmust now have a CommercialSkippers Certihm te, and theequlpment spec. is high if you intendrsailing over 60 Nm off-shore wherefor lnstance you must (::111w enoughIife-rafts that if one is Iost there arestill sufficjent for the number ofpeople on board.The Safety Article from SimonTytheKeigh prompted plenty of letters,most quotlng Chris W hite and othersre non-carfying of lifefufts but aII with

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Summer 1993 saw us sailing Brit-tany, we Iived contentedly on the beachand the wind stayed north easterly. W elistened diligently to Brest/t-e Conquetradio weather bulletins and scanned thelocal newspaperweather maps for signsof a good o1d atlantic depreàsion. Ahuge high pressure system sat overBritain and looked set to Iast for days. Itseemed that the best we could hope forour home run was a north wind wilh the

half hour heaving her off the sand andback into deeper water. Ushanl took uscompletelybysurprise. W ehad expecteda rather sombre forbidding rock andfound a deligh/ul thriving holiday island.W e hired mountain bikes, followed iovelyoff-road tracks round its rugged rockycoastline and ate moule frite a Ia terracein the sun. The museum at the CreachIight house celebrated 1he history ofBrittany's buoys and Iighthouses andconsidering the compiexity of its coast-Iine and the hundreds of navigation

sweltered underthe anti-cyclone andwehad to get home. There seemed to beno cholce other than to slmply go for itIf it took a three day wallow of a beat toreach Plymouth . so be it. The presenceof sea fog worried me though forwe hadto cross the busy shipping Ianes just tothe nofth of Ushant. On the momlng ofAugust 31 stwe ate our Iast French break-fasl prepared sandwiches and drinks andat 13 30 stowed the anchor and motoredout of Lampaul bay in search of wind. W edid not find it immediately but we did find

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merest hint of west (n it. l ttlougttt we tthe is-should ge1 ourselves as far west as I a n d ' spossibie to ease the angle back to PIy- northernmouth and so that aftemoon we left for Ilmlt aUshant. After a short fast sail wilh a fair pleasantwind and pleasant sunshine we rounded two toLa Jument Iight and beat up the huge three ar-Baie de Lampaul. The beach at its rlved andhead looked good enough so thls waswe sailed through the visitors . v ê. k I n dmoorings. waved to a transat- e n o tl g hIantic Frenchyacht andran our- lo 4n-selves aground. It was then that we real- marks whlch have proliferated as a con- crease to four W e could hold a courseised that the flat calm sea hid a decep- sequence there was plenty to celebrate of about 007 degrees which lf lt held.

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Apart from an uncomfodable ndetbrough steep. confused and choppyseas som e twenty m lles nor'th of 1heBrpttany coast. the trlp back to Plymouthwas well nlgh perfect The sun shone al1day and gave way dunng the nsght toclear Skles and a dazzilng full moon Thewlnd Stayed steadlly lhree to four veer-Ing sllghtly as we approached the Eng-llsh coast. By Seven thlrty ln the mornlngthe Llzard lay 15 mlles due west and wewere maklng good a course to Meg-avlssey Bay As we closed the coasthowever, tlle wlnd dled and sowe startedthe englne and altered course for Ply-mouth and Foss Quay A wonderful sum-mer wlth a great deal Ieamed Vost ofmy modificeations worked well. The GPSIs worth its welght in plutonium , as is theauto pllot French Radlo Stations de-splte information to the contrary werehappy to communlcate in Ecglish and.on the whole were more Iald back andfriendly than Engllsb ones. The deckctgddy is certalnly a great addition andmakes Tiki sailing much drler. My designis by no means perfect and l will work toImprove it. Mlnd you I would much rathera professional designer came up with aproper glass fibre Tiki 26 cuddy andsaved me the bother. How about ItSleve? Next year I plan to sall stralght toUshant and then continue down towardssouth Brittany. Any olher Tiki ownerswlth six weeks to spare interested incoming aloqg?

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(In 22 kve read of thelr allack by p'rates. here lsan abbrewaled vetwon of the whole slory ) Itneeds aïcles Ilke t/rs to put fh/ngs back /r1perspectlve when cons/dermg the sqe of dleselengtne m tz *must have i' for Safe passage mak.?ng, etc''

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Unfortunately, at the srst Iock Nor-bert the captain of the ''Boston Light''sailed against the wall whleh separatesthe rising and descendant Iock. Result'a huge hole ahead of his hull. The ''Birdof Azure'' Is saved. But if she had hit thequay with thls speed we would havesunkatthefootofthe Lockof Gatuma.aandbye-bye to our circumnavigation! W ecross the Lake Gatum at more thanseven knots behfnd our tug. who stlll had58 feet of the boat as new! The sameevening we pass the lock of Miraflores.W e are now in the Pacific. An immensejoy inside us we have ln front of us morethan 10,000 miles of libedy!

ln the first archipelago, named LasPedas while we are alone ln a bay - onenighl - we are attacked by three pirates.(See mag 22). We sail away in the nlght.the fear in the Momach Sometimes menare more crklel than gales!

The Pacific is done witb Iong roadsand the passage of the equator. Butoh..amiracle! W e reach the Galapagos Inseven days. just by sail! And afterwe hadadmlred the centenary torlolses we Ietourselves take away in the South sea.Flrst pod of 0 11: the Islands Marquises,nlce with a Iot of vegetatlon 700 milesaway, after we had crossed the Tuamo-tus, we discover Tahitl very French and

W Ith Florence we sailed more than onemonth In the exceptsonal waters of theIagoon of Bora-Bora where each morn-ing we were woken up by 1he perfume ofthe ''tlares''. the flowers lhat the Poly-neslans Iike so m uch For one momentwe were thinklng of endlng ourlrlp In thlsparadlse But over there Australla wsthits Greal BamerReef called us! W e sa/ed2500 mlles as far as the Vanuatu antl1400 toAustralla On thls Iast leg. we hada ternble gale before we reached theGreat Barner Reef level wlth the town ofCairns We stayed a lot t)f months tn tbecountry of the kangaroo. waltlng for thetradewinds tcl comeagaln. W e had salledhalf way round the world In the goodseason we pass the Torres Stralt wlththe lndlan Ocean fn front of us Flrsl stt)pDarwin with its crocodlles'

Head for the Cape of Good Hope. ahard trip for a little catamaran. but wehave good trust in our Heavenly Twlnswifh its central cockpit Berore the Capeof Good Hope we gave ourselves a nlcestop In lhe beautiful archlpelago Coco-Keellng

Landscape of dreams, bathed by thetrade-winds. where fhe coconut ïreesswing theirheads ln a wodd of Ilberty W edropped our anchor under the island ofDirection We are also ln one of the 9veOnly one dream stirs up aII

yachtsmen. conquer the sea inthe south. So, we steer for thesouth with our Heaveniy Twjnsnamed 'iBird of Azure''. We IeftBarcelona in 1985 and finishedour circumnavigation in Faimouthln 1992. Ourjoumey: Gibraltar,Canaries. Capo Verde and theW est lndies where we saw theduck lhat gave us our catamarantaking us where we want on lhisblue and emerald sea W e stayedsix months in the West Indies. andthen came the Islands of Ven-ezuela wbicb were a revelationto us, with hundreds of little islets.where each salling boat can find asolitafy anchoring.

At the end of October afterwe had visited the Golfe of Ma-racaibo. we sailedalong Columbiato Panama the last harbour In theAtlantic before the Pacisc. Hereeveqboh told us that it's impos-slble to cross the canal fromPanama by sail and 1he HBird of M ure''hasjust a Seagull outboard... So we gosearching forayachtwhichwouldgive usatowfrom one oceanto another, And thisls a sailing boat of 60 feet named ''BostonLight'' who agreed to give us a tow.

veryexpensive. Then slipping intheTradewinds we discover Morea RaiateaMaupiti and Bora-Bora the pearl of theislandssous- le-vent (Windward Isles'?)with its rosafy of isjets which encircle theprincipal island. Beautiful and friendly!

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places on the earth where Vodka is soldat the price of the essence forthe lighterand the W hlsky BrothersRoyal Salut atthe price...oh! we can't speak about that!

The hard reality of the sea found usagain near Durban To round Soulh Af-

nca - 700 miles - we have had five gales.The ''Bird of Azure'' salled sometimes inonedlrection and sometimes intheother.We took 14 days Iike Joshua Slocum.Like him we don't have an engine. W henwe were underTable Mountain comfod-ably installed In the Cape Town YachtClub - a huge relief invaded the crew ofthe ''Bird of Azure''.

W e are still in the Southern Hemi-sphere butwe are already in ourocean . .the Atlantic! And lf the road is relativelyIong to reach Europe. it's relatively easyFlrst stop: St -l-lelena, which lsa nlce Island but its anchoringIs terrlbly rolllng Napoleondidn'! Iike thts place! Anothertsm e, weill cross the Atlanticand head for Brazll and the .pslandof Femandode Noconha ' 'before we cross the Equator ' '. . < .$ *Hard. hard five day: without <

wlnd ln a torrid heat w1th more l '. )'jy. . . , .than 40 degrees in the cabln. . /.w e t h o u () h t 1 h a t w e h a d $ : : ./reached the door of hell Llttle , . .

by Ilttle - 20 m lles each dayandaiways by motor- we firlally gotoutoftheHorseslatitude W henwe eventually got the Tradewlnds we took that for a galel Harbour W e were the happier navlga-

After 2300 mlles of sea we finally tors. a lot more than Chrlstopher Colum-reach Antigua and we declded to stay for bus who didn't search for solltude Iike athe hurrlcane season. We sailed 50 mdles rare productlmore to the north. to the Island of St. Last crossing of the Atlantlc W e IeftMarlln whlch has a huge Iagoon, and the Bahamas and Ievel wlth Bermuda -that was a qood decislon! On !he 26th of where we had thought to Mop to buySeptember we were vlslted by the hurri- some food and get some water- wewerecane Hugo, classified ln the fourth cat- taken by a huge gale! No problem . . letsegofy There are only five categorles, go on to the Azoresl... nothlng better forwe'll content ourselves wfth the fourthl a good dlet! 30 days Iater we arnved onThe wlnd blew more than 240 kph and the Island of Faialwithout anymorefoodldestroyed everythpng In Its path The eye W e were so happy to find agaln the oldpassed lust on 1he Island of Culebra wlth Europeand a Iot of good food ..- aqerfivewlnds of more than 300 kph. 700 boats years underthetroplcs - thatwe sailed forwho came to take refuge, sank In the three months from one Island tothe other

night. Once is enough!The season of the trade winds was

coming back and we could sail agaln inthe north through the W est lndies VirginIslands and the Caicos. We hadto makea pilgrimage' to visit the Island of SanSabvaöor in the Bahamas, lhe first ShatChnslopher Columbusdiscovered. W henwe arrived in the small hours we weremoved when we thought that five centu-nes before us the genius navigator hadtrodden the same beach. W e were oneweek - alone - in the Bay of Graham's

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and from one restaurant to the other inthis nice archipelago of 1he Azores!

On the lstof September. the ''Bird ofM ure'' took to the sea agaln in the direc-tion of England. On the 1 1th of Septem-ber at 1 1 o'clock we sailed upon the backof a whale. Great smashing! Terribleartguish that seems to tast Nours. W henwe found the sea free in front of us wenoticed that one of the rudders was dam-aged. W e retumed south to repair It. Theseason was too Iate to go north again sowe sailed to Gran Canaria for the winter.

To reassure ourselves. we stud-ied the moral standards of the whalesand we Ieamed tnat the whales neverattack the boats, the anim ajs don'thave the spitefulness of men. lt is bypure accident that there could be acollision The crew plucked up trust,so on the 3rd of June 1992 we took tothe sea once more forthe Azores. It is900 miles tack and 21 days at sea! W eddn't have any luck thls year becàusethe high pressufe wasn't over theAzores. butwas stationafyin England!

Azores to England' this tlme weIeft on 10th July. At this time thewhales hadn't begun yet their longmlgration to the south and we didn't

see- Iike on ourlasttrip- hundredsof bluewhales who go to the south by troupe oftwenty.

Taklng the route of the oId sailingboats, we go up to the Iatitude of 50degrees. and then to the east. During agale. a whale swam some hours nearthe''Blrd of Azure'' W hen suddenly theEnglish coast comes out of the water itsa feast for the crew! Our dream: goinground the world only by sail is at lastreality! W e covered 35000 mlles by thethree oceans. The ''Blrd of Azure'' is thefirst Swlss catamacan to have done aclrcumnavigation and the first HeavenlyTwins to come back to England afterthe

passage of Panama, the TorresStrait and the Cape of GoodHope Shall we do that again onso small a catamaran it's notsurell I But yet every nlght wedream of the Iot of islands -tbere - ln the South Heml-sphere

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round islands. She is lookingforan islandto stafl a chimpapzee sancttlary, butthese are too small. Chimps areendangered by population pressures onthe mainland, and an island sanctuafyseems an ideal solution. Bul would thatmean tourism would come to this para-dise? Yes. I know we are tourists - butthad's different - it's alright if we are thetourists. Familiar contradictions fromventures into wildemess.

lt spits with rain, i tum in to catch upon sseep Sost in the night monitoring thebehaviour of the storms Margheritasails on past more islands. The soundsbelow ale of water speeding past andvoices on deck I am soon dreaming ofsimilar smooth fas, sailing through theNolwegian skjaergaard in Guiding Starthe 1907 converted Looe lugger in whichl grew up. The similahty ends there, be-cause the boat in whic.h 1 am now asleepis a catamaran, a T'iki 26 built by Anneand me in our garden on Mbuya Hill in1992 and named afterthe highestpeak inthe Ruwenzori. Traditional boats com-bine practicalitywith characterandthesesame qpalities Ied us to choose the Tiki- the abilityto maintain speed in light airs,shallow draught for uncertaiq landfallsplenty of deck space to spread out in thesun, and the cbaracter of a boat wlthancient ongins, still visible in her Iines.No floating caravan thls - the deslgner'sdescription of her as a 'coaslal trekker'is more apt. Our maiden voyage was toKisumu Iast November a distance of150 miles, and the Margherita showedus that she could handle the severe butusually short-lived storms that can blowup quickly in thesewalers Ourficst expe-rience in a catamaran was dramatic the

Coming in low, eight of tlzem in Iineahead, at around 4,000 f1. The Ieaderputs on a burst of power followed insequenc.e down the Iine - three flaps,glide-threeflaps, glide. The Ieaderbanksand fhe (ine crosses our Mem . Majesticnature's flyirlg boats. W e wander offcourse as a11 eyes follow this display.Pink pelio ns.

ltisv œ ' and- arecruisingat3.7xft Margherita is coming to Iife afterslipping out of a tiny cove on Nsadzilsland at 0400, with a fair wind for theSesse tslands. lt is a grey moming. orseveral shades of grey from blue-blackto white, as the storm makes a final at-tempt to relive the glory of the night.Muesli and yoghuft, hot croissants andcoffee - breakfast at sea in the fropics.Oskar describes his dawn, best enjoyedin solitude, and usually recounted withan air of smug superiority over break-fasl. But he is being honest - 'just aIightening of the sky'. The grey islandsahead tum green as the sun burststhrough, Soon we are among themskimming along the sheltered water onthe outskids of the storm . Tropical rainforest rolls down to the water's edge.

Prominent white spots in the trees reveal1he presence of fish eagles now aisoventuring out to test the day and, per-haps. lo examine what manner of crea-lure is this gliding past. They ca11 lo eachother throwing back their heads withguslo. I check lhe chart as the channel

and Mr Hunter of Uganda Railways. Howfortunate we are to be among the vefyfew to have benefiled from theirdiligencein the 90 odd years since. For as the fisheagleswilltellyou, the onlyboats passingthis way are Iocal fishing canoes and theweekly ferry from the mainland. Thereare 83 islarkds in the Sesse lsland group- a forgotten paradise on the equator.Aswe emerge from the channel Linda atthe helm points up to inspect three Iittle

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main test being high speed navigationamong unlit lslands at nlght in zero vis-Ibllsty and torrential rain! Good oIdfashioned DR saw us thfough, thanks toW hitehouse and Hklnter and the com-

awnlng. Nolsy hombills beat about theirbusiness W e Iook in disbelief at whatappear to be geese perching irl a tree -until we read In the bird book 'the Egyp-tian Goose' frequently alights in trees.

freshens and shifts 180 degrees in thenlghtvAlternatively, anchonng neartheend of an Island enables you to nlpround the other side if necessaw W efind just such a spot off a tiny Islandnot marked on the chart. formed bythe rlse in water Ievel caused by theOwens Falls dam. You can guesswhatwe are dolng at sundown glowingfrom the day's wlnd and sun Vanoustypes of glasses In hand. we watcheda greenbacked heron creeping ln themangrove undergrowth catching itssupperas the Iight changes againl thistlme from tropical sun to lroplcalm oon, almost as bnlliant. A solldafyhippo, sounding at 100 m lntervalspasses by on a steady course for Itsnoctum al grazing ground. Margher-ita- settles quietly to herchain as the

wind dles. It has been kind to us todayOn I-ake Vicloria, the second Iargest Iakeln the world the sound of supperslzzlingon the stove compeles with the treefrogs and cnckels I Iook up at the burgeecatching the moonlight - is it the high-est burgee tlying? A11 looks quiet, butthe skychangesqulcklyinthese parts,and I know I will be watching it off andon throughout lhe night.

pass. We have no 1og - l stiss don't knowhow l managed to guess our speed inthose conditions! Peopde ask why wedon't have GPS. Our answer isthe sameasfor many 'gadgets' - freedom is avoid-Ing dependency. Tbe fun of salllng isbeing dependenl only on yourself yourcrew, yourboatand minimum equipment.Nowadays hafbours are full of boatswaiting for spare pafts. W hat you don'thave can't go wrong

Awakened from these pontlfica-lions, I go up on decK and pick our lunchtlmeanchoragefrom the chad. W e roundinto a bay, drop the hook ciose inshoreand Iower salls. By now it is bnght andhot - cold beers are in order as the con-versation tums to ideas for rigging an

Pure Doolittle. Amonitorlizardlurks alongthe rocks at the water's edge, a newousotter watching offshore at periscopedepth. Not a sign of human life anywhere- we ea1 our iunch mafvelllng at ourgoodfortune to be witoessing a scene of suchklnspoilt peace and beauty.

The aftemoon sail takes us north-wards! quietly, as three quarters of theship's company follow a good Iunch inthe time-honoured way. The lightchanges to golden green as we begin tolook for a night anchorage. W e need tochoose somewhere within striking dis-tanceof home the nextday. lf the eveningwind is not too strong, and you can over-come your instincts, it pays to anchoron a Iee shore because the wind usually

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The reason behind this trip was sim-ple,' to vlslt some friends who Iive on theislandof lslay, the nearestscottish islandto lreland. And why not. it is only sixhundred miles each way , with the glorl-Ous coastllne of lreland and theirglonous pubs to refresh us erA route.

a senous SW 6 and l could onty see oneIighthouse at a time. W e flogged backand fodh miserably (this was the crew'sfirst ever nightat seal) wlth a deep reefedmaln and yankee. and then graduallymade our way towards W olf Rock By0300 it felt Ilke a good seven. and thewaves were bad because of a contrarytlde, but we bashed along. and the reliefwas enormous when l finayy öecideö toturn the comer even though the tlde wasstill against us The major problem wasto determine how far off the Longshipswe were as we could now see nothing atall, and I knewthe visibllilywas bad. Echosoundlngs were reassuring, and al Iastwe glimpsed two smudges I now thinkwe were farther out than 11 felt and thankgoodness.

closlng the land at a shallow angle wlthsome unmlslakeable mountalnsfor back-drop was not exactly Captalp Cook stufNOnce inslde the banks the crutslng wasperfect anö we maöe Dun t-oaghadre ataboul 2130, tylng up by tbe ' Prlde ofGalway' at Traders W harf Thls place Isnot recommended for Its tollets or any-thlng much, but ds where the harbourm aster sends you Much better Is toanchor In the mlddle of the harbour lhenradio the DL Motor Yacht Club who wlllhelp with gettlng a mooring. and wlll ferryback and forth, and they have hot show-ers, aII for free. Good bar too The firstperson to greet us In Ireland was Flacc C)Brochain who ls yachtlng correspondentand in the mldst of constructlng a CAP-TAIN COOK. He seemed ln need ofinspiration and we had a Iong chat Ihope he went home to bulld again wlthenthusiasm renewed.

The loveliest place we visited wasCarlingford In the Lough whlch bearsit's name. This Is a little stone drylngharbourwith a medleval castleand sevenpubs. The vlllage Ilself ls the bestpreserved medieval town Sn Ifeland, withnumerous rulns. and is home to variousfestivals aswell as adists and a sculptor.P J O'Hare's grocery shop with pub be-hind, has chads and boat memorabiliaon thewalls and is the place to buypetrolas wesl as firewater and Gulnness. Car-lingford is so attractlve that we visltedagain on our return south. Disregard themarina. constmcted from sunken shipsand junk go for the harbour and anchor

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at aboutwent to my bunk0600 to be woken not Iongaftertabouttwohourslnfact)by Mark and a huge ferry notfar behind us. As it was theSt. Patnck 11 out of Dublin.*is seemed a fair confirma-tion thatwe were heading

It started Ilke most voyages - with a roughly in the right direction. lt made meslightly green crew and rapid revision of wonder if our radar reflector was vislblethe plan after we rounded start Polnt from behind the mast but the very nlcefrom the Exe The wind was blowing C'aptain altered course forstralght from where we wanted to 9o and tls and people cameout onto ' .. . .. . . n. # :&

.a1I hope of an ovemight passage to Fal- the bridge to wave ( and ssJ. : Fkm- .j ,.'k .ljît-w-. . .. . 4 . ;'4.b .mouth was abandoned

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total of about 10O miles experience Saw us off the Smalls yet ' '' .: 'between them for thls trip, so we didn't another traffic separationwant to put them off on lhe very first day. Scbeme, and Iots of pencilBy the second night we had only reached lines on the char't for clear-Cawsand, which was beginning to Iook ing bearings. W e were be-ilke a case of the wobblies so we laiö our GinlRingto realise howempty . xw.' r7

xhands solemnly on the boal's copy of the Irish Sea is aqer the ''Cape Horn the Logical Route'. and Channel, the big ships orvowed to strike out for Land's End at Iackof them bearing witness

v kfive the next moming to the decline of the ship- 'D '

Progress was slow but dogged. the Ping industry. in soft mud.Llzard marking the end of known terri- ltwas kind of theelements toquleten The spectacular Mountains oftory at 2000, and we opted to proceed down as we made our Iandfall the next Moume were our backdrop for an easyvery slowly towards Land's End so that day. The swells had graduallydiminished trlp up the coast, wind behind sea be-we could calch lhe favourable tlde at from the big nasties in S1. Georges chan- having itself. Next to Ardglass. goodabout 0500 At that point there was no neI asweo meintotheleeoftheemerald shelter but not a very attractive port inwind at all, so thls seemed Ilke the isle. and the weather fell light and pleas- the Nodh, then Carnlough. the usualsensible course of action It wasn't. By ant during the day. The crew were duly stopping-off point for those headlng0200when we could have not got around agtonished atthe perfect landfall byW ick- across the North Channel to wait for thethe comer against the tide it was bjowing lOw Head, who was 1 to tell them that tide. W e could have come a terminal

cropperhere. t was entefing the harbourwith the wind at our backs, doing fourknctsztheleaslpossibleto mainlain steer-age. Directly ahead were some smallboats on moorings. we had to tum sharpright and grab whatever was there Si-

flying past the distiflery dhat is lslay. andwhen they aren't counting geese or mak-ing whisky at one of seven distilleriesthey are farming this remarkably fertileand beautiful place.

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mon and Mark stopped us next to a largerather too clean ex-fishing boat' theyclung on for dear Iife. It was 1730 andraining. Man with vamish brush appears hole. squeeze until oil starts to come outon deck and swearsat mycrewwho have of the top, repsace the top cap then theJust slopped the boal from crashing into bottom one. Tbis isn't clearin the bookletabout ten olhers. He tries tolhrow off our lines, l'm not . ' v/o;.,-

j ,..>. . Q. ; y , j )quite sure where he thinks v27.'''Z; . 'r # . ' ' 7 . t; '. . ' . .we are to go but he cealms ' '' . ' ' ' Idown after I explain themanoeuvre we have just . : .....qwdone, arld helps to wam usround inlo a bedh. The Har- Wbour Master charges us c - .- .-E2.70 for lhe night. the only - -'.. < - -

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crofter, and par-ticulady interesting as hehas much experience withthe Yamaha four stroke.Rob was full of praise forthem. but did say that oneshould Gheck the oi1 Ievelevery DAYI! I was almosttoo embarrassed to admitthat I had only checked itonce that yearl and heex p lain ed t h at th e o i 1capacity is so small thatany loss could be critical.

He allo had a tip for replacing the gearoi'. When it has been drained oft insertthe noazle of the oil tube in the BOTTDM

have to get yourtides right''. we were told bysome o1d salts about the North Channel.They then went off in the wrong directionfor Islay and ended up using thelr enginewhen they could have salled! We made acareful course past Rathlin lsland andthe spectacular cliffs of Fair Head, wilhlhe tlde pushing us obllquely at a coupleof knots The crew didn't seem to mindthe fact that we weren't pointlng in thedirectionof lslay. I wasnavigatlngfuriouslybecause I couldn't believe that the chapswho had glven us the advlce would thenrush off on a course that was ciearlywrong. StIII. we reached Port Ellen undersapi. wlth a great sense of relief andsatlsfactlon.

A very enjoyable elght days werespent wllh friends on lhelr croft I have lnfront of me as l wrlte a boltle of Bowmoreslngle malt. wlth a Itttle plcture of geese

and is rlof exactly the oblious way to dcit. but it doesn't work the other way 'cos9he air can't escape..

Our retum joumey started with clearskies and no wind across the NorthChannel. (1 had been rather nervous ofventuring fudher into the Scottish lslesbut next time ...) Head winds were theorderof the dayall the way down the Irishcoast. and we never made a singje day'sdestlnation, whichprovedinteresting. W eIearnt to interpret the Satling Directionswhich usually read ''Don'! enter this har-bour, it dries'' and spent some peacefufnights on the sand. (there really ls a needfor a cat's crulsing gulde ) We managedover 12 knots hard on the wlndjust southof Dublln. I was twitchlng the mainsheetjust llke a dinghy. It was greatl At Balbrig-gan we were awakened from a nlght on

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the beach bya knock on the hull at 0500.,it was 1he Iocal bobby. just checking thatwe were alright. He eyed me and said''You wouldn't be having any Iarge con-signmentsof marijuana ormnzolne wouldyou?'' lt took a few moments to realisethiswas his Iittlejoke, but itwas early. Healso said that we would have to be stop-ping there for a couple of weeks, lovelycountryside, as lhe water wouldn't becoming back for a while. 1 wasn't fallingfor that one. but 1 did check the tidalheights again. and we only just got offthat moming....!

The snest experience of tbe entiretrip was the czossing to Falmouth. W ehad heard on the forecast of a small jow

and intracking to the south of Ireland,true ocean-racing style, 1 decided to rideit. 0/ the Tuskar Rock at 1430 it was aboisterous E4. and gradualN worked itsway round to the North W est by 2300.The skies cleared, the sea went doe ,dolphins crossed our path. (1 saw a pairof them cross our bows perfectly side-by- side, asif theywere imitating ourtwinkee#sl perhapsr/)

Mark was on midnigbl walch. and hehad a roller-coaster ride, with the boatdoing a consistent 9 lo 9.5 knots broadreaching underthestars. Nelliewassing-ing alongl moving efforllessly, the waveswere not slamming or slewing her shedidn'tfeedatali pressed. Thiswas sailor'sheaven! Even though we had to motorpast Land's End and the Lizard, we aver-aged for the 260 mile crossing overseven knots. Nellie had a fine trip andended it in stylv!

The boat is now out of the waterhaving a few Iittle changes made. Noth-ing majorwentwrong. Ijustwantto makeher even more of a good sea boat. Andperhapswewill venture North again. I dohope so.

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W ithout doubt the most Iovely placewe visited on 'Nellie's' trip up the Irishcoast was Carlingford. It is the best pre-served example of a mediaeval town inthe whole of ireland, full of interestingremains a ruined abbey severalcastlesmediaeval streets and plenty of pubs.The harbour is soft mud and dries com-pletely at Iow water but it is possible tocome alongside, and the place is well

wodh a stay. Carlingford lough is a;h-proached past !he Haulbowline Light-house at the entrance, folsowing thebuoyed big ship channel. W atch oulhere, beceause some very big vesselspass by, and expectsailing craft to keepclear of the channel. Only proceed intoCarlingford Lough on the flood. thestream is much too strong to 5ghtagainst. Unfortunatelythewind tendstofunnel stralght down the Lough. so theride will be bumpy and a litlle wel. Thiscan be avoided if you have a detailedchart (Admiralty 2800). we didn't so wefollowed the directions and chartlets inthe Irish Cruising Clubs Directions for Eand N Coasts of lreland. As you getaway from the entrance to 1he LoughYou will spot Cartlngford on the left.dominated bythe mountainslieve Foye

,with a small castle down by the stoneharbour. Take care going overlhe shoalarea that separates Carlingford fromthe main channel. W e found a least

öepth of two and a bit melres al half sood.

lf in doubtgo NW untilcarlingford harbourbears roughly SI then make your ap-proach. There is a marina of sorts about1/2 mile N of the harbour. The marina hasbeen ctmstructed by sinkiog old bargeslo form breakwaters and I gather spaceis very Iimited. There is plenty of room toanchor in deep water NNe of the townand plenty of room in the picturesqueharbouritself. W e anchored in the middteof the harbour and had a peaceful nighton the mud (could have had something todo with 1he Guinnessl). Local boats tendto fill the best wall for shelter, but in goodweather there is no reason not to goalong side the E wall. The bottom mightbe a Iitlle uneven we Iisted afewdegreesat the North end of the wals, but it öoesallow access to the boat at a1I times. Inwindy conditions you may get pinnedagainst the wall so It is wodh rowipg outan anchor. The attractions ashore in-clude a fish and clAip van open tilt very

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views across the Lough tothe Mountainsof Moume One obsewation about theSailjng Directions. Uke most they arewritten with mono's in mind, and by fol-lowing them to closely it is possible tocome unstuck in a cat (?? Simon mustdothis to wind rre up/! Sd- How? Why?.j Noreal mention is made of harbours IikeCarlingford which are ideal for us. An-other example is the coast between St.John's Point and Belfast Lough. which ispoorly served with good harbours. W ehad been beating south a11 day and weretlred and hunge. Donaghadee Harbourhas the following write-up: ''Heavy scendfrequently sets into it. Vefy congested,gradually silting. so now there is scarcelyspace for a visiting yacht to anchor.'' Idon't think they get many visitors! Just tothe south is Ballywalter (Bailywater onAdmiralty Charts), which directions sayhas rocks near the pier and on the NEside. lt does mention a clear passagewith the Church Spire in Iine with the

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pierhead. Wemotoredgentlyin, anchoredot and asked a local lad about the haz-ards. lt tumed out that the harbour hasexoellent hard sand plenty of space tobeach the boat! although limited facili-ties. It was a vel'y good spot. (See chad-Iet.) By contrast the attradive descrip-tion 'dries out complelely. well sheltered,used by Iooal yachts as well as manytrawlers. attractlve for visilors who arehappy to dry out alongside' which Iuredus into Balbriggan, further soulh couldnot have been fudherfrom the truth. Theharbour is narrow heavily silted. full ofwrecks uneven and stinks of rotting ssh.A ghmmer dump is hard to'imagine. Butas Iuck would have it, there is a greatlyssoping beach right next lo the harbour,well sheltered in offshoce conditions. W efinally parked there at 23:30 after wediscovered that the spot we had found in1he harbourwould have given us a Iist ofabout 4sdegrees. Moral: carrya lead forsoundings.

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MOCRA Nationals start at Royal-Cornwall Yacht Club. Falmouth on 21August and aII VOCIRA members areInvlted to Joln wfth the PCA for the Sat-tlrday Rally & BBQ.

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Yes, yes $ know that it is song over-due for me to write about my experi-ences with 'Cookie' and now aftera busyyear trying to establish a home in a newcountry 1 have some time and inclinationto write some articles and become moreinvolved with the PCA. I wrote to theW harrams a few months ago telling ofmy plans to sail to Australia and maybefudher. However this grand schemecame to an end only a couple of weeksIater after sailing up to the Bay of lslandsfrom Auckland. l discovered that I nolonger had the dhve or enthusiasm forwet, cramped often scaty ocean cross-ings aboard 'Cookie'. This was quite arevelation to disceover about myself -perhaps l am mellowing with agel! I alsofound it too hard to leave friends andIoved ones behind again. lt is no problemfor me to stay in N.Z. with my Australiancitizenship but for the English registered'Cookiei it was another story. Sufficientlo say I hadquite a strugglewith Customsand eventually satlsfied them with amound of paperwork which allowed'Cookie' into N.Z. duty free as personaleffeds. You adually have to prove own-ership and usage of your vessel for oneyearbefore arriving in N.Z. and then signforms to say you won't sell your boat fortwo years. Now at Sast 'Cookie' has resi-denc'y here and $ can Iook forward tomany milesof sheltered sailing. exploringNew Zealand's wonderful north coast. lrec-ently received the August copy ofSea People with a warm Ietterfrom RuthW harram. Very interesting reading tohearof the news and views of other PCAfans from around the world. ln responseto Malcolm McG nalds intrigue of wind-vanes and spinnakers on Tiki's I willinclude some notes '0f my experienceeswith these aboard 'Cookie'. W hen ini-tially campaigning for sponsorship toai4 my fund-raising voyage, North sailskindly supported my efforts by giving anunwanted spinnakertheyhad. lt isa sym-metrical spinnaker but wide in shape. lonly use two sheets and snatch blocksto conlrol the sail, mostly out of stingi-ness than anything else! These things

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erwlse creale dlrty wind from the main-sall. I found that aII the sails were velyversatile because of lhe wlde sheellngplatform. Here are some sail plans Ifound vefy useful if you are sailing down-wind for an hour or more and want tosave sail chafe especially on theshrouds. W hen downwind or on a broadreach l set the gaff IN FRONT of theshrouds and raise the main with the footJust above the deck - or else the peakhatyardangle is hampered bythe shroudsnear the mast top. The mainsail is thensheeted to the shroud base glvlng avertical belly of sail to efficiently catchthe stern wind without chafing onanything. Instead of goosewinging thejib I set it flying. tacked to the U-bolt onthe windward bow and sheeted flatacross the centrm llne. This is possible

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There is reallyonly one self sufficientway for a yacht without electric power tosteer herself - a wind-vane. WhiIst build-ing 'Cookie' l knew I wouldn't be relyingupon engines or electricity when sailingso l Mafted thinking of some designs forbuilding myownwindwanel tothe rescue

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, giving ample Ieverage to controlthe Iight tillers of the Tiki 21. The vane iscounterbalanced by adjustable divingweightswhich attachto an arm belowthehorizontal pivot point. The vane rotateson the base tocorrespondwith the boats'windangle. A sturdymountingpost keepsthe vane clear of the hulls and wedgesinto a bracket on the coach roof side.Having no ceentral location between thestem s to mount the vane 1 decided to

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through several blocks to cleats on thetillers. This worked well allowing infiniteadjustments to the Iines for weather -helm. I did have to re-mn the linesthrough a couple of blocks when settingHarryon the newtack, but a few minuteswork rewarded by hours of self steeringdidn't seem aII that bad to me! For somewood. glue, bolts and string, I thoughtHarry was a fantastic helmsman. Hecoblld cope with any strength or diredionof wind blown at him. I must mentionhere that il is very impodant to leam thelimits of your wind-vanes' capabilities. Ittook me about 2000 miles of sailing with'Cookie' and Harry to fully understandtheir'working relationship' it appearsthatmy vane could maintain a good ceourse(within 15 degrees) as Iong as boat speedwas 5 knots or less. 1 could sail harder (best days run 176 miles) but the ceoursewould become much moreefratic some-times 40 degrees off course! In fadHarry dictated the most comfortable rateof progress. As Iong as I kept within hisabilitythe decks were dryer. Iiving stand-ards betterand progresswas still steady.This meant reducing sail much earlierthan if hand-steering, but who wanss tomanualjy steer acm ss oceans? One ofHarr/s' big tests was the 1% to EasterIsland. Here we encountered often lightvariablewindsanda Iargezmetregroundswell which sucked and pushed 'Cookie'toand froon thewater. Thisplayed havocwith ,he apparent wind. One momentwewefe reaching and the sails full then theswell would move us sideways Iumng thewhole Iot! Neediess to saywe zigczaggedacross this pad of ocean. W e also had amishap in one of the gales on the wayd- nto Newzeajand. Sailing onacalmerday (force 7), before the last of the frontscame through a rlasty wave crestedagainst 'Cookies' stern spinning heraround through the wind onto the othertack. This was quite something consid-ering she had been reaching with only a3 sq. metre jib up! Also the weights onHafry broke off and disappeared into thedeep leaving me with a disabled helms-man and another 200 rough miles to go!However aqer lying-a-hull for anotherdayorso, conditions abated and I repaiœdHarry with a broom handle. a woodenspirit level and 1he pin from my 6 kiloshackle as a counterbalance weight,which was effective as we reached land2 days later. Harryhasbeen idlethisyear,just Iying on the trampoline. Rather thanwaste his potential I recently gave himaway to someone wilh a 36' trimaran,which again proves he is a very capablefellow .

because thejib has a wire Iuffand hanksto remove it from the forestay. 1 haveeven set the jib flying opposite themainsailf with it's tack at the mast baseand sheeted to the Mem cleat! Doesanyone else have other variations ofsail plans? I'm sure there are aII sorts ofpossibilities.

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1 saw a great big shadow come out of thewater and fall back in again right in frontof the boat. lt gave me a heli of a frightand thoughl that if it had dropped on tomy boat I would have been minus one!The second time that it did this 1 realisedthat itwas a dolphin whowas tfying to getmy attention. and it sure didll! I Ieft thesteering cabin which was between thehulls. and about 2m . x 3m , and told herl had seen her and not to glve me such afright. '

lt tumed out to be a whole school ofdolphlns and they cns.s crossed underthe boat and talked to me for one and ahalf hours, and l talked back to themthrough the hull. It was a Iovely sight tosee them In the clear phosphorescen!water of this pltch dark nlght. It was anunforgettable expenence. and l wlshedthat I could have shared It wlth someoneat the time Hut Iike mosttimes that I wassalling, I was on my own

l had dolphins around the boat onquite a few occaslons but they neverstayed ionger than three quarlers of anhour! On a dlfferent occaslon l saw a halfdozen or more dolphins come Oul of thewater, and In a straight line hIt the waterwith thelrtails 1 was a m lle or m ore awayfrom them. and don't presume that theygave a dlsplay for my benefit and pre-sum e that theywere busywith a school offishl

On the 12 June or July 1990, l salledwlth a small TrI from W aihekl Islandtowards Great Barrier lsland W e met thenlght before and agreed to meet atSmokehouse Bay if we got separated Athrst he took the lead. but the wind plckedup after a w hlle and he had to take somesail down I passed h1m aflera while andkept Iooking back now and then In casehe got In trouble and 1 had to glve h1m ahand

AII of a sudden I heard a sharpbreaklng nolse. and as lt turned out myback beam had broken and thlngs werehappenlng ver; fast' 1 The steerlng cablnI was In started to hIt 1he waler, the hullswere golng on thelr sldes as they brokeaway from the beams and the mast camedown I expected the ''Gery Ann'' to gostralght down as l had a Io1 of steel onboard In the form of tools and machlnewl rushed outslde and tned to undo theddnghy that was tled wlth the padnter tothe back handrall Bu1 l was unable toundo 1he knot wlth my fingefs and sawthe dlnghy get pulled under water I thenswam over to a large plece of drlflwoodand held on to 11 wonderlng what to dosw'm for lt or stay wlth lhe boat

At first I thought this was going to bethe end, but I soon told myself that 4 wasa survlvor, and thattherewereawhole lotof things that I still wanted to do. I startedto plck up a few things that were floatingaround, like matches a pressure cookera bottle of Lourdes W ater. etc etc!

The hulls were floating and 1 got ontop one of them. l stood up and saw theTri come straight for me a few milesaway. I thought aI1 1 needed to do waswalt forhlm to get there and step over onto his boat. But this is notwhat happenedW hen he was about a m ile away healtered hls course and went past. When1 saw hlm later he told me that he saw meput my salls down and wondered what 1was up !o! He camed on lo SmokehouseBay, and w hen he dldn't see me there.reported me mlsstng to Radlo BarnerIsland but they never did an/hlng aboutit

Aftera few hours I realdsed that I wasdrlftlng towards Iand. and a few hoursafter dark my anchocs held about 20metres from one of the small Islandsthere 1 sat there on top of the hull gettlngwashed off Jusl about every tlm e a wavehIt me. and wondenng what to do swlmfor it or stay w here l was By thls tlme Iwas gettlng pretty under cooled andeven though tand was so close pt wasalso a Iong way off In the dafk l wasunable to see lf 1 could get out of thewater if 1 d1d make It to the shore Mostof the islands have steep cllffs wlth deepwater, and only a few places where thefeIs a place to get out of the water And Inthe state l was In I would not be able toIast very Iong ln 1he water

1 declded to walt untll mldnlght whenthere wouid be a full moon and 1 m ay seeIf It would be posslble to get out of thewater It waS a Iong walt. and hnally themoon stood hlgh enough for me to seethe shore and It looked promlslng lt wasstlll hard to see clearly on account of theshadows bu1 l declded to glve 11 a go

To shorten a long story. I got ashofeand some flsherm en found me the nexldayand took me hom e, where 1 stayed fors1x weeks A mate of mlne plcked me upwlth hIs cat named ''Voggy''. and took meback to Auckland

( left for the Netherlands ln the flrstweek of October lhal year and now 1have been bulldlng a ''Captaln Cook'' for!he bast two years on my own'! Perhaps1 shall wnte more about the bulldlng of mynew shlp at a later date if you are lnter-estedé'Veil tn fxac? oe/ ard ttas e'i/rrtar; n'o/e and t t kkta.' ece/ve 'àon'e /#'(.)Jo s c)? d? uikv/rl#s I'o ar/uc?'lvou kv/y/ be Jt : l(1l::q ht s bt/f/ct/nt? srt)l k' r1e k J'7 7 u? (2 K3 g' 1 c I tz

It must have been aboutzoyears agothat I becameinterested inWharram cata-marans, and muitihulls in general.

One night l pulled into a petrol slationln Hamilton Newzealand, and got talkingto the attendant who showed me somedrawlngs of ''W harram'' cats 1 had gotmyself a 21 ft traller saijer a few weeksbefore, and then I wished I hadn't. for heshowed m e what l wanted

A yearormore passed and l decldedthat 1 was golng to build a Narai Mk IV lieft New Zealand when 1 was about readyto staf't building. for the Netherlands

There. 1 stlll wanted to bulld, butnever got round to It for some reason.One was that l had a 7m. Halcyon sailingyacbt.

About sIx years ago I got hold of aHlnemoa at Bruinisse whlch I repatredand did up. I used tt a whlle to sall aroundIn, poaching mussels and oysters for myown use and frlends

Afterstaying in The Netherlands for9years. Iwent backto Newzealand. where,after staying there about a year I boughtmyself what l thought was a 46 ft ''W nar-ram '', without mast and rigging. and a 60hp outboard. After a few days 1 reallsedthal there were only three main crossbeams, but the builder of It told me thatthose beams were heavlerthan speclfiedand as good as gold! I fitted a 12.5msplrally welded steel mast and ngging,bought a second hand genoa, and wasgiven a mainsail whlch I used wlthout aboom AII thls worked qulte well and 1salled on and off mostly on my own forabout two years along the coast 1 salledto Great Barrler Island W hangamata.and some of the otherplaces and enjoyedm yself m ost of the lime l saw som e nlceplaces and met Iots of nfce people. andhad a few adventures as weil! After awhlle I bullt azOhp dlesel motorln betweenthe hulls and thls made thlngs cheapertorun and far mofe rellable

Seelng that there was no name onthe boat I named her ''Gery Ann'' after adaughterln Australla I salled and llved onher m ost of the ttme and had a fewadventures and close callsl One pltchdark nsght l was on my way back fromW hangamata to Auckland I kept a sharpIook oul for obstructlons as l salled alongIn a plghtbreeze W hlle passlng W hltlanga

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et ter .r0 talklng about 't ''Met anolher guy who took 3 yearsto fhnlsh hIs boat they had a launch party

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C'CICII boat to the grcund t-ookrng back hethoughl 11 klnd of funny

/eper fronè ron? V bano Arner? Cafl Lichty of M laml 1 had Ieft a flyer& bttacts fltlf'r) acan Jkv& aqent to PCA t-//4. arld as kve// as on hIs wlndshseld He kept 11 10 call me 10drl/fodt?cér/g sclrre rii?kt 'ïlembe's he re//:y tJS tell me never to do tha! agal n Afterabout a Jew' of hls canlacls readlng the flyer he declded these were

really nlce boats He ordered a set of Tskl1 recetved a Ietter from a guy In 2 1 jans and bulll the boat Carl Is ln h,sP

Alaska Sent hIm what he ordered A tles I have never seen a m an so ins1xweek Iater 1 got a Ietter from a guy ln Iove wdth hls boat He salls the hell out oforegon Same lasl name. dlfferent flrst tjajs boat i had a young man call and saldSent h1m h1s order and asked h1m If he he wanted to bulld a Tlkl 21 and he wouldhad everheard of the olherguy in Aiaska be jn 1he area to look at some I sent hlmA week Iater I get a phone call from the lo carl Carl look hIm for a rlde He calledtwo of them Turns out they were broth- to tell me he declded to bulld a Bolgerers that had lost track of each other deslgn ! sald OK and called Carl I satdover the years! ''what d1d you do to thss guyo'' Carl sald

I got a call from a young m an in II1 He Bo dId we have a rlde 1 know we wereYneeded Some Snform atlon on a dolng over20 knots Just beautlful W hatTangaroa he was flnsshlng tor hIS father boat 1 sald ''Carl y0u scared the heila ,

who had gotten sbck and waS unable to t of hlm'' Carl sald well. he was a llttleoucom plete the boat H1S father had jllte It's best he finds out now .. Carl tsWstarted' now bulldlng a Tar3garoa Cafl's Son $S

I met a man at a boat Show Wewere helplng hfm bulld h,s boat. He said It's sotalklng when It Started to raln p mean reat to spend the tlme helpsng and get-really raln, Ilke one of our Florlda squalls tsng to know his father@ could hardpy hearwhat he was saylng i some more news of bullders fol-had to ge1 closer just to see hlm He told Iowed but In the end as T()m says .me he look 5 years 3 wlves, 4 dogs and lfs8O deg here Thewlnd lS 10 knots7 cats to finlsh hIs beat lsn't lhat crazyo 'rhe gulf rs calm and the most beautlfulI sald. ''sounds llke normal to me when blue youdll ever see I have to go

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Keep up the good work wkttl themagazlne The more artlcles on bulld-lng. the better' (Problem ls butlders nevoteaII the/r t'me to bulldlng Tlm so / 'mgetl/f?g moro .sal/pf?g ones pf/kvllerl you downte them folks f'rlc/tltfe drawlngs off/psetc Ed) W ork Is progresslng on my Ttkl31 - 450 hours to date I doubt she'll be dnthe water for nexl Summer but dont seeany malor problems (except money) Inbelng ready for summer 1995 I havemodlfled the cabln tops/centre cock-pttsso there ls t'lo need foç the canoplesto get 1he extra enclosed space Isanyone else out there bulldlng Tlkl 31 s'?One day 1.11 wrlte an artlcle on my bulldlngexperlences for you

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Gene wrlles ln to sayhls Tlkl2 1 N 2.53has just been refitted Only a smallam ount of bad wood was found where ftwas damaged when a pojice helecopterblade broke a shroud and the mast fellacross 1he beam end .. 0: come onGene w'e get Msami Vice over here butyou have to separate this fmm the rea/wodd?'lg He has recently taken anachorage along the Atlantic lntra-coastal waterway at Jupiter Floridawhere lhere Is a British bu iIt Naral

''Albwea/'. whose current owner he hasbecome frlendly with, Jack Ddxon

Gene ls also a fnend of Carl Lichty(see Ietter from America above) andtells me one of Carl's Tangaroa hullswas blown over by ''Andrew'' but receivedvery ldtle damage. although homes andIargetreesweredemollshedajl around.. .says something for the Integrity of W har-ram catamarans sul'e Gene lt's justthose Police helicopters you have to lookout for Ed

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Many fhenös anö well-wisheo sawDon Lamb's well finished AREOI slipinto the quiet water of Lake Macouariein Iate Augusl - a neat launchingfollowed by day sailing and picnlG on theshore -verY Iaid back warm water andzephyr breezes.

Of course the tlme had come to seehow shewent on the deep blue and G ninvited myself and son Ben for a runSwansea to Poft Stephens and back: 1mean how much encouragemept doesa bloke need?

The funny thing is the weahh andquality of experience thal's on tap whenyou dropyour usual routine andjusl headoff. tjke they say. ''You just had to bethere.n

We bad mainly Iight and gentle con-ditions sailing up. theAreoitrickling alongat three to four knots under mastheadkite, becalmed two hours off Newcastlestudyingthefinert'?) pointsof bulkcarrierdesign anchored there. A strong s-weep-ing current from the norih and a breezethat snuck around to the E.N.E, meantthatwehadloworktoget uptowin* ard.

A day's resl in the Myall River andback to Swansea we headed. Thistime a9004 N.E. breeze and a l'un out tiöe - thequickest exit from the porl I've ever had.The Areoi dealt with the very steep chopat the entrancee thease. those beautifulbt)ws defleding water and spray wellaway Around Porl Stephens Iighthouseand a course due south we set, Thesouthedy current was still running andthe No/Easter at about 12 to 15 knots,I've never seen headlands disappear soquickNastem'l like somegigantictmctorhooked them up and snigged them awaypronto, and nowthe breeze was freshen-ing to arounö 15to 18 knols, and the little

PAHI was klcking up herheels beglnntng Oregon was afhxed above each bulb (weto surf and asklng for more twln waves used 9000two pot as the hxer) and falredmeetln: out the back and klcking up ln off with lnternatlonal hller and the wholespray. Tlme to reduce sall and keep her lot dynelled. After lhe usual antlfoullngon a leash nlght time closlng 1n. she was ready for the water Thls quick

Don's son, Mark, on the tlller totally restlme on paper actually loc)k three hec-engrossed, an expression of awareness tIc days.and pleasure, reading the waves One of W hilewe have not had a decent Iongthose speclal nlghts at sea when evefy- sea trlal (Sandy Stralts In June for lhatthing ls Iuminous' tw'o fiery tralls aslern one) the benefits are obvlous hobby-stars, planets. four satellltes and many horslng has disappeared

, the boat's ndeshootlng stars seen The Areol steady has smoothed out to a level wtllch noneand secure decks dfy snug behlnd or In of us would have Imaglned Speed underthe dodger autohelm doing the work. bottl power and sall has Increased and

W e made lt into Swansea about mld- steerlng Is more posltlve Fuel con-night. breeze diedthree miles short Four sumption Is down and wash nottceablydolphins to escort us in, sheamed tn reduced SuctA are tNe positlves- aega-glowing phosphorescepce. whistling at tlves nll. So far trials have been only onus. inqulnng as to how we went! W ell I a day sall basls ln nothlng more than 15reckon the Areoi is a bloody fine boat. a kt. and 1 1 5m of swell Nonetheless. w equiel acbiever that understates her abil- are aII delighted with the results so farity. but put that hull shape to sea andwatch how easily she does it! Ed No drakwrlgs sent. but I shall be pwr/lng

Thanks to Don and Mark for a great mUre dfda'/ toqether 351 a future rnagaz/neAnyone else tned ràvs7sail on a fine Iittle boat - a credit to the

designer aod Don's attention to detasl

that a new boat could sail at sea so well 0)j. ()t/. jso soon after launching.. ugo jocks

a e Prx rlWrites abouta doubletlatermodlfied

by lan Scof to single) outrigger lateen rlgged long-boat he has bullt . Sounds like fun but not

Ever thought of putting bulbs (wave-piercers. wave-breakers etc.) on yourbows? W e did and are delighted with theresults so far.

Our Tangaroa *catadromous''has few vices,but in a choppy sea shetends to hobby horse both under sailand power. After speaking to yachtiesand trawler mep re bulbs (and receivingcxmflicting answel's) we öecideu to goahead with the project anyway,

W hen 1he boat was slipped at Easterfor antifouling, the chippies (I'm fodtlnateto have two in the crew) went to work.After sanding down the relevant areason the bows they took the chainsaw(YES- no misprint) to shape roughly thebaulks of engineering grade Oregon,which were then planed to the desiredshage. Think of your most desirabsemodel film Mar and you'll get some ideaof the dimension. (1 don't want the magtaken to /)e 'Politically lncorrect ' Ian' butwhich sex am w'e talking to heœ ? ??Perhaps a good job you didn't send indraerlgs. Ed). A false keel to buttresseach hull was alsohewn from the Oregonand fastened to 1he keel and Mem byrecessed 3m coach screws. A fillet of

something to go cruising in!His description of the Sunset, and

ghosting along the mangroves In threefeet of water just 20 metres off the treesin a green golden Iight, watching theegrets and ibises and llstenlng to thebirds, seriously appeals lhough...

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Iki 26%om D/rk Hoçstmann

few hours saillng 1 was getting wocned 1would start to tack come to a dead stoplnto wlnd and sometimes go backwardsI spent two weeks roaring back and forthacross the Thames estuary falling totackon evewattempt finallygybingwhen1 had to turn round ( it gybes ve% well) Ihad reversed and got caught on a raclngbuoy due to another tacking failure andwas reallyfed upwilh Tiki 26's. W hatwaswrong? Had 1 bullt Itwrong. wasthe rlgglnglncorrect, could I fit a bow thruster ordare 1 phone Steve Turner for yet moreadvlse. Now well fed up I went for a Iongsall down the Thames, the boat Is fastand stable If only lt would tack suddenlythe maln sheet jumps out of the cleatand the sail flaps madly. l need two handsto regaln control So 1 Iet go of the tllierbar (and the rudders go hard over) l pullthe maln sheet ln much to tlght ( or so Ithought ) strange. the Jdbs backed andstranger stlll the boats tacked on its ownsod out the 1Ib ease out the maln and sallof on a new tack, 'Thlnks 1.11 tfy thatagaln, maln sheet vefy hard In ruddersover, jlbs backs, round she com es.Success at last lt's easy when you knowhow

lt's now November where did sum-mer go9 I had Iots of great days salllngand am now well on the way to under-standlng my boat, roll on next sum mer.Problems?

Not many. the 6mm pin In the gaffsomehow bent I've now fitted a lommone, a rope stopper was fitted to the tlilerbar to stop the fudders golng over to farlhe jam cieats fitted to the bottom of them ast for the halyafds have been re-moved. the rope was difficult to feleaseundertenslon and ralslng the sapl dlfflcultI htted a doubie block on the floor at thebase of 1he mast Ied the rope throughsome bsocks and a cleat to 1he Jlb w lnchwhpch makes gettlng the sall up easy, l'mgolng to fit a palr of jam cdutches lo thebase of the mast to put the compres-slon forces back Into 1he m ast but stilluse 1he jIb wpnch to haul up the sall Ando f c o u rse e v e ry O rl e k n o w s wh a thappens If you lry to dpscharge a SL 40Osea tollel wlth the outlet seacock closedIucklly It was onlywaler Iaugh you wouldnot beileve the m ess W ould 9 bulld an-other boatT No as a flreman t get a 1ot oftlm e free to bukld bu1 It sl1I1 took mem uch longer than ! had planned At tlm esrt became a chore. a Job that ychu had tosthck wlth o!' It would never be finlshedW orklng on yotlr own Is dlfflcult at tlmes.no one to ask for advlse or oplnlons.althouqh the boys from work helped

move the hulls around and were there atthe launch, tust to see if it would float)You can spend a lot of money on fittingout whlch j did take into account ln myfirst estimate. I had no medical problemswith epoxy, but l did not Iike the stuffat all.does anyoneo But as l stretch out on thetrampoline In the sun the boat gentlymoving about, a1l that is behind me and Ienjoy the fruits of my Iabour yes 11 waswodh It.Buildinotips/ideas

W hen twing lo radius the edges ofwood that 1 wanted to glass around lfound it difficult to maintain a constantradius of wood. So lover Iong Iengthsmade a simple tooi based on a spoke-shave. Get a machlne hack saw bladeput a c10th around it to catch any flyingmetas and break into convenient Iengths,now grind the shape (radius) into theblade that Is required to shape the woodIt is not necessary to sharpen the edges,Ieft square they will cut better Draw thetool along the wood to obtaln a Gonstant

used onangle, carefully it even worksplywood. These bjades alsowhen sharp-ened make very good knives scraperschlsels etc. Carwindscreen wiperbladeswhen cut down In Iength make greatepoxy spreaders, ve@ cheap from scrapyards or road side wrecks. W hen worklngalone and trying to put nuts onto boltsthat have been passed through the hull lfound most tdmes they pushed baqk andfell out or spln round when you took aspanner to the nut. so drill 1he holesunder slze and run a tap through to form

screw the bolt in and it wlll holda lhread,and enable you to 9t a rlut W hen tapplngit is not necessary to use expensivemachine taps anythlng from the 'marketshop' will do, also the hole slze (uniessdnlllng deeply lnto hafd wood) ds not verylmportant about 1m m smaller than 1heol iII .

1Cl/1 1 Prfrorn Dlck Thorn

Dsck Iong servlng mem ber wlth aDrascom be has succum bed and boughtthe Tlkl 26 Sullven 1 1 W lth an averslon toGrey from havrng salied grey shlps mostof hIs ilfe he reports the sheer slcakesare now TAHITI yellow and she ls re-named SKINNY DIPPER whsch reflectsthe real hlm In retlrement from galnfulem ploymenl

Mlssed from Mag 22 Dlrk repodedhIs completlon Iast September of hIsfirst hull (No 28) and that he hoped toIaunch June '94

? hope thyngs are ztlsl go/ng well D/rk Efi

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After two and a half years bulldingmy Tlkl 26 'Strlngalong' was Iaunched 'nJune thjs year aI1 1he problems l hadbulldlng were nQw behlnd me and as shesat on 1he mud waltlng for 1he tsde tocome In 1 wondered what new problem sthe water would bclngT W ould she float?W ere the iashlngs tlght enougho Thetldes In and we re afloat. m ad rush fromone htlli to the other to check for Ieaksnone found but 1 Ii check agaln IaterThe outboard is Iowered and yes lt SItSIow enough In the water A thank youhere to Steve Turner for hIs help andadvlce p used a Iot of the Ideas from h1sG R P b o a t s ' S l r I n g a I o n g ' s p e n t apeaceful week afloat before the nlaslwen! tlp. i walked out on !he mud belw eentldes to check lhat ai1 was well DaveSkelions artlcle about the sldeways huilrnovem ent on hps Tpkl had me worrledbut the plans now show stopper blocksunder the beam s I fltted those as shownand they work The flrsl sall was m ore ofa drlft wlth not enough wlnd so the factlrtal qhe woïllcln ! lack was to expecledNol rnany Sea People mags go bywithout som e one wrltlng about tacklngpr obief 1 ls wlth W harrarr) cats and aftef a

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phistication will, of course, add to the

oost which is ey Justin is offeKng the M T gl'g p0basic unit Iike mine whic.h I heartily rec-

ommend..Pluck Peler's address out of fhe member lfaf

and w#le for more details eaHaving retired earlier this year I in-tended to begin work on my 42' captain * *C k to find the plans (No. 122) had J J YOXON Cacav'ckoo onlybeen stolen in the summer of 1991. I Wt

vle re#ffjng Andiamo. over 3 years agohave somuch paperwofk andjunkaround kom Ken sranch Norman chose Burgess kvood seal to fjnpsh athe place 1 thought they would be the last ytpt of me exlenor woodwork He now wntesthings anm ne would want to steal. l l've finished building one hull of my Vom Spapn to say.would be grateful if m u could alert the Tiki 26 but things have slowed down Most of the British down here use it

,rest of the builders to keep an eye out in recently' as my wife gave birth to twin instead of Vamish in the main with vewC,.2% theyare put upforsale in anymags. boys w illiam and Alexander on the 30th Satisfactory results. Firstly l made aThey may have even been bought in Augu'st this year so l don't' have vefy- mistake in putting on more than twogood faith in which case I would not much boat buildin' 9 time at the moment. Coats at the onset the extra coats give apursuethemattertoreclaim them, onfyto The question has also ahsen nol

, better satin snish but tums brittle andknow who the person was who had sold as to whether a 26 ft

. W harram is golng Chipsgivingamottled effectwhichdoesn'tthem so that the police can be informed, to be big enough for the family. Seem to aller the efficiency of it bul, andAlso induded was a set of Hitia 17 plans I lookforward to receivingseapeople it's a big but

. to get back to a smooth(R0.108) and a1l its interesting articles 5fli$h #ou have to strip back the plastic inEd. Perhaps #' l4xg see someone starlfr)g a Thanks a'en g/ad peop/e are enjoymg // out the wood sealer clogging sandpaper lbuddin mtvareaw u canasktheplannumtwr yere / recko' n one hull of the 26 wtll make a had to use a Iot b'ut the wood underneathany mformaton Jgeaae cytad' > safe àay pen congratulatlons on the looks perfec't

. Withjust two coats a quickA'e yR.H. Jenkins 'Robinv od Belmont twins (Ed) 'sanding once a year does the trick.Hill Caerlon Newport Gwent NP6 1JX Th

e beams underside slill perfect

since stting , tops and sides have been'lnt Pr scuffed by dogs aaws etc. but came upe o aftera quicksand infact itgoesforallthesoft wood.uK sot/rye

éw CENTRAI- Mssw/xs/ sardwoodGcatingsarefinebut needG T CT'. doing at Ieast twice a year. Pl- ood. thefrom spencer Maïn

fndge box marine pIy on deck both insldePeter Gœen author or Cat Comer (n the last 'on Friday 26.1 1.93 a meetinq of 6 and outside is still perfect, including them% azine, wrfles (n to le// us of a stove lws '

members took place at uuncle Tom's edqesrneod bu,lds . comwaa ..

cabin'' in cosham Hants (uK). present Last year I Burgessed a bit of scrap' pIy and sunk it in seawater for three

........... I haveoneinmypAHl 31 and to have a noggin anu natter were: -ithasmadeallthediserenx inthewodd spencer and Isabelle Martin TIKI 21 months, when it came out there as no

' i steve orimwood' TIKI 26 - sign of water ingress.obviousN for a live aboard. insulation (organ sers) - ,

and heat are essential and tt'e virtues of David weinstock - Tim oeacon HITIA Have tried it as a primer before' '

painting new wood (using one coat) itthis Iiule gem are that it is small. eco- 17 - Adrian Honeybill. TANENUI ,

nomical and that the heat it produces is ourdiscussions were wide ranging seemstowork. Alsotrieditasaprimerfor' f thesafety issues and Eclegislation' epon glue andwhen tested the glue lineoRy

. roml Id expec.t that it coujd be incos impact raisedatthe recentvocu sym- held and the wood broke.Wou

porated intotheinteriorof any polynesian Posium, through to David closely ques-cat from 26' upwards and even if you tioning Tim on some of thefiner points of .don't Iive aboard. it could extend your HITIA sailing. With Spencer organising 00 C Pcrulsing season. The smalleryour cabin. the local batc.h of sweat sbirts from sooqthe more careful you have to be when Br- n, we had an update on the final voyagîng on a smap/ lncome by Annte /.à//Moving about. I tumed incautioustywhilst 1090 design. They would appear to be Revlewby Flm Forresterunuressing once and backed onto 1he uthebees kneesz'. I gavea brief updateonheater whic,h is one way of bringing the Some of tNe issues with the TANENUI W hen Annie and Pete Hill set off incolour back to your cheeks on a winters building and steve updated us on sseep- their Tane in 1975 to sail to the w esteveningl! Awire mesh guard could easily in9 on board a TIKI 26 atweekends in the lndieswith only4oopoundstotheirnamebe fitted, hewever, and the sensitive part middleofwinter. Brrr. . il makesmeshiver it was the start of a succession of voy-is n- back to it's normal colour. (or so I just tbinking about Rl! A11 enjoyed the ages under sail done on a shoestring.am told)! evening. The final result of our discus- Tbis book is a produd of the trials and

These heaters are soundly con- Sions was agreement to hold 2 sail in tribulations of their cruising career. W ellstructed on Dick Newick's Klss (keep it C'Ompan/= iser meets in 94 dates of whtten with many amusing anecdotessimple stupid) principie. Additional so- which can be foundonlhesummerMeets their is a chapter to cover evew aspect

page of the magazine. of Iow budget boating. As she guides the

reader through the process of selecting,bullding, sailing and ultimately managingher craft on 1300 pounds per year itbecomes clear that thl& is a lady of con-slderable resource. The only area whereI would counsej caution is in her recom-mendation of ngs as her favoured JunkrIg Is not ideally suited to the Gatamarandue to their higher speeds Overall this isan lnvaluable guide for both the Polycatbullder and sailer and is a must for aIIttlose considering selting sail for the farsung.

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For as long as l can remember Ihave aiways wanted to travel to see formyself and nottake someone else's wordfor it. The main problem is theexpense oftranspod. So ! say to myself how INM it bepossible to sail around the world and seethewondersof nature and theold culturesbefore they vanish.

From my expenences, I have foundno safer vessel for ocean cruising than aW harram catamaran therefore 1 plan tobuild, with a naval architect, a Pahi 63and saisarounöthewoöötaktngzo monthsapproximately. I propose to offer a 1/12share of the vessel to each person whosails with me. No experience is needed.

Aqeran exlensive study 1 am able tooler part ownershlp of a 63q catamaranand the inclusive cost of the voyage forE1 1 .500

On completion of 1he voyage thevessel will be sold and the sum to bedivided equally

The vessel is to be insured forE100,Q0O. This project is not a profitmaklng scheme for myseif but to tw andmake my dream and for some others tocom e true

1 have extenslve boat building andsailing experience and I have sailed cata-marans from 21ft to 8Oft.

I propose to depar't from Plymouthon September 1995 and retum July 97after seeing as many beautiful places aspossible.

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