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Point San Pablo Yacht ClubMail: PO Box 70307, Point Richmond, CA94807Street: 700 West Cutting Blvd.

2008

Leonard on Safety & First Mates Pg 5, First Mate Event Flyers Pgs 6 & 7,Cruise Chair, Bob spells out Sep & Oct cruises & Robby tale of survivalat sea on Pg 8. Jim Koss tells the tale of his European sail this spring

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Point San Pablo Yacht ClubPO BOX 70307 POINT RICHMOND CA 94807 - 700 WEST CUTTING BLVD

2008Title Name Home Phone Work Phone E-Mail

OFFICERSCommodore Sybal Hallbauer 510-233 1204 510-409 4382 [email protected]

Vice Commodore Mark Duyvesteyn 775-777-9150 801-835-5767 [email protected]

Rear Commodore Matt Rogers 510-299-4633 [email protected]

Port Captain Bill Seidel 415-717-0391 [email protected]

Fleet Captain Bob Hillstrom 559-255 6886 [email protected]

Staff Commodore Nick Dvorak 559-351-1091 559-453 2460 [email protected]

Secretary Barbara Kuykendall 415-453-1004 [email protected]

Treasurer Darrell Struck 510-235 3719 510-235 3719 [email protected]

DIRECTORSDirector (2008-2009) Chuck Lind 510-235-7664Director (2008-2009) Jeff Stokes 925-935-7096 [email protected]

Director (2007-2008) Glen Buller 209-286-1782 209-223-4000 [email protected] (2007-2008) Andre Pehargou 415-221-0784 [email protected]

COMMITTEESBuilding & Grounds Michael Stephens 510-524 5254 510-295-3255 [email protected] Sales Michelle Henry 510-656-5454 510-612-2181Hospitality Chair Maggie Hutchinson 510-233 2453 [email protected] & Budget Michael Stephens 510-524 5254 510-295-3255 [email protected]

Fleet Surgeon James Koss, MD. 415-608 3092

Foghorn Editor Robby Robinson 415-388-6167 415-497-8728 [email protected] Chair Yolanda Buller 209-286-1782 209-223-4000 [email protected] Webmaster Mark Duyvesteyn 775-777-9150 801-835-5767 [email protected] Tree Karen Stokes 925-935-7096 [email protected]

President First Mates Kathy Pehargou 415-221-0784 [email protected]

STAFF / PHONESHarbor Master / Club Stew-ard

David Shipman 510-225-5566 510-233 1046 [email protected]

PSPYC Office 510-233 1046PSPYC Fax 510-233 0843 (Fax)PSPYC Club House 510-620 9690AFFILIATIONS AND PUBLIC SERVICEPICYA Representative Leonard Komor 925-229 2582 [email protected] Representative Bob Lewis 510-527 0888Power Squadron Leonard Komor 925-229 2582 [email protected] Address forBerthing & Locker PSPYC, % Mechanics Bank, PO Box 324, Rodeo, CA 94572Payments

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☼Rear Commodore

Matt Rogers

Namasté (No mast aye?)

For most of the summer your humble servant hasbeen a member of the motor boat club according toChuck as my mast has been off my boat. This hadbeen fun for a while, but now I am back among thestick boats with a freshly painted and restored mast.

This task was daunting, but I have to say there weretimes when I was sanding or painting that I couldtruly clear my head of the usual static and achievemoments of clarity. 'I am a total loser.' 'What was Ithinking majoring in Film?!!' 'Maybe I shouldn't havehad sex with her.' Although they didn't last too long,it sure was therapeutic. Perhaps cheaper than atherapist. Perhaps. If we are not talking about mehere. I recommend it.

Of course a sparkling mast comes with its own prob-lems. Now I see all the paw prints from the rigger on

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☼☼Vice CommodoreMark Duyvesteyn

Well another month has flown byand everyone has returned from the

summer. Welcome back to everyone. Matt’s partywith the band was fantastic! Kudos to Matt for doingsuch a great job.

Still looking for someone to come in and take over inthe galley in October. Get in touch with me if you’reinterested in helping out.

The Linguine Bro’s™ will be doing our dinner inSeptember. We also have a cruise-in on the 20thwith the Bay View Sailing Club. Be here to welcomethem and make them feel at home. The dinner willfeature a steam ship round roast.

Hope to see everyone at the meeting.

☼☼☼Commodore

Sybal Hallbauer

I hope everyone has had a greatsummer. The club has been a goodplace to relax and watch the pelicans

crash into the water feeding and the stingrays andbabies cruising along the rocks. Other entertain-ment is Mark relating just how big the raccoons arethat visit. All said, what a pleasant place to haveevening libations and relax with friends. Membersthat don't do a casual drop-in are missing out on thepleasures of belonging to "the best little yacht clubon the bay".

To encourage more attendance at monthly meet-ings, functions and work parties-----I would like topoint out that when all members were interviewed bythe membership committee, one of the requirementsfor membership was Active Participation. Eachmember signed the application acknowledging therequirement. Have some of us forgotten this?

I am pointing this out because of the lack of partici-pation by such a large number of members. Manyboaters do not appear to use their boats, check ontheir boats regularly or use the club facilities that areavailable to you as members. The club is a goodplace to have a birthday party, family reunion, chil-dren's party, or other function that you as a membercan sponsor.

Let’s keep our club going in a positive direction. TheStaff Officers and Board of Directors along with thevolunteers that keep things going need the help ofall members to do their part.

Matt Rogers, thank you for planning an evening ofmusic by--Diamond Ortiz--. It was a fun evening en-joyed by all.

A Big Thank You to Darrell Struck for his sugges-tion---Hugh Burritos-- and all the side dishes for ourAug meeting. Thank you to the galley crew for allthe work of putting things together. Good food is

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Treasurer’s ReportDarrell Struck

The work party last month was again inReno. Bruce Thee & Associates pre-

pared our tax returns for 2007 and they have sincebeen filed. Bruce is our only member that I amaware of who has the specialized knowledge andcapability to prepare these returns professionally.Thanks again this year to Bruce and his staff. It isalways comforting to know that the club has com-plied with this important filing requirement. Please,Bruce and Linda, stop by and have a well deserveddrink on the house.

The examination of our 2006 year has been com-pleted; however, the report has not as yet been for-mally presented. The auditor focused on “unrelatedbusiness taxable income” which is a non-profit termof art defined as income from non-member pay-ments for such things as weddings (non-members),retirement parties for non-members, and cruise-inactivities. Some may disagree with this definition butthe deficiency proposed verbally is quite modest sofurther discussion would be academic and not worththe effort in my opinion.

always a success.

I heard the " Linguine Brothers" are producing theirwonderful Clam Linguine for the Sept. 12th meet-ing. More good food--You don't want to miss out onthis event.

All you guys that use the work shop should be say-ing --Thank You-- to Dean Gurke for cleaning andstraightening up the area. I'm saying thanks for allthe effort that must have taken. Hope to see allmembers at the Sept. pasta meeting

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it and I can't get to them. I am entertaining the ideaof making the world's longest squeegee for this task.I will probably say 'screw it' after one attempt at thisand then throw the thing on Vincent's boat and see ifhe notices.

But, alas, the jobis done and myboat has freshbottom paint anda new sail on theway. I look for-ward to hitting thesea again verysoon and gettingback to my oldpirate ways... aka drinking a copious amount ofgrog, getting honked at by tankers, nearly beachingthe boat on rocks at Alcatraz again and getting my-self and my friends killed. It's all part of the learningcurve. I love sailing.

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Thanks to those of you that showed up for the barparty August 9th with the infamous 'Diamond Ortiz.'You and a handful of my friends and I had a greattime and really enjoyed the band. Except when theyhit on my girlfriend a lot after the show. I didn't enjoythat too much. Damn rockstars. I've seen theirgroupies - in fact I told them to bring them - I'm notthat stupid - but no - they come alone and hit on theone woman under 65. There will now be a newclause in any future band contracts and I will keeppepper spray behind the bar.

The August 30th show at the club was canceled dueto some hardware constraints. I am working on asolution for this and will resume booking once I have

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done so. Once this is in gear I hope that I can getmore of you out for the next one. The Ortiz brothersshowed a lot of class playing for a small room, butnext time we have to pack the place! So if you cando your part, I'll do mine and we will have a greattime.

Hey beer guts, we have had a rotating tap of beer allsummer - it is now Pilsner Urquell. Thanks to Andyfor the tip. That is one smooth pilsner and lesshoppy than the last one. Be sure to check it out be-fore I drink the whole thing


Leonard KomorSafety Officer

YOUR CORNER ON SAFETY

There have been several important actions on thelegislative front of which are noteworthy. We can allbreathe a sigh of relief that the terrible water washdown permit system which the EPA had proposedbecause of a lawsuit and based on a judge’s deci-sion which mandated it. We reported on this lastmonth. The important thing about it is that Congresshas permanently exempted recreational boatingfrom this kind of legislation and it was almost unani-mous. The truly amazing thing is that a Congresswhich is hopelessly divided on most subjects couldget together on this subject, and with great speed.

The second subject is the operator certification lawrequiring all recreational boaters to pass a test oftheir ability to operate a boat. The certificate wouldhave been a lifetime one. Just how this legislationwould operate was not decided, and will not be untilnext year. For now it is dead, and the reason is thatthe cost of implementing it would have been so largethat it flew into the face of the budget crisis which weare facing right now in California. This legislationwas supported by several agencies which are nor-mally against further intrusion into our lives by gov-ernmental agencies. Our legislative friend, RBOCand the PICYA are in favor of this type of legisla-tion. With what is going on especially in the Delta inthe way of wild and reckless boating who could beagainst this type of regulation. You may look forwardto this subject to come up again next year.

This paragraph is directedto all the sailors in ourclub. I recently read astory of an unfortunateaccident in Europe wherethe rigging holding themast up on a sailboat letgo and came crashingdown killing a person onboard. When did you last have you rigging in-spected ? This applies especially to the chain plateand deck and hull area which are the anchor for therigging. It goes without saying that the wire whichsupports your mast, and which is most exposed towear and tear, with all of its mechanical fastening,needs to be inspected on a regular basis.

Have a happy and safe fall boating season.

FIRST MATESKathy Pehargou

First Mates will meet at 6:00PM on Sep-tember 12, 2008

Present: Colleen Fielding, Patty Henderson,Ingrid Hogan, Kathy Pehargou, Dolores Robin-son, Norma Simmons, Nancy Struck

Washington Mutual CD is maturing. It will be movedto the Mechanic Bank for convenience.

Shower for the ladies outside area has been placedon hold. The shower pan is in need of some sort ofinsert as it is not very sanitary looking.

Some of the netting on the deck chairs are broken.We will look into purchasing more netting. IngridHogan has volunteered to replace the netting.

The First Mates will purchase cloth table tops for thedining room tables.

The TRE CLASSIQUE FUND RAISER will be onSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1,

2008, at 3:00 PM.

There will be wine, food, and fun. The owner of thisbusiness will help demonstrate these goods and willbring some food to sample.

The items that he will bring are pretty good, I havesome at home. They make real nice Christmasgifts. Yup, Christmas is around the corner! So,please mark your calendar and come to this functionand support the First Mates!

The First Mates will sponsor the EMPTY NESTERSTHANKSGIVING DINNER on November 27th.Darrell Struck has volunteered to cook the turkeys.Reservations will be required.

Norma Simmons has suggested that something bedone in memory of Bill Swift.

The First Mates plan to create a wall plaque tohonor deceased members who have contributed somuch to the club. Names suggested are Bill Swiftand Al Howe. Please send other names that shouldbe on the plaque to the First Mates at the club ad-dress.

Meeting adjourned at 6:45PM.


Drink Specials

CosmopolitansWhite Sangria

Pomegranate Martinis

WineCocktails

FREE TASTINGCHICKEN — SALMON

ICE CREAM WITH “TC”HENNESSEY MAPLE SYRUP


TurkeyBy

Darrell

Bring some-thing toshare or$15.00


Membership ChairYolanda Buller

Now that we have several small berthsavailable, we are in need of members for thoseberths. Each month that they are empty is moneythe Club is leaving on the table. At the end of theyear, it can make a real difference in our bottomline. We need to find matching members for theberths. Any ideas? If so, let me know.

Fleet CaptainBob Hillstrom

Well it seems like we are getting someof our cruisers back. They were eithergone from the club cruising elsewhere

or had inoperative boats.

We are firming up ourplans to cruise to Co-rinthian Yacht Clubthe weekend of Sep-tember 19, and 20. Itlooks like Friday the19th we will carousein Tiburon and Satur-day share a dinnerwith the CYC mem-bers. Sign up early if you're coming by boat sincethey have a limited amount of guest dock, (190 feet).In past years they have shown us superlative hospi-tality.

I've also penciled in the weekend of October 18thfor an Angel Island Cruise. We always have a greattime there and I am making arrangements for the900 swimmers to come back for Saturday morningand a two gallon bowl of Avacado dip for Ingrid. Itwill be a potluck style BBQ, blender drink contests,hiking and biking (electric of course), and dingy ridesto Sam's. How about thinking about a Novembercruise to China Camp? Give me some input onwhere you want to go, and you and I can make ithappen. See you at the cruise out staging area(clubhouse).

BOB

Passage ReportRobby Robinson

Last month I wrote about my 1200mile trip aboard Misty, an Aries 32,

into Alaskan waters. This past month I was crewaboard a 45 foot trimaran, Defiance, on a 2500 milepassage from the Hawaiian Islands to San Fran-cisco.

I didn’t expect to have much to write, after all, thereare no bears, eagles, big trees etc., in the middle ofthe ocean. The joy of such a trip is generally thesolitude of the mid-ocean, the occasional Albatrosssighting, fish caught, and the camaraderie of thecrew.

It didn’t quite turn out that way — the “rest of thestory” follows:

First a little about the boat, which is part of the story.Defiance is a 45 foot Norman Cross designed rac-ing trimaran. She was built locally and is epoxycold-molded with 3 layers of 1/8th inch Red Cedarcovered with glass. The boat is a very sophisti-cated, highly engineered structure, and while quitelight with a hull skin of 3/8th inches, she is extremelystrong. Her extreme beam allows her to carry alarge rig. I was aboard the boat when she was firstlaunched (80’s I think) and knew the original ownerin my singlehanded racing days.

Many sailors have pro & con “opinions” about multi-hulls, but once you have sailed aboard one like Defi-ance it is hard to go back to the normal “monohull”.At least that is true for me.

The crew consisted of the owner and skipper, Bill,plus Doug, Darren and myself. We were all veryexperienced with multiple ocean crossings.

Our departure on August 14th was normal and ourplan was to sail north to go over the top of the Pa-cific High. We ultimately reached a point just aboveLatitude 39º, about 90 miles north of SF.

Our Skipper, Bill, turned out to be a gourmet cookand during the trip we enjoyed Prime Rib, RoastPork, Roast Chicken, and fresh salads etc. Cock-tails at 1700 preceded dinner. On the 17th, my birth-day, Bill produced a cake, a candle, an all sanghappy birthday while we ate in the cockpit — gooddays all!

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A major difference between Defiance and amonohhull was our speed. In moderate winds (10-12 knots) we were sailing up wind at 10-11 knotswithout heeling. As the true wind backed, we wouldeasily sail at 15-16 knots with higher bursts.

So, in general, life was good, sea conditions favor-able, food great, including three meals of freshcaught Mahi Mahi. We had three 200 + mile daysand were on track to complete the passage onWednesday the 27th — a fast trip.

That is until 2100 hours (9PM) on Tuesday evening,the 26th.

I was in my bunk off watch. We had been in verywindy (25 to 30 knot true wind) for the past 24 hoursor so and were tired from steering. We were sailingunder a triple reefed main, with no jib at 10 or 11knots, as slow as we could go in those conditions.There was a BIG bang, I came awake immediatelyand about 5 minutes later came the call “all handson deck.”

Bad stuff always happens at night!

Oh Shit!! I got my foul weather gear on quickly andarrived on deck to see the port hull (ama)(remember Defiance is a trimaran with three hulls)submerged. This 35 foot+ hull was full of water andwe were now sailing along at 4-5 knots dragging thistremendous amount of water (weight) along with us.What happened? Would the hull tear off? Wouldwe capsize? Should we turn on the EPIRB? Is thisit? That plus thoughts of Dolores were goingthrough my mind.

Passage Notes (Continued from page 8) Often the best course of action is to do nothing, butrather consider all aspects and the ramifications ofany action. Bill asked me to make tea for all to giveus a chance calm down a little. Within the next hourBill contacted the Coast Guard Search & Rescue inAlameda via the Iridium phone we had aboard whichinitiated the Coast Guard search and rescue opera-tion.

We concluded there wasn’t anything we could doaboard to correct the situation. The hull filled soquickly that it was apparent the breach was large.We resumed our watch schedule with two up. It wasvery difficult to steer dragging the flooded port ama.We traded off every ½ hour. As the evening pro-gressed both the wind and seas increased. Condi-tions went from bad to worse. Wave height wasprobably 12-14 feet and wind at gale force. Theboat that earlier was pretty dry with just an occa-sional splash, became very wet with green wateroften washing over the sunken hull into the cockpit.During mid-morning the next day, we shorteneddown to a scrap of jib and turned downwind(apparent wind 120º) We were wet and tired!

The hull did not rip off, although we discovered acrack the next morning in a joint which held it ontothe forward crossbeam. When examined after ourreturn by Bill, it appeared to be only in the glasssheathing.

The Coast Guard had alerted a German containership “CVAS Mexico” and diverted her to our location.We had been updating the Coast Guard every twohours via the Iridium phone of our position and con-dition. We were advised that the CVAS Mexicowould rendezvous with us and provide us with sur-vival suits (Gumby Suits).

On Wednesday morning (27th) the CVAS Mexicoapproached. Her skipper carefully maneuvered hisship to place us in her lee. He wanted us to comealong side; however, we explained that if we triedthat, it would destroy our structure — remembereven though we were in the ship’s lee, there werestill big seas and wind.

Complicating all this, Defiance had a very limitedability to maneuver. We could not tack for fear ofcapsizing, couldn’t really sail up wind very high andour speed was 3 to 4 knots. We did have power.

The German Captain decided the best course wasto use his line throwing gun to shoot us a line and

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The Crew — Bill, Doug, Robby & Darren


we could haul the survival suits aboard. We got aline (¼ inch) aboard on the third try. The crewaboard the CVAS Mexico tied the suits onto the lineand threw them overboard. Doug, a retired PanamaCanal Pilot, and ship’s master, had warned Bill thatthe ship would be making 3 knots leeway towardsus, and Bill, our skipper at the helm, was workinghard to maintain a safe distance using the engine. Ican’t begin to tell you how frightening it is to watch awall of steel bearing down on you. Other than thesinking of the ama, this was the most “gut-clenching”moment. We stowed the survival suits so they wereimmediately available. Darren wore his when ondeck on watch.

As the day progressed we slowly continued southeast with no hope of reaching San Francisco inthose wind conditions. We were advised by theCoast Guard via the Iridium phone that the CoastGuard cutter Midgett would rendezvous with us laterin the day and make an assessment on what actionto take. Later in the afternoon the Midgett arrivedand requested Bill’s assessment of the situation.They had a lot of questions regarding the construc-tion of the boat, condition of the crew and so-on.They took a position to weather and examined theflooded port ama. They decided it was safe for us tocontinue and would escort us until we got within heli-copter range.

Midgett stayed with us all night while we slowly (3-4knots) continued on our southeasterly course.Sometime during the night Bill started the engineand motored to try to bring us a more easterly head-ing. The gale force winds had moderated to north-westerly 20-25 knots. In the middle of the night(once again in my bunk) I heard a “thunk” and theengine stopped — a line in the prop — Oh shit!! Itappeared that we were headed to Monterey.

In the morning (Thursday the 28th) we were within80 miles of the coast and after discussion with usand with Coast Guard Alameda Headquarters, theskipper of the cutter Midgett determined we couldcontinue on safely without his escort. Before he leftthe scene he required each of us to get into our sur-vival suits so he, and we, knew we could, and hadus turn on our EPIRB to make sure it was working.We complied and they left the scene. I talked to theskipper on the radio and he asked what our inten-tions were. I replied that our destination was SF,and he replied that it appeared we were headed forMonterey. A good piece of news was the seas and

Passage Report (Continued from page 9) wind were expected to moderate over the next 13hours.

While I steered (3-4 knots) Bill worked on freeingthe line around the prop using the winch and touch-ing the forward & reverse gear. IT WORKED!! Wehad power again. The seas did moderate and thewind backed to the west a bit, which allowed us tomotor-sail towards San Francisco.

We sailed past the SE Farallon Island around 2300(11 PM) and headed for the next waypoint, thedredged channel over the SF bar. There was aheavy ebb current running the next morning at thetime of our projected arrival at Point Bonita. Thewind had died to almost zero and the seas were flat.

At 0300 Friday morning (29th) while lying in mybunk trying to sleep the motor quit. Bill and Darrenrestarted it, but it would run for a few seconds thenquit. Somehow when we were on the verge of suc-cessfully completing a voyage under almost impos-sible odds, the sea had one final test for us.

I got up and found out that we had been by the sec-ond buoy of the north side of the channel and werenow drifting into the potato patch (North Shoal) car-ried by the ebb current. It was very foggy. Billsounded the tank which did have sufficient fuel,however, he asked Darren to put an additional 5gallons of fuel into the tank from jugs we carried. Inthe meantime he crawled into the engine room tochange the fuel filter with me handing him stuff andalso helping Darren with the fuel.

The engine started, ran OK, I went back to bed afterprogramming a waypoint for the GG Bridge, and Billand Darren continued their watch headed for PointBonita. An hour or so later I got up again, dressed

Just arrived in Sausalito


Jim, a recent past commodore of SFYC and friendwas our shore contact. He liaised with the CoastGuard, arranged for additional minutes for the Irid-ium phone, and constantly updated the three wivesashore.

The Coast Guard, specifically Chief Doug Samp atSearch and Rescue in Alameda and the Captainand crew of the cutter Midgett which escorted us for18 hours at 3-4 knots, were very professional andone hell of a morale boost to all of us.

Norman Cross, the designer, and those unknownbuilders who constructed Defiance created a boat,although damaged, that held together in terrible con-ditions. My former sailboat, Rolling Stone, which weowned 22 years, was also cold-molded and I canattest to the strength of that type construction.

As we sailed past the Spinnaker in Sausalito, Bill’swife Sandy and daughter Annie were yelling andwaving from shore — we yelled and waved back. Afew minutes later we arrived at Schoonmaker Ma-rina, where boat neighbors helped us tie up. A fewminutes later, Sandy, Annie, Bill’s dog Rosie, Doug’swife Ann and my wife Dolores arrived. A lot of hug-ging — Wonderful!! I’ve returned home many times,but not even my return from Vietnam topped this.

58 hours — it seemed like a lifetime.

It is good to be home!

and took the helm just as we passed Bonita in clearweather. We passed under the bridge at 0630 — Ifanyone was walking on the bridge, they must havewondered why those guys aboard the boat belowwere yelling and cheering!!

There were a bunch of “heroes” in this story, but thefirst among them was our skipper Bill. After 22years in the Army, I can recognize leadership when Isee it and Bill was the best I’ve seen. He thoughtthrough problems rationally, solved them as theyoccurred, communicated with his crew, and alwaysconveyed his belief that we’d safely return ship andcrew to San Francisco.

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After view in top photoWe were exhausted and we were home!

DougThe damage — the hole is below “Francisco”


European PassagesDr. Jim Koss

I had been moving fast since I landed in Paris onFriday the 23rd of May. The Air France flight wasvery nice, a pleasant surprise indeed after priorscrew ups with it. The food was very good, alcoholwas available, and the films were OK. I saw Char-ley's War, not too bad, especially the last line scath-ing the Administration's ignoring Afghanistan afterthe Taliban beat the Russians. Now we fight theresurgent Taliban once again. Poor Afghani-stan. Stupid US.

Anyhow I arrived early in Paris, met Keira at NotreDame and then slept at her place while she was inschool. Afterwards we walked all over Paris, eatingat our favorite fondue restaurant one night, the tradi-tional Between The Bridges Inn on the Ile de St.Louis behind Notre Dame the next and a new onethe third.

Leaving Paris Tuesday (26th) I flew to Amsterdamand caught the train to Delft. I met my hosts wholive in an old funky canal fronted house. We quicklyprepared for the sail trip to Enkhuizen and went toden Hague to sleep aboard Salome II, their Swan37. We left the next day. Captain Bart and CrewJim exited the fresh water via locks to the North Seaand sailed to our first overnight, a seafood meal anda sleep. The next day the North Sea provided idealNE sailing winds, up to 8.8 knots starboard tackclose hauled on the wind. We tore along happilymoving this swift sail boat of Sparkman & Stephensdesign. We crossed Rotterdam's very busy shippingchannel with traffic control's OK and later arrivedat the locks to Amsterdam and the Ijssel-meer. Again in fresh water, sailing past Amster-dam's Central Station, and on the Ijsselmeer north toEnkhuizen, home of the famous Dutch East IndiesCompany. We arrived 01:30 Thursday ex-hausted. Around me were various of our member'sS&S yachts, old and new Dutch lee-boarded ves-sels, and a collection of fore and aft and squarerigged multi-masted vessels in the charter trade.

I was getting no rest on this trip, having rushed fromwork to home to Europe so that day I laid around ina light drizzle, aboard alone, as Captain Bart neededto return to Delft for sudden business. It turned outto be the only really rested day spent on this entiretrip. From now on it was party, eat, drink, stay upand talk, sail long legs plus more of all of this ex-

hausting endeavor. The meeting started Friday withcocktails and hellos from old friends. The weekendhad a race, several wonderful meals, tourist visits toa wonderful "real" Dutch island village museum(very authentic) and alcohol all the time. We alldressed "to the nines" for the gala on Saturday, myTux surviving its suitcase packing. Bart removedthe cat hairs from it with duct tape-a new use for himof this ubiquitous tool.

Keira had arrived Thursday late, finishing her paperin our English cousin's hotel, then e-mailing it Fridayto her roommate in Paris. She could hand it in ontime. Keira left with Annika to Amsterdam Sunday,Keira to Paris for her exams, and Annika to Swedenfor work. Monday, a long social evening, strength-ened friendships. There was a last casual sail andthe AGM was officially over. That afternoon mosteveryone left. This was one of the best of the S&SAGMs and perhaps the most successful in atten-dance.

Earlier I had made contact with Albrecht and EricaPeters, architects from Hamburg, and my berth ontheir natural finished (varnished) hull S&S custom 41was confirmed. I was to sail to Denmark and flyhome from Paris via Hamburg. The vessel is Sa-sha, a 41 foot rescued wood sloop. Mid 70s shewas beached and near destroyed by a previousowner's foolish decision. Albrecht found her on thisbeach in Holland, severely damaged from thebeaching, holed to port, missing a large part of herhull, the inside ripped out and filled with sand, itslead ballast keel someplace other than where it be-longed on the keel. A disaster. He saw her beautyand bought her.

Albrecht started the restoration, soon after Ericajoined him in her rescue, and then later in matri-mony. He bought her to restore and did so almosttotally himself, finding his wife and co-restorer in theprocess. The huge hole in her port side is nowsolid. They saved this severely holed racer, overseveral years, completely restoring her portside, repairing and replacing hull and ribs, modelingmolding and casting the replaced lead ballastkeel. The interior was redone and the rig re-mounted. They repaired and refurnished her to thebeauty she now is. They varnished her hull, andstarted winning races.

They lavish care on this lovingly rebuilt swift sailingship. She is fast, they are good racing sailors. Con-sequently she is also embellished with race win tro-

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phies. Sailing with them I understand why. The twoare fully attuned to the elements affecting theiryacht. They get all and more than all from her, con-stantly trimming and adjusting. She races along instrong winds and ghosts in zephyrs. As a cruisingskipper I was amazed at how much Allie, Erica, andSasha work well together and move fast.

Our mutual friend Annika was a surprise fourth crewmember. She had somehow completed her work athome and returned to Holland two days after leavingfor Stockholm to attend to pressing business obliga-tions. She managed to complete all in time to flyback to Amsterdam and via taxi to Enkhuizen. Thenext am Sasha departed the fresh waters of theIjsselmeer and Enkhuizen via its locks and intoNorth Sea salt water via den Helder. A long fastovernight sail got us to the mouth of theElbe. We again left the North Sea to enter the ElbeRiver down stream from Hamburg. We reachedand entered the Kiel Canal to overnight at the west-ern end just within the canal.

The next day we motored through spring greenscenery to the east (Kiel) end of the canal andlocked out into the Baltic. Our plans were to stopearly and rest that night rather than push on. Westopped drinking and talking at 3 am! Thenext morning we sailed to Svenborg, Denmark. ThePeters have friends who charter their far northbuilt monster Arctic Janus for Arctic explorationcharters. They are preparing for one soon. We ateaboard. Tied alongside was "our" Sasha, a delicatevarnished flower, to this immense wooden hull of anice capable ship. Quite a contrast of types built ofsimilar material. The Janus's hull is 5-6 inches thickand frames about 8 inches square about 4-6 inchesapart. Immense and strong. a veritable wall of woodto resist the sea and ice keeping one safe andwarm inside. Sasha a beautiful little rocket along-side.

That night was a bar night, another one of many thistrip. After a leisurely breakfast we sailed to Den-mark, arriving in the still bright northern eve-ning. Leaving Sasha secured in her home portHamburg was a two hour drive south. Speedy Auto-bahns allowed us to arrive, to do what? We sat updoing what Germans do so well, snack on sausageand cheese, various delicious breads, drinking wineand beer, and talking again late into the night. Thiswas my preparation for the time change going homeperhaps?

European Passage (Continued from page 12) The next day I explored the neighborhood, the St.Pauli district of Hambug, full of counter culturesites, individuals, art, cafes, night clubs, music, andfamous for its beer. What a change Germany is nowversus my visits in 1961 and the late 60s, early70s. Tolerance, casual life styles, relaxed andhappy people were all over this Gebiet (area). Notthe typical German city perhaps, but fantastic andcolorful for sure. Neat gardens-no! But lively andanimated for sure. I'd love to polish my German. Icould spend time here easily.

I departed the 10th on a train to Paris, again to seeKeira, then in the am I flew to San Francisco to facethe realities of life, a return to Oregon for work andto prepare for the next adventure, the annual Julythree weeks in Maine with an English friend on hisS&S Puffin II, and the continuation of the less thanSasha level restoration of Nimue, my 45 foot S&Syawl, Nimue.

I am thinking of joining the 2009 race; Henry Hudson400, from Holland to New York if any one will havethis cruiser aboard. This will be a few months af-ter the Scotland S&S AGM of 2009 in May. The fu-ture looks interesting.


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Minutes General Membership Meeting – August 8, 2008Point San Pablo Yacht Club

Dolores Robinson — Recorder

Commodore Sybal Hallbauer opened the meeting at 2030 hours. JerrySchumacher led the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Motion by HarryHogan to approve the June 13, 2008 membership minutes; second byRobby Robinson.

Sybal introduced new regular member Clifton J. Rakic, who sails afiberglass International Folk Boat. Cliff served in the military, was anairline pilot and owns a gun shop in Lakeport, California.

Paul Jaqua stated the club owns two El Toros, which are available foruse and need to be painted.

Bob Hillstrom will repeat articles in the Foghorn asking members toestablish ownership of a number of dinghies before they are placed onthe market.

First Mates: President Kathy Pehargou announced that First Mateswill host the Thanksgiving Day Empty Nesters dinner and will have awine and vinaigrette fundraiser on Saturday, November 15, 1 – 5, withhors d’ouevres and wine tasting.

Treasurer: Darrell Struck stated the south dock is in, the most signifi-cant improvement for the past ten years, for a total of $127,000;$63,000 member bonds helped pay for it. The club is still solvent. Fi-nancial statements are posted on the bulletin board.

Fleet Captain: Bob Hillstrom scheduled a cruise to Corinthian YachtClub September 26-27; a raft-up at Angel Island the weekend of Octo-ber 17; and will announce a November cruise.

Port Captain: Bill Seidel said installation of the south dock was a goodjob and requested a work party to move the old dock flotation to a morediscrete area.

Bob Hillstrom: There are 30 pieces of surplus flotation. Some will beused to correct tipping of the finger piers, some will be saved for futurecorrections, and some could be sold. The shiny surface on the newdock will turn a flat gray in four months.

Norma Simmons asked members to keep track of how many timestheir boats travel up and down the channel. She will present relatedinformation to the Board.

Rear Commodore: Matt Rogers announced a bar party for August 9with a “rock, blues and funk” three-piece band. The August 30th barparty will be rescheduled. New flavors are available at the bar.

Vice Commodore: Mark Duyvesteyn said there were two cruise-insduring the summer – Bay View and Loch Lomond and thanked the help-ers. A fire system is scheduled to be installed in the galley in Septem-ber. Six boats will cruise in September 20 – 21.

Matt Rogers recognized Mark Duyvesteyn for his work on the flagpole, which involved pulley, welding, painting and reconfiguring so flagsfly out and not against the pole.

Robby Robinson delivered a message from Leonard Komor thankingthe club for the flowers that were sent to Jane Komor. Jane returnedhome on August 8th.

Commodore Comments: The club had to buy a couple sections morefor the south dock and still stayed within the budget. Thanks to BobHillstrom, Dave Shipman and Bill Seidel for their help. Members did atremendous job providing $63,000, and the club had the money to paythe balance, totaling $127,000.

Talk to Mark and Matt to reserve the club for private parties and get it onthe calendar. It is a good source of income for the club. Events need tobe on the calendar for the Foghorn editor.

The club needs to clear lockers so they can be rented. Members are

welcome to take anything from lockers marked #20 and “Swift.”

Robby Robinson asked what the Board had decided to do with AlHowe’s tools. Bob Hillstrom said, in his view, the tools should be in-ventoried, and probably the cheaper tools could be auctioned off tomembers. Careful consideration should be given to the small wood-working tools. The big tools, such as table saw and drill press could bestored and used later if those tools in the tool room should break.

Skip Henderson suggested donating tools to the Spaulding Center inSausalito. Master Mariners donate money to the Center for scholar-ships to buy tools for boatrights.

Bob Hillstrom volunteered to caulk the galley counter to keep water outof the drawers.

Motion by Chuck Lind to adjourn; second by Robby Robinson . Meet-ing adjourned at 2100 hours.

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