Copyright

January/February 1998

On the Cover: Aeroskimmer is a revolution in sailing. Designed by Tom Bakker in Holland, this catamaran went through its evolution before production begins this Spring. The A-frame mast is on a rail and the wing can change its angle with the wind, changing lift and propulsion at will. Speed potential is 2x wind speed. Aeroskimmer won the sailboat class at the ’97 Weymouth Speed Week in England.

Contents:

News:
• The Moorings Orders a 37-footer from a South African Boatyard
• Contender Sailcloth Opens US Office
• Heineken Regatta Enters Cyber Space
• Catamaran Fitted with Ride Control System

Featured Products:
• ACR Electronics Changes Color of EPIRBS
• Bravo 2000 Valve for Inflatables
• Windhunter

A Real Tough Cookie
by Rory McDougall
A young man circumnavigates in the smallest multihull ever, a Wharram Tiki 21.

Corinne's Culinary Corner - Pressure Cooking is a Pleasure
by Corinne Kanter
• Fish Chowder
• Sassy Pork
• New England Corned Beef
• Soda Bread
• Baked Apple Supreme

Letters:
• Charles Chiodi - Up and Running by Jack Foster
• Sullen Subscribers by Roger and Miki Harmon
• Want a Wingsail? by Monte Kimball
• A Real Space Case by M. Queen
• The QuadCat is All That by Brian Staples
• Cat Questions by Bruce and Janet Alvarez
• Some Words of Praise by M. McCormick
• Vinegar Vigor by Leon Olson

Dancing to the Music of Fate
by Lisa Suhay
You need a guardian angel to save you from a devilish buyer when you are trying to sell your boat without going through the wringer.

Adventures of a Seawind 24
by Mihály Kun
In part five, the saga of this intrepid sailor takes us from Samoa to Tokelau. Read about the tale of the Ghost Island, and the lure of the master fishermen.
Women on Atafu are busy dividing a shipment of chicken, while others play domino.
The only time this beach cat has actually been beached was on the island of Nukufetau, in the country of Tuvalu.

Pirates in New Guinea
by Don Boldiston
The skulls found in a cave on Doini Island are a grim reminder that this used to be cannibal country.

Seamanship:
Typhoon Smokes Guam
by David Santos
Paka, Hawaiian for “smoke” hit Guam with sustained winds of 165 mph, gusting to 195. It’s a miracle that no deaths were reported, less than a 100 people were injured; but there was plenty of damage on the waterfront. An 80-foot power catamaran was blown ashore, despite her two 50,000 lb moorings. Of the 15 multihulls on the island two became airborne and flipped. Seventeen monohulls were sunk.

Propane's Pleasures and Perils
by Patricia Baasel
She writes: “I was probably unconscious for about 10 minutes before coming to enough to yell PROPANE EMERGENCY!” So few people survive carbon monoxide poisoning because symptoms are going undiagnosed. Read what Baasel learned from this near-fatal incident.

Navigation:
Get Your Bearings Right
by Earl Hinz
There are four ways of taking bearings: ship’s compass, hand-bearing compass, pelorus, and Radio Direction Finder (RDF).

Electrics: The Charging Package for Cruising
by Kevin Jeffrey
“When I design a power system for a sailor with serious cruising in mind, I try to create a charging package with enough reliability to see him safely home, enough flexibility to handle varying conditions, and enough feedback to allow appropriate charger-related decisions to be made.”

Multihull Capsize Protocol
by Victor Shane
The man who gave us DDDB (Drag Device Data Base) now tells us how to avoid disaster in the case of an unlikely capsize. It is required reading for anyone who puts out to sea regardless of how many hulls the vessel is floating on. The real killer is HYPOTHERMIA. Drowning is a result, not a cause. Shane gives us classifications: how to survive in capsize-habitable and non-habitable boats. He includes a list of essential equipment every boat should have aboard.

MM at the Boat Shows:
Le Grand Pavois
by Claus-Christian Plaass
Our European representative reports from La Rochelle, France. This boat show, held early Fall each year, is second only to the Paris Boat Show in December.

Salon Nautique, Paris
by Duff Sigurdson

Boot Düsseldorf, Germany
by C. Plaass
Mid-January the city of Düsseldorf turns into a giant boat show. Heralded as the world’s largest indoor nautical exhibition, it occupies 200,000 m2 meters in 15 halls. 1727 exhibitors came from 39 countries and showed everything from swimsuits to a 35m (115') motor yacht. There were sailboats, human-powered boats and, of course, multihulls.

Strictly Sail–Miami
by Charles K. Chiodi
Sandwiched between tornadoes, the show went off relatively well. Ten new multihulls were introduced from 26-50 feet. Some exhibitors from last year were missing. Crowds were down, but sales were not.

Hershorn Trades Skis for Sails
by Ben Husband reprinted from The Aspen Times, CO
Peter Hershorn was one of the nation’s best freestyle skiers until a 1973 accident paralyzed his legs. While looking for a new athletic challenge, he discovered sailing. His first boat was a Hobie 16 catamaran, and he loved it. Recently he won, for the second time in as many years, the Maui-to-Oahu Race in Hawaii on his 30-foot catamaran Illusion.

The Shell Coral Sea Classic
by Don Boldiston
Race 1 was a 180-mile long leg from Townsville to Cairns. Race 2 added 40 more boats, Race 3 was the long 465-mile leg across the Coral Sea to New Guinea’s capital city: Port Moresby.

Darwin to Ambon
by Don Boldiston
Record Fleet and Record Time: 103 entries, 56h12m5s for the first-to-finish Arian, Frank Cusak’s 50' Simpson-designed catamaran.

Hog's Breath 100
by Roy Laughlin
This is a Rick White-conceived 100-mile race from Key Largo to Key West, Florida, with a pit stop in Marathon.
Eighteen beach catamarans and two F-trimarans raced.

Three Little Pigs
by Lynda Lohr
A Newick 36 trimaran wins the Mumm’s Cup in St. Croix.

Tornado Worlds
by John Forbes
Germany’s Gaebler/Schwall team won the 1997 Bacardi Rum Tornado World Championship in Bermuda with 31 points.

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