July Issue

July/August '96

Cover - The Bahia 46 is the Latest of Fountaine Pajot’s Luxury Catamarans

Contents:

News:
· Hobie Cat Names New President
· Ketterman Foiler in the Baltic Sea
· Millennium Series Launched in Europe
· Coast Guard has EPIRB Rental Program
· Multihull Master Class at St. Pete
· Senate suspends marine Diesel Fuel Tax
· IYRU now ISAF
· Expo '98 - Round the World Rally

Featured Products:
· Nicholas Bros. Build Dive Catamarans
· ACR mini B2 ILS
· Dragonfly 920 Swing Wing

Letters:
· What About Wharram, by Charlie Dick
· Memories, by Scott Spacie
· Build a Cracksman, Anyone? by Ray Hicks
· Gone Cruising, by R. Webber
· Don't Pooh-Pooh Old Designers, by Tom Fothergill
· Setting the Record Straight, by Alan Tait

Corinne's Culinary Corner: Quick and Easy No-Meat Meals
by Corinne Kanter
· Sandpiper's Onion Tart
· Apple Latkes
· Vegetarian Chili
· The Incredible Egg
· Filling for Omlets
· Artichoke Fritatta

Cruising:
The Quest for Our Perfect Catamaran
by Sonia Odell
Sonia writes: "I can hardly believe the deals offered on monohulls now! If we could only go back to monos... but we can't. A couple's search for an ultimate, but affordable, cruising cat leads to Geminis, and dead ends. What an exhausting search, and it's not over yet! avoid doing the same.

To Hell on a Boat
by Lyle Burke
"We do not enjoy Minnesota winters like we used to. Being able to spend the whole winter in south Florida and the Keys aboard our new Catfisher 32 is a treat," write Lyle. However, cruising on windless rivers in the scorching heat of summer is hell. Duluth is still a nice place after all!

Navigation:
The Grinch Who Stole Greenwich
by Earl Hinz
Earl writes: "For over a century, sailors' lives were intimately tied to GMT. Now the Nautical Almanac calls it Universal Coordinate Time." What about the Prime Meridian? Did someone tamper with that too?

Seamanship:
Out of the Blue
by Jim Frain
"We started the day with hopes of exploration, but ended it with hopes for survival." Jim describes a sneak storm that hit them hard in the Northern Channel Islands in CA, and how they survived it in Flyer, his 39-foot ocean racing trimaran. Some waves were steep enough and high enough that they could see the sun shine trough them. There was a real danger of pitchpoling. each wave had to be sailed one at a time.

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