A Review of

A Review of:
September/October 2002

On the Cover: Light Wave, a home-built 28’ Richard Woods’ Gypsy design sitting in Laura Cove, British Columbia

Contents:

News:
• 100th Country on the Readers’ List
• Web site for Cruising Sailors
• BoatUS Owner’s and Seller’s Guide
• The Moorings Opens New Base in Greece

Featured Products:
• Taylor Made Non-Slip Surface
• Si-Port Industries’ Sport Extreme BBQ
• Sailtec T6 Panel

Letters:
• The Old Timer and the Rookie by Jack Schuh
• Discontent Over Content by Bill Kennedy

How To:
Electrics: The Ideal 12-Volt Power System for Cruising Multihulls - Part III
by Kevin Jeffrey
Part III takes a look at a power system designed for a boat with twin diesels.

Realities of Rescue at Sea
by Jim Howard
A guideline of what an Automatic Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue System (AMVER) is all about.

Corinne’s Culinary Corner: Brownies
by Corinne Kanter
• Banana-Peanut Butter Brownies
• No-Bake Fudgey Brownies
• Chewy Brownies
• Drop Brownies
• Honey Brownies

Two Kids and a Cat Cruising the BVI
by Jamie Childress
Needing to experience life on the edge, Jamie and his wife decide to charter a PDQ 36 and take along their 3-year-old and infant.

Oh, Nimble – Oh, What a Joy
by Per Mørch
When friends presented an opportunity to sail their new Nimble 36.9 in Holland, Per and friends jumped at the chance.

Short and Sweet
by Jo Djubal
The Little Barrier Trailer-cat breaks the barriers of small cat limi-tation and redefines the trailerable concept.

A Separate Place
by Tonnae K. Hennigan
A sailing catamaran is the perfect vessel to discover the bliss of solitude in British Columbia’s Desolation Sound.

Narcissus, My 25-foot Searunner
by John McDonald
New designs are good for some people, but John is pretty content with the boat he has.

In Memoriam of John P. Olin
by Dick Newick
John was the founder and operator of the Tremolino Boat Company, and a major contributor to the multihull scene for over 27 years.

Another Cat Sailor Has Left Us
by Mary Wells
Bill Wells helped shape sailboat racing into what it is today. He also taught Rick White how to race, and is the reason his daughter Mary is a cat sailor.

High School Project with a Difference
by John Shuttleworth
A student building project leads to two beautiful strip-planked Shuttle 31s. The teacher and twelve 16- and 17-year-old students are from the Waldorf (Steiner) school in Switzerland.

CATlift Hydrofoils Support Bow
by Chris Plaass
This hydrofoil system is designed to be mounted to typical beachcats, light cruisers and racers, such as micro-multis and F-28s.

Announcements:
• America’s Cup Sailors Enter Two Teams in 2003 Worrell 1000
• 2003 Cadillac Van Isle 360 International Yacht Race
• Terra Nova Trading Key West Race 2003

Racing:
Survival on the Mac
by Mark Muehler
An account of the capsize of the 44’ Chris White-designed Caliente during the Chicago to Macinac Island Race.

Bruno Peyron’s Maxi-Cat Orange Dismasted
The recent winner of the Jules Verne Trophy gets its mast torn off while sailing off the coast of France.

Technical Incident on l’Hydroptére at High Speeds
During its attempt to break the Round Britain & Ireland Record with the others, there was a failure of its windward cross-beam while speeding at 41 knots

The Big Scramble for the Round Britain & Ireland Record
Geronimo, Maiden II, and l’Hydroptére were all trying to break Lakota’s record at the same time. Olivier de Kersauson had a brief celebration after he broke the record, because Maiden II finished with an even better time. After all was said and done, Steve Fossett came along and beat all of them on PlayStation, keeping the record for himself.

Santa Barbara to King Harbor Race
by Bill Gibbs
This 81-mile race is one of the most popular in Southern California. The event drew about 180 boats, including 12 multihulls.

Athens 2002 Regatta
This event was the first Olympic Test con-ducted and was also the first of all the Olympic sports, thus receiving great attention from the Organizing Committee.

2002 Olympic-Class Tornado World Championship
A total of 55 teams from 20 different countries gathered at the Edgartown Yacht Club in Martha’s Vineyard, MA.

2002 Performance Race Week
This year, the North American Formula 18 Championships were held in conjunction with Race Week, spotlighting the new Nacra F-18, Inter 18s, Hobie Tigers, and Mystères.

New Outremer 64S to be at the Miami Boat Show

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