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Since 1867 September 2012 Norm Harris, Editor

Announcing The Next Big Event

Remember the date, October 20-21, 2012

The offshore cruise has a date and a destination, the date is above and the destination is Drake’s Bay.

There will be a barbecued Oyster bash on the beach Saturday evening.

If Drake’s Bay is cancelled, there is a chance that the barbecue will be at the National Marine His-

torical Park at the Hyde Street Pier. Check the MMBA website for more information.

Slack Max Curr Slack Max Curr

October

20 Sat 0300 3.8F 0631 Slack 0841 2.3E

1159 Slack 1446 2.4F 1734 Slack 2055 4.6E

21Sun 0059 Slack 0406 3.5F 0732 Slack 0944 2.1E

1314 Slack 1555 2.2F 1843 Slack 2157 4.1E

Current Predictions for the Golden Gate

If you are planning to go, contact Richard Gillette:

captain.rgillette@gmail.com

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Eighty years ago this past summer Ernie Nunes and Marty Martinson launched a new boat into the waters off Sausalito, California. Cliff Smith, Commodore of the San Francisco Yacht Club, praised the effort, telling young Ernie Nunes, That’s a bear of boat. The name stuck and a new class was born. That 23-ft sloop, Merry Bear, was the first of sixty-nine Bears built between 1932 and 1976. Merry Bear cur-rently slips at the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park as part of the Small Craft collection. John Muir, Curator of Small Craft at the SF Maritime NHP, has invited the San Francisco Bay Bear Boat Asso-ciation and MMBA Members to sail in to Aquatic Park on Saturday, 20 October to celebrate Merry Bear’ s Birthday and the 80th Anniversary of the Bear Class. The Staff of the Small Boat Shop and Rangers from the NHP will assist vessels sailing in to Aquatic Park to Med tie - mooring or anchor at the stem with a stern tie to the shore to show off the boats for the public visit-ing the park that day. 12 to 1 pm: Sail In and Med Tie 3 pm: The Park holds a brief ceremony 5 pm: BBQ with the Bear Fleet Before sunset, the Park Staff will help boats get under way. Mooring over night is an option if arranged with the Park. P.S. The Bear Fleet salutes the Birds for 90 years on SF Bay - Huzzah!

Merry Bear on SF Bay - SF Maritime NHP Tim Maloney Secretary, San Francisco Bay Bear Boat Assoc.

Merry Bear, Hull #1, Turns 80 – Aquatic Park Sail In Saturday, October 20, 2012

Here is the link to the Sep/Oct/Nov 2012 newsletter of the SF Maritime National Historical Park:

http://www.nps.gov/safr/parknews/upload/maritimenews_38_opt-3.pdf

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PNW Boat Shows by Dick Wren There are two major boat shows with a rendezvous on Orcas Island between them that take place each year in the Northwest. The Victoria show which started on Aug. 31st this year happens right in front of the Empress Hotel at the heart of the waterfront. The show is free to the public, open for three days, and integrated with the community, including the Maritime Museum. This show has commercial dock space and attracts a dozen or more very large vessels. This year the steam boat contingent was not in attendance, but there were the usual bunch of power and sail vessels with Gardner diesel engines which have been legendary in their own time, for performance and reliability. There were three “Spray Replicas” available to see. Former MMBA members Bill and Mary Harpster won the Best Replica award, having won the Peoples Choice award last year. This show has a very large award dinner with more that a dozen or so judges, giving awards form “Best Engine Room” to “Best Skiff”. The event on Orcas Island takes place at Deer Harbor, which is a very small place. About twenty-five sail and power vessels showed up this year. Activities include a pot luck on the dock, a breakfast at a local hotel, a community salmon dinner at the local boat yard, including home brew beer and wine, a rowing race and a sail boat race as well as live music. Some locals attend but the majority of the participants are transient vessels going from Victoria BC to Pt. Townsend. Sharing of sea stories and vessel restoration work and other ideas is the majority of conversation. The 36th Pt. Townsend Wooden Boat Festival was celebrated on Sept 7-9th this year. This festival at the Wooden Boat Foundation’s new center at Port Hudson is probably the biggest affair of the year for the City. People for all over the US and beyond come to the see the boat show, hear the music which continues to 10:30-11PM, attend lectures on boat building, and talks with world cruisers. All kinds of vendors display their wares. Past Commodore Bill Rickman and his wife Shirley from American Rope and Tar had their usual booth. Current MMBA Commodore Patty Henderson and Skip, playing his wonderful sea chanties also added enjoyment to the festival.

Pacific North West Boat Shows, by Dick WrennPacific Northwest Boat Showsby Dick Wrenn

Polly and Widgeon

BAY’S OLDEST BOATS FACE OFF FOR BAY’S OLDEST TROPHY

SailBlast Blog by Michelle Slade, 9/11/2012

The BIRDs just turned 90 – CONGRATULATIONS! Here is a good article about them by Michelle Slade:

http://sailblast.blogspot.com/2012/09/bays-oldest-boats-face-off-for-bays.html?spref=fb&m=1 Take two of the Bay’s oldest racing sailboats and stack ‘em up against each other for the Bay’s oldest sailing trophy and you’re bound to get one heck of a good sailboat race. At least, that’s what Bill Stucky and crew on board Polly, his 83-year old Bird Boat, are hoping for on Saturday when they go up against Robin, another Bird, in a match race that’s in its 104th edition.

This year marks the 90th anniversary of the first Bird Boat, a classic wooden sailboat specifically designed for racing on San Francisco Bay and the first one design fleet on the West Coast, while the San Francisco Perpetual Trophy, first raced on the Bay in 1895, is purported to be the second oldest match-racing trophy in sailing behind only the America’s Cup.

The SF Perpetual Cup is held in Trust by the two senior yacht clubs of San Francisco Bay - the Corinthian Yacht Club (CYC) and the San Francisco Yacht Club (SFYC). It’s a Challenge Cup, with the holder accepting a challenge annually from another yacht club. Both clubs must be on the US Pacific Coast.

Cup stats indicate the long-time rivalry between the two oldest clubs in the Bay Area. While SFYC is the current holder of the Cup, in the 103 challenges for the Perpetual Cup since 1895, the CYC leads in overall wins with 27 and SFYC is second with 26 wins. St Francis Yacht Club is third with 14 wins, and San Diego Yacht Club (SDYC) is fourth with 16.

CYC last won the Cup in 1954 - it’s recently been dominated by SFYC and the SDYC, with one of the two winning in every edition since 1994.

The Cup can be held in any kind of boat as long as the Defender is willing to accept the Challenge and Bird Boats historically were more active in the event - the last time CYC won in a Bird boat was in 1945 when they won on Teal.

This year Stucky, a member of both SFYC and CYC, decided it was high time for another challenge in the Birds so wrote a request to the CYC Commodore to challenge SFYC for the SF Perpetual Cup - in Bird Boats.

Robin - owned by SFYC members Pat and Cissy Kirrane - is one of three Birds that “lives” at SFYC - she is hull number 18 and Stucky's Polly is number 19. Both were built in the Stone Boat Yard in Alameda in the winter of 1929, and as a result, probably the two most identical Bird Boats says Stucky, which makes a match race between the two all the more compelling.

Designed to take on the huge summer Bay winds, the 30-foot Bird has a very short mast and a very long boom - 21 feet long. A wood boat, she’s heavy with some 60% of her weight in the keel.*

“There’s no reef on it so we can be out there in 25 to 30 knots of wind and heading straight into the wind - it’s a beautiful boat to sail in these conditions. At 30 feet, she’s a bit tight in quarters and that boom flies around quite fast!” Stucky enthuses.

He’s owned Polly for six years, having learned of her availability while sitting at the bar at St FYC where he heard that Polly was for sale for $20,000.

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He recalls, “I’d seen Bird Boats and had never been on one. I’d heard a story about Polly - that at the end of the 80s she was in bad repair and needed to be rebuilt. Apparently Bob Keefe - ex commodore of the St Francis Yacht Club and well-known sailor - raised over $100,000 to have Polly rebuilt. She was subsequently rebuilt in 1994 - for $20,000.”

Stucky had a friend make a quick phone call and within 15 minutes he’d bought her - for $18,000.

“I thought I’d got the deal of a lifetime and then learned a most important lesson - the cheapest part of a wood boat is the purchase price. But we’ve had great times on her - the first season I owned her we won the yearly championship.”

Polly’s upkeep is in about $10,000 annually. “We usually do 3-4 coats of varnish every year, new sails every three years, and take the boat out of the water every year to be redone/cleaned/painted. This year we’ve bought new sails, new rigging and had a new bottom job done to get ready for this race,” Stucky said. “We know SFYC has bought new sails for Robin so we should be competitive with them on that level.”

The Bird’s sail plan is pretty simple - giant main sail and a small jib. Stucky reminds that in “those days” there were no winches so the men who were trimming on Bird Boats tended to be pretty beefy because they were pulling on huge lines due to the massive sail size.

“Now we have winches and it’s much easier, but because the boom is so long and so short to the deck you tend to get hit in the head a few times throughout the season so you have to be careful - one guy is now wearing a helmet.”

That may have looked odd in 1929…

Stucky also owns a J-105 that he races but Polly is his first wood boat. “I love boats - I have a houseboat, two sail boats, a power boat, two kayaks and a skull and I would never get rid of Polly - I’d keep her along with the rest of the fleet.”

He races Polly all season in some 13-14 races against other Birds including Robin, Widgeon, Curlew, and Grey Goose.

What’s Polly’s best point of sail?

“She’s a great tacking boat because of the way she is laid out,” Stucky said. “She really doesn’t sail very well in less than 20 knots of wind. 20-25 is optimum for her. September tends to be light but it’s supposed to be warming up again in the middle of the week and that’ll start bringing the wind in through the Gate. With Bird Boats being the original One Design on the Bay and not having had a Perpetual Cup switch between the clubs with a Bird Boat Challenge since 1945, this is a pretty big event.”

Stucky will sail foredeck, Daniel Thielman (Tiburon, Calif.) will be on helm, with Chris Watts (Capitola, Calif.) as tactician and David Johnson (Tiburon) crew.

The SF Perpetual Cup is scheduled to start at 11:30am on Saturday, and racing will be on one of two course areas: to the immediate west of Alcatraz, or in the vicinity of Southhampton Shoals in case course area one is untenable on race day, with each of the three races between 45 minutes and one hour.

On Sunday, at SFYC, there’ll be opportunities to sail on one of six classic Bird beauties on public display, including Kookaburra, which was purchased for just a dollar because she was in such bad repair. Recently rebuilt, she’ll be making her first public debut in many years.

Results: “SFYC Defeats CYC and Retains the Cup” SFYC 2 – CYC 0, http://www.sfyc.org/files/challenge_cup_results.pdf

For a more detailed history of San Francisco’s Bird Boats, visit: www.birdboat.com and http://www.birdboat.com/Terry%20Norton.htm

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Chicken Ship 2012 August 31 through September 3 saw an enthusiastic group of Master Mariners ascend the Petaluma River and descend on the turning basin in front of the Petaluma Yacht Club. Actually, two power boats, the Kibler’s boat Thora and the Proudfoot’s boat Darleen went up the river on Thursday. The Friday arrivals were Ingway, sailed by Dean Gurke and DeeDee Lozier; Sans Souci, sailed by Norm and Karleen Harris; Tiger, sailed by Luc Mahu and Ali Immel; Inismore, sailed by Danny McGinley; and Channel Pride with Steve and Maggie Hutchinson . There was one other arrival, Shawn (missing last name) sailed and rowed a dinghy named Symmetry from Berkeley. Drive ins include Patty and Skip Hen-derson on Saturday, and Tom and Suzanne List on Sunday. Saturday evening’s festivities were held at the Petaluma Yacht Club. The bartenders poured long and strong, which cer-tainly helped fuel the festivities. The food was plentiful and excellent. Chicken and sausages were grilled on the club deck, the chicken ship group all brought side dishes. Next on the Saturday evening agenda was the awarding of trophies: Dean and DeeDee won the “First to Arrive”. Norm and Karleen were second. Last one in was Shawn on the previously noted Symmetry. No one ran aground on the way up, so we needed a new excuse to award the Cluck Up trophy. Dean managed to set DeeDee’s hat on fire, leaving an egg shaped hole with scorched edges. This was good enough for the trophy. There was seriously weird stuff found in the “bilge dive”. There was a bottle of “Shinola” shoe polish, sugar packets, tools, buttons, a broken hand bearing compass, bottle caps, a who knows what all. Luc and Ali got the most named cor-rectly. The chicken oriented limerick contest had 7 entrants. We were all having such a good time that we forgot to get copies. Linda said that she will remember for next year. Music and dancing followed and some seriously talented people joined in and played into the wee hours. The club forced us to cease and desist at midnight, when they closed the club.

Sunday’s events featured a rope toss contest and a dinghy race. Luc and Laddie (the dog) collaborated on the rope toss and won 1st place. Luc tossed the line, but came up short; Laddie picked up the end and carried it over the line. There weren’t enough dinghies for a race, so Dean volunteered to climb into a dinghy and dodge eggs thrown at him. Shawn won with a hit in the boat that slimed Dean. Norm was second with a transom shot.

We enjoyed a potluck on the dock and on Tiger Sunday evening followed by more music in the

clubhouse. One of the highpoints was a ditty about farm animals performed by Suzanne List. It

was a real hoot.

Sunday’s departure was more eventful than the arrival. Below the lift bridge Tiger touched bot-

tom and was eventually pulled off by Channel Pride. Then about 200 yards or so beyond Tiger

Ingway touched and stayed until the tide lifted her. Given the new, temporary channel markers,

Sans Souci made it all the way home without running aground. Inismore also touched bottom

and Danny elected to wait for the tide to set her free.

Linda is looking for the trophies so that we can update the engravings this year. Missing is the “Last to Come” trophy from

2011. Please contact Linda Kibler @ kiblerlinda@gmail.com and arrange to get the trophies to her.

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2012 Chickenship Photos

Grace Quan and Tiger

China Camp

2012 Jessica Cup – Saturday, October 13, 2012 hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club

www.stfyc.com

Notice of Race now online. Two races followed by an awards ceremony and dinner buffet. Event Page Link: http://www.stfyc.com/default.aspx?p=v35EvtView&type=0&ID=2770512 NOTICE OF RACE PDF: http://www.stfyc.com/files/2012%20Jessica%20Cup%20NOR%20Final.pdf

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Spaulding Center News

After many years working with Myron Spaulding and continuing to manage the Spaulding Boat Works after Myron’s passing, Michael Weiner has just retired. Michael will remain involved with the Spaulding Center as a Trustee and Board Member. His long tenure at Spaulding, since 1978, is greatly appreciated by the local sailing community. Rick Wood has been chosen as the new Boatyard Manager, and he will oversee a redesign of the boatyard to implement environmental upgrades. While this work is being done the boatyard will not be in operation until completion, but all the Spaulding Center programs and Arques School activities will continue as normal. More information is available on the SWBC website: http://www.spauldingcenter.org/events/Upcoming-Changes-9-12.html

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China Camp Heritage Day 2012 Photos:

https://picasaweb.google.com/arianepaul/2012ChinaCamp

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RUNA IV

EIGHT BELLS: Loran "Skipper" Mebine – June 26, 1913 - April 4, 2012 Resident of Alameda, CA, Loran passed away on April 4, 2012. He was a native Californian and was raised on a peach orchard in Rio Oso. Loran received his degree in Optometry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1936 and married Dorothy Johnson in 1937. He served in the Army during World War II, reaching the rank of Captain. After the war, Loran purchased a house in San Francisco where he and Dorothy raised six children. He practiced optometry on West Portal Avenue for many years and was awarded a lifetime membership in the California Optometric Association. Loran enjoyed the SF ballet and opera was an excellent fencer and an avid photographer, but his true passion was sailing. He bought his sailboat, the Machree, in 1939 and berthed the boat at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon. "Designed by William Gardner of New York, the "R" Class sloop " Machree" was built by Madden and Lewis for J.R. Hanify and launched in 1918. "Machree " won the San Francisco Perpetual Challenge Trophy a couple of times. After Loran retired in 1969 and his son Bruce took over his practice (and who now cares for Machree), and moved to Alameda he continued to sail the Machree every week until the age of 98. Loran's first wife Dorothy, his son Michael and daughter Cinda Lou preceded him in death. He is survived by his second wife Natalie Gagon, his twin brother Leland, his daughters Frances, Lorna and Marilyn, his son Bruce, 15 grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren and 7 great-great grandchildren.

Where is she now? RUNA IV

Many of you may remember RUNA IV when it was for many years in SF Bay and raced in our regatta. It is sad when boats we admire leave our waters, but in this case she is doing very well indeed nowadays. RUNA IV is now owned by Louis Vuitton chairman and CEO Yves Carcelle and often skippered by Bruno Troublé. She was designed by the Danish architect Gerhard Peter Rønne, and restored at the Chantier du Guip in Brest, http://www.chantierduguip.com/.

Here are some links below with info and photos: http://www.yachtonline.it/people-en/yves-carcelle-danish-passion-runa-iv http://omruna.blogspot.com/ http://www.challenges.fr/luxe/20120531.CHA6955/le-voilier-mythique-du-patron-de-louis-vuitton.html http://chevaliertaglang.blogspot.com/2012/05/gerhard-rnnes-runa-iv-1918-yawl-runa-iv.html http://uk.chantierduguip.com/actualites/news,67/guip-shipyard-july-2011,19.html http://uk.chantierduguip.com/actualites/news,67/guip-shipyard-january-2012,20.html

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Here’s a piece of history we can all be proud of

Ghosts from a lusty, salty past will sail on San Francisco Bay May 22. The long dead Master Mariners' Regatta

will be revived.

Not since 1891 has the populace of the bay's shores turned out in thousands to watch the heroes of those

days — mariners— pit their skills and luck by racing their schooners in annual regattas, held then on the

Fourth of July holidays. Shore life stopped as thousands clustered on vantage points overlooking the Oakland

Estuary outlet, on Telegraph Hill and along the Marina shore to watch the white billows of sail skim along the

bay's blue, wind-whipped waters. Those were the days when ships and the men who sailed them were table

talk topics, like automobiles and baseball players today.

Many a bare-knuckled brawl broke out after a Master Mariners' Regatta over some real or imagined grievance.

The regattas were held annually from 1867 until 1878, with just periodic ones after that until the swan song

race in 1891. Steamships had driven most of the wooden schooners into ship boneyards and the public's

fancy had turned to railroad trains and other land-lubbery pursuits and interests.

But, on May 22, the Master Mariners' Regatta will be sailed to mark National Maritime Day. Standing in for the

old schooners, now buried at sea or in sand, will be about 30 full-blown sailing boats — three brigantines,

with their schooner-square rig sails; 17 sleek schooners, seven two-masted ketches and three yawls, ranging

in size from 152 to 36 feet. Standing out in the bay, heeling to their scuppers into spectator. At least 11 of

the vessels will hail from Eastbay ports, mainly Oakland and Alameda. Most stately under its acre’s of white

canvas will be the Invader, Bob Wood's 152-foot schooner which usually ties up at the foot of Schiller Street in

Alameda. Standing out in the Bay, healing to their scuppers in a hoped-for west wind, they should stir forgot-

ten instincts in the most freeway-bound spectator.

One of the others, as well, are veteran s of bucking the same seas furrowed by their long forgotten ancestors.

There will be the Pathfinder, a 42-foot yawl owned by Floyd Hansen of Piedmont: Rollo Wheeler's 50-foot brig-

antine Rendezvous, a familiar vessel in the Hawaiian Islands which has appeared in several movies; the 42-

toot schooner Regulus of H. E. Ransom of San Jose; George Knab's 52-foot schooner Sea Runner: Wanderer II,

a 38-foot schooner owned by W. H. Faulkner of Berkeley; the Wayfarer, a 50-foot ketch owned by another

Berkeleyan, William E. Tate; G C. Rees' Brigadoon, a 50-foot schooner once owned by actor Sterling Hayden;

Don J. DeGeller's 36-foot ketch Sea Waif, and William Ritter Jr.'s 'Billiken', the bay's last remaining yawl with

original gaff rig.

Eastbay landlubbers in the 19th Century could see the Master Mariners' Regatta from vantage points at the

tips of the Oakland Estuary. In those days, the coastal schooners raced a course to and from Fort Point, on

the Golden Gate's south shore, via a stake boat anchored off the Estuary and Hunter's Point.

But the revival regatta will be raced on several triangular courses between San Francisco's North Beach and

Sausalito and Angel Island, starting at the St. Francis Yacht Club and ending at Aquatic Park. Best viewing

from shore will be Sausalito in Marin County, Telegraph Hill (with binoculars) and, better yet, the Marina

Green and Aquatic Park.

At the latter site, lifeboat races and other demonstrations will amuse spectators until the wind blows in the

finishers By fancy yacht club standards, the prizes will be modest, just as they were in the traditional regat-

tas.

In those days, a winner might get a silver goblet at best or a set of gold sleeve buttons at worse. Winners in

the May 22, 1965, event will get plaques, silver trays or a silver wine cooler.

Steamship lines which are sponsoring the racing vessels will set to keep a victory flag if their vessel wins. But

all this is of little or no moment to the landlocked spectator. His prize win be in the seeing of seagoing

anachronisms which, paradoxically, still stir men's hearts.. .and still live.

SALTY GHOSTS WILL REVIVE MASTER MARINERS' REGATTA

By Bill Marten - Oakland Tribune - May 2, 1965

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Sunday, Sept. 23rd – SAIL FEST at the Marina Plaza Harbor in Sausalito MMBA will be there alone with many other sailing organizations and live music. If you know of any potential mem-bers, please tell them to drop by to find out more about Master Mariners. We will be selling our T-shirts there as well, so tell any of your friends that missed buying them during the summer.

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2012 Regatta Sponsors, Please Support Them

Company Level Website

BAE Systems Ship Repair CORPORATE www.baesystems.com

Long Meadow Ranch Winery CORPORATE www.longmeadowranch.com

Matson Navigation Company CORPORATE www.matson.com

The Hitmen Termite & Pest Control, Inc. CORPORATE www.hitmenpest.com

The Pasha Group CORPORATE www.pashagroup.com

The Tidebook Company CORPORATE www.tidebookcompany.com

Bay Ship & Yacht BENEFACTOR www.bay-ship.com

Berkeley Marine Center BENEFACTOR www.berkeleymarine.com

Butler Construction BENEFACTOR 415-389-8003 (no website yet)

Grand Marina BENEFACTOR www.grandmarina.com

Hutchinson Marine Services BENEFACTOR www.hutchinsonmarine.com

San Francisco Bar Pilots BENEFACTOR www.sfbarpilots.com

American Maritime Group LLC REGATTA 415-953-9356 (no website yet)

American President Lines, Ltd. REGATTA www.apl.com

American Rope & Tar REGATTA www.tarsmell.com

Bay Marine Boatworks REGATTA www.baymarineboatworks.com

Clarke Garvey / Marine Insurance REGATTA www.cmgis.com

Comcast Spotlight REGATTA www.comcastspotlight.com

Delaney Controls, Inc. REGATTA www.delaneycontrols.com

deWitt Gallery & Framing REGATTA www.dewittgalleryandframing.com

Dry Creek Vineyards REGATTA www.drycreekvineyard.com

Engman Architects REGATTA www.millvalleyarchitect.com

Gaetani Realty, Inc. REGATTA www.gaetanirealty.com

Golden Gate Tall Ships Society REGATTA www.ggtss.org

Greger Pacific Marine REGATTA www.gregerpacificmarine.com

J. P. Boatworks REGATTA 415-331-3277 (no website yet)

Keefe Kaplan Maritime, Inc. - KKMI REGATTA www.kkmi.com

Latitude 38 REGATTA www.latitude38.com

List Marine Enterprises REGATTA www.listmarine.com

Lolo Health Center REGATTA www.lolocenter.com

Mariah's Eyes Photography REGATTA www.pbase.com/meyesphoto

Marina Village Yacht Harbor REGATTA www.marinavillageharbor.com

NorCal Sailing REGATTA www.norcalsailing.com

North Beach Marine Canvas REGATTA www.northbeachmarinecanvas.com

OCSC Sailing REGATTA www.ocscsailing.com

Rutherford's Boat Shop REGATTA www.rutherfordboats.com

Schoonmaker Point Marina REGATTA www.schoonmakermarina.com

Spaulding Boat Works REGATTA www.spauldingcenter.org

Starbuck Canvas Works REGATTA 415-332-2509 (no website yet)

Svendsen's Boat Works REGATTA www.svendsens.com

WoodenBoat Magazine REGATTA www.woodenboat.com

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Norm Harris, Editor

PO Box 71001

Richmond, CA 94807

normharrris41@gmail.com

MMBA 2012 Events Calendar

Jan 1 New Year’s Race & Chili

Potluck Pt. San Pablo YC

Mar 17 Spring Potluck Pt. San Pablo YC**

May 18 Sponsors Lunch St. Francis YC

May 26 Annual Regatta Encinal YC

Jun 23 Annual Meeting Corinthian YC

Jun 24 Wooden Boat Show Tiburon

July 21 SWBC-MMBA BBQ

Spaulding Center Sausalito

TBD The Great Schooner Regatta

SFYC

TBD China Camp Sail-in Potluck

China Camp State Park

Sep 1-3 Chicken Ship Cruise

Petaluma YC

Oct 20-21 Offshore Cruise Drake’s Bay

Oct 13-14 Jessica Cup * St Francis YC

* not a MMBA event

** New venue

In this issue...

Coming up:

Offshore Cruise

Jessica Cup

Bear Anniversary

Sailfest

Recent Happenings:

Pacific NW Boat Shows

Bird Boat Racing

Chicken Ship Regatta

and more:

Historical MM Regatta Article

Runa IV

Spaulding Center News

www.mas te rmar in er s .o rg

(415) 364 -1656

Commodore Patty Henderson seaharpy@hotmail.com

Vice Commodore Bill Belmont* bearasc@earthlink.net

Rear Commodore (TBD)

Director Paul Dines info@sfbayadventures.com

Director Richard Gillette captain.rgillette@gmail.com

Director Dean Gurke deangurke@gmail.com

Director, Editor Norm Harris Normharris41@gmail.com

Director Steve Hutchinson*** hms008@earthlink.net

Director Peter Miller lutarious@lutarious.com

Director Dick Wren** dickwr@comcast.net

Treasurer Tom O’niell tom.p.oneil@gmail.com

Director, Secretary Paul Dines info@sfbayadventures.com

Trophy Chair Ali Immel luc.maheu@yahoo.com

Jr. Staff Comm. Ariane Paul arianepaul@yahoo.com

* Race Chair ** Membership Chair

***Sponsor Chair