Santa Cruz 50 DECEPTION

Fully equipped for racing with all of the amenities for comfortable
cruising, Deception has been maintained to the highest of standards. Extensivesail inventory, new rig, new engine, state-of-the-art electronics and more.
Deception's impressive race record, outstanding equipment and excellent
condition throughout rate her turn-key. She represents a unique opportunity to acquire the very last Santa Cruz 50 built! NEW ASKING PRICE $ 215,000

Name: DECEPTION
BUILDER/DESIGNER
Builder: Bill Lee Yachts
Designer: Bill Lee



DIMENSIONS
LOA: 52'4
Beam: 12'
Draft: 8'
Hull Material: Fiberglass



ENGINES
Engine(s): Single Volvo diesel (NEW 1997)
Engine Model: 45-hp
Engine(s) Hours:
Cruising Speed: 8.3 knots

TANKAGE
Fuel: 40
Water: 40





Accommodations
LAYOUT: Chain locker is followed by sail storage forward. Next aft are
settees to both port and starboard. Next aft is the NAV STATION with oversized chart table. Opposite the nav station to starboard is the GALLEY, featuring 4-burner Force 10 propane stove with oven and refrigeration with oversized freezer (mechanical off engine).



Aft of the nav station on port side is the enclosed HEAD with W-C Captain
toilet, sink and freshwater pump. Opposite the head to starboard is an
oversized hanging locker (legal home for life raft). Continuing aft on the
port side is a bench seat followed by two adjustable pipe berths with
excellent access to aft storage. The starboard side features the same bench
seat and pipe berth configuration. Lowered settees eases sail storage and
handling.




Electronics and Navigation Gear
Robertson autopilot
(3) compasses
Depth sounder
ICOM VHF radio
ICOM SSB
Wind speed indicator
GPS With Plotter
Watermaker
Refrigeration


Electrical System
12vDC and 110vAC systems; (4) batteries; Heart inverter; dockside electrical
inlet with hook-up cables.




Deck and Hull Equipment
(2) anchors with chain and line; bow pulpit with rails; side stanchions
with lifelines; very large wheel; rigged safety lines for harnesses; full
safety equipment; navigation lights; single electric-controlled search light.
Canvas includes dodger plus winter cover.
Deck material is gelcoat on carbon reinforced plastic. Hull color is white.
All gelcoat topsides white hard bottom paint. Hull is vacuum cured
glass/epoxy uniroving over balsa core; layer of kevlar inside forward of mast.
Deck and house is carbon/epoxy over balsa core (lowers weight - 800# more inkeel). NOTE new mast and rigging 1998.




Additional Equipment

MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT & ENGINE DETAILS: (2) manual bilge pumps; manual fire extinguishing; head plumbed to holding tank with overboard valve. ENGINE was new in 1997 and is freshwater cooled with fuel filters. Fuel shut-off valves for engine and LPG galley stove.


SC 50 DECEPTION SAIL INVENTORY


SAILS: Racing

Main 3DL North 2006
#1 Light/medium North 3DL 2006
#1 Heavy Carbon 2003
#2 Jibtop Kevlar 2002
#2 UK Tape Drive
#3 Ulman Carbon 2003

Spinnaker Staysail
Genoa Staysail Kevlar Ulman , 2002

Two .75 oz. symmetrical kite
Two .5 oz. symmetrical kites
5 oz. UK Asymmetrical kite 2004
75 oz. UK Asymmetrical kite 2004


Lot’s of old sails. Winches are Lewmar, Rig is Balanger 4 Spreader replaced in 1998, Check stays added, and Boom replaced in 1998. n-haulers added this year for better upwind performance.
Headfoil, new 2002
Mast collar, new 2004
Masthead sheaves, new 2004
Carbon spinnaker poles, new 2002
Reaching struts, new 2004
Running rigging always current
Hydraulics control backstay, babystay, vang and outhaul.
Navtec hydraulic panel rebuilt, 2003
All hydraulic cylinders rebuilt, 2003
Carbon fiber wind wand at masthead, new 2002

ELECTRONICS:

B&G 390 System upgraded in 2000 w/ 20/20 at mast, repeaters in cockpit, laptop computer, VHF, Boat Polaris.

CRUISING GEAR:

(2) Anchor’s chain and rode, Cockpit table, V-berth with Custom cushions, Boat Cover, Red dot heater, New Sony CD w/ 10cd changer




DECEPTION n

1. the practice of deliberately making somebody believe things that are not true.
2. an act, trick, or device intended to deceive somebody




When I first meet this light blue boat from Marina del Rey there was no DECEPTION. This was the boat to beat. The year was 1991 and it was the start of the highly competitive Fabulous Fifty’s fleet in Southern California. Owner Dave Meginnity and his new yacht DECEPTION had made a name for herself already in the 1989 Trans Pac by placing forth in her class. At the time the boys from Santa Cruz aboard ALLURE had the most time on the water along with a brand new Ross 45 design named “M-1”. DECEPTION had her hands full that year and Meginnity came back the following seven years with straight bullets in most all the events she sailed. Of course when you have Pete Heck running the program that helps and Pete knows a good bet.
So, Back to 1991 and the Trans Pac. Meginnity had just changed the rig before the start of the race and DECEPTION was locked and loaded. I was on Hull 25 SAMURAI and four 50’s had entered. The race was slowed by light winds during the mid-portion, but we still had a very exciting start and finsh. The starting line was one of the most aggressive starts I’ve seen, for a long distance race, with four boats going over early. For SAMURAI, the finish of the race was very exciting 26.6 knots of boat speed. “ NO SHIT” it was the third wave in a row and I kept that memory still after 17 years as one of the best. DECEPTION, SAMURAI and ALLURE were all heading south. Deception ended up sailing higher and just as fast as us and ended up sailing ten less miles than us to the island. Like I said there is no DECEPTION she is fast.



Around 1995 the Seattle area stared to buy up the Santa Cruz 50’s and at one time had as many as 9 boats on the racecourse. HOOLIGAN (ex: DECEPTION) was now painted white and she was in control of the sound and spent a number of years racing in buoy mode. No water makers, no spare rudder systems, no SSB’s. This class lasted until around 2001.



In 2001 Bruce Anderson was looking for a new boat and I told him a little deception of the “Magic” boat in Seattle. Bruce is close with Bob Perry and when Bruce called Bob and asked about the boat I had a deal. Two weeks later we are sailing down from Seattle. Now if you never have sailed the Oregon coast that is a good thing. KEEP it that way! I never had seen such big waves and the boat did fine. We were trying to keep her from going down the waves and keep her under control in over 45knts of wind and HUGE waves. The boat will take you home in safety.

The next year we raced in the 2002 Pacific Cup with eight Santa Cruz 50’s on the starting line. Just after the start it was easy to see that the three boats to beat was OCTAVIA, GONE WITH THE WIND and us on CHICKEN LITTLE Ex: DECEPTION, HOOLIGAN. We were all very close to each other all the way across the Pacific. It came down to the last day and OCTAVIA sailed very well and found a squall and rode it in the last three hours of the race. She was sailing seven knots faster than us for the last three hours and beat us in by an hour. OCTAVIA crew was the boat to beat and we almost got them with our boat.



Bruce sold the boat two years ago and the boat name was changed back to “DECEPTION” THANK GOD! And the owner has placed a complete North sail inventory on her and was coached by on of the best sailors in our area Kevin Miller. The owner has done whatever the boat needed to keep her in top shape. Deception won the high point series in 06 making her the fastest boat in Ventura County on corrected time as well as boat for boat. She won every major series in Ventura County. Set a new course record for the C. I. to MDR race.



WELL? Now it’s your turn. Yeah, you can buy a 50 for less. Although remember what your dad always told you” You get what you pay for”. “DECEPTION” IS THE MAGIC SC 50 and with the Newport Harbor Cabo race gaining ground and Trans Pac picking up pace. There are now seven active 50’s sailing point to point races and let me tell you there is no DECEPTION that this boat will bring you to the top of the fleet.

GREAT PHRF BOATS!

NY 36
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New York 36 spec Sheet





CAPO 30
The perfect Racer/Cruiser built by Westerly Marine and designed by Carl Schumacher the boat loves the breeze and can sail to her rating up wind or down wind. She is great for cruising and just one of the all time better built boats.






WYLIE 38
I can’t tell you why this boat has not sold yet. Built by Westerly Marine to a Wylie design this boat at 72 PHRF will win what ever she enters. She was built to do Trans Pac and Cabo. She is the perfect double-handed boat read more further down my blog.WYLIE 38 spec Sheet






Beneteau 405
Great race results, complete North sail inventory. The perfect all around boat!


2006 Racing Results

Hot Rum Series (8 races): 1st in class; 1st overall

Angleman Series (6 races): 1st in class; 1st overall

Bogart Series (6 races): 1st in class; 1st overall

Argosy Series (2 races): 2nd in class

Crew of 2 Around Catalina Race: 1st in class; 1st overall, non – spinnaker division

Newport to Seal Beach: 1st in class

Newport to San Diego: 2nd in class
Beneteau 405 Spec Sheet

NOP "1st Amendment "THE MOTHER OF ALL LIDO 14 PARTY'S"






09-23-07 Newport Beach, CA Lido Isle Yacht Clubs Roy Woolsey Regatta. With the Class Championships behind us for the 2007 season things around the boat garden were very relaxed as we set up our boats and headed off to LIYC. As the entry list grew to over 20 boats things started to get quite and new sails were being raised.

At LIYC you start off the tower and there is a trick on how to take the weather pin with the close proximity of the docks then play the right. Team Richley, Buddy & Maxsom, sailing in their first Lido event in Roy Woolsey boat “LIFT” seemed to have done this before and placed a close lee-bow on Class Champion Mark Gaudio at the first weather mark, then held on for a second place finish. I thought to myself, “Welcome to the fleet Buddy, you got lucky your first race” Well Buddy proved me wrong and sailed to a third place in an event that was almost a carbon copy results of the Class Championships. Team Johnson decided enough was enough after race two and Terry decided to cleanse herself of the bad juju and went for a short swim while docking after race two. Whatever she said to Walter worked because they went on to a 1,1,3 and Walter was getting away with a unique system for arriving at the right spot at the starting line and plugging the last three starts.

I did not really sail my best and got pasted a couple of times, ex: sailing around Lido and heading to X while taking the isle to close the fleet did a end around on us. On the third race, the hard part was breaking our tiller and for some reason I had duck tape in the boat. We fixed it then got back in the race and this was not or worst result. Fortunately Dina and I got a 2,5 in the last two races.

Along with Team Richley there were two new teams on the water that sailed very well. One was Don Baker, on his first "away" Lido 14 race the other was sailing in Kelly Cantley's boat - I don't know the names so we'll have to wait for the results on that one. It always seemed these two boats were in the Hunt and I looked forward to seeing more these two teams.

B Fleet had seven boats with BYC Juniors Christophe Killian, Ryan Davidson & Greg Kent sailing to second along with Ryder Nesbitt sailing with his Mom, HOW COOL IS THAT, sailing to first place.

Quotes on the water: One of the better ones was, Dina and I were sailing down wind from T to W. Teams Richley and Schupak were on either side of us all on port tack. Schupak “ Leeward boat Len” Len “ Nothing I can do Steve I have a weather boat telling me proper course” Schupak “ Well tell him to come up” Richley “ Proper course” Len “ I wish you guys would make up your mind” and I thought brokering boats was difficult! Team Richley closed that deal by gibing to starboard. We were trying to get out of that sandwich because we still owed Paps a 360 who was just behind us. “GOOD TIMES”

Everyone needs to go to http://lenboseyachts.blogspot.com/ and pick up your “NOP” for the “Mother of all Lido Party’s”. Advance registration is appreciated.




09-19-07 Newport Beach, CA Fleet One at BYC. OK, I give summer is over! Last nights practice was held in 10 knots of southerly breeze. Our coach was Class Champion Mark Gaudio taking a bird's eye look over the participants. Mark was helping John Fradkin and was at the top of the mast of DEERFOOT. Quotes from Mark; “ OK, I need two more inches”, “I should have brought my camera” “ Larry, ease your main sheet”, and of course “ Point harder in the puff’s”. Thank you Larry Walters and Kim McRae for coming out last night.

That concluded the Twilights until next March. What’s next? Woolsey this Sunday, Lido Classics October 7 & Fall Invitational at Mission Bay October 28& 29. Attached is the long awaited “NOP” for Fleet 1 Annual Party the “Mother of all Lido Parties”. Let us know if you can make it?

IDEA, We keep hinting we are going to start team racing? Lets make some teams up at the party and make it happen. Team Racing

Lens Lesson: "Team race in September next year"




09-12-07 Newport Beach, CA Fleet One ay BYC. Yes, the sun is setting earlier and we have only one more week of summer. With 6-8 knots of breeze fleet one held its Wednesday night practice series in front of the Balboa Yacht Club last night. The coach’s were Fleet Champion, John “Johnny Current” Fradkin along with John Papadopoulos. Paps took 91 photos and I will make CDs for the people that attended. Its good stuff and you can spend all day looking at them.



These short races with two-minute starts keep you on your toes and allow you to take the input from our coaches. For example Dina and I held a slight lead going into the weather mark and I called for a jybe set. Bad move when you have a number of leeward boats approaching you. A number of the same quotes we have heard over the season “ I was NOT OVER EARLY!” Or “Len why did you let Kim get to the right of you on that beat?” One of the better two quotes came from Team Killian when holding a lead going into the leeward mark with two boats bringing in the breeze behind him. “ I hate when this happens”. The other quote came from Paps & Fradkin while coaching “OOOOOHH!” Dina and I hit the starting at full speed almost fouling Team Walters. This type of sailing is fun. After the racing Commodore Andrews was operating the crane and helping everyone put their boats away. Something tells me that the Commodore was watching us sail while at yet another meeting. It was easy to see he wanted to be on the water racing with us. We all meet at the bar after the race and you could hear the number of rule questions going around. Coach Papadopoulos bought a round of drinks for everyone and we all went to dinner. GOOD TIMES at the club!



SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. During the Class championships last month, at the BYC party, my timing was off, kind of like a lot of my starts, and the Steel Drum player ended about an hour early. Kim McRae stepped up and made sure the drummer played for another hour. THANKS KIM that was huge. Kim also leads the way on participation this year along with his passion for sailing he is one of Fleet 1 most valued sailors. THANKS for everything this year KIM.



FLEET ONE BUSINESS
The annual fleet party will be held at my house October 5 BBQ and prizes. Let me know ASAP if this date works for you. I will come up with the NOP “ Notice of Party” and send it out soon.



Len’s Lesson # 4 While sailing in front of BYC in Lido 14’s with Fleet 1 “ Isn’t this shit fun”

Roy Woolsey has passed away

It is with great sorrow that I must tell you that Roy Woolsey has passed away. He was stricken with a stroke last Friday, and passed away early this morning at Hoag Hospital. Roy was a great friend and inspiration in my life. I will miss him greatly. We all knew him as a fine and skillful competitor when sailing the Lido 14, and as the ultimate example of the Corinthian competitor. His sailing career spanned the full fifty years of the Lido 14, from the very first Championship in 1958, until the Golden Anniversary which was held last week.


Services will be held at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, September 4 th at 4 pm. The address is: 600 St. Andrews Rd, Newport Beach, Ca 92663.

The Roy Woolsey Memorial regatta will be sailed as planned at Lido Isle Yacht Club on Sunday, September 23. You will receive more information and the NOR in the next few days. We may do something in memory of Roy at that time.

Bob Yates

Quotes from Roy Woolsey

“ I am glad to be here”

“ Hi! Roy Woolsey”

“ I am going to go home and kiss my lovely wife”

“ Gybe Ho!”

Everyone in the fleet will always want to be “ As lucky as a Woolsey”



Len-

I have known Roy (and sailed with him often as did my "mother" in twilight's) since learning to sail over forty years ago at the Lido Island Yacht Club. Roy, Marty Lockney, Chad Twichell, Ted Hinshaw and others formed the backbone of early L-14 sailing and occupy most of my early memories of the sport. They all taught me the importance of "FAIR" competition and stayed after me to learn this valuable lesson (despite my best efforts to reject it) well into my twenty's. Something few probably knew about Roy was that his "Corinthian" spirit was all the more impressive give that he was one of the leading attorneys in California for many decades (I'll bet nobody can ever remember Roy protesting anyone). Given the "debacle" that the recent L-14 nationals seemed to have become, it is something to reflect on for for all L-14 sailors who attend Roy's funeral. I will see you there on Thursday.

PS: I hope someday more of us learn from people like Roy. I also hope we all teach his lessons to our children for they often act as they have observed their parents acting. I "will" sail the regatta (to the best of my ability) in September so please keep me on the e-mail list. Thanks

Jack E. Franco


COOL Jack Very COOL. Thanks for the words. This type of sentiment is what brings strength to the sport.

Len Bose

My Roy Story
-Last winter Roy (then 89)and his 65 years young crew came out to
One of our Lido Classics races in Newport directly out from LIYC.
It was blowing about 16 knots. We had about 10 boats out.
Later in the afternoon as the winds built, Roy took a gust and
Capsized into a full turtle. By the time we got to him, Roy had fully climbed
On top of the boat and was leaning hard onto the centerboard to try and right
the boat. It was low tide and the mast was stuck in the mud. At one point Roy was Fully
Standing on the centerboard (89??) He yelled... here she comes, get the hell out of the way!
To his crew in the water. The boat righted and we were all showered with mud from the top
of the mast. Well they were both tired and dressed for winter and could not make it back into
the boat. I remember snapping a couple of Roy's belt loops as we grabbed him by the pants and dragged
Him onto the committee boat. He and his crew were a bunch of wet rats..we motored him and his Lido
To the LIYC docks and called a break before running another race. Roy got off on the dock..Grabed his crew
By the arm and pushed him back into the half swamped Lido and said
" GET BAILING..YOUR THE ONE WHO TIPPED US OVER !!.....WE CAN RUN HOME TO MY HOUSE AND GET A CHANGE OF CLOTHES
AND STILL MAKE THE LAST RACE !!!"

Another Roy quote: : What the hell is G mark ? This Gate stuff is a bunch of crap !!

Scott Porter
Lido Classics

Len,

I am so sorry to hear of Roy's passing. I was afraid of this when I saw an elderly gentleman in Topsider oxfords in the HOAG emergency room on Friday ( I was there for my brother who coincidentally also had a stroke) and then saw Roy Jr.

It was a real pleasure to have had a chance to finally meet and race with Roy last week. He is true legend.

See you tonight,

Kim McRae

Len, so sorry to hear about Roy. I am sure he will be missed by many, many people.
DOROTHY TOPP
Executive Assistant to Donald J. Crevier


Thank you for letting me know. What a great loss. Thank you as well for the great pictures of him.
Joan Burton


While this news saddens us deeply, we were very lucky to have known him and to be able to call him a friend. He was a mentor for both me and my son and we were lucky enough to sit down for lunch with Roy and his son last Tuesday, and he seemed so alive.

Our quintessential Roy moment came last year at his regatta. It was one of those blustery (Santa Ana wind) days and we were racing against Roy in the B-fleet and he worked us in the first race! In the next race, Roy was one of three boats to capsize. He righted his boat, made it back to the club and walked home to change his cloths. A short while latter he returned and went racing again. With the wind blowing even stronger and boats breaking down and capsizing, Roy was determined to give it his all. Unfortunately, he capsized again. However, in true Roy form, he righted his boat, made it back to the dock, walked home, changed his cloths again and returned to give out trophies in the regatta which bears his name.

Roy is a true legend and we will miss him.

Chris & Christophe Killian

2007 Lido Fleet Championships

8-23-07 Newport Beach, CA Lido 14 Class Championships. TEAM GAUDIO/SWAIN ARE THE 2007 LIDO 14 CHAMPIONS. This team found the bell and rung it HARD Sailing faster and smarter then the rest of the 52 boat fleet.

The competitors were relieved to find overcast skies with the breeze in the 7-10 knot range. After the two previous days of hot sun and light shifty breeze the sun was starting to wear on everyone.



Going into the last day Dina and I were in 13 place exactly in the middle of Gold Fleet. Our boat is hull #13 and our goal from the beginning of the year was to finish in the middle of the gold.“ Hey Dina, get more bananas”. Looking over the fleet the boat yard was still very quite. We had four teams behind us in the standing that normally beat us. Another four in front of us we had beat this season. The odds looked good for us to hold onto lucky thirteen place. With a little luck we might even make the top ten.



As the day goes on we hang and then lose our grip, start too get tired and drop down to 14 place. Eric Heim and Ryan DelPrado gets on fire and closes the day going from 10 to 4th place. Team Heim/DelPrado stayed focused with top ten finishes all day. My good friend’s John Fradkin and Ruth Schock sailed very well and moved up one place from 8th to 7th. Lisa and Bob Little sailed from 7th to 2nd place with a 3,4 2,6 place finishes. It was a very competitive day on the water with a number of items to watch and learn from.


(Roy Woolsey; " I am just glad to be here!")

If you are writing about this event you have to write about Roy Woolsey, who is 90 years old, sailing with son, who could be around 60 years of age, this would place the average age on the boat around 75 WOW! What more can be said than I only hope I am so lucky! There are many parent and child teams on the water and to me this needs more attention. The teams I know about are Christophe & Chris Killian, Sean & Mark Hunter and Jimmy and Peter Newbre. Now with the Killian family father lets son drive and Christophe is fast becoming and A fleet sailor. Sean & Mark Hunter have been one of the most consistent teams attending all the events and showing a true passion for the sport. Peter Newbre is one of the top sailors in the country and with an older crew would have placed in the top five of the championships. After congratulating all the contestants on their results the proudest competitors were those parents. To me, this one of the best features the Lido 14 fleet offers. To be as fortunate as the Freddie & Fred Stevens and sail in the top ten with your father is a good thing or even so Lucky as Woolsey and sail with your son at 90 years of age “ Lucky as a Woolsey” wonder if that saying will stick? If you listen to Roy you will hear him say " I am just glad to be here"


A big shout out has to go to Bob Yates and his crew for producing and outstanding event. WELL DONE BOB! And THANKS AGAIN. Also Thanks to everyone getting in his or her boats and joining in the fun this year. I had a great time and feel I have become a better sailor because of all of you.



More Lessons, I was the giver and taker of verbal abuse, from and to other participants who feel you are tacking on them/tacking on me. It reminds me of the drunken baseball fan yelling in the background and shows little class. From now on I might let out a little quack and figure “It sucks to be me”. To ask another competitor not to play the shifts and then throw some smack their way is weak. Therefore as long as I am not tacking just to tack I will just reply, “ It sucks to be you”.



The other lesson learned was water you can never have enough. One of the best things I heard this weekend was from my crew Dina. "We are going to sail better next year right?" Yep, and I am glad she wants to come back for another year. I have one of the best crew in the fleet. Thanks for all your hard work this year Dina! We will be at the WOOLSY regatta September 23 and I would like to get some feed back on how many boats would like to sail twilights in the month of September at 5:30 at M mark?






"In my last news letter I said "Steve Potter from the state of Washington. “Len, Thank you for the emails its what gets me going the first part of the year when we cant sail yet’ It was Jim Sterner from Washington. Steve did write and asked to be placed on our email list.



8-22-07 Newport Beach, Ca Lido 14 Class Championships. A warm southwesterly breeze of 6-8 knots greeted the competitors of the 50th Golden Anniversary. With 52 boats on the water in Newport Beach and teams made up of Junior Sailors, Senior Sailors, Family and all female teams you have covered almost every combination possible. Blend this all together and watch our sport grow stronger.

Place everyone in one room at BCYC for the Anniversary party and you have some of the best stories and laugher enjoyed by all age groups. Tom Leweck was the master of ceremonies and introduced a number of speakers, that sailed in 50’s through today, with the bottom line all leading to “ The years spent sailing Lido 14’s are some of or fondest memories" watching the husband wife teams attending and laughing at all the memories brings a big smile to your face. I look forward to those upcoming days!
OK, on the race course on this light shifty day Team Gaudio/Swain are in first with a close battle with Team Robertson. The list of talented competitors is lengthy and the competition is tough. Only one-way to get the true feeling of what I have been describing this year and that is dust off your old Lido, or go purchase one and join in our fun and or memories!

Lessons from day one. When sailing to the finish line, in the bottom end of the turning basin, you need to pick a side. Trying to sail up the middle yesterday I lost 9 boats in the last two races while sailing to the finish line.



Need to keep these short and go to the boat!







08-21-07 Newport Beach CA Lido 14 Class Championships. IT”S TIME, ITS NOW and ITS BIG. The Golden Anniversary 50 years of Lido 14 Championships started yesterday. The forecast is hot and 7-9 knots of breeze. The fleet, of 52, was split up in four groups with all groups racing each other once for a total of three long races. Vicki Sodaro is this year’s event PRO and is working hard to run a good event with fifty-two boats in a very confined area. Something like a square peg in a round hole comes to mind.

Most of the competitors were very quiet around the dock yesterday with everyone working on their boats like the start of the Indy 500. The top seed’s were walking around with confidence and smiles. While myself, wanting desperately to make it into the gold fleet was bunched up as much as walking into a gay bar. For example; my crew Dini brought our lunches onto the boat and they had BANANAS in the bag, I said “TAKE THOSE OFF THE BOAT NOW” she looks at me like “ This is going to be a long day”. Then I said wait Dina; we have the number 13 as our hull number, BRING THEM ON.

With the light breeze and the number of boat the quotes where down to a minimum.



I head John Papadopoulos give some grief to one competitor for not allowing John to finish race two. Although I sure John was frustrated with himself because he over stood the finish by a day and a half. My favorites are still the father son teams with hearing the intensity of the father and the freedom of spirit of the kid. “ Don’t push me dad, I will get the pole up. Another was Lisa Little commenting on her skipper and husband Bob Little’ I don’t know why he has to be so uptight” I must have said I was sorry to Dina 12 times yesterday after asking her “ JIB IN” she would always reply ‘IT IS”




The feel good quotes keep coming in from Stu Robertson to Kurt Wiese” Len thank for doing what your doing with the fleet” There was also a new one from Steve Potter from the state of Washington. “Len, Thank you for the emails its what gets me going the first part of the year when we cant sail yet’



Who is going to win Team Gaudio/Swain although its not over to its over and it all starts today.



Thoughts: Craig Leweck spoke Sunday night at the opening event at Lido Isle Yacht Club. “ Seeing 50+ boats show up and seeing all the familiar faces makes me want to get back into the boat” To Jim Karagan walking up to me” I still have my Lido, I think I will join you next Wednesday night”. This is what’s it all about!



SEA YA!

Lido 14 Class Championships 2007

August 15 2007, Newport Beach, CA Lido 14 Class Championships. Here I am again with a pile of work on my desk and I am writing about the upcoming event. How will I do, who can I beat, can I sail clean, is my boat ready?

I will answer the easy one first, my boat is ready and I have the perfect crew Dina Corsi. Dina and I have been sailing this season and we are ready.




I have to sail clean from start to finsh. Simple starts in the middle upper or lower should help. Along with finding someone, not as fast as me, to set up with a “marshmallow” as Dave Carol would say. Hit the shifts and get to layline a little sooner. Half way up the first beat starting playing the odds and start closing the deal. Round the first mark and watch for weather boats and the boats in front of me. Approach the leeward mark with board down sooner to avoid weather boats easier. If in a good shape hang in the bad wind until we can clear the rounding boats and keep playing the odds.



How will I do? Our goal is to finish in the top half of Gold Fleet. Can we do it? yes, but first I need to get in gold fleet. If 60 boats show up I will need to finish 15th or better in the first round. The first round will be seeded and split in half. I count 15 boats that have beaten us this year. Out of that 15 we have beaten 8 of them sometime our another this season. I have to think we can get a 7th or better in the first round leaving some room to 15th to get in gold fleet. Once in gold fleet I will have to do my best to continue to play the odds for the long haul.



Who should win? Gaudio or Stu? Odds are very good one of them will win. Although anyone can come out and sail way above their head’s and win the event. I have to go with Gaudio but I would like to see the Stevens Family win. More to come after Sunday practice races.

Sea Ya

Len Bose





08-11/12-07 Newport Beach CA Balboa Yacht Club. A 7-9 Knot westerly with hot August temperatures produced clear sky’s and a bead of sweet on most competitors brows while participating in BYC Clinic & Tune up event this weekend.



Our coach for this event was John Papadopoulos and like anything John does everything was precise, accurate and on the spot. We started Saturday with 20 people showing up for the two hour chalk talk followed three hours of on the water drills and racing. Missing most of the chalk talk, I helped remove sea lions from a customers boat, subjects of boat tuning, tactics, and the Chairman of the Championships discussing the course location. After lunch break we hit the water at M mark for a number of one minute starting drills with four or five practice races. My crew Dina Corsi had a look of concern after each start we were over early Dina commented, “ Maybe we should try to start in the middle of the line?” Me being manly and all thought what the hell does she know? I will give you one guess were we started most of the time on Sunday and it worked well, the middle of the line! Ross Nemeroff from Alamitos Bay, sailing with his son, sailed very well and showed great speed. Tracey Kenny from the Marina del Rey fleet was out practicing drills and also showing some great speed. It was looking like Sundays race was going to be good.



Seventeen boats were on the starting line, in the turning basin, with their game faces on. We had good breeze, a weather mark with an offset mark and leeward gate, just what we expect from the championships. For most of the fleet the racing was very close. For Anne and Kurt Wiese it looked easy although they had to work for it a little. Five points only separated 2nd to 8th place. Good starts and cleaning sailing is what’s going to keep you at the top of your fleet, DUH!. Some quotes from the water. Steve Mueller to me on race three at the first weather mark “ Its two circles today Len not one”. From Kim Mcrae to crew Judi Gorski after being over early on the first start and going back, then tacking to close to someone a doing TWO circles “ Well I am glad we got that over with” to Tracey Kenney letting out a loud “HaaWhooooo!” after finshing third in the last race.




After the racing was over everyone headed back to BYC for post race reflections, refreshments, Pu pus and trophies. The best quotes came from the table of Kurt Wiese and Chris Nesbit going over some rule incidents using popcorn trays for boats. “OK, I am this tray and I have to duck this tray”. Golden DUCKS were given out as trophies along with some outstanding Belgian Beer for the top finishers. Thanks were given to Stephanie and John for the coaching and race committee work and I have to think the event was a success for everyone who participated.



Lessons leaned on my boat! Don’t get into any email banter/trash talking with another competitor before an event, keep your head up and watch were you are going while rounding the weather mark and pulling up the center board, while approaching the leeward mark in the middle of the fleet put down your center board early so its easier to avoid the leaders coming at you to weather.

Thanks again to everyone that made it out to our event and we will sea ya all soon!



Lens Lesson # 78 “ Its good luck to wear your life jacket”

BALBOA CHALLENGE 2007

August 5, 2007
Pinckney wins, but which one?

NEWPORT BEACH, Ca.- This the last day of the 2007 Balboa Challenge produced a 6-7 knot southerly breeze that kept the competitors on their toes with a south west shift coming in a couple of times during the day.

Jon Pinckney sailing for the Newport Harbor Yacht club with James Malm and Peter Wells sailed an outstanding first beat in the first race and went on to win the first race of the day. After the race, while throwing over some water to the Newport team Jon said, “ Hey Len, you know where we won that race? Because we had to!” Note to self; think about that tonight for the up coming Lido 14 Class Championship in a couple of weeks.
Jon now has a one-point lead on Ullman who finished sixth.



Race two started with the breeze starting to faze to the right on the first lap Ullman plays a right center route to the weather mark and pushes Jon past the port layline that allows Phil Thompson of the Lido Isle Yacht to round the mark just behind Ullman and in front of Jon. On the second beat Jon goes left Ullman puts a light cover on Jon Pinckney and this allows Phil Thomson with Bruce Cooper and Buddy Richley as crew to go further right and take the lead. Lido wins the race followed by BYC and NHYC. In the mean time Mike Pinckney sailing for BCYC with Peter Newbre and Erik Shampain have sailed the last two races with a forth and a fifth.



Race three the wind goes back to the left Jon Pinckney rounds in forth Ullman in sixth it looks like NHYC will take the event. On the second beat nothing has changed. One boat # 6 has found a nice left shift with good pressure and rounds in close third. Ullman gybes and goes to the right side of the course and the fleet is all on the left and going to the finish line. Ullman gets fresh breeze and crosses three boats and is now less than a half boat length from Jon. BUT WAIT! Boat # 6 is Mike Pinckney and has just taken the lead and wins the race. Jon crossing the finish a half boat length ahead of Dave taking forth while Dave takes fifth. Everyone get out their scorecards and the WINNER IS----- BCYC on a tiebreaker. WHAT A GREAT RACE! What an OUTSTANDING EVENT!




On the docks everyone is all smiles and talking about next year. Jon is talking to Ullman about the last run while Ullman is asking Jon “ Not only did you lose on a tie breaker you lost to your brother” Jon is just smiling and is saying yeah but “ What a great event”. I never have chaired an event when sailors of this caliber keep coming up to me and thanking BYC and myself for placing this event back on the map.

Of course I had a lot of help. BYC Fleet Captain Dick Pacelli made it very easy and pushed to make it a first class event, Mike Wathen brought in his crew and did and outstanding job as PRO, Bronny Joy from www.joysailing.com kept everyone at the bar watching the endless slide show. I have to think we really did something good for our sport this weekend and an event like this just has to keep getting bigger and better! Now go check at all the 1900 photos of the event and make plan on attending next year.

BALBOA YACHT CLUB
BALBOA CHALLENGE
AUGUST 4&5 2007


1. MIKE PINCKNEY, PETER NEWBRE & ERIK SHAMPAIN BCYC
5,6,2,1,4,5,1= 24

2. JON PINCKNEY, JAMES MALM& PETER WELLS NHYC
2,7,4,3,1,3,4=24

3. DAVE ULLMAN, JON BELL & CHUCK ULLMAN BYC
3,1,7,2,6,2,5=26

4. SCOTT DeCURTIS, ADAM CORPEZ-LANE&MARK SPECTOR KHYC
1,5,6,4,3,7,2=28

5. PHIL THOMPSON, BRUCE COOPER, BUDDY RICHLEY LIYC
7,4,3,6,2,1,8=31

6. DUSTIN DURANT, SCOTT DICKSON & IAN PICE LBYC
6,2,1,5,OCS,6,7=36

7. ADAM ROBERTS, RON ROBERTS & TIMDORSEY SDYC
4,3,5,8,OCS,OCS,3=41

8. ANDY WITHAM, NATHAN PRATHERT & ERIC HEIM DPYC
8,8,8,7,5,4,6=46





August 5, 2007 Newport Beach, CA- After four races its still anybody’s race in the Balboa Challenge hosted by the Balboa and San Diego Yacht Clubs. The eight-boat fleet sailed in identical Governors Cup 21 “have brought an equal playing field to all the participants and its anybody’s race” said Len Bose chairman of the event.

Mike Pinckney sailing for Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club of Newport Beach found himself over the starting line for the first start and had to work hard to get back to the line to clear himself. “Yah, I don’t want to do that again,” Mike then went on to finish fifth in that race and finish the day strong with a second and first place and that places him in second place overall.



The leader after the first day of racing is Dave Ullman sailing for the Balboa Yacht Club. You will notice that every team, has at least, a sixth place finish and staying at the top of the fleet is not an easy task. The boats are drawn between races and while checking in his boat Dave commented “ Its very close racing today”. Dave understands the effort it takes to run an event like this is always very thankful to the volunteers and said “ Thanks Len, the boats are very equal and it looks like we will have our hands full tomorrow”



Young Dustin Durant sailing for the Long Beach Yacht club is tied for second place and will give the veterans a run for the money on the final day of racing. While checking his boat in I was going over a couple of the boat handling instructions and Dustin referred that “ This is just like the Governors Cup instructions”. “Perfect” I said, “ then you have done this before”? “Yep!” It goes without saying the top three teams were the first off the dock during our practice day on Friday.

The night ended with dinner outside on the flag deck in a blue blazer event with prime rib, wine and great competitors. Its always fun to listen to the comments while everyone is watching the slide show with over four hundred pictures taken by www.joysailing.com. Comments like “ your not going to that to me again are you?” or “ look I wasn’t over early” and “ OK, this is how we are going to-do it tomorrow”. Everyone must go to joysailing.com and go through all the photos. WARNING you will spend hours going over all the photos and you will learn a lot about boat handling.

I will do my best to send the final report later this evening. If you can come out on the water today and watch you should note on the results page under boat name is the color of spinnaker your team is sailing.




TODAY...WIND VARIABLE 10 KT OR LESS IN THE MORNING...BECOMING SW
TO W 10 KT IN THE AFTERNOON.
8-4-07 Newport Beach, CA Balboa Yacht Club & San Diego Yacht Club presents the Balboa Challenge 2007. This years competitors are:
BYC - Dave Ullman
BCYC - Mike Pinckney
DPYC - Andy Witham
KHYC - Scott DeCurtis
LBYC - Dustin Durant
LIYC - Phil Thompson
NHYC - John Pinckney
SDYC - Adam Roberts
Yesterday was boat draw and practice with most of the teams showing up when registration opened and on the water ASAP. Checking the teams into the boats went smoothly and you could not help but notice the level of concentration these competitors bring to the dock. The fun really started at the end of the day. The Balboa Yacht Club had placed out Beer and drinks with some pu pus and yarn started to spin. Mike Pinckney sailing for BCYC to brother John sailing for NHYC Hey John, Why are you here John hearing this banter before had no comment. With talk around the group from up coming Americas Cup to what everyone had just gone through on Trans Pac while always keeping one eye on the entourage of the Dana Point Yacht the competition had already started, almost like a weigh in at a boxing match, sailing style!
It will be fun to watch Dave Ullman sailing with his son Chuck, the Pinckney brothers race within a race, Adam Roberts taking on the old guys, the teams are all very strong. This will lead to some outstanding racing today. More to come with photos from Joy Sailing at www.joysailing.com


Lens Lesson # 2 You try your best no matter what and it usually works out