BCYC 2017 Club Championships "This is how we do it"

Commodore Check Wert and Rear Commodore Steve Moffett

September 17, 2017 Newport Beach. A thin coated marine layer produced a slightly humid Sunday afternoon over Newport Harbor last weekend were twenty teams showed up for the The Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club 2017 Club Championships sailed in Harbor 20.

Sunday was split up in two divisions The Family Championships and the Club Championships. By far I enjoy the Family Championships because it brings out everything that is good about our sport and our yacht club. If you can head over to www.facebook.com/BCYCracing/ now click onto the link for the 2017 BCYC Club Champs these photos, provided by joysailing.com, provide a thousand different stories.

No Ketch-up?

One of the first photos you will find is of Katie and David Levy with their two daughters Emily and Harper. We rounded the weather mark and the Levy family was just next to us trying to place themselves in a good position to the rapidly approaching leeward mark. I look over and both Emily and Harper are in full melt down mode, Katie is trying everything thing she can to calm down the kids and still stay in the race. Looks like Katie had McDonald’s french fries onboard as an early go to, classic. I am sure next year Katie will not forget the ketchup.

Arnold Crew

The next memorable moment came in the second race when Kathie and Eddie Arnold, with two very young junior members, crossed the fleet to lead into the weather mark. “ We are winning, we are winning” they screamed with excitement as Eddie, filled with his own excitement tried to shush them.

Next was Erik Lidecis sailing with his two teen age sons that you can tell from the photos that it was not their idea to race in this event. We too had our own moments aboard Only Child, seems my son had a little to much fun the night before and being on a boat with his parents was not his first choice for that Sunday. 

Team Lidecis

Guy Doran had his brother and sister joined him, I recall hearing Dorans brother comment that he had not been sailing in years. The Johansson family did it right with all four members of the family sailing together. Daughter Zoe Lynn at the helm while her bother Jake Arne handled the sheets. Mom and dad where just there for the photo ops and drive too and from the club. 

The races where sailed out in the five point area of the harbor with the last race of each division finishing with a cannon blast in front of the club. We had a little breeze for the five races of the championship series with the breeze not shifting as much as it did in the family division. The team of Bose and Gaudio seemed to have figured out the puzzle of the day and took home the golden pickle dish this year. Team Levy placed second in the Champion division and won the Family division. Team Levy had won the Champion Division trophy a couple of years back and now was the first team to have placed their names on both trophies. 

Commodores just want to have fun!

Anyway you look at it this event it was a success and we all hope that next year you will put it on your calendar to join in on one fantastic way to spend a day on the water. Please do take a look at all the great photos Bronny took.

Sea ya 

Len Bose

BCYC DRM Member

This is how we do it!

On the Harbor: Summer sailing season will soon be behind

It's Raab by a nose!

Just like that and the 2017 summer sailing season has come to a close. Like always, the early warning signs were out with the closing of the Orange County Fair, football season starting and the arrival of Halloween candy on the store shelves.

The events that have fastened to my mind this summer are the Transpac race, Sabot Nationals, Lido 14 Championships, Taco Tuesdays at BCYC and NHYC Thursday night Twilight races.

I have already talked about the Transpac race this summer and, yes, I am still carrying around a big smile for winning our division in this year’s race to Hawaii aboard Horizon. I also have happened to notice a couple of other people around the harbor with the same type of smile.

Jake Mayol 2017 Sabot Champ!

Looking all the way back in time to 1948, less than 15 people have won the Junior National Naples Sabot Championships, Nina Nielsen Memorial Trophy, more than one time. This year BCYC member Jake Mayol is one of these 15 people. Mayol had to earn it with close racing down to the end, sailing on Mission Bay the first part of August. Peter Busch and NHYC member Erik Hou were all within three points of each other at the end. Other Newport Beach sailors did very well in this year’s Sabot Championships: Morgan Pinckney finished fourth, Sophia Devling was sixth and Gray Hemans was 10th. An outstanding performance from these junior sailors.

I was humbled by the names of the past repeat winners on the Nielsen trophy: Charles Merrill, Jerry Thompson, Earl Elms, Brian Thomas, Nina Nielsen, John Shadden, Jim Otis, Bill Hardesty, Tyler Sinks, Jake La Dow, Max Brill and now Jake Mayol. Very impressive, Mr. Mayol – for a job well done.

Out on the harbor in mid-August, the 2017 Lido 14 Championships were sailed with 31 boats showing up looking for a shot at the title. Friday, the first day, was a qualifying round splitting half the fleet in Silver and Gold Divisions. The favorites quickly moved to the top of the fleet, all past Lido 14 Champions. Mark Ryan had a small lead after the first day of racing followed closely by Mark Gaudio. Chris Raab, a top favorite, had two forgettable races on Saturday and fell to the back of the pack after six races. Sunday started with Gaudio taking a comfortable lead, if you can imagine a horse race announcer calling the race when the horse in the back breaks to the outside and quickly moves through the pack. That horse was Chris Raab and he flew through the fleet taking three firsts and a second in the last four races to win by a nose. I was out on the water spectating and it was some of the best racing I have watched in a long time. Other teams to watch were the 17-year-old Porter Killian, sailing my Lido, taking 4th and Jeff Lenhart, the 60-year-old who still knows how to hunt in these physical boats grabbing 5th place. I learned a lot by watching this regatta and hope to bring some of that knowledge with me into the upcoming Harbor 20 Fleet championships this year.

Speaking of the Harbor 20s, we have wrapped up our summer sailing season with BCYC Taco Tuesdays and NHYC Thursday night Twilight races. For me, Taco Tuesdays is the big night with 37 races this summer. In C fleet, with 15 boats competing, Robert McDonald showed that he wanted to take the entire summer series by putting in the best effort, and turning in his taco for the whole enchilada. In second and third place this summer were Richard Somers and Emile Pilafidis. In B fleet, there were 10 boats competing with Cole Pomeroy punching in his time card and taking the overall win. He was followed by PJ Kohl in second and Debra Haynes in third. No one wanted A fleet more than Mark Conzelman who made sure his boat was on the race course for every race with him and some of our harbor’s best at the helm. Conzelman crushed the fleet this summer with me garnering second and Gary Throne taking third.

NHYC Thursday night Twilight Series had 41 boats sign up this summer and 28 races. The Twilights are split up with monthly winners and the competition is intensified from Tuesday nights. Top finishers in C fleet this year were O’Sullivan, Twist and Swigart. In B Fleet it was Hause, Springer and Haynes. A fleet has Conzelman, Bissell and Menninger winning the golden ticket each month.

So, what’s coming up in September? We have the BCYC Club Championships on the 17th with Family and Champion divisions sailing in the Harbor 20s. There are also two Harbor 20 high point races that prepare the fleet for the upcoming championship during the first part of October.

On Tuesday, Sept. 5 at 5:30 p.m., the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce Marine Committee meeting at Marina Park will have our new Harbormaster Dennis Durgan review the progress made in the harbor.

For my paddleboard readers, make sure you have your life jackets on or attached to your boards. Rumor has it that the authorities are ticketing people without their life jackets.

With the summer sailing season over, I am hoping to get back on schedule and provide two columns each month. I have some good ideas … so please stay tuned.

Sea ya’

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Len Bose is a yachting enthusiast, yacht broker and harbor columnist for StuNewsNewport.

On the Harbor: It’s a win at Trans Pac!

The Dream Team

Everything went as planned aboard the Santa Cruz 50 Horizon in this years Trans Pac race to Hawaii. We won our class of 10 Santa Cruz 50’s, finishing seven hours before the second place boat on corrected time. The next seven boats finished within an hour of each other for the battle of a podium finish.

Of the eight Trans Pacs I have completed, this was the first time that I have finished in the day. This made for some outstanding photo opportunities. The Facebook live video, helicopter and drone videos can be found on my blog site at  lenboseyachts.blogspot.com .

There is an important rule while sailing on an offshore race and that is  “what happens on the boat stays on the boat.” As always I did learn a number of lessons that I will try to remember in the future. One of the many lessons I learned was to keep a closer eye on all the race preparation expenses. When I send a piece of equipment out for inspection or repair I have to obtain quotes on the work. Then let the owner review these quotes for the final decision. Nothing worse than having to make a phone call and explaining why or how I was so far over budget.

As a race boat manager, I will also need to spend more time to detail regarding the terms of the contracts with the professional sailors on the boat. We had two paid hands on the boat, one was our navigator, the other our maintenance person. In the future, I will have an amount of satellite data that can be downloaded in the navigators agreement. Satellite data is weather information that is allowed per the racing rules. This way the navigator and owner will not have to have a discussion on what is to much, or to little, during the race. This always seems to happen towards the end of the race when it is nice and warm down below and dinner is in the oven.

We also learned you cannot have enough fans in the boat, two of the fans stopped working during the race and the looks I was getting from crew was concerning. The quote of the race was “There is a lot of defecation in the water.” We were very fortunate not to have hit any of the large crates we noticed floating by. We did catch a large piece of plastic dock line on our rudder and after some effort we were able to push it off with our boat hook.

So that’s a wrap on this years race and the accolades from around town have been overwhelming thank you again for all your acknowledgments.

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So what’s new around the harbor during all this time I have been writing about myself? As you know the city have just completed it’s first month of harbor operations, managing the moorings and city codes in our harbor. All the employees have been making the extra effort as in any new relationship. Although there is one person, who is a city employee that transferred from Public Works to assist on getting this project off the ground and that is Raymond Reyes.

Reyes is a beast at multi tasking and comprehension on all subjects from reciting, in one months time, all of Title 17 Harbor Codes and working through the software program that manages the Marina Park Marina and the Mooring fields. He is now the go to person for your mooring permit transfers or questions regarding Title 17. Reyes amazes me everyday I work with him, his patience, cordiality over the phone and to employees is some of the best I have ever worked with. Reyes is not the only one with super natural ability’s that is now working for Harbor Operations. In fact it is rather humbling for me to see how many people want to join this new team. For what it’s worth, things are looking better than I would have imagined coming off the starting line. It’s a long race and only time will tell but the harbor is looking good at this time.

Speaking of looking good, go check out this new Harbor Operations web site at  www.newportharbor.org . There is almost everything you wanted to know about our harbor.

What I found most interesting is the Guest Slips, Moorings & Anchorage link on the top of the page. Now scroll down to Mooring Transfers, almost to the bottom of the page, then click on the Mooring Transfer Log. This Log will give you a comparable sales log of what moorings have been selling for. Good stuff right?

Remember you do not have to keep a vessel on your mooring to keep your permit in good stature. Will be back next week to update you on who has been crushing it on the race course this summer.

Sea ya

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Len Bose is a yachting enthusiast, yacht broker and harbor columnist for StuNewsNewport.

Trans Pac 2017 Photos aboard Horizon

Charging to the Finish line.

We had some great Face book live video you can find here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1381243135519563/

Most of the photos are from of Sharon Green/ultimatesailing.com    

Team photo before start

Dream Team

Len Bose

Greg Helias and Justin Law

The Kids: Carson Reynolds, Justin Law, Alex Steele, Greg Helias

Alex Steele

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Horizon 2017 Trans Pac

I always wonder how I can afford this stuff? On July 5th at 13:00 just off of Point Fermin I will be aboard the yacht Horizon starting the Trans Pac sailboat race to Honolulu Hawaii. This is the tenth time I have started the race and have never been more confident in the boat and team aboard Horizon.

There are fifty-five boats that have signed up for the race and in our Division 4 we have ten boats that are very similar in size, speed and manufacture. All ten boats where built in Santa Cruz California with six of the boats being Santa Cruz 50’s and the other four Santa Cruz 52’s. You can call it the only corinthian class/one design ocean racing fleet in the world. For all the 40 + year old armchair racers this year with the dream, in what other class can you have real food, with a real head/ bathroom and a dry bunk? Then add the exhilaration of "Fast is Fun” aboard Horizon, in this years Coastal Cup we hit a new boat speed recorded of 28.8 knots.
Thats fast and scary fun!

Our goal is to bring forth the best possible effort for the 2017 Trans Pac Race. The yacht Horizon has had one of the most successful offshore racing records on the West Coast of the United States for close to twenty years. Her captain has owned the boat for the last five years and this is our second Trans Pac with her.

This seasons effort started back in October of 2016 when I started to put the sailing team together and preparing the boat for her annual maintenance. Quite often people approach me and ask if they can join our team, which is always a good thing. I had one person ask me what are the qualifications needed to apply? I smiled and had recently noticed that our whole team can easily beat me on the Harbor 20 race course and that was my reply to this prospect, “ You have to be faster than me.” Thats not the whole formula, just a big part of it.

The Mojo started flowing over us from the start with 32 year old Doug Cary signing on as our maintenance man and delivery skipper. Cary had just arrived from the East coast where he had been working with a very prominent sailing team. Cary keeps the boat together and does the bow for us.

Greg Helias 32 years old from NHYC, Helias was on the winning Baldwin Cup and Lipton Cup team over the last season. Helias brings his natural talent and a type of calming energy that unites the team together.

Justin Law 32 years old from NHYC, Law was apart of the previous, three years, winning team of the Baldwin Cup and is one of NHYC go to people for different challenge events. Law is loaded with natural sailing talent, very few people love the sport more than he does. He keeps it fast and fun on the boat.

Alex Steele 32 years old from BYC, he has participated on the BYC Baldwin Cup team over the last five years and was on the same sailing team as Law in College. Steele has the ability to think three moves ahead and keeps the team constantly thinking in this manner. For this reason I have asked Steele to be one of two watch captains on board for this race.

Carson Reynolds 32 years old from BYC, he too has also participated on the BYC Baldwin Cup team over the last five years. To be honest, this is really Reynolds team from the last Trans Pac that did very well. Reynolds is the manager that grasps the situation and makes good quick decisions. He also provides a barrel full of motivation and is our other watch captain.

Tom OKeefe is in his fifties and has been sailing Horizon for the last twenty years. I recall he has done four Trans Pacs on the boat. OKeefe is our go to guy, on where the different sails lead to, how to balance the boat and which sail should we be using.

Jeff “Elvis” Thorpe is in his late forties and has one of the best racing records, as navigator, to Hawaii. Thorpe pushes the boat, “ Are we here to race our are we cruising?” I have heard him say more than once while we ponder the thought of putting up more sail. Last season Thorpe guided our team to an overall win in the Puerto Vallarta Race and the California Offshore Race Week.

Len Bose is fifty-seven years old from BCYC. It’s my job to manage the team, herd the cats, and hope the plan all goes together.

Wish us luck, you can watch us at https://2017.transpacyc.com/media/watch



Sea ya

The Crew

Marina Park 

I have to assume you all have heard that the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Harbor Patrol will be handing over the helm to managing the city of Newport Beach moorings fields on July 1st 2017.

Local resident Dennis Durgan has been working hard over the last two weeks in preparation of becoming the new Harbor Master. This task is challenging with Durgan putting in long days getting ready for the up coming watch change. My understanding is that the first six months, of Durgan watch, is being referred to as a trial period.

Harbor Master Dennis Durgan

One of the many tasks involved is preparing a fleet of three boats that will monitor the moorings and provide assistance to boaters. The conceptual work example is based from the harbor patrol in Avalon and other anchorages in Catalina. The City has owned a 19-foot center console Boston Whaler named “ Clean Sweep” that has been renamed Harbormaster 1. Harbormaster 1 has recently received engine service, new fenders, VHF radio, radar and chart plotter. The other two vessels the city has charted, from the Newport Aquatic Center, are catamaran coaching vessels. I have not heard yet what VHF channel the Harbor Service workers will be monitoring or how to call them over the VHF radio. If I was to guess, I would start with Channel 16 and call for “Newport Harbor Mooring Services” and follow their lead to another work channel.

The Harbormasters office will be located at Marina Park on the second floor under the Marina Services sign. Office work will include the transfer of mooring permits, the collection of mooring fees, auditing mooring permits for maintenance work, proof of documentation and insurance and assigning guest moorings. In front of Marina Park there will be a string of double ended moorings added to coincide with Marina Parks guest slips.

Other tasks Harbormaster Durgan will be assigned with will be enforcing many parts of the Newport Beach Municipal Code Title 17   http://www.codepublishing.com/CA/NewportBeach/html/pdfs/newportbeach17.pdf.  I will assume Durgan will have to focus on 17.20 Vessel launching and Operation, 17.25.010 Docking Regulations, 17.25.020 Anchorage, Berthing and Mooring Regulations, 17.40 Live-Aboards, 17.45 Sanitation and 17.60.040 Mooring Permits. It is my understanding that Title 17 will be amended very soon to included the Duties of the Harbor Master and define their duties.

There are many unanswered questions floating around the harbor regarding this watch change. I keep hearing questions of why the watch change now? Why the urgency of this change and why was it placed on one of the two busiest days in the harbor? Why was the Harbor Commission not even given a chance to make any recommendations? One of the main duties of the Harbor Commission is to “Advise the City Council on proposed harbor related improvements.”

New Harbor Service boat.

If you’re wondering what my gut take is on the watch change? The bottom line is it will be better for the harbor in the long run. It has been more than obvious that the need for better code enforcement in the moorings and on the public docks is long over due. The largest task for Durgan will not just be developing the proper tools for the jobs, it will be how to define and implement Title 17. The sheriff department has implemented much of title 17 for a very long time and any type of change is going to ruffle feathers. Change is always going to produce the question of equality. One of the worst things that can happen would have the public reference the harbormaster as the mooring lord. This will not be an easy watch change and I have edited William Goldings quote for every harbor user “He who rides the water of our harbor must have sails woven of patience.”

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Speaking of patience, during last weeks Harbor Commission meeting a commissioner asked the city council liaison why the communication line between commissioner and assigned council member shall be discontinued to further notice. The public should question their city council member on what happened and how will this be remedied.

Towards the end of the Harbor Commission meeting local Newport Beach activist Jim Mosher gave one of the kindest accolades to departing commissioner West that I have ever heard. I wish I could have quoted Mosher but the gist of his comment thanked West for his service to our harbor and that Mosher had never seen such positive change, for the better, in the Harbor Commission than the time he served as the chairman. Mosher hit the nail on the head and I should have started clapping with agreement and a final thank you to West.

Sea ya

Trans Pac "Back in the Day"

Larry Somers 1981 Trans Pac aboard Jubilee

I am writing this story on Tuesday July 14 and will be starting the Trans Pac race from Point Fermin, San Pedro to Diamond Head on the Island of Oahu on Thursday the 16th. While writing my last story regarding the battle between Hana Ho and Shandu in the 1981 Trans Pac I kept running into the name of Larry Somers while completing my research. Somers was the communications chairman for the Trans Pac Yacht Club for many years and I thought interviewing him would make for a good story.

The Somers family dates back into the early 1900 where his grandfather was the commodore of the Los Angles Yacht Club in 1916 and the Cal Yacht Club in 1925. His grandfather also competed in the Olympics in 1928 in Holland sailing 8 Meters. His mother was also very active in sailing and the family purchased a beach house between I and J street on the Balboa Peninsula where he grew up. As a kid he participated in the Newport Harbor Yacht Clubs junior program.

In the 1957 his father Harvey Somers sailed with the Farwell family aboard their 85’ schooner Sea Drift. During this race the Somers family took the Matson lines SS Lurline to Hawaii. “During the race we were able to make our way into the radio room and obtain the race reports and keep updated on the race.” Somers said.

In 1965 Somers met Peter Davis and sailed with him in that years Trans Pac aboard the 65 foot cutter Orient. Davis later became commodore at the NHYC in 1971 where Somers worked with Davis in the sail fleet committee. During this time Walter Hoffman was the Communications Chairman and he was ready to pass his task over to the next and up coming volunteer. This is when Peter Davis brought Somers into the loop and he started his first Trans Pac as communications chair in 1981. Somers was activated as the Communications Chairman during the 1976 Tahiti Race for the TPYC, he also worked the 1978 Tahiti race.

Sumers, Baldwin & Steele

The communications chair responsibilities are always changing and it’s a very important part of the race. Grant Baldwin, for most of the years Somers was working, was the voice over the radio taking the daily position reports. The person behind the scene was Somers who would be inputting the positions into an Apple computer, yes there were personal computers in the 1970’s, and from there they would have Latitude, Longitude, Miles from San Pedro, Miles to Honolulu,  PET (Projected Elapsed Time), PCT (Projected Corrected Time) and Handicap Positions. What this all means is the competitors and the spectators, back home, would have daily reports on what place their boats are in.

I cannot tell you how hard it was to fall asleep when you just got off watch at 0700 when the navigator would turn on the Single Side Band Radio at 0730. The SSB sounded like going online during the early dial up internet service days and then trying to sleep through all the moans and groans of the navigator while they where plotting out the fleet during roll call. Roll call started at 0800 and by 1100 each day Baldwin and Somers would broadcast your standings. A very important part of your day while racing in the Trans Pac.

Somers did six crossing on different escort boats ranging from 1981 Dick Steele's 60’ motor sailor Jubilee that was later named Jamboree by a different owner in 1989. In 1985 he sailed aboard a 65 foot Hood Motor sailor and in 1983 and 87 sailed on Orange Coast College Alaska Eagle. Somers saved the biggest boat for last in 1991 aboard Hawkeye a 105 foot motor yacht. 

“ All the trips were business like and yet a lot of fun. Like most racers the first one is always the one you remember and the 1981 run aboard Jubilee with Dick Steal, Grant Baldwin, Gary Hill and Billy Buckingham was one of my favorites. We would work in the morning, sail in the afternoon and motor sail at night all the time monitoring the radio.” Somers said.

Both Somers and I agree that with SSB radios being fazed out to emails and satellite phones we are losing a favorite tradition to the race and that is group communications . Let’s just hope that todays organizers can find a way to keep that tradition alive maybe with FaceTime in the future. I have to give a big thank you to Larry Somers for taking almost an hour with me sharing his story.

Right now, on Horizon, the weather is not cooperating. We will be starting the race and if we cannot get into any wind by Sunday we will have to make a tough decision on whether or not to withdraw from the race or slug it out. Keep an eye on us on the Trans Pac website yellow brick tracking system at http://yb.tl/transpac2015.

Wish us good wind and following seas!

Sea ya

On the Harbor: Shannon Levin leaves a legacy

Shannon Levin

By LEN BOSE

In 2008, Shannon applied for the Harbor’s supervisor position. “I wanted the job and attended Harbor Commission meetings, researched the Harbor Codes and studied the harbor and bay elements of the general plan,” she said. After three interviews, she received the job and immediately went to work on beach maintenance programs for Balboa Island and China Cove. She was tasked with field surveys, permit applications, creating dredge profiles, hiring contractors, scheduling the work and on-site project management.

I then asked Shannon what has changed in the harbor over the last nine years? “The last six or seven years we’ve had many high-profile projects with multiple revisions of the harbor code, mooring codes and fees. We collected input from the Harbor Commission, City Council, along with political and capital interest,” she said.

Shannon went on to explain that one of the most difficult annual tasks in Harbor Resources is chasing the sea lions around the harbor and how relentless they can be. I changed topics and asked which of her projects is she most proud of? “My hallmark project was opening Marina Park – setting rents, staffing, creating rules/policies, training and procedures.” 

When asked what advice she would leave her replacement she said, “Managing public resources is a balance of making decisions based on what the community wants and how to best allocate the resources. It is a fine line and you just do the best that you can to give the general public the best use of them.”

We than talked about her new job as Dana Point Harbor’s manager. How it is similar but different with less hands-on operations and maintenance, more contract administration and leases. Shannon will be the go-to person for the harbor and county agencies. She will also be in touch with many of her contacts in the Coastal Commission, Boating and Waterways and Water Quality board.

She will be bringing with her the understanding of high profile complex projects. “If you work hard everything has a solution, be transparent and fair then everything seems to fit in the puzzle

Will we still see you around town? “I’ll still be around and I will be more relaxed, I will no longer have to keep an eye out for things that have to be fixed on Monday,” Shannon said.

Now that I reflect over the last year and a half, Shannon has found solutions to difficult problems. She is extraordinarily good with her presentations to government agencies and acknowledges work well done. At the same time, I clearly recall the days I made a few too many mistakes and took mind not to repeat those mistakes.

Shannon Levin is my friend and I will miss her and at the same time it always feels good to watch a friend move on to a better opportunity.

Sea ya

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Len Bose is a yachting enthusiast, yacht broker and harbor columnist for StuNewsNewport.