Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2017 i Soundings

You’re sharing their waterways! See rules for respecting sea life: soundingsonline.com/ video/how-to On an otherwise typical day in August 2015, John Waldman looked around the waters near his home off Hempstead Harbor, on Long Island’s north shore. Usually when he gazed out, he saw the blue shimmer of Long Island Sound. On that day, however, he saw the unmistakable silver glint of menhaden, a fish known locally as bunker. “There was solid bunker from the inside of my harbor out to the middle of the sound,” Waldman says. “There were acres and acres and acres of them. Fishermen said they’d never seen anything like it.” Two months later a humpback whale believed to be feeding on menhaden not only swam into Hempstead Harbor, but also kept coming until the water…

Designer Ken Smith’s Grand Banks 42 is an acknowledged classic, a salty trawler yacht with an aft cabin, sturdy wheelhouse and workboat-inspired profile that was built for nearly 40 years. The Europa version was an offspring. The Europa rode the same semidisplacement hull as the original, but the look was more contemporary, and an extended saloon replaced the aft cabin, capped by a hardtop that covered the cockpit and side decks. The boat was first built in wood for the European market, hence the Europa name. Introduced in the United States in 1979, the fiberglass 42 Europa was in production for a quarter century (with a brief halt). There was plenty of room on board this well-built cruiser. The big flybridge had helm and companion seats forward and space for…

CHECK OUT THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY: soundingsonline.com/ features/destinations Emmett Lyman can remember being a boy, trying to boat and play along the Connecticut River during the 1950s and ‘60s. It just wasn’t the kind of place that any boy’s mother wanted him to hang out. “It was an absolute sewer,” he says. Now a first selectman in East Haddam, Connecticut, Lyman is also a member of the Connecticut River Gateway Commission, a conservation group that, among other things, has worked to clean up the waterway. “It’s remarkable what has happened in the last 40 to 45 years,” Lyman says. “The river is now pristine all the way up into Suffield and above. The fish are coming back, along with the eagles and ospreys. That makes the river a very special…

SPECIFICATIONS LOA: 37 feet, 11 inches BEAM: 12 feet WEIGHT: 15,400 pounds DRAFT: 2 feet, 1 inch HULL TYPE: deep-vee POWER: triple 300-hp Yamaha F300 4-strokes SPEED: 43 knots top, 22 knots cruise TANKAGE: 425 gallons fuel, 45 gallons water, 20 gallons waste BASE PRICE: $436,000 CONTACT: Pursuit Boats, Fort Pierce, Florida, (800) 947-8778. pursuitboats.com With the introduction of the S 368 Sport, Pursuit is placing another bet on the everexpanding, 30-foot-and-over center console market. The S 368 Sport joins two other relatively fresh 30-plus-footers — the S 328 Sport and S 408 Sport — in the Florida builder’s lineup. Lots of seating, enclosed cabins and other comfort-oriented features are expected on high-end center consoles, and the S 368 has them. At the bow, a U-shaped lounge converts to a…

Doug Peterson was a naval architect whose prolific and landmark designs transformed an era of yacht racing. Peterson died June 26 of cancer. He was 71. The Point Loma, California, resident and longtime member of the San Diego Yacht Club died on the day that Emirates Team New Zealand won the America’s Cup from Oracle Team USA, capping the life of the strategically minded sailor and principal member of design teams whose boats won the oldest trophy in sport for the United States in 1992 (America3) and New Zealand in 1995 (Black Magic). “Doug Peterson was a gifted designer who used his sailing skills to understand what was required to create a fast boat,” says Cup-winning tactician Gary Jobson. “He was great fun to sail with and always had a…

• GRAND BANKS 60 LOA: 65 feet, 4 inches BEAM: 19 feet, 2 inches WEIGHT: 61,600 pounds (dry) DRAFT: 4 feet, 7 inches (shaft model) HULL TYPE: semidisplacement POWER: twin 725-hp Volvo Penta D11 diesels (standard), other Volvo Penta diesel and IPS options SPEED: 27 knots top, 24 knots cruise (base power) TANKAGE: 1,530 gallons fuel, 300 gallons water, 80 gallons waste PRICE: $3.28 million CONTACT: Grand Banks Yachts, Holland, Michigan, (206) 352-0116. grandbanks.com Let’s say there’s a dating-style smartphone app for matching boats with prospective owners. Perhaps your profile reads something like this: Cruising couple seeks vessel for long journeys across all sorts of seas. Potential match must serve as a cozy and comfortable home, and be mindful of and efficient with our fuel funds. Our ideal companion will…

“This is a scene from a month’s cruise in Antarctica,” says artist Nancy Zydler. “When this sailing boat appeared, we realized how tiny our boat was, too, in this vast seascape of mountains and ice. The yacht was sailing fast around icebergs, bergy bits and growlers — an exciting task even in a calm, but quite challenging when the wind pipes up and some serious-size ice may be mistaken for a breaking wave.” Zydler and her photographer husband, Tom, are world cruisers who have traversed the high latitudes of both hemispheres. This image came from a voyage aboard Whale Song, a 94-foot Trinity/Halter expedition yacht making a circumnavigation. “We now sail our Mason 44, Frances B, following iceberg-rich locations,” Zydler says. “Three voyages to Greenland and six to Labrador.” And…

Hydrotab Trim Tabs Engineered for boats to 20 feet length overall, Hydrotab 160BT trim tabs are designed to create lift with less surface drag, enhancing fuel economy. Paired with a set of Hydrotab blades, 160BT tabs are intended for boats with propeller tunnels or multiple outboards. The housing is stainless steel, and the blades are a lightweight, high-density composite. Controller options are ECO with a rocker switch, 3DHC LED with position indicators and automatic retraction, and 4DHC with full automation, built-in GPS and accelerometer sensors. Starting at $800. GlobalTec Solutions, (410) 202-2347. globaltec-solutions.com C-MAP Insight Charts C-MAP Insight Pro ($99) and Lake Insight HD ($169) combine chart detail, content and C-MAP cartography with data from GoFree Lake Insight charts. Data from the Insight Genesis Social Map provide views of underwater…

Bayliner continues to expand its lineup of affordable, value-driven boats. The company’s Element E21 deckboat rides the builder’s stable and sure-tracking M-hull, comes standard with a Mercury outboard and a trailer, and has a roomy and comfortable layout. At 20 feet, 8 inches overall, it’s Bayliner’s largest deckboat, a self-bailing design aimed at water sports and other day boating activities. The builder packed a ton of clever seating into the Element E21, and it can be changed to suit the activities at hand. Forward is a bow “playpen,” with forward-facing side lounges and a center section that expands to form a sunpad. In the cockpit, abaft the helm and companion seats, is a U-shaped lounge that turns into a sunpad with drop-in cushions. The helm console is to starboard, and…

SATISFY YOUR WANDERLUST Wanderbird is a 90-foot former North Sea fishing trawler that has been converted into a long-range expedition vessel. She was built by the De Haas shipyard in Maassluis, Holland, and worked as a beam trawler from her launch in 1963 until 1990. Wanderbird accommodates 12 in six double cabins, each with a private head and shower, and meets or exceeds the safety requirements for her class and Lloyd’s specifications for passenger-carrying vessels. Powered by a 510-hp diesel, she has a range of 6,000 miles. Traditional touches include varnished woodwork in the galley, library, dining area and saloon, as well as an auxiliary ketch sailing rig. Two small boats allow for venturing ashore. Wanderbird is listed at $229,000 with Midcoast Yacht & Ship Brokerage in Spruce Head, Maine.…

Cabot Lyman moved to Thomaston, Maine, from Vermont in 1978 with a plan to become a boatbuilder. Lyman was looking for space to rent, Morse Boatbuilding was struggling, and it wasn’t long before the two joined forces as Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding. Since then, the company has launched more than 110 vessels, many of them legendary voyagers and racers — not surprising, since Lyman is himself a legendary voyager and racer. Lyman and his wife, Heidi, spent five years sailing and skippering boats in the Caribbean and Mediterranean after college. In 1987 they and their three boys sailed their Lyman-Morse-built Seguin 49, Chewink, on a three-year, 30,000-nautical-mile circumnavigation. Over the years since, the Lymans have sailed Chewink more than 95,000 nautical miles through the Pacific and Caribbean. Innovation and diversification have been…

Youth is wasted on the young. We’ve all heard George Bernard Shaw’s words but perhaps didn’t understand them until it was too late. Many years from now, this wisdom will be recalled by Henry Veitenhans, now 17 years old, and his mates River Yearian, 18, Sean Westlund, 18, and Malachi Church, 21, all of whom voyaged to Alaska aboard the good ship Johnny Horten. They called themselves North to Alaska (or N2AK) and were one of 64 entries in this year’s Race to Alaska (or R2AK), a 750-mile sufferfest that allows only wind and muscle power for propulsion. The race takes participants from Port Townsend, Washington, to Ketchikan, Alaska, with one official stopover in Victoria, British Columbia. Cast in the role of Benjamin Button in this chautauqua was 63-year-old Greg…

At the engine instrument panel, there are usually alarms for low oil pressure and high coolant temperature, often with monitoring gauges. Although there are new technologies, most gauge transmitters (typically called senders) work on an electrical principle of varying resistance. The sender responds to a modification in temperature, pressure or fluid level by changing its resistance to an electrical current sent from the gauge. This system relies on the principles defined by Ohm’s law, which states that as resistance decreases, electrical current must increase. The gauge is supplied with power from a switched source, typically from the ignition. The current flows through the gauge’s internal circuitry, out at the sender terminal and then through a conductor to the sender, which controls how much current can flow to the negative side,…

Herreshoff Illustrated During its 67 years in operation, Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. built some 2,000 vessels — yachts and racers, one designs and daysailers, steam cruisers and motor launches. Herreshoff: American Masterpieces celebrates the legacy and longevity of these creations — more than 400 exist today. Co-authors Maynard Bray and Claas van der Linde tell the stories of several Herreshoff boats still afloat, such as the gaff-rigged cutter Neith, which sank in a hurricane but was rescued and restored; Canvasback, a long and lean motor launch; and Joyant, a P-class sloop that was restored after languishing in a poison ivy thicket for more than 20 years. The book includes previously unpublished original drawings, courtesy of the Hart Nautical Collection at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and color photos by nautical photographer Benjamin…