In This Issue:
Rolex Sailor of the Year Awards
Torresen Sailing School News
Around Alone Leg 3
Featured Brokerage- C&C 40
2 New Records

Rolex Awards
Paul Cayard age 39 of San Francisco
and Betsy Allison age 38 of Newport RI have
been selected, respectively, as the Rolex
Yachtsman and Yachtswoman of the Year.
    For Allison, this is the 5th time she
has won the Rolex award. Previously she had
been honored in 81,82,84 and 93.
    Among the achievements, Allison was
honored for are both match racing and fleet
racing triumphs. At the ISAF world
championships Allison won silver medal in
the women's fleet racing competition. Also
at the world championships Allison took
the gold medal in the women's match racing
event. Among her other match racing
finishes were top 3 placings at these
events: the BOAT/U.S. Santa Maria Cup,
the Women's ACI Cup and the Osprey Cup.
    At the award ceremony Allison said:
"The beauty of the sport is that you can
be at the top of your game at any age.
It doesn't matter that I'm 38 years old
and there has been a 17-year stretch
since my first Rolex Yachtswoman of the
Year Award. It shows that if you combine
maturity with dedication, you can keep
your edge in sailing."
    Recently Allison has turned from
sailmaking to a role in teaching and
promoting sailing. About this she says:
"The time has come for us to give
something back to the sport we all enjoy."
    The good news for Great Lakes
sailors, it has been heard, but not
confirmed, that Allison will visit
Muskegon this year. Her visit will come
at the time of the J/24 Great Lakes
Championship Regatta which is scheduled
for May 15 and 16. Keep reading ATWOS
for more information on this subject.
    Although Paul Cayard had been
nominated for the Yachtsman of the Year
Award, he had not been the winner.
His victory in the Whitbread Race put
paid to that problem. Cayard's 98 season
also included: victory in the Whitbread 60
class at the Round Gotland Race, winning
the Iridium Pro-Am Match Race and finishing
second at the Hawaii-Kenwood Cup and the
San Francisco Big Boat Series, as tactician
and helmsman, respectively, aboard the ID48
illbruck-PINTA.
    Currently Cayard is involved with
his America One America's Cup campaign.
Runner up to Cayard was Annapolis MD's
Terry Hutchinson who had a stellar '98
including: more than a dozen major regattas.
His victories as skipper included the
J/24 World Championships and North Americans,
Key West Race Week (IMS Overall and
IMS Class 1) and the SORC(Mumm 36).
Hutchinson is currently sailing with Cayard's
Cup campaign.
    Also nominated for Rolex Yachtsman
of the Year were Vince Brun of San Diego,
Calif., Paul Foerster of Garland, Texas,
Jonathan and Charlie McKee of Seattle, Wash.,
John Ross-Duggan of Newport Beach, Calif.,
and Nick Trotman of Manchester, Mass.
    Finishing 2nd for Rolex Yachtswoman
of the Year were: Karen Thorndike Snohomish,
Wash. Thorndike completed a circumnavigation
in a 36 foot sailboat. This voyage was the
first circumnavigation by a women via the
5 great capes. Also nominated were:
Margaret Gill of Weston, Mass., and
Stephanie Wondolleck of San Rafael, Calif.

Torresen Sailing School News and Notes
by Ed Jarvis Sailing Instructor
    The question is frequently asked,
"What days do you start your sailing
classes?" We have no set schedule for
starting classes. Rather than fix dates
and expect students to match our schedule,
we try to adjust to students needs.
Because of the varying vacation times,
travel times and family needs it is not
possible for everyone to start on the
same day. In order to be accommodating
to as many as possible, we ask you to
call and we will try to adjust to your
available time. As you may well guess,
this does not always work, but it works
more often than not. While this system
sometime give us monumental headaches
we feel it is another way to give our
students the best possible service.
    Please feel free to call with
your desired times and we will work
to meet them.
   
For further information please visit:
http://www.torresen.com/school.htm,
or call (231) 759 8596.

Around Alone Leg 3
   
Note: Around Alone is the longest race on
earth for an individual. The 11 boat fleet
started in September in Charleston and
finished leg 1 in Cape Town South Africa.
Now they are sailing to Punta Del Este
Uruguay from Auckland New Zealand on Leg 3.
Leg 3 started Saturday February 6.
    So far Leg 3 has been uneventful.
Currently leading Class I is Marc
Theircelin's Somewhere. Out Front in
Class II is Mike Garside's Magellan Alpha.
    In Class I 2nd is held by current
overall race leader PRB. Isabelle Autissier
sums up her early Leg 3 strategy this way:
"My strategy was simple: get around the
Chatham high and catch the rest of the
cold front, which isn't very active,
but is better than nothing. The wind just
shifted into the west, so I suppose the
front isn't very far away. I'm
continuing to head south." PRB has
stopped the southing and is now sailing
a course of 117 degrees at 12 knots.
    Gartmore is 3rd 69 miles from
1st. Josh Hall is farthest north at
44 degrees south. He also is heading
generally east. His speed of 10.3 knots
is slowest amongst the Class I boats.
    Fila is now 4th 72 miles from
1st. Soldini is steering 123 degrees
at a speed of 10.5 knots.
    Magellan's leads Class II by
14 miles over Balance Bar.
    3rd in Class II is the current
Class II overall leader Cray Valley.
Cray Valley is 89 miles from the lead.
    4th is the first of the fleet's
40 footers Wind of Change, 104 miles
back. Next is another 40 footer Neil
Hunter's Paladin 2. Neil comments:
"All's well on board, touch wood, and
have just had one broken shackle
since leaving Auckland."
    Next is Shuten Dojhi II. Shuten
lies 186 miles from 1st place.
Currently the last boat racing is Neal
Petersen's www.no-barriers.com. Neal
reports an early leg problem: "My bilges
were filling with water and today I
figured out why. When we were out of
the water, we sat in a cradle that
reached up the sides of the boat."
Neal states that this has caused a
leak in his port water ballast tank.
He estimates over 135 gallons of
water emptied into the bilge in
3 hours. Neal is seeking a solution
to this problem.
    For complete daily updates
please see:
http://www.torresen.com/aroundalone/leg3/toc.htm

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2 new sailing Records
    This past week has seen a pair of new
sailing speed records set. The boats that set
them were a study in contrast, one a 19 foot
catamaran and the other a 60 foot trimaran.
    In a remarkable piece of seamanship
Dutch sailors Hans Bouscholtte and
Gerard Navarin have set a new record for
crossing the Atlantic in an open catamaran.
They sailed from Dakar Senegal to Guadaloupe.
The platform for this voyage was a Nacra 19
catamaran. Their official time was 15 days
2 hours and 26 minutes. The crossing had a
distance of 2306 miles so the 19 foot
catamaran's average speed was: 6.37 knots.
    Upon finishing Hans Bouscholtte
said generally things went well, but the
voyage did have its moments such as the
one Hans describes: "The worst part of
the trip was the storm which felt like
it was never going to end. At one point
we just held onto each other for hours,
huddled up underneath the spinnaker. We
had no control over the boat and we
were at the mercy of the sea."
    For more information please visit:
http://www.bouscholte.com/start.asp


    The 60-foot trimaran Lakota sailed
by Steve Fossett and crew set a new record
for the Pineapple Cup Race. The 811 mile
course starts in Ft. Lauderdale Fl. and
finishes in Montego Bay Jamaica.
    Lakota's new record stands at:
2 days 20 hours 8 minutes and 5 seconds for
an average speed of 11.93 knots. This
best the previous record by 7 hours and
47 minutes. This record was also held by
Lakota and Fossett and was set in 1995.
    For more Pineapple Cup News please see:
http://www.montego-bay-jamaica.com/mbyc/frame.htm
   
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