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January 2022

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10Calendar

16Letters

38Loose Lips

40Sightings

50Season Champions Part Two

We took a little break from our Season Champions series of features to spend two weeks sailing down the coast in the Baja Ha-Ha. This month we pick up where we left off in our November issue.

56Boat of the Month: Millimeter

The Millimeter is a one-design, one-person, single-hull racing yacht, related to the Mini-12 and the slightly longer International 2.4mR. She is a Bay Area legend, with an origin story circa 1982, when Sven Svendsen imported a 12-ft boat from Germany and put it on display at a boat show just south of San Francisco.

60Clear the Decks, Batten the Hatches!

Fall 2021's first big storm on October 24 was a major weather event — an "atmospheric river combined with a bomb cyclone." The unpredicted hurricane-force winds were so strong that most rescue teams could not go out during the storm itself.

64Max Ebb: The Sextant and the Apocalypse

Just duct tape your phone to the telescope mount of your sextant, line it up carefully, and you're good to go.

68Racing Sheet

In this first 'Sheet of 2022, we report on the Melges 20 Worlds, Kennedy Cup, the inaugural Wosser Trophy winners, the J/70 Youth Nationals and the Youth Worlds.

74World of Charter

After cruising in Greece's Cyclades Islands in 2019, Bay Area-sailor Steve Wallach turned his sights to Italy's Aeolian Islands, a volcanic archipelago north of Sicily.

78Changes in Latitudes

88Classy Classifieds

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