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The Berckemeyer BM49 Yacht: Ready for Fitting

• April 25th, 2018
• Sailing Yacht

You all may already know about my passion for aluminium boats in general and for the stylish, modern yet elegant and timeless lines of the Berckemeyer Yachts in particular. Some months ago I visited the Benjamins Yard in Emden (read my article here ) where the CEO and Berckemeyer yachts designer Martin Menzner showed me with pride their latest built: A BM49 Pilot House. As a matter of fact during the day the owner of this marvellous yacht also arrived and I shook hands for the first time with Matthias Schernikau. This is how I met him for the first time.

Now, a bit later, after I met with Martin Menzner in his absolutely likable understating house near the city of Kiel for an interview of yacht racing he told me that Martin Schernikau´s BM49 was has been finished in terms of raw metal stuff and that the boat had been delivered to Mr. Schernikau´s property where it is going to get the internal fittings. Some E-Mails and a phone conversation later Matthias was enthused to invite me to his company compound: I wanted to know about the upcoming steps for the BM49 sailing yacht. When I arrived, I was simply stunned …

The sharp sexy lines of a performance cruiser

Matthias Schernikau is the founder and CEO of a medium sized enterprise. He is developing and building elevators and elevator systems. Entering the company´s ground, I was instantly awed by the sheer size. Not just the size, but also the cleanliness of the huge workshop halls, the light suffused wooden accentuated workplaces. Everything was huge here, very impressive. I was speechless. Matthias, with his welcoming, very open kind was instantaneously conquering my heart as openly showed me around. And then, there, almost hidden behind huge high rise stacks on a massive metal stand, I saw her. Almost majestically floating in the sky, high above my head – the adorably sharp shaped hull of the BM49.

“I´ll go and grab a lift”, said Matthias and went off to get one of these self-moving electric powered basket lifts. I stayed under the boat. Alone. The hull was shining in a silverish blaze as the sun was setting outside and her orange and red-turning light was flooding the huge workshop halls through the big panoramic windows. I was standing under her bow and admired the sharp lines of the stem. Almost hearing the sound of water floating by. Fast. Very fast. I just love the shape of BM-yacht´s bowsprits. So simple. Yet so stylish. No frills …

The wide stern section with the massive propeller shaft. The screw will be turning here safely housed by the shelter of the shaft housing. Two balanced rudder blades, thick and also massive – I remember when Heiner Uffen, boss of the yard, was showing me the single pieces of these very blades. Just like a huge puzzle. Now apparently this puzzle has been finished and here we are: The two blade which will hold the boat´s weight with ease when Matthias decides to fall dry with his fine boat somewhere.

“Jump on in!”, he invited me and rips me from my daydream as he finally arrived with the lift. I enter the basket and we both are lifted up meter by meter. Leaving solid ground, the lift is shaking almost like a floating hull. Looking to the boat directly before my eyes infused a nice feeling of being on the water. As we reach the level of her waterline, I admire the shape of the boat: A nice, rounded submerged body – not too V-shaped like a heavy displacement cruiser – but not too aggressively flat for hard planing. This hull should make a nice compromise between seakind motion and fast sailing.

Matthias´ plans with his BM49

I ask Matthias to bring us high up above the boat before we set foot on her deck. He agrees and so the lift pushes us as far above as it could, my head almost touching the ceiling. What a rich view on this beauty! I stand there and cannot take the bright smile out of my face: What a great boat this is! So elegant, so slim, so well-proportioned. I ask Matthias, what his next steps for the boat would be: “Well, you saw that model of the hull in both my and Mr. Uffen´s office in Emden?” I nod and remember the gadget: “I was putting a picture of it to eBay classifieds and announced that I was looking for a skilled boatbuilder to make the interior fittings.” I raise my eyebrows. On eBay, really? Yes! He nods and laughs: “I´ve got four very good applications. And hired one of them finally.”

As the mighty arm of the lift swings us directly above the foredeck of the BM49 yacht, Matthias explains: “First step is sanding. As you may see, the boat has been treated only roughly. The fine works is now the first job. We´ve already begun doing so.” If he wants to paint the boat, I ask. “No, not at all! Paint on an aluminium boat is worthless. It will come off more sooner than later. I will add non slip in parts of the deck, a nice cork flooring in the cockpit – which I find looks terrific – and – maybe by adhesive strong foil – an orange coat for the deck house here. That´s all.” No frills, eher we go again.

I ask him about the internal layout of the boat, which he tells me he want to show me later in detail when we board the boat, but explains: “That´s quite easy: There´s an owner´s cabin in the front – classic way – a head to port side. Starboard side is a small berth just like the old school quarter berths adjoined by a longitudinal galley to the aft.” Then, he said, there will be the salon of course and two aft cabins: “Port side will be the single berthed guest cabin, starboard side will be left raw. As a storage-room and a small workshop. “But the most ingenious thing of this boat is the pilot house, of course!”, he says and lowers the lift so that we can set our feet onto the deck of the Berckemeyer yacht.

“I´ll show you from the inside”, Matthias insists and welcomes me aboard. Looking at the deck house superstructure I am delighted to see the huge front widows, the wide, open windows to either sides of the salon house: “There will be lots of natural light in the salon!”, Matthias is amazed and it’s a pleasure to see his sheer pleasant anticipation when he is looking onto this arguably huge project. As I roam the wide deck and count the number of the hatches, I stop at the drop keel.

Variable draft – Berckemeyer Yacht drop keel system

The coolest aspect of having a “go anywhere” boat is, of course, being able to go anywhere indeed. With the possibility of a variable keel boundaries to a yacht are virtually limitless. The BM49 will be able to reduce her draft from staggering 3.30 metres to a very, very shallow 1.30 metres: “I can enter very shallow areas for safe anchorage”, Matthias says. And you can go upriver exploring, discovering places no fixed keel yacht can ever go. Amazing.

“Thanks to Martin Menzner´s brilliant construction here”, says Martin and points to the keel. The drop keel is operated by a string hydraulic system. The keel fin – also massively done in aluminium – is sliding within a really solid and thickly carved bearing track. The keel is penetrating the roof and will stick out some 50 centimetres when in shallow mode like we see it here now. “By this we gain half of a metre longer lever for the lead bulb down below, which significantly increases the stability and stiffness of the boat.”, Matthias explains.

When the keel is down and the yacht is in sailing mode, a flap will come down and cover the keel house. “Look at the fat bearings here!”, Matthias points to the details. “You will also see from the inside that this keel is laid out and made so solid that I would say this whole construction is even more durable than a fixed keel!.” I remember hearing a story of another Berckemeyer yacht, a BM43, hitting the rocky breakwater somewhere in foul weather in Sweden, being pushed over the wall rocks very violently: Apart from scratches in the hull and a bent rudder shaft the only damage was a slightly upward bent nose of the lead bulb. No damage whatsoever to the boat. Steel is real , as they say …

A true no-frills-sailing-yacht

Matthias climbs into the cockpit: “That´s going to be an easy boat. I want to sail this single handed. So, you know, everything that has a cable attached – will break sometimes. So I try to keep my boat as simple as possible. There won´t be any stuff aboard I won´t necessarily need.” Beginning right here in the cockpit, I don´t notice any mounting posts for steering wheels: “No wheels, no!”, he insists, “this yacht will receive a nice tiller steering. Martin Menzner was promising that he would design a boat that I could command by having two fingers at the helm. And I believe him – he knows quite well what he is doing!”

Matthias is a pragmatic: “Wheels need cables and quadrants and chains and mechanics and stuff. It will need attention and maintenance. It can break. It will wear down. You know what really sucks? When a wheeled steering has slackness. You cannot steer precisely. It will simply kill all the fun of sailing.” Besides, it´s dangerous. “I love the direct feeling of a tiller. The potential of reacting very quickly to shifting patterns, to do it fast and quickly. You know, when you are on a long trip, you will have automatic steering anyway, no matter if wheels or a tiller are installed. But when it really grabs you and you want to catch this Dehler 46 and you have this adrenalin rush – then steering with tiller bring you most of the joy!” He is glowing. And I know what Matthias is speaking about, thinking back of my experience with the tiller on the Pogo 40 .

So in the cockpit there will be the tiller, two seating benches with a considerable amount of seating space being safely secured under the massive dodger. The whole of the cockpit´s crawl space is down below deck level is empty space: “Of course there´s a locker for fenders and stuff, but I´ll keep it nice and light to have the boat as leightweight as possible.” On the coamings – which by the way are very, very high to ensure maximum shelter from overcoming seas – there are three thick mounting bases for the winches. Three to either side. That´s serious business.

An hour ago, when I was arriving and Matthias showed me around in his company, we also went into is office. The company is running quite nicely and it took me weeks to arrange a date with him due to his tightly filled calendar. But standing in the office I got the impression of being in a shop for sailing props: A nice three bladed ship´s screw, blocks and clamps, a bilge pump and the six winches. Of course the finest stuff by Anderson/Denmark. “All winches are good old mechanically driven, except the halyard winch for the main.”, Matthias smiles and looks at me: I agree, nobody wants to hoist an 80 square feet mainsail by bare hand …

Matthias´ only concession to modern day electronics are two retractable thrusters by Max Power. One in the bow and one aft. “My girlfriend isn´t too deep into sailing and, as I said, I want to sail the boat alone. Being able to manoeuvre her safely in harbours is a matter or course, so adding a stern thruster here was definitely in my wish list from the beginning.”

Aluminium yacht: Rock solid!

We enter the boat and I notice two distinct features which remind me what really fascinates me with aluminium boats. First there is the clamps. Before I reached the majestic Island of Madeira on a brand new Dufour 460 which I was delivering to her new owners on the Canary Islands one year ago (read about it here , here and here ) sailing in reaching and running conditions of the trade winds I was fitting a makeshift lazy guy to the boom to the midship clamp of the boat. After five days of nice calm sailing, the clamp was slacking loose. This just won´t happen with the BM49.

Looking at how the clamps on this boat are fixed to the hull, one must admit that this rock solid construction is just exhaling confidence in every single inch of the boat: Look at these thick clamp fittings and the centimetre of a weldseam! “When we were putting this boat to its rack up here”, Matthias says, “I hat the whole hull being hung up at the crane – we pulled her up at her chain plates . Can you imagine this? The whole weight of the hull, that´s some 6 tons or so, on the chain plates!” I doubt that one can do this with a construction boat …

The other detail is the dodger. “You know, I am really thankful to Martin Menzner to persuade me to go for this pilot house configuration! You see these two seatings here stationed directly under the dodger? No spray, no waves, no wind will come here! That’s perfect for a watch.” Best is that one can see through the windows of the deck house almost perfectly over the whole horizon. “Best thing about it: I don´t need a sprayhood. I think it´s a sprayhood that defaces a yacht´s lines. But not mine!”

Envisioning the interior of the BM49 sailing yacht

As we enter the hull it is of course completely empty – except for the room dominating housing for the drop keel. Matthias stand in the flare of the floodlight and is talking enthusiastically about his vision for the boat´s internal fittings. Because, as empty as it may seem now, it won´t remain this way: “Where we are now there will be the pilot house. That´s a cool thing. Essentially this is two benches with cushion facing each other. There will be a secondary chart plotter up here and that´s all.” The pilot house is for standing watches when it´s really nasty outside and for a nice hot tea when Matthias reaches the Higher Lattitudes.

The floor of the pilot house will also be the ceiling of the two aft cabins – guest and workshop – to either side of the entryway which will also cover the engine. By the way, here´s the no frills concept of Matthias and Martin Menzner coming through again: Where an ordinary production boat will be fitted with a 75 hp engine minimum, on the BM49 there´s just a 50 hp installed. Smaller, lighter. “I want to sail, basically. The engine is for port manoeuvres …” Smaller engine means smaller prop means lesser drag. Nice.

Matthias stands on the port side Diesel fuel tank and explains the layout: “Here´s the forward bulkhead separating the owner´s heads and cabin from the starboard side walkway and galley. In the salon there will be an L-shaped sofa with a two-seater settee around a dining table. That´s it. “You see, basically, because of the fact that everything aft of the rear bulkhead is free, unused floating volume, this 49 feet boat offers the same internal volume like a 40 or 44 feet boat. That´s also because for a near 50-footer this yacht is very slim.” It´s amazing hearing Matthias saying this: In times when owners seek to get the most volume out of their hulls, he seems happy and even proud having achieved to shrink the internal space of his boat. Maybe because he is gaining sailing performance?

Although the portholes in the ship´s sides aren´t too many and the existing aren´t too big, the salon will be light suffused anyway. That´s because of the gorgeous front windows which reminded me instantly of the Oyster I was roaming in Cannes last year (read it here). I love these front facing windows and if I could choose a yacht, I definitely would go for a boat offering this amenity. It will be just a gorgeous sight to the surrounding nature and the Ocean when underway through these!

Matthias is going to fit plexiglass windows to the deck house but he doesn´t know yet if blank or coloured. That´s the same question I once had with my own boat and I decided to go for darker coloured windows because I hate curtains and definitely didn´t want to install shades. But Matthias says: “Sun and sight protection is a point. But you see, I want to go in the ice. This means sailing in High Lattitudes where maybe there isn´t so much sunlight and you need to catch every light possible.” That´s a point here. “May I´ll go for an adhesive foil which I can remove when I want.” Yepp, that´s clever.

When will she hit water?

After two hours and a long, fascinating talk about the Berckemeyer BM49 yacht and the plans of Matthias, we re-enter the basket and Matthias brings us down to Earth again. As we pass the sharp bow I touch her the last time and take the promise from him to call me when the boat has entered a new stage of the project: I am very interested to see how the boat will be insulated, how the first decks are installed and the bulkheads will be fitted. I want to see the rough finished layout with the pilot house and first raw furniture. Matthias agrees instantly.

He also tells me that he recently has ordered a tailor-made carbon mast at Axxon, which will also be an interesting story although I fear I cannot afford to fly over to Romania to Axxon´s production site. But maybe a dash to the BM49´s sailmaker will compensate for this. When Matthias is planning to finish this work? “Well, I think next season she will be in the water.” Late in the season, but surely something around 2019. And you guess what? I believe that they will achieve this goal: Matthias is a skilled metalworker, has all tools at hand in his own company. And he is determined. He will make it, I am sure.

As I leave the elevator factory I am turning my head multiple times to look back – what a beautiful sight she is, what a nice boat indeed! I am looking forward to meeting Matthias again, maybe in another three months time, to see his marvellous Berckemeyer yacht coming one or two steps closer to being finished. What a great day this has been indeed!

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All About the Benjamin's... And Their New Boat

At first glance, the legendary reggae recording-artist Bob Marley and the great American novelist Leon Uris had little in common, the former being a Rastafarian from Kingston, Jamaica, and the latter a bestselling Jewish author from Baltimore, Maryland. Upon closer review, however, Marley and Uris shared a fleeting though relevant, important connection. Marley’s most influential album, a critical and commercial success that propelled him to international stardom; and what’s recognized as Uris’s best book (which also became a feature film starring Paul Newman), which chronicles the founding of the state of Israel, both shared the same name:  Exodus.

Now, we can add seasoned cruising sailors Mike and Ronna Benjamin, retired lawyers from Boston, Massachusetts, to this distinguished, accomplished grouping. For the Benjamins’ have now owned a pair of Hylas Yachts—a 49-footer on which they lived aboard and sailed full time from 2017 to 2021, and a brand-spanking-new Hylas 57 that they’re scheduled to commission this month in Miami, Florida—each of which have been called, yes,  Exodus.

“We’re Jewish and  The Book of Exodus  in the Old Testament was about the exodus of the Jews from Egypt, going out and seeking their new home,” said Mike. “And that great Paul Newman movie was about a ship called  Exodus  that carried the Jews from Europe. Both stories are about perseverance. And then there’s that wonderful Bob Marley song and album that we play all the time. The name just means a lot to us on a lot of levels.”

When the Benjamins sold their 49-foot  Exodus , in the sales agreement they stipulated that the boat’s name be changed by the new owners. “And when we bought the new boat, we decided to just go with  Exodus  again,” Mike said. “No  Exodus II .” Pretty fitting: the couple’s next exodus will be aboard their new  Exodus , period.   But we’re getting ahead of the story.

A lifelong waterman, Mike began sailing at the tender age of five, first on his grandfather’s steel ketch, then in summer-camp sessions in Maine, and later aboard his own 420 racing dinghy in Boston Harbor as he became a proficient and successful racing sailor. He said, “I just took to it early on and became relatively good at it compared to my peers. And, you know, when you're good at something, you tend to stick with it and excel at it.”

Meanwhile, Ronna was also getting into the racing scene with her older brothers out of the Hull Yacht Club in Massachusetts. She was less, shall we say, enamored of the pursuit than her future husband. “It wasn't always a great experience, there was a lot of pressure,” she laughed. “I’m pretty done with racing. I love sailing, but for me it’s about the lifestyle.”

Fatefully, the couple’s paths crossed at Boston College Law School, where they both matriculated, and it wasn’t long before they decided they were in for the long haul together. “We got engaged on the eve of our graduation night,” said Mike. “She showed up the next morning with a ring on her finger.” Ronna concurred, saying, “I got both the ring and my degree at the same time. I was a double winner!”

Right from the outset, sailing was a big part of their lives. The worked and lived in downtown Boston, where Ronna’s father kept a succession of cruising sailboats at a marina in the heart of the city, first a Tartan and later a couple of different Bristol yachts. Many a weekday night they hopped aboard after work for a twilight sail, and on weekends cruised north to Marblehead and along the North Shore. “We essentially treated them like they were our own boats,” said Mike. It was the best of both worlds: all the benefits of boat ownership with few of the costs!

But that was only a part of their ever-expanding sailing journey. As they built their careers, and launched their growing family, from 1991 to 2011 they chartered over a dozen sailboats literally all over the world: Thailand, the Bahamas, New England, the Caribbean, Southern France, Greece, just about everywhere. Little by little, they were accruing the skills sailors required to become blue-water sailors. 

And then, in 2011, with their three kids moving on with their lives and, as Mike said, “off the payroll,” they made a life-changing decision. “I called Dick Jachney up in Marblehead,” Mike continued, recalling his first meeting with the late yacht broker who at the time was synonymous with the Hylas brand. “I asked him if there were any good Hylas’s on the market, and of course he sold me on building a new one. And that was the first  Exodus , hull number 65 of the Hylas 49 line. Of course, we knew a fraction of what we know now. But it was comforting having hull 65, as we knew they’d already built that many of them.”

Several years later, after getting to know the boat through many shake-down New England cruises, the Benjamin’s made a radical decision. A talented writer, Ronna described it in the opening paragraphs of a story she wrote for  AARP  magazine in 2019. It started like this:

“If we had told our three adult children we were traveling to Papua New Guinea for birdwatching, or that we were making a pilgrimage to India to hone our yoga practice, they would have thought we had lost our minds. But they were not surprised when we told them we were selling our family home and all our possessions, and moving onto our 49-foot sailboat to explore the world. They simply wondered what had taken us so long.”

And thus, a new chapter in the pair’s sailing odyssey set forth. 

It wasn’t always easy. In fact, the Benjamin’s first offshore passage, an 11-day, 1,200 nautical-mile voyage from Virginia to Antigua on a November rally organized by the Salty Dawg group, might’ve turned off a less determined couple once and for all. The freezer with all their fresh food crapped out almost at the outset. The autopilot only worked intermittently. And then, a hundred miles out, the rudder failed, and they steered into the islands with the emergency tiller. Yes, more than a few cruisers, after such an ordeal, would’ve have called it a day.

In Antigua, however, a chance meeting with, of all people, Prince Charles, led to what Ronna wrote was “an attitude adjustment.” The Prince, on a tour of the docks at English Harbour, peppered Mike with questions about his rudder repair, and suddenly they saw their difficult trip south in a completely different light. “Despite hardships and frustration, this was going to be a life of adventure,” she said.

“We embraced the cruising life,” she continued. “The warm, gin-clear waters, the dolphins, turtles and reef fish… Most importantly, we embraced a sailing community that looks after each other like no other. We embraced new friends from all over the world. We help each other fix engines, rigging, and computer and electrical problems. We provide tools and spare parts. And we provide each other with emotional support. We sing, laugh and drink. Boy, do we drink.”

The next leg of the trip, on a 40-boat cruise in company called the OCC Suzie Too Rally, proved to be as magical as the initial voyage had been arduous. On a magical cruise along the coast of Colombia, the San Blas Islands, Panama, the islands off Honduras and Nicaragua, and Belize,  Exodus  found her groove. 

All of which, eventually, led to the commissioning of their new Hylas 57. Mike admits he looked at some other brands, including Oysters and Hallberg-Rassys. “But ultimately,” he said, “I trusted the Hylas people to build the boat right. And with their willingness to incorporate the extra things I wanted on the boat, hands down Hylas was the way to go."

Which brings us to one last question: Which way will you go on that new Hylas? Mike laughed and said, “Well, plans are written in sand at low tide.” And Ronna admits that with a new grandchild in the picture, her appetite for open-ended adventuring is being tested. All that said, there’s a shakedown sail to the Bahamas in the very near future, and perhaps a summer rally north to the Canadian Maritimes. 

“And the first ‘bucket list’ trip we have planned is going to be an Atlantic Circle,” Mike said. “The loop to the Azores and Europe, then down to the Canaries, on to the Cape Verde Islands and then back to the Caribbean. With our new, bigger boat, it will be a quicker trip than it would’ve been on the 49. We’re really looking forward to it.”

Sounds just about perfect. Let the next  Exodus  begin.

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Dmitry Korchak (born February 19, 1979 in Elektrostal/Moscow Oblast) is a Russian tenor and conductor.

Korchak received his musical education at the Moscow Choral Academy. In 2004 he won prizes at the “Francisco Viñas” International Singing Competition in Barcelona and at the Plácido Domingo Operalia International Competition in Los Angeles.

As a singer he has appeared at La Scala in Milan, the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, the Paris Opera Bastille, London’s Covent Garden and New York’s Carnegie Hall. He has collaborated with artists such as Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Plácido Domingo, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta and Kent Nagano.

From 2017 to 2020, Dmitry Korchak was Principal Guest Conductor at the Novosibirsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, where he directed his own festival, and Guest Conductor at the Mikhailovsky Theater in Saint Petersburg.

Korchak has made several guest appearances at the Kissinger Sommer, the Salzburg Festival and the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, where he also worked as a conductor. Korchak also worked with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, among others.

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A Bit More About the Benjamins

After a day of cleaning, relaxing and general decompressing at Croker Island, we weighed anchor at 9:30 Sunday morning and followed Jerry and Clare in Magic Carpet out of the bay and toward the Benjamin Islands. We were headed to Fox Island and the Benjamins were in the way. Fox lay to the northwest, and the cut between North Benjamin Island and South Benjamin Island was the shortest and fastest route to the popular harbor.

The Benjamins Cut is a narrow channel with plenty of depth for most keelboats. It does require some intricate maneuvering. Accessed only at a particular angle from the east due to shoals, the approach, entrance and navigation of the cut require a diligent bow watch and clear communication back to the helmsman. The channel is a literal obstacle course that requires some complicated choreography to keep the keel and hull off the boulders and rocks littering the channel and lining it on both sides.

Once through the narrowest part of the channel, the west end seemingly opens up, but shoals and submerged rocks require continuing diligence. Some four hundred yards out a large, long rock forces a right turn and another four hundred yards must be covered before reaching open water free of hidden hull piercers.

This wasn’t our first approach to the Benjamins cut.

A Step Back in Time

We considered taking the shortcut on our first visit to the North Channel back in 2005 when we were on our 22-foot Rhodes sailboat, Blue Loon. We had a copy of Jerry’s very detailed chart showing how to get through the cut and the trailerable Loon was only 8 feet wide and drew just 24 inches of water with the centerboard up. It should have been a piece of cake to navigate. Taking the cut would shave a several hours off our cruise that day from Croker to Spanish, Ontario, where our SUV and the boat trailer awaited us. As we approached the cut, we changed our minds. High southwest winds were driving waves into the narrows. The turbulence undermined any confidence we had that the long-shaft 10-horse Yamaha outboard mounted on our transom would keep us off the rocks and shoals.

Ten years later in our much larger, beamier and heavier Gozzard 37, we followed Jerry and Clare through the cut. That day was calm and sunny; the water was equally calm and clear. Julie was on the bowsprit keeping an eye out for obstacles as we slowly and carefully navigated the rocky obstacle course behind our friends. During that passage we laid down the track on our Navionics chart plotter. We still have that track.

Now, two years later, on an even bigger boat we were picking our way to and through the Benjamins Cut. It was another calm day. Julie was on the bowsprit feeding me information over my headset.  I was at the helm trying to keep Jerry and Clare a boat length ahead of us. Trying to gauge distances and mimic turns is tricky in the ever-expanding wake of another boat—even in close quarters on calm water. With the first few maneuvers behind us, we safely passed the massive boulder to starboard and the granite point to port that stand as sentries at the eastern entrance of the cut.

Inside the narrows I slowed down. Jerry didn’t and was soon racing ahead. Like so many of other channels and bays in this area, Jerry knows the Benjamins cut like he knows the back of his hand. He doesn’t slow down going through that channel. I carefully followed the track on the chart and monitored the depth of the water to make we didn’t stray over a shoal. All the while I’m listening to Julie gasp over the headset at how close that rock seems, or how shallow the bottom looks. Unlike side mirrors, objects only APPEAR closer in depth-distorting clear water.

Until you hit something.

Once we cleared the narrows and the outer shoals and obstacles to the west, we steered to starboard and sped up to close with Magic Carpet. By the time we turned north, he had a quarter of a mile on us.

Based on call-ins during the Cruisers’ Net that morning, we speculated that Fox Island’s intimate little harbor might be crowded. After a couple of exchanges on our VHF radios, Magic Carpet went ahead to scout the site while we steered tight circles in the narrow approach to the harbor. Jerry radioed that the Fox Island anchorage was full of boats. Full enough, anyway to discourage us from entering.

We reviewed our options and decided to head to Eagle Island, less than a mile to our west and another mile and a half into the anchorage. We dropped anchor a little before noon.

August 13 – 14, 2017 Eagle Island-North Channel Ontario     46°06.658’N   82°17.964’W   1402.8 Nautical Miles

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Always enjoy your writing and photos. Best wishes for a great 2018. Roy

Thanks Roy – there’s more coming, we’re not done with the North Channel yet!! Happy New Year!

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This year’s Newport – Bermuda race was a great opportunity for the new  Carkeek 40  Decision to go out and show what a modern lightweight 40ft racing yacht can achieve under IRC, and congratulations to the Murrays and their crew on winning their class, 5th overall and the prestigious Onion Patch Trophy.

Similar thinking has gone into the new Carkeek C 100 , an ultra-lightweight yacht, designed to break existing records and challenge the likes of George David’s Rambler 100 and ICAP Leopard. She is lighter, yet stiffer than Rambler 100, with a higher SA/DISP both up and downwind. Using customised in-house VPP using CFD data combined with routing software using this year’s record breaking conditions, we estimate the Carkeek C 100 would have completed the Bermuda race in close to 24 hrs, at an average speed of 26 knots. It is estimated in perfect record conditions the C 100 is capable of +640 nautical miles in 24hrs at average speed in excess of 26.5knots! .

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The Benjamins

Whenever I’ve planned trips in my life, whether our summer sailing vacations, canoe or kayak camping trips, there’s always a spot or two on the trip plan where I’ve made a mental asterisk and often organized some or all of the route around visiting those spots. Right from when we first had the idea of sailing through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, the first asterisk in my head was the North Channel in Lake Huron, and specifically the Benjamins.

None of this will come as a surprise to sailors familiar with the area; this is not a secret out-of-the-way gunkhole. If you poke around on forums online where sailors from around the world discuss their favourite anchorages, The Benjamins are often mentioned. The North and South Benjamin Islands, along with Fox Island to the north and Croker Island to the east, along with dozens of smaller rocks and islets, form a protected ring filled with small nooks and protected bays where boats can spend a night or two. The most popular spot to drop the hook is the natural harbour formed between North and South Benjamin Islands.

We managed to escape the “big current” in Little Current late in the afternoon on Saturday (June 18), as the wind finally settled a bit. At around 5 p.m., we jumped at the chance to get off the dock and sailed over to Clapperton Harbour.

That night, the clear, moonless sky was filled with stars with the bright streak of the Milky Way visible. Morning, however, revealed that the anchorage was also popular with flies (thousands of them), and with the boat covered we didn’t linger long, motoring out in the calm and up to Croker Island where we tucked in expecting a bit of rain and stronger east winds. The rain mostly held off, and we spent the afternoon scampering around on the rocks and taking in the view.

The next day we made the short hop over to the main anchorage between the Benjamins. Two other sailboats were there when we arrived, but still lots of room (at its peak in the summer this anchorage fills up with dozens of boats), and one of the left later that afternoon. Even better, the clouds cleared out and the other sailboat left early the next morning. And so, for most of the day we relished having this incredible spot to ourselves.

It’s the rocks that make the Benjamins special. The islands feel as though they were sculpted out of a single piece of pink granite, all sharp corners rounded over and polished smooth by the last ice age. The rocks climb smoothly up high to deliver views over the North Channel in all directions, and plunge gracefully down into the clear waters below. And the sun sets gracefully between the two main islands at this time of year, over the smaller rocks and islets. 35 years ago my family came here on a summer sailing vacation, and despite the (many!) years, I immediately recognized some of the spots where we swam and played. It’s a special, unforgettable place.

Unfortunately the water was still too cold for swimming, so we again set off exploring the islands by dinghy and by foot. Later that afternoon another sailboat pulled in. To celebrate the solstice, as the sun was setting, we jumped in the dinghy again (with provisions), and invited the guys on the other sailboat to join us for a campfire on shore. They were two old friends, longtime sailors, out for a few days to cruise the area. We lay on the rocks, still warm from the day’s sunshine, laughed, and shared stories of sailing and cruising over beers and roasted marshmallows until almost midnight. The Benjamins delivered again.