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BIRMINGHAM Mackinac Mystique PONTIAC ROYAL OAK 642-7150 542-3850 338-9255 Make the KAST call your LAST call! SIDEWALK SALE July 10-12 All Summer Merchandise and food supplies. You're self- sufficient for at least three or four days. "It's a very exciting event, one that all sailors look forward to starting with the beginning of the season, because you're build- ing (up to the big race). It's not the most important race of the season for season standings, but it's such a big race and it's so exciting that you're always building for it." Edelson said he has been in 26 Port Huron-Mackinac races, with different. size boats, with fourth place eight or nine years ago his best finish. Eve Kommel, 1983 commo- dore at Great Lakes, said she was in 18 Mackinac races as a co-skipper with her husband Richard. They started with a 26-foot boat, she explained, then moved up to a 30-footer, then a 37, a 43, and now own a 51-foot ketch, which they don't race. "We've raced with a crew of anywhere from six to 12," she said. "On our 43-foot boat we had 12." Their best finish, she said, was a fifth place in 1965 out of 37 boats in their class. That race is particularly memorable to Kommel because of "the inci- dent." "A woman on a Mackinac race was not an acceptable matter for some racers," she said. "We got hit — twice — in the middle of Lake Huron by a guy who was absolutely infuriated that a woman at the wheel should be ahead of him. • He was finally penalized, and that was a whole to-do too be- cause he should have been abso- lutely thrown out of the race entirely, (but he wasn't) because it was a good 'ole boy club. This was a well-known racer with a marvelous reputation." After he rammed the Kom- mels' boat, she continued, He said, You get out of my way or, by God, I'm going to come back and hit you again.' And by God he did." 1982 was her last race, Kom- mel said, adding that she wouldn't go to Port Huron just for the pre-race hoopla because "I'd eat my heart out. I still miss the race. It was just a marvelous experience. "Probably in any given year each boat experiences something where all the crew members will say, What the hell am I doing here?' You know, you're seasick, or there's absolutely no air, and there are thousands and thousands of bugs and you are covered with these flies." But there's that, mystique that seems to make it all worthwhile. Another former Great Lakes commodore, Gabriel Alexander (1967), has been a Mackinac race official since the early '70s, shortly before he became com- modore of the Detroit River Yachting Association. Bayview, he said, gave him a testimonial dinner one year for his contribu- tions as a race official. Today's Mackinac boats are loaded with all manner of elec- trical equipment which help skippers determine where they are, how far they've gone, how deep the water is, and to help them raise and maneuver the sails. "You found where you were all these years and everybody has become dumb all of a sud- den," Eve Kommel said with a smile. "We went on our first Mackinac race with (only) a tafflog rail — that's a thing you drag behind you which spins to determine how far you went — a compass and a plumb line. Now it's become a highly- computerized activity and I think it's scared a lot of people out of it. Financially they can't afford to race on that level anymore. • "The thing that concerns me is people get into sailing who have not learned the fundamen- tals, have not learned to put up their finger to feel the air. If lightning hits their mast and everything goes out and they don't have the equipment they won't know what to do to get back." ❑ 50-75% OFF Special Sidewalk Event We have made special arrangements with a major wholesaler to offer you a large selection of sportswear values to $70 Your Choice - Any Item $ '4.42 - 28 6692 Orchard Lk. Rd., West Bloomfield In The WEST BLOOMFIELD PLAZA Friday, July 11, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 851-4410 An engineering student at Boys Town Jerusalem explains to Minister of Education Yitzhak Navon how his senior project monitors heart functioning and displays the heart rate with a digital readout and the pattern of heart activity on a video screen.