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[sleddog]

News from the Cruz. Santa Cruz Wharf has been reopened, minus 150' of its outer end that broke off. The reopening after thorough structural inspection saves 400 jobs. Here is a photo of the outer end of the wharf from my kayak PADDLIN' MADELINE. Notice the giant piling "dead head," probably 30 feet long, in the foreground. Its visible presence comes and goes depending on the height of passing swells.

As well, below the dead head is a photo of a sunk and wrecked 40' powerboat upside down on the Santa Cruz Harbor launch ramp headed for the landfill, victim of the surge waves. Sad.

 

[sleddog]

Great news from Milly: Inverness YC pier repair began in earnest yesterday. The pros from Wacker and Sons are full on the case, led by Tony Medeiros 3rd generation of experts lifting + moving houses in the Bay Area. Low tide helps!

 

[Daydreamer]

Great news from Milly: Inverness YC pier repair began in earnest yesterday. The pros from Wacker and Sons are full on the case, led by Tony Medeiros 3rd generation of experts lifting + moving houses in the Bay Area. Low tide helps!
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I see footprints.
Is that mud actually stable enough to walk on without sinking to your waist?

 

[Philpott]

That's a nice photo of the end of the pier, Skip. Nobody but you would have gotten it.

 

[sleddog]

I see footprints.
Is that mud actually stable enough to walk on without sinking to your waist?

Yes, you can walk in the mud in the vicinity of Inverness YC. It is ankle deep or less. The Juniors especially love it. In the summer the black mud and shallow water heats the ocean saltwater to 80 degrees, which makes swimming especially attractive for IYC members off their docks. Even in winter, you see swimmers doing "laps." Good news from yesterday is Wacker and Sons has completed Stage 1: lifting and leveling IYC's entire displaced pier, all manual jacking standing in the mud. What's left is to move the leveled pier sideways (west) about a foot on top of the cement pilings. Yesterday several IYC members safely walked to the outer end of their previously broken pier for a picnic lunch.

 

[sleddog]

A current photo, Wed. 1/8/25, before IYC pier gets moved west 1 foot to its previous location atop cement pilings. All work is being done near or at low tide. Photo by IYC Port Captain Milly Biller who is coordinating a significant load of logistics to make this all happen so expeditiously. Well done Team!

 

[BobJ]

Great news! With all the regulatory entanglements these days, I feared the worst.

 

[MillyB]

Great news! With all the regulatory entanglements these days, I feared the worst.

The CCC waived permits for storm related damage in Tomales Bay. Almost every pier on the bay sustained damage or total destruction.

 

[MillyB]

A current photo, Wed. 1/8/25, before IYC pier gets moved west 1 foot to its previous location atop cement pilings. All work is being done near or at low tide. Photo by IYC Port Captain Milly Biller who is coordinating a significant load of logistics to make this all happen so expeditiously. Well done Team!View attachment 9266

Wacker and Sons is working very hard on this. They really know what they are doing and work at a dizzying pace !

 

[sleddog]

Proceeds to Inverness YC Junior Program.
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[sleddog]

After a final night fighting light winds off the Brittany coast, Charlie Dalin, the French skipper of MACIF Santé Prévoyance crossed the Vendée Globe finish line first this Tuesday morning at 07:24 UTC to sail to victory in the Vendee globe, the most prestigious solo sailing race in the world.

In an amazing time of 64 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes, average speed 18 knots, Dalin shattered the previous record set in 2016 by Armel Le Cléac’h by an incredible 9 days, 8 hours, 12 minutes! The 40-year-old skipper has achieved the pinnacle result of his career after finishing a close second in 2020-2021. 100,000 were on hand to greet Dalin at Les Sables d’Olonne. And the rest of France was watching on TV. Congratulations Charlie from all of us here at SSS of SF Bay.

 

[sleddog]

IYC pier is level, and back on its pilings! Still work to do, as the pier ultimately needs to be affixed securely to the pilings so it won't float off so readily. Photo by Milly.

 

[Philpott]

Wonderful news. That explains why Bren has been at RYC more rather than less. Poor guy can't sail at IYC.