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OK, I'll try...
They just started dredging the upper harbor.
My hunch is the new sediment has treasures in the form of golf balls, which sink, but are almost neutrally buoyant in salt water (ask me how I know this).
my guess is that some of these got launched just far enough in the dredge plume to drift around the corner and get washed back in at Twin Lakes.

am I close?
 
Good analysis, David. You win the weekend at CBC. Here's the story as I understand it. (Corrections appreciated):

About a mile up Arana Gulch lies Delaveaga Golf Course. On the golf course lies the practice driving range, where if you badly slice your drive, the ball ends up downhill in Arana Gulch. The balls furnished by the driving range bear the logo of Ocean Honda and it's blue "Wally the Whale" as an advertising reminder.

When the occasional miss hit golf ball dribbles downhill into Arana Gulch, it is likely to get washed into the creek which runs fast in winter storms. Arana Gulch creek passes through a pipe and into the Upper Santa Cruz Harbor, which gets shoaled by all the sediment, thus the need for dredging.

Golf balls sink in fresh water like Arana Gulch creek, and get buried in the sediment. When the dredge snorkel sucks up the sediment, in the spoils are golf balls, which then get pumped all the way out the Harbor, and into the ocean just seaward of Twin Lakes Beach.

Here lies the science experiment DH has alluded to. Golf balls float in salt water due to greater sea water density than fresh water. The Delaveaga practice balls, which have now traveled about 2 miles downhill, rise to the surface from the dredge pipe terminus in the ocean and wash ashore onto the Beach.

Theoretically, a golf ball could float all the way to Hanalei Bay, or even make a passage through the NW Passage, as the occasional rubber ducky has. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ucks-land-British-shores-15-year-journey.html

But put a golf ball in a lake, and it will sink. How do I know this? As a kid I made spare change wading in our local golf course water hazard ponds about sunset and retrieving lost golf balls with my crab pincer big toe. The balls were then sold to the practice range for a quarter a piece, as were golf tees for a dime a dozen.

OK, David, how did you learn the flotation qualities of golf balls?

Fear not, all is not lost and I offer another guest weekend at CBC to whomever can answer the following navigational history question: the location in Arana Gulch where the practice golf balls drop out of sight into the poison oak is significantly unique on any chart or map that uses latitude and longitude. This position is so unique, that back in the early days of Santa Cruz, there was a monument on the location, and tourists were taken in open cars up to the site to say they had stood there. What is this position?
 
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OK, David, how did you learn the flotation qualities of golf balls?

Like many things, I owe this to my father.
Ever the chemical engineer, dad had a parlor trick that involved a glass of tap water, a golf ball, and a salt shaker.
Basically a variant of "bet you I can pull the ball out without spilling the water"
I never forgot the lesson; particularly after I watched him win a $10 bar bet with it.
 
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Like many things, I owe this to my father.
Ever the chemical engineer, dad had a parlor trick that involved a glass of tap water, a golf ball, and a salt shaker.
Basically a variant of "bet you I can pull the ball out without spilling the water"
I never forgot the lesson; particularly after I watched him win a $10 bar bet with it.

Man, that's a great story, Dave. Reminds me of the premise of Slumdog Millionaire. Fun post, Skip, thanks :) but you'll need to make them much easier if I'm ever going to win one of these days!
 
Skip, thanks :) but you'll need to make them much easier if I'm ever going to win one of these days!

OK, here's an easy one. Though this USCG tested and approved design won't win any SSS races, it is unsinkable, unbreakable, reportedly uncapsizable, and can be safely dropped from aircraft with/without a parachute.......
What is this All American design named after?

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You call THAT easy?! I am clueless, but it looks like a West Wight (not Wright) Potter with junk sails and perhaps mated to an unsinkable Boston Whaler hull.
 
Log Books? Over the years I've filled >22 300 page Log Books. I use horizontally lined, hard cover, Record Books, available at most stationers stores for about $20. As needed, I vertically line pages with a pen and straight edge, and label columns as needed: Time/Date/Avg.Course, Speed, Weather/Barometer, etc. For the time we are not underway, I forgo the columns, and just write what happened, or make a sketch. Works for me.
PS: to be a legal document, the log needs to be written in ink.

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You call THAT easy?! I am clueless, but it looks like a West Wight (not Wright) Potter with junk sails and perhaps mated to an unsinkable Boston Whaler hull.

It looks like a Scamp with attitude, and with a deck that's too long for the hull. But really I have no idea! Here's a Scamp (pity about the painter).

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Sorry, BobJ, not a "Scamp with attitude," nor a Dyer Dinghy. Our mystery design has no relationship to Portland, Oregon, either, as some uninformed glossy sailing mags have suggested.... I'll bet MAGICdreamer checks in with the right answer.....
 
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Of course, the unmistakable hull is a PORTLAND PUDGY, made in Portland, ME. But, there must be WAY more to this story. The modifications are not "stock" and obviously with an intended purpose. For more entertainment, look up the story of a fellow who modified a Pudgy to use as gondola for his trans-Atlantic ballon flight.

Tom (sitting here recovering from back surgery)

P.S. Ah yes, the joy of web access... here's PUGWASH in an earlier incarnation:
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Ooh, ouch! I hope you recover quickly Tom.

Speaking of Scamps . . . Awhile back in this very thread, I was ruminating over the sistership to Lester Stone's cutter SCAMP, named LITTLE PACKET. The latter has been for sale over in Berkeley. I'm happy to report that LITTLE PACKET has been sold and is on her way to Port Townsend. This destination is a good sign that she'll be around for awhile, since PT is chock full of neat wooden boats.

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Tom,
Wishing you a speedy recovery, my friend. Keep us posted.

Yes, Portland Pudgys come in many disguises: sailing dinghy, row boat, motorboat, balloon gondola, lifeboat..... FYI, a Portland Pudgy is 7'8" LOA and weighs in at 128 pounds http://www.portlandpudgy.com/dinghy-specs/

The PT Watercraft 11 is a two part, nesting dinghy, weighing 75 pounds, that rows and sails really well. If you've never seen one, check this out, especially the video. http://ptwatercraft.com/ptwatercraft/PT11Home.html

Of all the indefatigable heros in the recent Wine Country fire devastation, I was taken aback by the story of one Peter Lang. Peter, age 77, owns and runs Safari West in Santa Rosa, a wildlife preserve, home to 1,000 African animals and birds.

The advancing inferno of the Tubbs Fire was threatening Safari West and Peter and guests was told to evacuate immediately. Peter declined to leave, his responsibility was to his animals. ("1,000 souls I was responsible for.") Staying behind, and armed with 400 feet of garden hose, Peter fought off the fire, but lost his home.. No animals or birds were lost, thanks to Peter's determined courage. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/How-Safari-West-s-giraffes-cheetahs-and-hippos-12276896.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf0sxOssOWg
 
There was a new PT11 on Craigslist for many weeks, built by a cabinetmaker in San Rafael. He was pretty proud of it ($) but I was tempted.

Even taken apart, it was too big to fit in the back of my Insight hatchback or I would have gone to take a look.

I've saved a lot of money over the years by not going to take a look...
 
Tom,
Wishing you a speedy recovery, my friend. Keep us posted.

Yes, Portland Pudgys come in many disguises: sailing dinghy, row boat, motorboat, balloon gondola, lifeboat..... FYI, a Portland Pudgy is 7'8" LOA and weighs in at 128 pounds http://www.portlandpudgy.com/dinghy-specs/

The PT Watercraft 11 is a two part, nesting dinghy, weighing 75 pounds, that rows and sails really well. If you've never seen one, check this out, especially the video. http://ptwatercraft.com/ptwatercraft/PT11Home.html

Of all the indefatigable heros in the recent Wine Country fire devastation, I was taken aback by the story of one Peter Lang. Peter, age 77, owns and runs Safari West in Santa Rosa, a wildlife preserve, home to 1,000 African animals and birds.

The advancing inferno of the Tubbs Fire was threatening Safari West and Peter and guests was told to evacuate immediately. Peter declined to leave, his responsibility was to his animals. ("1,000 souls I was responsible for.") Staying behind, and armed with 400 feet of garden hose, Peter fought off the fire, but lost his home.. No animals or birds were lost, thanks to Peter's determined courage. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/How-Safari-West-s-giraffes-cheetahs-and-hippos-12276896.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf0sxOssOWg

Having been to. Safari West, I'm amazed that he managed to save the animals. The large areas where some of the antelope are is pretty beaten-down. As in... not any fuel to burn, so that would be safe. The bird enclosure is NOT safe.... neither is Lemur Island, and the zebras, ostriches and cape buffalo are out in the coastal scrub/oak forest. I can't imagine how he herded the cape buffalo to safety.
 
Sorry, BobJ, not a "Scamp with attitude," nor a Dyer Dinghy. Our mystery design has no relationship to Portland, Oregon, either, as some uninformed glossy sailing mags have suggested.... I'll bet MAGICdreamer checks in with the right answer.....

You know, we have come across the PP's used as cruising tenders a couple of times and at one point (briefly) thought about one for for MAGIC...until I tried to pick it up. Found an unfinished Joel White-designed "Shellback" sailing/rowing dinghy rusticating under a tarp in PT. Left a message in the dust on it with our phone contact - and eventually, she became "Slippa", which is still tender for MAGIC.
 
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There's a Skookum 34 with a pilothouse for sale in PT, name of "Walkabout" that is my current fantasy escape vehicle for the zombie apocalypse.

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