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MillyB said:
Great Picture and beautiful weather ! What is the occasion of the fireworks- Columbus Day ?
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Hereabouts, at least in Berkeley, Columbus Day is no longer cause for celebration. Instead Monday is referred to as Indigenous Peoples Day. A paid federal holiday. No fireworks. I love fireworks. Will you photograph them for us, Skip? This forum can use some excitement!
 
sleddog said:
Sleddog appreciates photos, whether of schooners with a bone in their teeth, sailmaking, pretty sunrises and sunsets, cats, dogs, dirtboats, motorcycles You name it, we don't discriminate.
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A small glimpse into how I spent my summer between Port Townsend and Juneau, AK

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Howard Spruit said:
our pet Dogs and Cats HATE fireworks, Many pet owners buy and administer tranquilizers for their animals.
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I hear you Port Captain Spruit. This fireworks display has nothing to do with Columbus Day nor any holiday. It is donated by the Monte Foundation to raise money. and is site specific to the Wharf only. Local bars and restaurants donate a portion of their evening profits to a fund supporting local schools. I doubt residents or animals of Live Oak will hear anything. Let me know. I have our mayor on speed dial.

The fireworks last half hour, 7:30-8:00. As it is city run, it is intended to make people feel good. There are no booms before or after. Not like Ukraine where your life is at stake at all hours. I'll be present and accounted for at sunrise tomorrow helping clean up the detritus off Main Beach.
 
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Aha. Skip, you didn't mention fireworks at first. Before I scrolled down, I got the impression that they intended to blow up the wharf!

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Critter said:
Aha. Skip, you didn't mention fireworks at first. Before I scrolled down, I got the impression that they intended to blow up the wharf! Max
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Hi Max, The fireworks went off on schedule. The audio part had plenty of volume. However the visual part was lacking. Someone forgot to turn off the fog machine. The glow of $30,000 of bombs bursting in fog may have been lost on the audience.

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sleddog said:
The audio part had plenty of volume. However the visual part was lacking. Someone forgot to turn off the fog machine.
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Same here. I just spent three afternoons on the central Bay trying to give charter clients decent views of the Fleet Week air shows, mostly to no avail. We could hear the jets and occasionally we saw a good fly-over, but that was it. Karl (the Fog) ruined the show.
 
Oh, dear. That is a shame about the fireworks in Capitola.

On Friday I drove over to Marina Green and had a wonderful day talking with the soldiers who were all there being nice to people. I took photos (with permission) of kids climbing up into huge armoured vehicles.

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Encouraged by the soldiers, most of whom were not much older than the kids themselves, the teeniest of children leaned on the horns and revved the engines, tried on helmets and were generally having a splendid time. There were thousands of people there and we saw some of the Blue Angels' show. Those jets go so fast I couldn't figure out how to focus fast enough!

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It was a splendid day, although very cold.

Today, though, was a different thing altogether. Sailed out, reefed when I saw how the boats in the slot were heeling, and sloshed around alot in the 4 knot ebb meeting up with the wind through the gate. Too bad about the fog. I hove to for about 30 minutes waiting, then heard over the vhf that the show was cancelled.

Interesting about heaving to on the bay today: Several sailboats sailed over our way to see if DM and I were in distress. I just wanted to stop and watch, out of the way.
 
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Fireworks detritus collected on the beach this morning. Not a good look in a National Marine Sanctuary.

Sleddog's byline will be walk-about for 10 days, beginning tomorrow. Will be sailing our old family Cal-40, #24, ex-HOLIDAY TOO, now RADIANT and 57 years young, to the island of bald eagles, giant goldfish, and American Bison.

Don't be bashful in my absence. CBC Port Captain Spruit will be in the woodwork. You can ask him about this. The first time ridden, the front wheel became unweighted.

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If that is too rich, perhaps this happy distraction from Ants: "British genes in Henry, the Pembroke Welsh Corgi as well as the collection of BSA motorcycles bits from the 1940’s to the early 1960’s. The bits were creatively assembled to be a motorcycle that never left the BSA factory looking that way."

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This is unfortunate, Skip. This display is for a good cause. I am so sad to see that they can't seem to clean up after themselves. How much of this stuff didn't wash ashore for you to collect, and is either farther than the route that you walked, or is still drifting around out there.
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Philpott said:
Hereabouts, at least in Berkeley, Columbus Day is no longer cause for celebration. Instead Monday is referred to as Indigenous Peoples Day. A paid federal holiday. No fireworks. I love fireworks. Will you photograph them for us, Skip? This forum can use some excitement!
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Starting in the 1980’s, I celebrated Columbus Day in a simple fashion. Columbus was a sailor. I went sailing on that day.

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sleddog said:
Sleddog's byline will be walk-about for 10 days, beginning tomorrow. Will be sailing our old family Cal-40, #24, ex-HOLIDAY TOO, now RADIANT and 57 years young, to the island of bald eagles, giant goldfish, and American Bison.
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Southern CA weather has been dominated by convective cells and roving bands of thunderstorms from an upper level low wobbling for several days. Lightning strikes near shore have been observed, along with heavy rain, hail, gusty and outflow winds. Lifeguards have evacuated the water and closed some beaches as air to water lightning strikes approached.

With the pattern forecast to continue at least to the weekend, we've opted for the old saw, "never leave a good port in bad weather" and opted for Plan B, which is not to sail Cal-40 RADIANT to Catalina. Instead, retreating inland to a favorite oasis in the Panoche, 35 miles from the nearest town. Sky is clear, water and air temps pleasant, moving shadows in the brown hills long at sunrise and sunset, and the coyote cries and owls hoots heard beneath the stars.

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sleddog said:
With the pattern forecast to continue at least to the weekend, we've opted for the old saw, "never leave a good port in bad weather" and opted for Plan B, which is not to sail Cal-40 RADIANT to Catalina. Instead, retreating inland to a favorite oasis in the Panoche, 35 miles from the nearest town. Sky is clear, water and air temps pleasant, moving shadows in the brown hills long at sunrise and sunset, and the coyote cries and owls hoots heard beneath the stars.
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While hiking the Panoche hills this morning, the sun rose over mountains to the east at 7:28 a.m. Ahead lay something we'd not heard about, nor seen.

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Cruising our small, "canned ham", RUBY, is remarkably similar to cruising a small boat like WILDFLOWER. RUBY's outside cabin dimensions are 12' LOA x 7' beam. Inside is 6'3" head room, galley with 2 burner propane stove, fridge, queen bunk, dinette convertible to queen, head with composting toilet and shower, heater, and screen door. Displacement is ~2,000 pounds.

Similarities between cruising under sail and on land include:
Navigation, communications, finding a secure/ quiet anchorage, provisioning and food prep, space and stowage utilization, sanitary facilities, water stowage and conservation, interaction with authorities and management, maintenance and repairs, charging, energy use and conversion. docking, sleeping accommodations, medical and health, rescues, clothing and footwear, etc.

Above is RUBY in her current campsite near Mariposa. Temps are 78/42, clear with dark sky and Milky Way overhead at night. Tomorrow to Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite High Sierra.
 
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