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Boat name: KOHOLA Home Port: Monterey
Boat Species: Newport 30 (Gary Mull design) .
As we remember the saga of KOHOLA, pages 518-519 above, she'd washed up on Capitola Main Beach Sept.19, 2022, and was eventually towed off the next day, seemingly undamaged and headed for a new life. Alas, unlike ROSEBUD's rebirth, KOHOLA was abandoned again and now sits tied to the guest dock at Santa Cruz Harbor, stripped of everything of value, and awaiting disposal into the dumpster. Sad. Landfill is becoming the new homeport for used and unloved yachts. Perhaps understandable with the scarcity and rise in slip and dry storage rents, the need for insurance, and the cost of maintenance and bottom paint at (disappearing) boat yards.
Come to Santa Cruz, anchor out and abandon your boat. It will likely end up on the beach, then towed off into the Harbor to be scrapped under the Surrendered and Abandoned Vessel Exchange (SAVE) program.
Administered by the California State Parks Division of Boating and Waterways (DBW), grants are awarded annually to qualified local public agencies statewide. Formerly called the Abandoned Watercraft Abatement Fund and the Vessel Turn In Program, enacted in 1998 and 2010 respectively, has provided millions of dollars in grants to successfully remove and dispose of thousands of vessels.
Boat Species: Newport 30 (Gary Mull design) .
As we remember the saga of KOHOLA, pages 518-519 above, she'd washed up on Capitola Main Beach Sept.19, 2022, and was eventually towed off the next day, seemingly undamaged and headed for a new life. Alas, unlike ROSEBUD's rebirth, KOHOLA was abandoned again and now sits tied to the guest dock at Santa Cruz Harbor, stripped of everything of value, and awaiting disposal into the dumpster. Sad. Landfill is becoming the new homeport for used and unloved yachts. Perhaps understandable with the scarcity and rise in slip and dry storage rents, the need for insurance, and the cost of maintenance and bottom paint at (disappearing) boat yards.
Come to Santa Cruz, anchor out and abandon your boat. It will likely end up on the beach, then towed off into the Harbor to be scrapped under the Surrendered and Abandoned Vessel Exchange (SAVE) program.
Administered by the California State Parks Division of Boating and Waterways (DBW), grants are awarded annually to qualified local public agencies statewide. Formerly called the Abandoned Watercraft Abatement Fund and the Vessel Turn In Program, enacted in 1998 and 2010 respectively, has provided millions of dollars in grants to successfully remove and dispose of thousands of vessels.
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After months offline, happy to see IYC's anemometer back in time to record a 49 mph gust. Thank you Malcom Fife . https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KCAINVER17 Power is out in Milly and Richard's neighborhood, and at IYC SMART SHOES trailer apparently rose bow up in a gust as the aft trailer jack gave way. Thanks to Milly putting things to right, and reporting "no harm, no foul, despite the bottom of the rudder in the dirt." Bolt your socks on.
Here at CBC it's sunny with Force 2 gusting 5. By later today all that will be changing, with snow in local hills forecast in the not to distant future. Maybe not a good time to drive I-5 to/from S.Cal. or even across SF Bay bridges. Reports of a large tree fallen and blocking 3 westbound lanes of Bay Bridge at Yerba Buena tunnel.
Here at CBC it's sunny with Force 2 gusting 5. By later today all that will be changing, with snow in local hills forecast in the not to distant future. Maybe not a good time to drive I-5 to/from S.Cal. or even across SF Bay bridges. Reports of a large tree fallen and blocking 3 westbound lanes of Bay Bridge at Yerba Buena tunnel.
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Tchoupitoulas
New member
Oh yeah. Little boom tent. Bob's ready to RAID!
I think we are finally past the worst of it- 11mph at the club right now, and our house is no longer being slammed with huge gusts. The power line problem is now isolated to our land, so we will be extremely low priority. Reading by my solar powered Luci light. Only had to cut away one tree across the road, so we're lucky in that department !
Wheee! Here at CBC the baro is still dropping, now at 1009 mb, as an upper level low drops south down the Coast, producing strong to damaging winds in many areas. Fortunately, power is still on. But a good night not to be at sea. At 6:40 pm, Monterey Bay Buoy 46042 registered steady 35 knots, gusting 45, with 18 foot seas...Things will get more festive, with possible thunderstorms. And this is only Day 1 of a week long weather event featuring wind, rain, cold to freezing temps, and snow at low elevations to 1500 feet.
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Big Fandango of lights on Sir Francis Drake below our house. Some big crew doing something- undoubtedly related to trees down or PG&E. Power failures becoming routine. It reminds me of living on my boat. I did not have AC there either, but neither did I have all these cool LED battery lights- let alone the little, solar powered Luci light ! Snow on Friday- really ?
Philpott
Cal 2-27 Dura Mater
Reading by Luci sounds cozy and fun, and I guess it is unless your Macapuno is melting in the freezer. I sure love my own Luci light when I'm aboard Dura Mater. So far we here in Oakland are unaffected by this wind. Tomorrow my friend Andy has agreed to crank me up my mast to replace my spreader boots. He recommends I tie myself to the shrouds while working so I don't smack back and forth and get tangled in the wire. Huh. With this wind? I might reschedule.
Indeed, one day after BobJ drifting in shirt sleeves at RYC, it was gale warnings at CBC, where launching my kayak would have been almost as foolhardy as good friend and 110/Mercury skipper towing his Mercury sloop upwind from LA, over the Grapevine, onto the I-5 and into "steady 35 knots" home to RYC. I half jokingly said that sounded foolhardy, but he "wanted to get home" despite steady apparent wind of 85-95 mph and aggressive tumbleweeds His secret: get behind and into the slipstream of 18 wheeler trucks, the only problem being big rigs being blown out of their lanes, and my friend had to follow or be "dropped" by the pelaton.
This morning, Wed., at CBC the breeze had laid down overnight and the temp was 43 at 7 a.m. No longer were the low clouds scudding SE, being replaced by post-FROPA popcorn cumulus. Seemed like a good morning to paddle, although paddling a small kayak outside the Harbor Entrance was a non-starter due to 20-25 knots from the west, and breaking swells in the Entrance, even at high tide.
Inside the Harbor the wind was increasing NW, 10-15, making paddling a windward/leeward. Seemed a good time to pursue the "Inland Passage" for the windward legs, which is entering the 20' gap between the shoreline riprap and the docks. The tide was low enough I did not have to duck to clear the gangways, the water glassy, and air temp warm enough to paddle in one fleece.
Downwind, paddling south, the wind was at my back and I stayed in the main channel. Not a soul in sight for the 1.5 hour, 2 laps, 4 mile paddle... Spotted several boats I have known for years: One, the S&S 34' MOLLY B, owned and built by Derek Baylis in 1973 and a near sister to SPIRIT, is on Q dock and now owned by dear friends Tim and Heather. Derek Baylis, an excellent sailor and seaman, was the inventor of 2 speed winches for Barient, as well as chief engineer and designer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium exhibits.
A photo of the "Inside Passage" follows the perimeter of Santa Cruz Harbor. It's .5 miles from the lighthouse to the Murray Street bridge and another .5 to the head of the Upper Harbor, beyond the Bridge.
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WOW that dredge has some work cut out for it ! I had no idea that the upper harbor at SC was that big.
We have had an interesting evening of weather out here in Inverness- drizzle snow, hail, and lightening- no thunder. It is a wee bit chilly. They say that we will have power back tomorrow. I am getting used to the lo voltage life, but 115v would be helpful for making a living- just saying. Of course we found that the power lines were down on a remote part of our neighbor's land. TBD
We have had an interesting evening of weather out here in Inverness- drizzle snow, hail, and lightening- no thunder. It is a wee bit chilly. They say that we will have power back tomorrow. I am getting used to the lo voltage life, but 115v would be helpful for making a living- just saying. Of course we found that the power lines were down on a remote part of our neighbor's land. TBD
MAGICdreamer
Member
Happy Birthday, Sleddog!! We're delighted that you continue to keenly watch the world.
C&V&B
C&V&B
Allen Steck, legendary Yosemite climbing pioneer has passed at age 97. Steck led an illustrious career, establishing first ascents around the world. He began climbing in Yosemite in 1947 and went on to participate in the first major American mountaineering expedition to the Himalaya, on Makalu, in 1954. Steck and his team of 6 made the first and only ascent of Mount Logan's Hummingbird Ridge in 1965. Today, 58 years later the ascent of Hummingbird Ridge remains unrepeated and is considered one of the most challenging climbs in mountaineering history.
Good friend and Santa Cruz master rigger Matthew Coale's father was with Steck on Hummingbird Ridge. Even if you are not a climber or mountaineer, I highly recommend Allen Steck's short account (6 minute read) of that historic climb on Canada's highest mountain. And how it was named Hummingbird Ridge.
https://www.patagonia.com/stories/first-ascent-of-the-hummingbird-ridge-1965/story-33364.html
Good friend and Santa Cruz master rigger Matthew Coale's father was with Steck on Hummingbird Ridge. Even if you are not a climber or mountaineer, I highly recommend Allen Steck's short account (6 minute read) of that historic climb on Canada's highest mountain. And how it was named Hummingbird Ridge.
https://www.patagonia.com/stories/first-ascent-of-the-hummingbird-ridge-1965/story-33364.html
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Critter
Desert Ratfox
Small world! I believe the Coales (Frank was the father) were neighbors and churchmates of my family in Ladera. And a family friend of my wife Rebecca Alzofon was Jim Wilson, who was on the Hummingbird Ridge climb also.
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Transpac documentary films, both professional and amateur, have been made for many dozens of years. "Steady as She Goes" shows the giant schooner, 161' GOODWILL's 1959 attempt at breaking 98' MORNING STAR's record of 9 days, 15 hours, a 9.6 knot average. What broke instead aboard GOODWILL almost sunk her, a 2,500 pound broken topmast..https://classicsailboats.org/steady-as-she-goes-july-1959-transpac-161ft-schooner-goodwill/
Disney made a documentary, "Morning Light," in 2007 about 15 young sailors vying for 11 positions aboard a no expense spared, professionally coached, Transpac-52 endeavor to break our 1967 record of youngest winning crew on our family Cal-40, HOLIDAY TOO. A "Survivor" clone, "Morning Light" begins inauspiciously when an inner-city applicant nearly drowns in the Long Beach YC pool during treading water trials...Apparently being able to swim was not on the Disney application requirement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xliuVqWKq5w
I'm happy to report Margie Woods film of the 2016 Singlehanded Transpac is something special in comparison to the macho "Steady As She Goes" and the astronomically expensive, but short lived "Morning Light." Inspired by her father, Margie takes us on her solo passage aboard HAUNANI to Hanalei Bay in a different sort of way. There's no glossing over the challenges, depression, and joys of her preparation, sailing, and arrival in Margie's film "Journey Back to Myself." A must watch for anyone interested in singlehanding across an ocean. https://vimeo.com/223038995/e3c40a83f9
Disney made a documentary, "Morning Light," in 2007 about 15 young sailors vying for 11 positions aboard a no expense spared, professionally coached, Transpac-52 endeavor to break our 1967 record of youngest winning crew on our family Cal-40, HOLIDAY TOO. A "Survivor" clone, "Morning Light" begins inauspiciously when an inner-city applicant nearly drowns in the Long Beach YC pool during treading water trials...Apparently being able to swim was not on the Disney application requirement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xliuVqWKq5w
I'm happy to report Margie Woods film of the 2016 Singlehanded Transpac is something special in comparison to the macho "Steady As She Goes" and the astronomically expensive, but short lived "Morning Light." Inspired by her father, Margie takes us on her solo passage aboard HAUNANI to Hanalei Bay in a different sort of way. There's no glossing over the challenges, depression, and joys of her preparation, sailing, and arrival in Margie's film "Journey Back to Myself." A must watch for anyone interested in singlehanding across an ocean. https://vimeo.com/223038995/e3c40a83f9
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