There's a Spaulding Clipper mounted on posts at the entrance to Clipper Yacht Harbor in Sausalito, a hundred yards away from Myron's old boat works, now a non-profit boatyard. I'll try to remember to snap a photo Saturday when I'm down for the OYRA Lightship race. The yellow boat sure does look like a match.
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Thanks to Wylieguy and Capt. Bob for bringing the Spaulding Clipper at Clipper Yacht Harbor entrance in Sausalito to our attention. Perhaps someone could take of photo of the plaque for all to read?
Howard Spruit
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about the $200 Fresno boat, now IDed. as a "Clipper"
My first reactions were A> the Trailer is worth more that $200, B>because my sailing tenure started post Clipper, it did not look like a scaled up Mercury, the hull shape looked more like a keeled up Lightning hull.
I then started thinking what I might do with the Fresno boat...........?
I thought about adding a small cuddy up by the mast, and hanging on a spade rudder, & optimizing the rig, to create a boat to terrorize the Wednesday nite race to the bar crowd.
But then I had a sanity attack, and decided to not get involved!
My first reactions were A> the Trailer is worth more that $200, B>because my sailing tenure started post Clipper, it did not look like a scaled up Mercury, the hull shape looked more like a keeled up Lightning hull.
I then started thinking what I might do with the Fresno boat...........?
I thought about adding a small cuddy up by the mast, and hanging on a spade rudder, & optimizing the rig, to create a boat to terrorize the Wednesday nite race to the bar crowd.
But then I had a sanity attack, and decided to not get involved!
Just back from a hiking tour of Yosemite Valley, the many falls and cascades were in full firehose, and the rangers were closing the door on entering the Valley due to high probability of flooding caused by warm temps melting snow in the High Country. Here's Yosemite Falls Wed. 4/26
Driving home to CBC gave good time to consider a trivia that is sure to bring lurkers out of the woodwork. I tested the question out on Bill Lee after paddling this morning, and he knew the answer. Do you? A bowl of Macapuno rides on your correct answer. Only one guess/24 hours applies, and no, you can't ask Bill Lee the answer.
1)After winning, what was the first ULDB to be banned from racing in the Transpac as she was "out of the norm?"
Here's a bonus question, which will also win you a bowl of Macapuno: 2) What was the first multihull banned from entering the Transpac?
If you believe Macapuno ice cream at CBC is all hocus pocus, consider DAZZLER and Sue will be arriving later this afternoon to claim some of his considerable winnings.
Go Dubs
Driving home to CBC gave good time to consider a trivia that is sure to bring lurkers out of the woodwork. I tested the question out on Bill Lee after paddling this morning, and he knew the answer. Do you? A bowl of Macapuno rides on your correct answer. Only one guess/24 hours applies, and no, you can't ask Bill Lee the answer.
1)After winning, what was the first ULDB to be banned from racing in the Transpac as she was "out of the norm?"
Here's a bonus question, which will also win you a bowl of Macapuno: 2) What was the first multihull banned from entering the Transpac?
If you believe Macapuno ice cream at CBC is all hocus pocus, consider DAZZLER and Sue will be arriving later this afternoon to claim some of his considerable winnings.
Go Dubs
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I am with you Ants. I also guess Merlin
Sorry, Ants and Milly B. MERLIN is not correct.
Bill Lee's MERLIN was first-to-finish Transpac in 1977 and set an elapsed time record that stood for 20 years. MERLIN also won the Transpac on handicap (overall winner) in 1995. The boat I am thinking of won the Transpac on handicap and then was banned from future Transpacs.
Here's a hint: the boat in question, a legend in her time, was long and skinny, double ended with nearly vertical bow and stern, and wood construction, like Milly's 110 except 26 feet longer. Did I mention tiller steered? Her bones rest on Pt. Bennett on San Miguel Island, the most north and western point of the Channel Islands in S.Cal.
Fog can do that to you. We remember what happened at nearby Hondo Pt. when 7 Navy destroyers, making a speed run south in the fog, turned too soon just north of Pt. Conception and all ran aground, costing 25 lives. https://www.kclu.org/local-news/201...-on-central-coast-seven-ships-slam-into-coast
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Philpott
Cal 2-27 Dura Mater
Wow! What a story!
It looks like you got to Yosemite (and out again) just in time, Skip. Do you have more photos? I know, I know ... for this Forum it takes you "like twenty minutes" resize then to upload photos. But think of how many people enjoy them.
It looks like you got to Yosemite (and out again) just in time, Skip. Do you have more photos? I know, I know ... for this Forum it takes you "like twenty minutes" resize then to upload photos. But think of how many people enjoy them.
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I'll say that boat banned was the LEGEND, as I remember that story of her shipwrecked on San Miguel Is.
Here's LEGEND, winner 1957 Transpac, designed by Skip Caulkins and owned by the Ullman family. For her success, LEGEND was banned from the Transpac for 1959 and 1961 for being "out of the norm" for the CCA rule that favored wide, beamy boats like FINISTERRE. LEGEND was reinstated for the 1963 race, and the kid Dave Ullman raced on her that year when she won Class B.
LEGEND was built of strip planking in 1951 by Chappie in Costa Mesa, CA and when launched, was the first offshore boat with an aluminum rig in the U.S.
LEGEND met her demise on the return passage from the 1967 Transpac when her skipper and crew of scouts, navigating by DR in thick fog, mistook the red buoy marking Pt. Bennett on San Miguel Island for an identical red buoy 60 miles south marking Begg Rock. The CG admitted their error, but it was too late for LEGEND which drove ashore on wild and reefy Pt. Bennett.
LEGEND's shipwrecked delivery crew hiked 5 miles across desolate and windy San Miguel to Cuyler Harbor where they caught a ride to Santa Barbara on an urchin boat.
3 years later, on a Mexican delivery, Kim Desenberg and I hiked to Pt Bennett and accidentally found LEGEND's remains on the beach. There was the aluminum mast and boom half buried in the sand, pieces of hull, and the sails, including her blue and yellow spinnaker, which were being used as tents and blinds for scientists observing a newly discovered large population of elephant seals.
Here's a nostalgic pic of LEGEND in better times, anchored off Hanalei Pier in 1963, before beginning her delivery home to Newport Beach. Photo compliments of Captain Bob, who wins the Macapuno.
PS: one of the hints in the trivia was when I wrote: the boat in question, a legend in her time, was long and skinny...
PS2 can anyone identify the big, blue, 61 foot, Sparkman and Stephens sloop in LEGEND's background at Hanalei? She was a fixture on SF Bay, and her name became part of the first two speed winches.
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Dazzler
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Not BARUNA. BARUNA (a yawl) was painted black. I remember hearing that they painted her silver underneath the black paint in an effort to reflect heat. The sloop in the photo is most likely ORIENT the Class A Transpac winner in 1963, and the other half of the Barient name.
There is still Macapuno left after DAZZLERs' and DURA MATERs' recent, back to back, forays to the CBC freezer. I know how you love answering coastal geography questions. Here's one everyone should know. First to answer wins the Macapuno. This photo is taken at a prominent California headland somewhere between Pt. St. George and Pt. Conception. To win, you must answer all three questions correctly in one guess. No limit on guesses.
1) What headland is this? 2) what is the prominent geographical feature in the foreground? 3) Why is it there?
Ready, set, go!
1) What headland is this? 2) what is the prominent geographical feature in the foreground? 3) Why is it there?
Ready, set, go!
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Cover Craft
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1) Bodega head, east side, looking North East.
2)"Hole in the Head"
3)It's there because PIG&E (somehow I always ((mis))spell it this way) dug a hole for the foundation for a nuclear power plant in the late 50s-early 60s and was topped by the PUC in 1963. Fortunately after the Alaska quake in 1964 it was found that there was significant slippage at Bodega Head and that did it in for good.
Tom K
2)"Hole in the Head"
3)It's there because PIG&E (somehow I always ((mis))spell it this way) dug a hole for the foundation for a nuclear power plant in the late 50s-early 60s and was topped by the PUC in 1963. Fortunately after the Alaska quake in 1964 it was found that there was significant slippage at Bodega Head and that did it in for good.
Tom K
Sam narrowly wins the Macapuno by 4 minutes over Tom.. The photo shows "Hole in the Head" on Bodega Head, a 70 foot deep excavation for a nuclear power plant begun by PG&E in the early 60's until local and Sonoma County opposition put a stop to the folly, being built directly on the San Andreas earthquake fault. Local rancher Rose Gaffney led the opposition. The 8.5 magnitude Anchorage quake in 1964 finally put to rest any further building efforts by PG&E when geologists found the quake had caused significant slippage at Bodega Head.
During this time, a nuclear power plant was proposed for Davenport, 8 miles upwind from Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay. Yikes!
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Howard Spruit
New member
Ok I see a 70 foot deep hole filled with water. I am curious to know if that is fresh water, or salt water?
fresh water allows masketos to flourish, unless it is stocked with frogs.
fresh water allows masketos to flourish, unless it is stocked with frogs.
I am sure that it is fresh water, and at the very least- it is full of mosquito fish provided by Marin/Sonoma Vector Control. They are very much on the case, and also that by now, it has a healthy, natural frog and salamander population.