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2023 Made in Santa Cruz Race Week has begun with in-the-Harbor Jester (11) and El Toro (10) dinghy races last evening. It was all in the family, as...

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05-25-2023, 11:25 AM

sleddog replied to a thread New Boat 4 Sled in Singlehanded Sailing Society

Legendary WINDWARD PASSAGE, aka "Passage," and "WP," built on a beach in the Bahamas, is now 55 years old. What a boat. I first raced on her in the...

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05-25-2023, 11:01 AM

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Hi Ants, Interesting stuff, the age of the Channel Islands, including Santa Rosa. There is proof the northern Channel Islands were inhabited from...

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05-25-2023, 06:45 AM

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Painted Cave is a wonder, 12th largest sea cave in the world, 1,227 feet long and 130 feet high. It is located on Santa Cruz Island's north shore,...

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05-24-2023, 02:47 PM

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Interesting people hang out at Inverness Yacht Club boatyard. How would I know a neighbor from a nearby boat just sang a duet for the King of England...

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05-24-2023, 11:52 AM

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Sorry, Philpott. #5, woolly mammoths is correct. These woolly mammoths were full size critters and were the first to swim from the Mainland to...

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05-23-2023, 09:11 PM

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Since Ants correctly answered our geography question as being Lobo Canyon on Santa Rosa Island, we will use off-the-beaten path to Santa Rosa Island...

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05-22-2023, 02:28 PM

sleddog replied to a thread How to Ramp Launch a Moore 24 (and retrieve) in Singlehanded Sailing Society

Hey Ants, 2 thoughts on trailer launching/unlaunching: 1) a hitch extension, which is heavy, awkward, and possibly the wrong length can be easily...

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05-22-2023, 01:36 PM

sleddog replied to a thread New Boat 4 Sled in Singlehanded Sailing Society

Correct on Lobo Canyon, Santa Rosa Island. Windswept San Miguel Island has no year around streams nor riparian habitat....

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05-21-2023, 10:24 PM

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Here is your navigational challenge for this week. Where is the beautiful grotto at the beach terminus of a canyon with wind-and water-sculpted...

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05-21-2023, 09:40 PM

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A couple of photos from Laura Alderdice taken during the first two races of the Martinelli-Barnes series Saturday out of Inverness YC on Tomales Bay....

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05-19-2023, 10:04 AM

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Farewell to Lucy, David's much beloved doggie at the Santa Cruz loft. Lucy was always wagging and happy to greet you. Lucy was a very good dog It...

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05-17-2023, 11:41 AM

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There is much more detail about this beautiful stretch of coast and the Disney Lighthouse as BobJ and DAZZLER duked it out on this Forum for...

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05-17-2023, 11:21 AM

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On a foggy morning in July 1976, the month of our country's bicentennial, Joe Bradbury, who taught auto mechanics at Arroyo Grande High School,...

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05-16-2023, 03:02 PM

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The mystery lighthouse was not on Pt. Buchon. The lighthouse was located .5 nm southeast of Pt. Buchon on what is locally named Fat Pt. As well, a...

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05-16-2023, 11:06 AM

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Good one, Philpott. But the Gladys Walton lighthouse in her backyard in Morro Bay is not the lighthouse "south of Morro Bay and north of Port San...

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05-16-2023, 06:21 AM

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Sorry Milly, but Hearst did not build and then remove a lighthouse along the Coast south of Morro Bay and north of Port San Luis. For a short time,...

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05-15-2023, 07:07 AM

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MAGIC DREAMERS: Thanks for the explanation of the electric fences possibly zapping birds on PG&E property where we were hiking at MdO. My suspicion...

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05-14-2023, 05:12 PM

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Loose Lips Sink Ships. I assign myself a 720 degree penalty turn for sharing with Howard at High Tea the story of the wayward black bear's attempt...

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05-14-2023, 12:50 PM

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Sam's sighting of a badger on Morro Spit still has me chuckling in wonder. Badgers do like digging:

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