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    Quote Originally Posted by Dazzler View Post
    Going out to view the Humboldt and Magellanic Penguins at Islotes Puñihuil.

    Having been in that part of the world not to long ago, I didn’t have to think too long about your hint. But without the hint...it would have been hard to guess.

    They use the cart to traverse the shallow water to get the folks out to a panga. No wet landings.Tom
    Bingo! Spot on answer, DAZZLER Tom. Here's what my brother-in-law said about the loading procedure to take the panga out to see the penguins on the nearby islands:

    "So way down in Chiloe Island on the beach we drove on, we started to check out the penguin trip. It was rainy and cold so we decided not to do that but we watched the boat getting loaded here's a picture they essentially load you in a grocery cart especially with the specially high clearance to keep you above the water and then of course bigger wheels and throw you out and put you on board towards the front and push the boat out a little farther than that take another 10 to 12 people and put them on The boat. It's a hoot! As you can see everybody got their bright yellow rain slicker on...!

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    That's a jumbo sized panga! Thanks to Tom and Marilee for the photos.
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    Hey Skip, you ever sail aboard DORADE?
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    Quote Originally Posted by AlanH View Post
    Hey Skip, you ever sail aboard DORADE?
    Negatory on DORADE. Did Transpac in '61 on a near sister, KIALOA. Not particularly a fun boat to sail downwind. The mizzen spinnaker, with the keel hung rudder, would pull the stern this way and that as the boat rolled downwind. Occasionally the mizzen spinnaker would collapse around the helmsman's head, and refill, lifting him off the cockpit floor in an unholy tangle.

    Traditional S&S resisted spade rudders for many years after they had become common in other parts of the country..Young Ron Holland saw the light when he visited Santa Cruz in 1971 and sailed on Bill Lee's MAGIC. But S&S (Sparkman and Stephens) wouldn't hire the kid...
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    Frontal passage at CBC at ~ 0400 this morning with a brief period of intense rain and wind. Soquel Creek rose to only a foot from flood stage. For a period, the pre-frontal wind 22 miles offshore was SE 40-50 knots at Monterey Bay Buoy 46042. Sig. swells in the 20 foot range.

    NWS Monterey, which narrowly missed being damaged by a falling tree, was describing the event as "cyclogenesis." A textbook example of an occluding mid-latitude cyclone centered a few hundred miles west of San Francisco this afternoon. Earlier in the morning, a cold front extending from this low pushed through the Bay Area and Central California Coast, bringing a round of rain and wind to the area. While rain totals observed with the earlier front were generally beneficial, the winds proved to be rather damaging in parts of Monterey County; there were a handful of reports from the California Highway Patrol as well as National Weather Service employees who observed downed branches, trees, and powerlines across the Monterey area. In fact, a medium-sized tree was blown over right next to our office. Winds gusts at the Monterey Airport peaked at 45 mph this morning.


    The dredge TWIN LAKES, in the Santa Cruz Harbor entrance fairway drug a massive anchor, and ended up askew in the "channel." Fortunate to not drag onto the breakwater rocks.

    At 0730 Coffee Club we saw 3 Darwin Award Candidates walk out on the West Santa Cruz Breakwater, and hide behind the lighthouse. The waves at the time were breaking over the breakwater..After realizing their predicament, they ran for safety, with one slower person being covered by the spume from a breaking wave, and narrowly missing being washed off.

    Buoy 46042 TIME/ Wind Dir./ 1 minute average wind in knots / Gust Speed / Sig. Swell height in feet

    3:50 am S 15.5 21.4 19.4
    2:50 am S 36.9 50.5 21.0
    1:50 am SSE 40.8 50.5 21.7
    12:50 am SSE 38.9 46.6 18.4
    11:50 pm SSE 36.9 44.7 17.7
    10:50 pm SSE 35.0 46.6 14.4
    9:50 pm SSE 33.0 42.7 16.4
    8:50 pm SSE 33.0 38.9 15.1
    7:50 pm SSE 33.0 40.8 13.50
    6:50 pm SSE 35.0 40.8 13.5
    5:50 pm SSE 29.1 36.9 11.2
    4:50 pm SSE 29.1 35.0 10.5
    3:50 pm SSE 29.1 35.0 9.8
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    I just got back from RYC. Despite the big wind and downpours, a 29er and a Laser were out in Potrero Reach with a coach boat. I could hear hootin' and hollerin' from the 29er, which had its kite up.

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    Capitola got quite a weather wallop in the last 24 hours: 3.75 inches of rain, enough wind to blow over part of CBC's perimeter fence. And some how WILDFLOWER's horizontal mast got blown off two saw horses in the backyard. It weighs 50 pounds. I can only guess the breeze got the mast in some sort of resonance vibration, something the physicists call ""wind-driven amplification of the torsional oscillation." the same thing that brought down Galloping Gertie, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, in 1940. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsKKDLKYsVU

    Down at the Capitola Esplanade, usually a pastoral scene on the beach and good surf nearby, the ocean is muddy from Soquel Creek runoff, which has also brought logs, tree trunks and roots, and other miscellaneous flotsam from inland. Somewhere, about 4 vertical feet of beach also went missing in the last 24 hours. The surf is now knocking at Gayle's deck and restaurant windows.

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    Driving home last evening at 9 pm I experienced a brief but intense squall. Visibility went to almost nothing in sheets of rain. It was difficult to see the road for all the water running downhill. At the usual busy corner of Monterey and Bay, the runoff was almost a foot deep at Noble Gulch, where the 8 foot diameter drainage pipe under the road was obviously not handling the runoff from the 6 foot wide, 4 foot deep creek.

    Local frogs and snow lovers in the Sierra are happy. Homeless, likely less so.
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    Wow! That's a mess! Might cause a puddle of water where we had lunch, eh? Up here in Oakland it keeps dribbling, enough to deter me from sailing. I am, however, driving over to RYC to see how yachties watch the Superbowl. Do they wear Pats shirts and hats or are they all still wearing their Fiasco shirts from 2012?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Philpott View Post
    Wow! I am, however, driving over to RYC to see how yachties watch the Superbowl. Do they wear Pats shirts and hats or are they all still wearing their Fiasco shirts from 2012?
    They should be wearing #10 Jimmy G Jerseys..After the great Joe M & B Walch run, the new era will be..Gar...op...polo...with Shanahan & Lynch...

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    It was not an impressive turnout at 5:07pm. I think Superbowl fans are somewhere else this evening because when I left there were only six (count ‘em, 6) people watching that big screen tv, and one was RYC’s chef.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sleddog View Post
    1/14/19
    Good news from Capt. Bob on his bike on the N. Shore of Oahu near Kahuku Point. There are now at least 6 visible albatross nests in the area, with the females and males trading off on egg sitting duty. There is also a human guard, living in a tent, to protect the families. Thanks to Capt. Bob, you will be the first to know if there are hatchlings.
    2/04/19 More good news from Kahuku Pt: On his bike ride this morning, Capt. Bob briefly saw a fluffy, one day old albatross hatchling in the below nest. Bob's sighting, as Mom arose to clack a warning, was too brief to snap a photo. The attendant/spotter confirmed the young bird was hatched yesterday. And there might be more in the vicinity.

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