New Boat 4 Sled

[Intermission]

Any word on if the Santa Cruz harbor is open? We are going to make a training run down to either Monterey or Santa Cruz and we wondering our options.

Might be doable in calm weather at high tide, but still a little dicey for Santa Cruz.

https://www.santacruzharbor.org/entrance-sounding/

[sleddog]

The blue spinnaker actress Jennifer Connelly calls the "Afterburner," to Tom Cruise in tonight's Academy Awards Best Picture and Best Visual Effects nominee and Oscar winner for Sound "Maverick, Top Gun"



looks a little worse for wear on the spinnaker reach from Alcatraz to RYC in today's Big Daddy Regatta.



I've seen Synthia repair much worse. Thanks to Jackie aboard SURPRISE! for the action photo.

Said Tom Cruise in a memorable line as he fumbled around on J-125 RUFLESS in "Maverick, Top Gun," "I don't sail boats, Penny, I land on them."

[sleddog]

[MillyB]

This spinnaker blow up happened in front of us, and from our perspective, it almost looked like they wiped out on the Committee Boat- thankfully not ! I am eternally grateful to my dear friend and skipper, Cinde Lou Delmas, for taking the RYC Junior Sailors and giving them the opportunity to drive her beautiful boat ! Most of the ( 10 year olds) were too inhibited to take the helm on a breezy day, but there was one young girl who OWNED the helm ! Look out for her ! We also had someone's 5 1/2 year old kid sister, who gloried in the rain. These kids were awesome !

[sleddog]

The front passed CBC about noon with 40+ knot gusts....Capt. Palmer wisely decided not to bring Matson ship LURLINE down the Alameda Estuary at that time and is safely anchored out awaiting a decrease in breeze that capsized several trucks on the Richmond/San Rafael Bridge.

Look what landed in the CBC frontyard from the Pacific Gyre. Can you spot the conjoined pair?



I still have the 3" glass ball that floated into Forney's Cove on the west tip of Santa Cruz Island and came to rest aboard WILDFLOWER.

[Philpott]

Seriously, those glass balls just arrived!? Wow. All the way up the hill from the beach? Impressive wind, indeed.

I'd come up from Monterey to eat Macapuno but Highway 1 is closed. :-((

It's really foggy here. Hopefully it will clear up a bit and the wind will abate enough for the Monterey Peninsula YC to have its first buoy race tomorrow night. I don't have my PFD so I won't be begging a ride on a boat, but I am going over there to eat dinner and chat with the sailors before and maybe after the races. Will post here. In the meantime, hold on to your socks, Soggy Sled.

[sleddog]

[sleddog]

The sheer number of large logs and trees that recently appeared on Seabright State Beach, just east of the recently flooded San Lorenzo River, is notable. 40-80 foot logs not uncommon, several 6 feet in diameter. Possibly they are refugees from burn scars inland and uphill that sought lower elevation.





Across the Bay, Jackie caught a nice shot of Shields Class sloop HARRIET, named after Sleddog's mother, out for Wednesday night racing. Mom always did like green.

[sleddog]

[sleddog]

Yesterday's intense low zipped up the Coast, passing CBC at mid-day with a pressure of 987.8 Mb and gusts > 50. Not everyday one gets to see a cloudless eye of a counter-clockwise swirling low pressure off the California coast. Wonder if Jackie got in the air. She was scheduled to fly to Wisconsin looking for a crew position on an ice-boat....

Speaking of not flying, the yellow Sausalito seaplane got it's float jammed under the dock. Then the tide went out. Ouch. https://vimeo.com/810527004