Fair warning: the ramp at Cabrillo Beach is not usable at extremely low tides. The dock bottoms out and there is a nasty dropoff at the bottom of the concrete.Very low tides are in store early in the am on June 20/21 (This may not apply, since the date has been changed to Sept. 19-20) . And from noo...

Knocked flat twice ... both times on Lake Mead, once with ballast, once without.

In both cases she selfrighted as soon as the whirlywinds passed.


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'Bout three years ago a yacht sailed directly into one of the oil rigs off Huntington Beach. It was simple GPS math:

Sleeping skipper x (Autopilot using Oilrig as waypoint) = (toppled mast + boat stuck under oil rig) x salvage job.

Frank C - I have put my antenna on the mast support arch. I have been in Bimini and received weather on the hand held VHF (55 miles away). The National Weather Service 155 mHz transmitters are at least 200 watts and I bet the ones in Miami are leased on the TV towers that top out at 1000 feet. Your...

Lake Pleasant on lookout for mussel With 1 spotted, marina to be extra cautious Cecilia Chan The Arizona Republic Mar. 5, 2007 12:00 AM Although the size of a thumbnail, an invasive mollusk found attached to a boat earlier this year at Lake Pleasant has the power to disrupt an entire aquatic lifecyc...

It should also be pointed out that satellite radio antennas seem to work below decks. I have a standard XM magnetic car antenna taped to the bottom of the boat under the kitchen sink - below the water line, and it works perfectly.

No wiring or expensive marine antenna is necessary at all.

Hope you all realize that traditional over-the-air TV in two years is going to go bye bye. I have elected not to wire TV and antenna into my boat, because NTSC TV is about to phase out. Unless you have an new ATSC (commonly, incorrectly called HDTV) tuner or converter, your TV will not work after Fe...

The last 5 Sundays (and damn near every day since Xmas) have been winds out of the north. Hard winds offshore, and nasty chop out there. Smooth water and 10-15 mph winds right at the surf line. Monday at Point Sequit, at sunset, I saw a beautiful 30-foot sloop on a tight reach, mainsail battened, no...

Sorry, guys, I have a funeral Saturday afternoon.

Hope it goes well.

(Is Sunday possible?)

How about "Slower Than The White Ones"?

Did I read that right, or was that trip in 1985? The web page says it was last updated in 2001.

I wonder how the old fart is now. Probably holed up in a Huatluco shack with a senora ... ah, what a fantasy.

Be sure to look at the man page. I never, ever use emoticons. But in this case:

L A Times 1/22: A destructive mussel found earlier this month in Lake Mead now has been discovered at intakes for the aqueduct system that carries water from the Colorado River to Southern California, raising fears that the invasive species could inflict costly damage to pipelines, aquatic life and ...

I'll meet you in the sand and buy you a soda at Paradise Cove.

But - the last 4 weekends have been blowing sand out to sea viciously.

So how do you keep them out of the ballast tank? That thing, when in the water, always has a little water in the bottom.

I cannot even imagine the sizeable advantage of increased heat versus the tiny, fractional risk of explosion being a risk I will take. Not worth it. The label on my Coleman stove plainly warns against its use in an enclosed area. The Mac 26X is enclosed. The warning is correct. Period. I also never ...