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Jul 29 2010

San Diego to Oxnard – way fun

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Jul 15 2010

Sailboat burns, sinks at Anacapa Island

A Hunter sailboat catches fire, sinks at Frenchy’s 7/8/2010 The Coast Guard and Vessel Assist responded to a report of a burning vessel last week. The preliminary report said that the captain was sailing alone, had anchored in Frenchy’s Cove and had started cooking on his rail-mounted barbecue. The captain reported that he fell asleep [...]

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Jul 08 2010

People drown rather quitetly. How distress really looks.

Published by Capt. Dan under Sailing,rescue,safety at sea

We all know that a drowning victim waves their arms and will sometimes shout for help. And we’re all acutely wrong. Read gCaptain’s recent blog and you’ll know what to look for. Signs of drowning. thanks, Mack for sending this along to us. //dan

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Jun 23 2010

Planning on hiking Anacapa? Not so fast

Unless you’ve got climbing gear, you’re not going to easily get to the top of East Anacapa Island. NPS was actually in front of this problem and had decided to replace the decades-old ladder last spring. Unfortunately, a recent inspection showed that corrosion has rendered the ladder unsafe ahead of schedule. OK, so what’s the [...]

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Jun 05 2010

Ventura beaches grade A

Published by Capt. Dan under Sailing

Only a couple of places got less than an A – one was at Ormond beach near the Superfund site. According to the City Manager’s BLOG “2009 water quality at Ventura County beaches was excellent. Of the 40 water quality monitoring locations during summer dry weather, 100% of the locations received A grades.” -0000000000000

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