Tag Archive 'sail'

Apr 01 2010

Sun disease – it can kill you

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Nov 29 2009

PLAN ZERO

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Photo: Chris Tucker Sailtime Chris Tucker in his Sailtime Blog has some great pictures of a near disaster this weekend in Channel Islands harbor. He makes an excellent case for having a PLAN B when things don’t go as planned. Chris points out that these guys probably could have avoided scaring the hell out of [...]

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Jan 22 2009

Coming home to Oxnard in Heavy Weather

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© Wayne Lambright 2005, photos used with permission Santana 22, about to be engulfed, passes beneath Golden Gate Bridge. This does not go well. This picture shows this hapless boat just before it and the crew are tumbled by the breakers. This most graphic of graphics prompted Mack Frankfurter to ask the best strategy for [...]

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Dec 17 2008

Winter sailing in the Santa Barbara Channel Islands

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Rob Walton’s most excellent picture of Anacapa shows why I’m a big advocate of winter sailing in SoCal Sailors in Illinois report that they are very frustrated. The temp is up to 40 and their boats are not in the water. Seems Frostbite sailing season ended for them at the end of November. There are [...]

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Dec 13 2008

What the perigean tide, Batman?

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Huge swell and wind waves may produce flooding. Add that to the perigean tide, and we’re likely to see some very high water. Randy Bush gives the details: As I was getting ready for work this morning, some clown on the news was hopping around on a jetty near L.A., spouting prognostications of dire flooding [...]

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