Tag Archive 'sailboat'

Nov 29 2009

PLAN ZERO

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Jun 01 2009

Randy Bush shares a couple of secrets concerning docking and the use of spring lines

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Randy Bush has been a guest BLOGGER several times. This usually happens when we do something a little out of the ordinary, a little training tidbit that everyone knows about but has never tried. Once mastered, or at least experienced, I ask that he share the experience with the rest of us. And this is [...]

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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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