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Issue #150
August 2015
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Coming Events
History Incarnate
America replica visits MdR
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According to Dave
Monthly Fishing Report by Captain Dave Kirby
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43 Silverton 2008 Sportbridge Volvo IPS diesels 200 hours 2 cabins. Very clean. Almost
new condition boat for less than one half the new price! $299,000
47 Lien Hwa Mtr Yacht 1995, loaded, just 53 Hatteras 1987, Cockpit Motoryacht, Detroit Diesels 3 Staterooms, fishing cockpit,
surveyed/ bottom painted May 15 $139,000 Caribe inflatable $225,000
51 Formosa, Pilothouse Ketch, dual helms, main channel slip possible. Spacious all teak
interior, needs teak deck repair, $77,5000
44 Hunter Deck Saloon, 2008, recent extensively equipped to cruise to Hawaii, changed 28 Owens custom sportfisher, over $150k
plans now ready for the new owner. $179,000.
refit and repower diesels $46,000
41 Hunter 410, 2002 low hours, 2 spacious staterooms, very clean, great live aboard or
cruiser, electric sheet and halyard winch, $125,000
46 Island Trader Ketch Motor Sailer, 1984, Spacious 3 cabin huge interior and aft deck, 35 Pacific Seacraft Catamaran 1993 twin
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Whats Happening Around Americas Largest Recreational Harbor and Catalina Island Too!
August 6
August 7
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August 8
Two Harbors
Kids of all ages are welcome at our 17th Annual
Childrens Challenge. Meet us on the beach
for a fun-filled hour of team relays, races,
& activities. Ice cream will be served to all
of our participants.For more information or
questions on any of our events, please contact
Two Harbors Events at 310-510-4249 or email
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August 9
Kayaks 4 Kidz
Kayaks 4 Kidz is a youth development program
endeavoring to improve health & well being
through participating in water (paddle) sports.
Located at Marina (Mothers) Beach, this
Youth Water Sports Camp is offered as a free
community service to boys & girls ages 8 - 18,
as well as their families, from June - September.
The half-day summer camp provides instruction
in the basic fundamentals of sit-on-top kayaking
including: boat handling, equipment care, water
safety & navigation rules, paddling techniques,
capsize recovery, proper use of safety gear,
environmental awareness & LA County
Lifeguard Association beach safety techniques.
9:30 a.m. - 323-778-2277
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Childrens Challenge at
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Kayaks 4 Kidz
Kayaks 4 Kidz is a youth development program
See August 9 for more details.
August 22
Catalina Piano
Performance Workshop (Avalon)
Two faculty piano recitals free and open to
the public. All on the faculty are professional
teachers and concert artists. Kathryn Hull,
760-771-1043/Judith Braslow Zacher 760-3335621. www.catalinapianoworkshop.org
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Ongoing
Marina del Rey
Outrigger Canoe Club
Come try this exciting team water sport at
Mothers Beach, Palawan Way (south of
Admiralty), Marina del Rey. Newcomers
are welcome; women practice Mondays &
Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m., and Saturdays at 8 a.m.
Men practice Tuesdays and Thursday, 5:30 p.m.;
and Sundays, 7:30 a.m. For more information,
email info@marinaoutrigger.org or visit www.
marinaoutrigger.org.
Tropical Rock
Every Wednesday 6:00 -9:00 p.m. at The
Warehouse Restaurant Unkle Monkey duo
performs island music and pop/rock on guitar,
ukulele, congas, and steel drum. Voted one
of the Top 3 Bands on the Westside by The
Argonaut two years in a row. They are a boater
friendly band and will take all your Jimmy
Buffett requests! Happy Hour 4:00 -7:00 p.m.
4499 Admiralty Way Marina Del Rey
Santa Monica
Windjammers Yacht Club
We invite members, guests, and prospective
members to join us for cocktails, food, live
music, dancing and fun on Sunday afternoons
from 4:00 to 7:00 (food served at 5:00). No
reservations needed. This is a great way to end
your day on the water, or just to wind down
from the weekend. Live jazz or classic rock
bands are here for entertainment. We are located
at 13589 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey, CA
90292, (310) 827-7692. Please visit our website
at www.smwyc.org for activities, membership
details, racing, events, directions, and more.
Womens Sailing Association of
Santa Monica Bay
Meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at the
Santa Monica Windjammers Yacht Club, 13589
Mindanao Way, in Marina del Rey. The meeting,
held at 7:30, is preceded by a social hour, and
a light dinner is served. Each meeting features
a guest speaker discussing their adventures
and achievements. WSA invites boaters of all
skill levels to join. Its programs, include day
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That same boat, or a replica of that same boat, ghosted into Marina del
Rey this past month and saddled up to the guest slip of the California
Yacht Club where folks walked her decks and later a 75 guests went
on a day sail. At 139-feet with giant bow-sprit an enormous American
Flag that seemed almost the same size, America was a striking sight
to behold.
The $6-million 226,000-pound schooner proudly boasts it being a near
perfect replica of one of the most famous sailing boats in history
the boat that began the world renown Americas Cup race. With golden
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sailing this boat is more like time travel than boat travel. The design was
considered quite progressive at the timea large fast sailboat designed
and built for a journey to England where it would exhibit the boat-building
prowess of the United States. While in town, the plan was also to race
against the best the British could offer.
After a successful crossing of the pond, America got to the business of
mopping everyone up on the racecourse. From there, the Americas Cup
was bornit was soon known as a perpetual challenge cup for friendly
competition between nations, named after this boat.
sail area strewn from its telephone pole thick masts, giving it a silent but
beastly horsepower that was nothing short of impressive.
For the nautical breed, keeping a boat like this in existence is a gift. It not
only serves to educate boaters about how the intricacies of a state of the
art vessel looked in the mid eighteen hundreds, but its a life-size working
example of high-level 19th century technology.
Little did the designers and sailors of the day know that over 150-years
later the tradition would still be going strong. Its still both a design and
sailing competition between nations and now the oldest trophy in sports
history.
Its something almost surreal to see a recreation of such physical and
historical enormity sitting in the MdR harbor. On the taxi out through the
main channel, a crewman stood on the bow with a walkie-talkie relaying
back to the captain where all the kayakers, SUPers and little boats were
situated, so this freight train didnt mow over the nice people making
their way around the marina. The blind spots were huge. While that was
happening the rest of the crew employs guests to grab a halyard and help
raise the sails. They are big and heavy and it took a line of people to hoist
them up, but the interactive experience seemed to be fine by the temp crew
who were later sipping $4 glasses of wine.
America sails like only a quarter-million ton boat cansolid. There was a
12 - 15-knot breeze blowing and the boat was hitting 9s and 10snot too
shabby for a 165-year-old design. The schooner has 5,900 square feet of
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The Captain and crew of Transformer, a Beneteau 523, is conducting research on the delivery back from Transpac.
arina del Rey sailor Joel Young is pursuing a dream of racing his Beneteau 523 Transformer to Hawaii in this years
Transpac (Los Angeles to Hawaii), but its the delivery back where his involvement is making a global difference.
After the champagne is rinsed from the decks of the solid racer/cruiser in Honolulu, Captain Bob Solliday (also an
MdR sailor) will take the reins for the delivery home. Solliday, with a crew of six, including one scientist, will be
returning via the notorious Pacific Garbage Patch where he will be engaged in research efforts for the Ocean Cleanup,
an organization that aims to rid the ocean of harmful plastics, sooner rather than later.
The Ocean Cleanup has gained a good amount of notoriety not just for the bold assertion that it can clean the five gyres
(where debris collects) in the worlds ocean better and faster than any attempts before, but because the organization and concept comes from a person
not long out of high school.
A longhaired kid from the Netherlands, Boyan Slat, started considering the dilemma as part of a school assignment project and ended up with a concept
that has grown into a major project with multimillion dollar funding and a core base of over 100 people.
In a 2013 Ted Talk that got the ball rolling when he was 19, the young entrepreneur explained the 300-million tons of plastic in the oceans, that is
reeking havoc on wildlife and causing food chain concerns, could be nearly all extracted using a means that would employ the forces of nature rather
than fight them.
The oceanic currents moving around is not an obstacleits a solution, he said passionately. Why move through the oceans if the oceans can move
through you?
In a nutshell, Slat devised a plan where a system of moored booms and barriers would divert the floating plastic debris into a designated area where it
could then be collected and later recycled. Through the recycling process, its speculated that much of the costs could be coveredit could possibly
pay for itself. Through crowd funding that raised over $2-million, The Ocean Cleanup is now undergoing its Pilot Phase where full-scale equipment
will be built and tested. But before that, Slat and his team needed to assess how much plastic was indeed floating aroundno small task either. True to
form, they once again looked at was available and saw that all of these sailboats would be doing return deliveries from the Transpac race and maybe
they could help with the research. He gathered 15-boats from the race and found another 15 to participate in what he dubbed The Mega Expedition.
The Mega Expedition is to determine how much plastic is in the ocean, Slat said. Using computer models we determined we would be able to clean
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Boyan Slat, 20, is the mastermind behind The Ocean Cleanup, which he believes can rid or
greatly reduce the amount of harmful plastic in the worlds oceans.
up half the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 10-years time using a single 100-kilometer system. The question, however, is how much, exactly, is half
the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Is it 100,000 tons, is it 1-million tons; is it 10-million tons? Nobody really knows. There have been many estimates
about how much is out there but they vary.
This is quite important for us to know for primarily two reasons. One of them is economic. If there are ten times the amount of kilos [than we thought]
in the ocean to extract, obviously the cost per kilo (to extract) would go down almost to a factor of ten considering that the plastic we extract we will
reuse and recycle. Thats quite important for the business model. Although it doesnt fully rely on it, it would make things easier.
Captain Solliday is working in association with the American Sailing Association (founded in Marina del Rey) who has a vested interest in helping
with the project.
Protecting and caring for the oceans is extremely important to us, said Lenny Shabes, Founder of ASA. Even if it werent to work exactly as they
hopeat least someone is trying to do something and bring awareness to the oceans problems. Were choking ourselves and its great that the Ocean
Cleanup is providing some hope.
Solliday echoes Shabes sentiments and says hes excited to be a part of the process. In Hawaii, he will be trained by the Ocean Cleanup staff about the
use of the research equipment and also learn about how to handle and store the they collect.
Were all sailors and we love the ocean, said Solliday of his motivation to be part of the Expedition. We all understand that the health of the ocean
directly affects the human population and we need to try and keep it healthy. So, from that standpointwe all know that the Garbage Patch is out there,
but no one has come up with a cost effective or feasible way to pick up the trash. We believe the Ocean Cleanup is a great concept.
Solliday plans to record his efforts on video and also will be sending back live reports to the ASA media arm about what he is seeing and doing. On
ASAs blog and particularly social media sites, there will be short video productions detailing what they are seeing in the Garbage Patch. After he
returns, they plan on creating a more comprehensive piece that discusses Sollidays experience and the progress of the Ocean Cleanup project.
To learn more about the Ocean Cleanup visit www.theoceancleanup.com/
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