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Windmills have come a long way since the days of the great depression...my father used to adjust them in Iowa because they would twist and didn't have the floating hardware they use now....they've pumped water all over the world and produce quite a bit of power around the planet...difference is they don't need fuel to produce it....more powerful would be tapping the tides like they do in New Zealand.....Kiwis produce most of their power from the tides....the reason we don't here is that folks don't want the turbines to muck up the sunset from their beach houses.....Nuclear power is efficient but comes with a risk...see Japan...the fields of windmills on the Southern tip of the Big Island work.....lot of wind there always...basically they are on pretty useless land....I'd rather see them there than gas stations...the Midwest is unique in that there's not a windbreak from the Rockies to the east coast...wind can pick up some speed in the heartland
 
Capitola Pier Sequel CA.JPG

Looks like it might be Baja. No, anchored of the Capitola pier in Sequel Cove, Monterey Bay.
What you doing there, you ask!

Listening to the Blazer game. Kings. Go Blazers!
 
MarAzul said:
It doesn't look like much coming in from the sea. Really a gem of a harbor though when you get in there.
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EL PRESIDENTE said:
I'm just on the other side of that hill.
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Well come on down!

MarAzul is tied up at the guest dock at the outer end of H Basin North side. The Ketch rig, can't miss it.

I guess it is Burton Chase Park where we are docked.
 
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MarAzul said:
Well come on down!

MarAzul is tied up at the guest dock at the outer end of H Basin North side. The Ketch rig, can't miss it.

I guess it is Burton Chase Park where we are docked.
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Hah I'm actually in oregon until Jan 1st. If you are still down there after that lets do it.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Hah I'm actually in oregon until Jan 1st. If you are still down there after that lets do it.
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Ha!
The way it goes, hey! Leaving tomorrow for Long Beach.

I think we will be in Redondo Beach Harbor (King Harbor) the evening of Tuesday the second.
 
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Redondo Beach.JPG MarAzul tethered to a mooring buoy like one you can see in the foreground at Redondo beach harbor. Also known as King Harbor.
Not much to see from the boat but it sure is close to Hawthorne and Spacex if one had a reason to be close.
 
MarAzul said:
View attachment 17688 MarAzul tethered to a mooring buoy like one you can see in the foreground at Redondo beach harbor. Also known as King Harbor.
Not much to see from the boat but it sure is close to Hawthorne and Spacex if one had a reason to be close.
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Quality Seafood on the Redondo Pier is money!
 
MarAzul said:
Dolphins off the port bow!
MarAzul approaching San Pedro and a large pod comes to see what she be.
Dang hard to get a shot of those guys with old slow camera. Punched the button many times, got seven shots. One with a Dolphin, and viola! Three.

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My aunt used to live right there. Rancho Palos Verdes. Her house is probably visible on the lower left side.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Quality Seafood on the Redondo Pier is money!
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My son it rowing around in the dingy right now, trying to find a way a shore from here. Nobody here! The Harbor Master's light are out, can't raise anyone. It would be ok except for the dang locked gates every where and no way to get a key.
Perhaps we are out of here tomorrow, back to Marina Del Rey.
 
Bad night last night!
All anchored nice and secure at designated spot of the chart for San Pedro. In the bunk asleep at midnight, when the Harbor Patrol
came banging on my boat. I get up in my skivvies to see what the fuck they want.
Can't anchor there!
Why not?
Bad whether only.
Why? it is designed as an anchorage on the Chart.
Need a permit.
Well?
We can write you a permit if you like?
Oh! By all means. Please do!

Errr, the coastal Pilot says you need a permit to anchor more than 10 days.
The Port of LA has changed it to any time.

And apparently they do not care what the Noaa Charts say or the Coastal Pilot.

After nearly an hour standing about in my skivvies, in the fog, I get to go back to bed, all pissed off.
 
MarAzul said:
Bad night last night!
All anchored nice and secure at designated spot of the chart for San Pedro. In the bunk asleep at midnight, when the Harbor Patrol
came banging on my boat. I get up in my skivvies to see what the fuck they want.
Can't anchor there!
Why not?
Bad whether only.
Why? it is designed as an anchorage on the Chart.
Need a permit.
Well?
We can write you a permit if you like?
Oh! By all means. Please do!

Errr, the coastal Pilot says you need a permit to anchor more than 10 days.
The Port of LA has changed it to any time.

And apparently they do not care what the Noaa Charts say or the Coastal Pilot.

After nearly an hour standing about in my skivvies, in the fog, I get to go back to bed, all pissed off.
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I told you to get a deck gun.

uss_cod_deck_gun_by_swiftflyer.jpg
 
SlyPokerDog said:
I told you to get a deck gun.


uss_cod_deck_gun_by_swiftflyer.jpg
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A 5" 25 might be a tad heavy for the MarAzul. BrianWA says I need an M60.

Actually the cops themselves were decent dudes, one ex Navy gunners-mate. When they wanted ID, I handed them a VA ID card as I have my everyday wallet with the DMV ID saved away where I wont lose it. Anyway, he rolled his eyes when I handed him this along with the US vessel documentation. Like why we fucking with this guy? Then other asked, Do you have a fire extinguisher?
Yes, and I also have a US Coast Guard satisfactory inspection receipt. Want to see It? The Gunner pipes up, No Sir We believe you!
Then the other insists I get my drivers license out.
Don't know where it is right off, I said.
Then I handed him a US Passport.
Don't you have a drivers license?
Do I need one to drive a boat?
mummifk!
Then Gunner pipes up with, No you do not need a drivers license.
Then I ask the slow cop, Do you need ID here to vote?
A clear, "No" was the response.

So you need no ID to Vote, but you need it to anchor in the designated area?
He handed me my permit and the Gunner bid me good night as the slow cop wound up the tripple 250hp outboards.
 
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MarAzul said:
A 5" 25 might be a tad heavy for the MarAzul. BrianWA says I need an M60.

Actually the cops themselves were decent dudes, one ex Navy gunners-mate. When they wanted ID, I handed them a VA ID card as I have my everyday wallet with the DMV ID saved away where I wont lose it. Anyway, he rolled his eyes when I handed him this along with the US vessel documentation. Like why we fucking with this guy? Then other asked, Do you have a fire extinguisher?
Yes, and I also have a US Coast Guard satisfactory inspection receipt. Want to see It? The Gunner pipes up, No Sir We believe you!
Then the other insists I get my drivers license out.
Don't know where it is right off, I said.
Then I handed him a US Passport.
Don't you have a drivers license?
Do I need one to drive a boat?
mummifk!
Then Gunner pipes up with, No you do not need a drivers license.
Then I ask the slow cop, Do you need ID here to vote?
A clear, "No" was the response.

So you need no ID to Vote, but you need it to anchor in the designated area?
He handed me my permit and the Gunner bid me good night as the slow cop wound up the tripple 250hp outboards.
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Just another case of "Yachting While White" I guess.

barfo
 
barfo said:
Just another case of "Yachting While White" I guess.

barfo
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This is where you and I differ greatly barf.
Standing out on Deck in your skivvies, talking with cops about shit where they do not know the rule or the law, is far from privilege.
It actually is intended to make life hard for those MF's with a Yacht (white or not) . The cops did not set this policy, the Port of LA did.
 
MarAzul is heading back to Channel Is harbor so the crew can go home to Oregon.
But resting for the evening in Paradise Cove off Malibu. Rolling gently on the hook for the night, hoping for soft winds.
Anchored in Paradise Cove off Malibu.JPG
 
Entering Channel Islands Harbor now, Anacapa Island of the Channel Island National Park off the port beam.
In the mist, will try an post a good shot of this some day if the opportunity arises.

Anacapa Island.JPG

I can remember some quality times anchored there, feasting on Abalone. Now days, that will probably get you some, not so quality jail time. I am told it cost around $125 per pound today. I suppose those days are history.
 
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