Re: [Cal_Boats] Navigation station on Cal-2 30

I've used my V-berth as a nav station. You can lay out the whole chart and use your nav tools. But I haven't done that since I learned how to put way points into my GPS. But using a chart properly means you can decipher way points that aren't in race course instructions. Can you tell I haven't cruised much lately? Yesterday I tried to do my long belated cruise from Marina del Rey to the Channel Islands, specifically, an anchorage on Santa Cruz Island. I got as far as 2/3rds the way between Pt. Dume and Pt. Magu, then I got hit by gale force winds, approaching 30 knots, cranked in a fisherman's reef, crawling away from the surf of a rocky lee shore, turned on my VHF and heard about nasty quasi-Santana Conditions over the weekend. (when I left the forecast had been for light winds) Remembering the quote "don't even consider sailing to the Channel Islands in Santana Conditions", I reversed course and went surfing back to MdR at 8 to 11 knots. Woohooo! Jerry of Shpritz.Cal 24 -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 9/16/16, hr… [at] yahoo.com [Cal_Boats] <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> wrote: Subject: [Cal_Boats] Navigation station on Cal-2 30 To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, September 16, 2016, 12:14 PM Hello Cal members, I was wondering if anyone would share with me any modifications they've done on a cal-2 30 or similar cabin layout for navigation station. I'm thinking something below the power panel on the starboard side, above the quarter berth. That quarter berth has all my tool bags so not using for a bunk. I had heard some captains had done a nice fold down table there. I'm not a carpenter but can use a tape and get things built ok if I have some direction. Thanks for any help you can offer! Bobby GCal-2 30 1969 hull # 55

Wow Jerry, that's an adventure! How exciting to be going that fast in big wind and handling it! Good job! I get brodcasts here the same. Light winds and then your reefing! I've heard that can be a bad stretch in the Channel Islands from a friend. Were you single handing? I may be over in your neck of the woods in the next year or two. I have a son in Costa Mesa and one in San Deigo. Was looking to live aboard while I figure it out. I was preparing my boat to sail over to Cali, after getting reamed here by my "girlfriend" an her kids on drugs.'then the more I prepared the boat the more people keep telling me go south Bobby! Go south! Tahiti, Fiji ! So now it's hurricane season anyway and I'm going to stay where I am for the winter. Learn my boat more, sail around Hawaii more. Figure it out in the spring. I'm kinda spoiled too with the GPS. I keep reading, not to count on it across an ocean, cuz shit happens. So I want a place for the charts and maybe my laptop. I got that navigatrix program on my computer now and can put the chart on a 32 in screen with a GPS attached for all those charts I don't want to buy. I have them quartered so they can fit in a smaller area. I'm hoping if I'm prepared I'll never need it. Of course if I don't prepare the GPS will die the first day after I leave right! > On Sep 17, 2016, at 12:07 PM, Gerald Sobel so… [at] yahoo.com [Cal_Boats] <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > I've used my V-berth as a nav station. You can lay out the whole chart and use your nav tools. But I haven't done that since I learned how to put way points into my GPS. But using a chart properly means you can decipher way points that aren't in race course instructions. Can you tell I haven't cruised much lately? Yesterday I tried to do my long belated cruise from Marina del Rey to the Channel Islands, specifically, an anchorage on Santa Cruz Island. I got as far as 2/3rds the way between Pt. Dume and Pt. Magu, then I got hit by gale force winds, approaching 30 knots, cranked in a fisherman's reef, crawling away from the surf of a rocky lee shore, turned on my VHF and heard about nasty quasi-Santana Conditions over the weekend. (when I left the forecast had been for light winds) Remembering the quote "don't even consider sailing to the Channel Islands in Santana Conditions", I reversed course and went surfing back to MdR at 8 to 11 knots. Woohooo! > Jerry of Shpritz.Cal 24 > -------------------------------------------- > On Fri, 9/16/16, hr… [at] yahoo.com [Cal_Boats] <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > Subject: [Cal_Boats] Navigation station on Cal-2 30 > To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com > Date: Friday, September 16, 2016, 12:14 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello Cal > members, > I was wondering if anyone > would share with me any modifications they've done on a > cal-2 30 or similar cabin layout for navigation station. > I'm thinking something below the power panel on the > starboard side, above the quarter berth. That quarter berth > has all my tool bags so not using for a bunk. I had heard > some captains had done a nice fold down table there. I'm > not a carpenter but can use a tape and get things built ok > if I have some direction. Thanks for any > help you can offer! 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On 9/17/2016 6:07 PM, Gerald Sobel so… [at] yahoo.com [Cal_Boats] wrote: > I've used my V-berth as a nav station. You can lay out the whole chart and use your nav tools. But I haven't done that since I learned how to put way points into my GPS. But using a chart properly means you can decipher way points that aren't in race course instructions. Can you tell I haven't cruised much lately? Yesterday I tried to do my long belated cruise from Marina del Rey to the Channel Islands, specifically, an anchorage on Santa Cruz Island. I got as far as 2/3rds the way between Pt. Dume and Pt. Magu, then I got hit by gale force winds, approaching 30 knots, cranked in a fisherman's reef, crawling away from the surf of a rocky lee shore, turned on my VHF and heard about nasty quasi-Santana Conditions over the weekend. (when I left the forecast had been for light winds) Remembering the quote "don't even consider sailing to the Channel Islands in Santana Conditions", I reversed course and went surfing back to MdR at 8 to 11 knots. Woohooo! Are you doing all this wild-weather sailing with your duct-taped sails, or have you upgraded? Sounds like fun (especially on somebody else's boat!). Chris Campbell >