Re:Santa Barbara Carnage (not for the faint of heart)

I have a feeling this is not the last of the boats that will break free of their tackle Looking to the east. 5 sailboats, 1 powerboat Looking to the west. 4 sailboats

Jesus....been so busy I had no idea this was going on... Everyone safe out there? Charles S/V Boomerang! 1980 Cal 39, Mark II St Michaels, MD From: "ai… [at] aol.com" <ai… [at] aol.com> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 4:59:03 PM Subject: [Cal_Boats] Re:Santa Barbara Carnage (not for the faint of heart) I have a feeling this is not the last of the boats that will break free of their tackle Looking to the east. 5 sailboats, 1 powerboat Looking to the west. 4 sailboats

On Jan 21, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Charles Strasburger wrote: > Jesus....been so busy I had no idea this was going on... > > Everyone safe out there? We are getting Seattle's weather for a week or two as the jet stream has shifted south. I went up to San Pedro yesterday to check the dock lines on my boat in LA Harbor. I got there around noon, all was well and I left to drive back to Orange County. About three hours later, Pacific Avenue and 9th street, which I passed on the way to the boat, had water in the street over the top of cars and was flooding stores, including a Kranken auto parts I go into from time to time. Glad I didn't hang around. The mountain passes out of Loa Angeles to the north are all closed by deep snow. This is usual with severe winter storms but this series has been close together and more severe than usual. Those boats off Santa Barbara were at great risk in these storms and should have had more heavy anchors out but anchoring out is risky in any winter here. Mike Kennedy Conquest Cal 40 # 96 > > Charles > S/V Boomerang! > 1980 Cal 39, Mark II > St Michaels, MD > > > From: "ai… [at] aol.com" <ai… [at] aol.com> > To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 4:59:03 PM > Subject: [Cal_Boats] Re:Santa Barbara Carnage (not for the faint of > heart) > > I have a feeling this is not the last of the boats that will break > free of their tackle > <008.JPG> > Looking to the east. 5 sailboats, 1 powerboat > <013.JPG> > Looking to the west. 4 sailboats > > >

Reminds me of beached whales. (Beached whales are a lot sadder to look at) Two years ago I put a deposit down on a nice 28' sailboat which was then anchored south of the pier. The boat turned out to have been turned into a sea bird roost and it's rigging was wrecked, and I lost my $500 deposit. Reminds me, I should send another complaint to EBay! The boat had 27 birds roosting on it, half an inch of petrified guano, outboard missing, and lower shroud ripped apart, gooseneck busted, etc. And it was covered with noxious slime, and reeked. Eric I spent two days in a futile attempt to clean it up. Beware of buying any boat on Ebay that you haven't seen. The seller had used photos of the boat taken a year before, and I'd seen it then. He sailed it up to SB, anchored it, and it wasn't long before the sea and sea life had done a wreaking job on it. As far as I know all the anchored boats had been (had to be) removed (the one I was going to buy was one of them) by the port and permanent moorings had been (were to be) installed which were then for rent...the whole effort meant to prevent just such occurrences. Jerry --- On Thu, 1/21/10, Charles Strasburger <bo… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: From: Charles Strasburger <bo… [at] yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Re:Santa Barbara Carnage (not for the faint of heart) To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 2:34 PM Jesus....been so busy I had no idea this was going on... Everyone safe out there? Charles S/V Boomerang! 1980 Cal 39, Mark II St Michaels, MD From: "ai… [at] aol.com" <ai… [at] aol.com> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 4:59:03 PM Subject: [Cal_Boats] Re:Santa Barbara Carnage (not for the faint of heart) I have a feeling this is not the last of the boats that will break free of their tackle Looking to the east. 5 sailboats, 1 powerboat Looking to the west. 4 sailboats

any pics? --- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, airtimeskipper@... wrote: > > > I have a feeling this is not the last of the boats that will break free of > their tackle > > Looking to the east. 5 sailboats, 1 powerboat > > Looking to the west. 4 sailboats >