Roger Jones

Rog Jones's messages are still on the web site for all to read. Log on to the group site and click on "messages." In the search box, type "Rog Jones." Approximately 1027 messages will appear. You can scroll through them and save them, although no attachments appear. If you search under "Roger Jones" only about 179 messages appear. I never met Rog Jones, but like many here, I talked to him on the phone and emailed him off the list. He sold me a bunch of Cal 29 sails, which I still have yet to properly size for my Cal 28. When I wrote the group of my rookie mishaps coming and going through the marina, Rog was ready with constructive criticism when my antics could have been easily ignored. He also kindly offered to assist in the repairs of blisters on my boat and "make her better than new," to quote him. I'm sorry we will not have the chance to collaborate on that effort. Rog was also interested in Fiver constructing stainless steel tillers for our boats. I'll save that idea for "one day." If I can assist with posting any and all information about the sale of Rog's Cal online, let me know. Send any information/photos to rbsii @ att.net [remove spaces]. God bless.

Hi folks, I'd like to add my $.02 to what I know about Rog. At the last really, really big blow out CCCCCCC (Cal Club Champagne Cruise Caper Convention and etc.) that we have had, Per's Cal 31 engine wouldn't start. Rog, in a most wise and heroic manner, helped Per rig his dingy to the big yacht to work just like a New York City Harbor barge tug (you know, the old tall stack types with the triple expansion steam engines, and the loud woooo! woooo! whistle that I recall as a young-un---but I digress), tying the little thing to the ship's side with lines running for and aft. So rigged they successfully (kinda like them old black and white cowboy flicks where the hero jumps off his horse onto one of the wagon team's  to slow a panicked team of wagon horses running amok, but without the break neck speed, but lots of hobby horsing aboard the inflatable)--- drove her back to Marina del Rey, getting after dark. I escorted the affair on my Cal 24, discovering that I could make 4+ knots with my my 4 horse Suzuki with very little throttle (comes in real handy when you've got to motor a long ways and haven't much fuel). The excitement came when ol' Per got the grand idea, being that it was a dark moonless nite, that he had a good excuse to activate his mast top strobe as he entered Marina del Rey and proceeded down the main channel. He was half way down the channel when the Harbor Patrol boat noticed the bright flashes, and not being cognizant of the radio conversation gone on between Per and their dispatcher, made a b-line for it at about 151 miles an hour (ok, maybe it was 26 knots) throwing a humongous wake and sinking half the  boats docked in the Marina*. The Harbor Patrol guys on that boat weren't too happy about Per using the strobe, since it's supposed to be used only for dire emergencies...and I guess, because it showed they was a-napping thru the VHF traffic. All told, it was great fun, and a good time was had by awull!!! Jerry, Cal 24 #71 *hey when you tell sea yarns, yahs has tah  exaggerate tah gets the point across.

I've been in the middle of moving this past week so am a bit slow to respond. But I want to echo all the warm and wonderful sentiments about Roger. I didn't get to know him until just a couple of years ago when I organized Caltopia 2006 at the Encinal YC on SF Bay. I invited Roger to come down and talk about his experience working at Jensen's in the 1970s and also be a judge at Caltopia's concours d'elgance. He couldn't have been more generous with his time nor more gracious. I truly value knowing Roger. Jim Williams Spindrift, Cal 39-2 Alameda CA