Summer of 2013

Remember when your teacher said to write a paper about what you did all summer?  Below is a synopsis  of our's.

 

 

 

Marina Village early one morning on the way out to fish with Steve.....

Steve's Boat - the Bald Eagle....from Alcatraz.  Great fishing boat, great skipper - we would put a hook down and always something would bite, including squid.  I found out that squid ink comes out of clothes...but tastes awful.  Anywhere from one to six squid would come up on a special hook arrangement, all shooting ink.  We would see Orcas, seals swimming in formation (honest), dolphins, sunfish....and always caught fish.

A boat tour around Newport Harbor:  Janice, Evan and Aaron .....we saw incredible huge yachts and some that were floating wigth divine help.  Windward Passage was moored across the bay, without a mast.  That boat has such Transpac history - my brother fell off it during a party at the Ala Wai - and he was wearing a blue tuxedo.  Lord, the 70s.

A short trip up to Edison Lake, at 8,000.  Con Ed was letting out so much water that we had to hike to the shore.  Thunder and lightning storms every afternoon:  hail covered the ground.  Our tent was so wet we slept in the van with wet dogs.

 

Sad scene.  A fire broke out across the lake, and we had a nervous night's sleep after the helicopters dumping water left it burning.  We went home.  Jim is selling the resort, no water in the lake, the damn place is burning down....who knows when we will get back there or when a snowpack will fill it again.

 

Mark came to visit - on the one of the happiest days in a long while.  He was put in charge of driving, docking, sailing...everything except cooking.  That may be Robert also at the helm - trying to read?????

We had a great sailmaker cut down one of our spinnakers in Mexico but never got to fly it....this was magic on little wind.  We were doing up to 6t plus knots with a 3knot breeze....I'O moves!