Boat Parts

[n2ize]

Down here in Southern California, the open seas are only slightly rougher than your average mill pond during the summer months. When the wind really gets blowing, I stick to SD Bay—if I go out at all—but that’s more due to a lack of confidence in my own sailing skills than any worries about the boat itself. Cal 29s like the one I own are tough little boats. They have successfully weathered severe storms and completed trans-Pacific crossings, so the local ocean shouldn’t be more than it can handle.

Nice... I love rough water.

[NQ6U]

Nice... I love rough water.

Went out on the ocean on a friend's Gulfstar 39 on Monday, about an eight-hour round trip. Sailed out and rounded an oil tanker anchored about five miles offshore. Them motherfuckers is WIDE. Seas were typical for this time of year, not more than two feet or so. Fun day.

[K7SGJ]

Went out on the ocean on a friend's Gulfstar 39 on Monday, about an eight-hour round trip. Sailed out and rounded an oil tanker anchored about five miles offshore. Them motherfuckers is WIDE. Seas were typical for this time of year, not more than two feet or so. Fun day.

When you get out in the main drag, do you see much aqua life? Seems like the sharks are a bit more active than years past. Do much fishing?

[NQ6U]

When you get out in the main drag, do you see much aqua life? Seems like the sharks are a bit more active than years past. Do much fishing?

I do fish here in the harbor and off the breakwater, catch and release.

Didn’t see any wildlife at all out in the ocean but, man, is there ever a lot of big ship traffic out there. As well as at least four huge oil tankers, there were numerous warships—two CVs, an Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer like the one that was involved in the collision off of Japan and one of these things:



An FSF-1 Seafighter, one of the Navy’s new experimental class of littoral combat ships.