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FROM THE EDITOR
The Mariner is
G r a m Pa s m a r I n e r
Editor/Publisher Well folks, its happening. If you thought you were feeling the redevelopment before, you now know
Pat Reynolds that this is what it really feels like. There are certain moratoriums on construction in the summer and
they are now lifted so Marina del Rey is sort of like one big construction zone. In D basin (Wayfarer
Columnists anchorage, formally Mariners Bay), new docks are being put in while new apartments are being built,
so Palawan Way is a mess. Over near Mindanao and Admiralty, there will soon be a Trader Joes and
Bill McNeely
West Marine, so that area is getting tore up. I got a call this past month: Hey Pat, the old Ships Store
Dave Stovall
building is getting torn down, you should come and take a picture.
Greg Rutter
On the south side of town its the sounds of bulldozers and cranes. The monstrosity of Bar Harbor is
For advertising rates and never ending and the next block over is also full of building activity.
Information contact
310-397-1887 It sucks. Theres no other way to put it. If this magazine gets found in some age-old dead grandfathers
email sock drawer in the distant future, I have a message for the finder:
editor@marinermagazine.com
I hope you like this marina you have here. Let me tell you, we went through all kinds of agony to get it
Mailing address to you. People fought about things, the politics were controversial and things often got heated. It was
P.O. Box 9403 sad to see some of the places and things we loved get mowed down for a mysterious future plan
a plan that is now your home. You should know that there was resistance, that many didnt want what
Marina del Rey, CA 90295
is your existence. But change came upon this area like an enormous steamrollerwe tried to guide
it all pushing and pulling in a variety of directions. There was so much disagreement and confusion.
The Mariner appears on the last
It brought out the worst in some and the best in others. But what drove us was our love and recognition
Friday of every month. of a special place. I hope you see it that way and want to protect your version like we wanted to
protect ours.
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O F F TH E WI R E
B o at P a r a d e A n n o u n c e s D at e and Theme!
Its hard to believe but its time to start thinking about the Marina del Photo by Pat Reynolds
Rey Holiday Boat Parade. On Saturday, December 9, the main channel of
the harbor will be filled with boats lit up and decorated to the hilt. There
will be no shortage of holiday spirit as the parade has been hitting record
numbers the past few years. The theme this year is Lets Dance.
The Grand Marshal this year is award winning journalist and acclaimed
broadcast anchor Carol Costello. Ms Costello is the host of HLNs Across
America with Carol Costello, a two hour news show airing weekdays
from 11:00 -1:00 p.m. ET, covering the days news and most-talked about
stories. She is based in the networks Los Angeles bureau.
Free parking and free boat launching available Saturday, December 12,
from 3:00 p.m. to midnight in Los Angeles County public parking lots
throughout Marina del Rey. Visit beaches.lacounty.gov for parking lot
locations. For more info go to mdrboatparade.org.
Check out our website www.smwyc.org for a calendar of all of our events and activities
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By Capt. David Stovall
he summer boating season may be behind us us who are more hands-on do-it-yourselfers, heres some basic info on
but the cycle of boat maintenance never ends bottom paint that should help towards making a confident decision on
and for many owners, a bottom job is at the top the best paint for your boats belly. For the sake of brevity, well keep
of the to-do list. the discussion applicable to fiberglass hull boats and, because different
regions vary in the kind of marine organisms and growth rates, boats that
Maybe your diver told you the paint is looking are operated in salt water in Southern California.
thin or you cant remember the last haul out
and now you see long whiskers of sea growth Two main considerations for choosing the right paint include:
wafting in the current on your boats underside. Either way, youve 1) H ow often is your boat used? That is, when is it actually moving
decided its time for a haul out and a bottom paint job. Making this through the water and not as a party float in the slip.
decision and choosing a boatyard for the work are the easy parts. Deciding 2) H ow is it storedin or out of the water?
on what bottom paint to use? Not so much. As with just about everything 3) Will you be removing the old paint or painting over it?
in this modern world, technology, and in this case, chemistry, has given us
a dizzying array of choices and considerations when it comes to bottom Simply put, the most effective bottom paints use additives, called biocides,
paints. Googling bottom paint can lead you down endless rabbit holes that are poisonous to algae, barnacles, and other marine organisms thereby
of information containing words like biocide, non-biocide, and leach preventing them from attaching and growing on your boats hull. Biocide
rates and leave you feeling you should have studied more in that high paints usually contain copper, zinc or other active ingredients, which, like
school chemistry class. pesticides for your lawn, also have a way of causing collateral damage
to other life forms along the way. Paints containing copper come in low-
Some boat owners might decide to just pick a color and leave the other leach and high-leach varieties meaning the copper leaches or bleeds off
decisions concerning the bottom paint to the boatyard crew. For those of into the surrounding water at different rates.
By Mike Leneman
A few years ago we asked oceanographer and master sailor Mike Leneman to write something about Santa Ana
winds. Santa Anas or Santanas as they are sometimes called, come on sudden around this time of year and they
Y
often produce high winds and more than a little anxiety for So Cal boaters. Mike wrote this very interesting piece and
we now choose to rerun it every year because its such important information for MdR boaters to have. Its also written
by an expert who knows this area as well or better than anyone around. We hope its helpful in your travels.
ou smell Chaparral, the air is warm, but also very with a maximum wind velocity occurring in late afternoon.
dry...The sky is clear and there is almost no wind.
You detect a slight breeze from the north, north- However, the Santa Ana has a different pattern. It can occur almost any
east. You think: What is going on? You have time a high pressure cell moves over the area to the north, north-east of
a wired feeling, almost an irritation... kind of an us (like over Nevada, or N. California). It can blow hard day or night. It
antsy feeling. actually competes with our standard westerly wind during the daytime and
that is why it often blows harder at night.
Welcome to the Santa Ana condition that Southern
California is known for. In France, its the Mistral and both are strong What should you do if you feel what is described in the first paragraph and
offshore winds, but Santa Anas probably the only really dangerous suspect a Santa Ana is coming? First, be alert. Look for wind direction
weather condition for boaters in this area. If a cold front comes through, changes, watch the water surface for signs of strong winds coming. The
sailors usually know it. We dont often go out sailing in the rain, or leave surface of the water will look darker as the wind ruffles the water. And you
the dock when its already blowing 25 knots but the Santa Ana, on the might even see white caps before the wind hits you. For sailors, shorten
other hand, often catches people with their pants down...or with their sail or take your sails down until you know how strong the wind is.
sails up.
Sitting at the UCLA dock one day, I watched the incoming Santa Ana
The general feeling is that they are very unpredictable, but in actuality wind front moving down the main channel from the California Yacht Club
there are a good amount of prescient signs. And if a sailor is sensitive to towards the UCLA dock. As this line of wind hit the sailboats in the
these signs, they can usually avoid the most dangerous of circumstances. main channel, it just knocked them down. The amazing thing was that
almost none of the boats out in the channel noticed what was happening
So, to start with, what is the driving force behind the Santa Ana winds? That and no one took their sails down as the wind approached.
is pretty simple: its a high pressure system sitting to the north or north-
northeast of us. This system produces winds that come from the north-east If you are anchored at Catalina on the side that faces the mainland and
and travel down-slope toward us. The wind funnels through the canyons a Santa Ana is approaching - get out of dodge! If you cant get back to
and accelerates in speed due to the venturi effect. This is in strong contrast the mainland, then at least get to the backside of the island or get out
to our normal westerly winds which slowly build throughout the day as of the anchorage and reef your sails as much as you can. Every year
the deserts heat up. The ocean water is usually in the 60s, as is the air boaters are caught unaware and are blown ashore by Santa Ana winds.
temperature above it. As the inland areas heat up into the 80s and 90s it Note: one other sign that often occurs in Catalina. Waves caused by the
creates a local low pressure and the cooler sea-air is accelerated towards wind will most often arrive at the island before the wind does. The wind
this low pressure area. This sea-breeze increases throughout the day front doesnt travel as fast as the waves that it produces. Often boaters
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think is a boat wake. So remember, if the waves
dont stop in the normal amount of time it takes
for a wake to pass, then they could well be a sign
that a Santa Ana is coming.
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Water Woes
For so long fresh water has been a major issue on our favorite getaway spot
By Bill McNeely
O
n planets outside our solar system, we look for a million gallons).
the essentials of life: a comfortable distance from
a star, protection from overwhelming radiation, The other the big system covers the east end of the Island, including
basic life-elements like carbon, and liquid water. Avalon, Hamilton Cove, Whites Landing, the airport, and most of the
islands civilization. That system has been heavily stressed, and what
We look for the same things on our own planet, follows is about it. Southern California Edison is the islands water utility,
too, and liquid water has been in short supply at and Catalina is SCEs only water system.
Catalina Island for the last five years. Otherwise
habitable, and certainly not over-developed, Catalina has, like Jimmy There are two reservoirs on the east end, and the larger (by far) at Middle
Buffetts fictional Kinja, many good things, but is short on its water Ranch holds about 1,100 acre-ft. of water, sitting about 1,500 ft. above sea
supply. Heres an update on Catalinas current state of dampness, and a level. That water, in turn, feeds several fresh water wells near the reservoir,
look at the future. which feed the water system. Water from the wells flows downhill, gets
cleaned and treated, and injected into the fresh system.
The island has two separate, non-interconnected water systems. One
operates west of the Mt. Blackjack Mt. Orizaba ridge, and provides for In late summer 2016, that reservoir had about 150 acre-ft. of water left in
Two Harbors and everything at the West End. It relies on several small itless than 15% of capacity. In practice, of course, you cannot drain the
wells and a one million gallon tank (about 3 acre-feet) on the ridge east reservoir completely dry. The island uses about 0.6 acre-ft. of water per
of The Isthmus, mostly rainwater-fed (one acre-ft. is about a third of day, so there was a full-on water shortage alarm. Stage 3 water rationing
Mainland water cannot supply the island. The channel is too wide and too It advocates a middle-cost plan that increases saltwater feeds, replaces the
deep, and clearly barging in even 10,000 gals. of water would only supply aging 1980s plant with a modern one to grow output, and expands tank
the island for an hour or so on average and less at peak times. We need capacity for potable water. You can expect to see some work over the next
other solutions. couple of years.
One extra source is desalination. There is an old desalination plant at Meanwhile rainwater remains important. The wet 2016-7 winter brought
Pebbly Beach, built when Hamilton Cove was developed in the 1980s. the Middle Ranch reservoir up to about 750 acre-ft. Thats more than half-
It has been refurbished several times, but its still an old plant. With full, but well below overflowing. The odds of a wet winter this year, given
emergency looming, SCE wisely barged in a modern, skid-mounted many La Nina signals, are low. So for now, remember the island is still
desalination unit in late 2015. The two plants together, if run full-out, in Stage 1 conservation, and fill your water tanks before you leave the
can make enough clean water to supply the islands needs, under heavy mainland.
conservation. But thats only a partial solution.
Bill McNeely is the author of Cruising Catalina Island 2nd Ed., the
Anyone with a reverse osmosis water-maker on their boat knows the water standard cruising guide for Catalina. Its on Amazon check the reviews.
from it is absolutely pristine and clear, and so is Catalinas desalination He also stars in the videes Cast Off for Catalina and Cast Off for
output. Its ready to add directly to the local water system. It makes no Mexico PPV or buy from The Sailing Channel www.thesailingchannel.
sense at all to pump it up 1,500 ft. to the Middle Ranch Reservoir, let it tv. E-mail him: islandguybill@yahoo.com.
get dirty there, and pump it back downhill to a treatment plant. Pebbly
Beachs desalinated water flows to the local water system at the Baker
tanks, near the city on the west ridge of Avalon Canyon.
Those tanks can only hold enough water to supply two hours of on-peak
need, though. Peak need is far above average, too. So, if the desalination
plants are running, there is often no place to put the water they make!
Also, the plants need saltwater from beach-level wells as feedstock. The
existing wells can only supply one unit, not both.
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or no less than ten years, sitting Id like to request that, at some point in the future,
on the sand of Mothers Beach on that we have an evening visioning meeting for
Palawan Way in Marina del Rey Mothers Beach and the Palawan office for what
is a quaint little building that any it could be in the future, Lumian said. There
logical newcomer would assume are a number of very important boating groups,
is some sort of community related specifically the Outrigger Canoe Club, the Rowing
structure. Perhaps its a boathouse Club, the Boys and Girls Clubthey all use that
for the outrigger club that so often launches from beach intensively and create an enormous amount
the quiet little beach. Or maybe its a check-in area of public access and public safety training.
for the various clubs and organizations that use the
spot. All of those speculations would make perfect sense, but in fact the The commissioner went on to say he has been told privately by numerous
little waterfront building is actually a parking management satellite office. members of the aforementioned groups that a building so-situated could
Yes, its a beachfront building for a parking company. How or why such be extremely beneficial to their programs.
prime real estate would be the possession of something so removed from
waterside, community related purposes is probably a very boring story On a grander scale, the meeting also discussed the Mothers Beach
to report but they signed a contract that kept them there, protected, for redevelopment project that is currently underway, slated to be complete
a very long time. by May 2018.
At the Small Craft Harbor Commission meeting this past month, Through the years, many plans have been discussed for this popular MdR
Department of Beaches and Harbor Director Gary Jones informed zone and its finally happening. Lie Joness from the Planning Division
commissioners that: Alternative accommodations have been delayed and gave a presentation describing whats in store for one of the major hubs
reluctantly I agreed to allow them to continue in the office until the end in Marina del Rey.
of the year.
She pointed out that the structures that are being refurbished have existed
After the contract on the old parking company [Modern Parking Inc] since 1967 with very little attention paid to them. The plan is to refurbish
expired this year, the county took possession of the little shack at the the existing rest room building, rebuild of picnic pavilion structures,
persistent nudging of Commissioner Dave Lumian who has always felt it replacing the 1,600 foot promenade and redesigning the surrounding
was more than strange that such a commodity would be used in this way. landscape. Joness said there will be decorative concrete, planters,
floorings, new signage and a replaced roof with a cutout hole where
Its been an ongoing concern of mine, Lumian said. I raised [the issue] a palm tree can grow through.
over 10-years ago when Stan Wisniewski was still the director. He
continued, Im glad were on track to get this done. All in all Joness painted a picture of a Mothers Beach, AKA Marina
Beach, that will be clean, fresh and revamped for the 2018 summer
Lumian went on to request that there be a thoughtful decision-making season.
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few months ago Marina del Rey racers were upset Torres is a doctor with a passion for sailboat racing. Hes been a West
at the impending sale and expected loss of a storied Coast sailor since cutting his teeth most recently on a Jeanneau 49 to
and mighty racing boat: John and Susie MacLaurins that he raced and cruised with his family. This past summer he took it to
Pendragon IV. This boat, the ur-TP52 and winner of LBRW and won his class with three first-place finishes. His wife saw how
an impressive array of races, had for 17 years been happy he was and encouraged him to follow his passion with a full-on
a symbol of excellence and dedication, of personal race boat, not a compromise (we must have this woman cloned!). So the
pride and integrity. P4 (as shes affectionately Jeanneau went up for sale, and Steve started poring over Yacht World,
known) was the first of the TP52s, the brainchild of John MacLaurin studying available boats.
and top designer Laurie Davidson. Legend has it that Mr. MacLaurin told
Davidson to design a boat so I can be the first one back to the bar. Within days of selling the Jeanneau he saw that P4 was for sale. He did
considerable research on the boat, then contacted the rep, Steve Curran,
With P4s sale looming, it was feared the red rocket would be packed and to make an offer.
carted to waters uncharted, perhaps stripped down to a cruiser, never to
be seen again. But, mirabile dictu, this was not to be. Fortunately for all It seemed like this was fate, to become the new owner of Pendragon,
who cherish the sight of her sleek hull slicing water, P4 was purchased by recalled Torres. I truly felt honored and privileged.
a racing enthusiast from Arizona, and the boat is staying in local waters.
The entire process took only a month, including finding a slip in L.A.
Heres how it happened: enter Steve Torres, a doctor from Phoenix and harbor.
long-time racer. Youd expect hed have the boat trailered to Lake Pleasant
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Tip of the Month! 5 Things to Keep in Mind
Handy nuggets of pocket sized
information to make your travels easier,
safer or just a bit more enlightened
When the Wind Comes Up
Lightning
You leave on a gorgeous sunny day with a 12- when you notice the wind may be changing her
knot breeze blowing out of the south and a tune, look to the reefing system and make sure
forecast for much of the same. Its going to be it all looks good to go. As it builds more, throw
a great day. After a solid two hours of sailing a reef in sooner than later. Its a great feeling to
in perfect conditions, more white caps begin to put a reef in, see the wind come way up and be
When Lightning strikes a boat anything can
emerge and the sky seems irritated. You know in total control no bugged eyed fear, no heart
happen from little detectable effect, to damage
the mood of the wind is changing and, as a racing, just a calm shift to another gear and
to electronic equipment, to the struck vessel
sailor, know youll be adjusting along with it. more sailing!
sinking.
Here are 5 things to keep in mind when you feel
that feeling. We encourage you to add to the list. 2. Change Clothing
Lightning seeks the path of least resistance.
There are times when the weather changes
When the path is a large conductor, like an
5. Tidy Up pretty quickly and the tee shirt and shorts
aluminum mast, it is relatively harmless. Its
Look around the boat and make sure everything become a serious liability when the sun goes
the path between the mast and the water, which
is ship shape. When things get hairy, a messy away and the wind bears down. Its very often
might be made up of small or poor conductors,
boat with lines to trip over and things to slip the case in heavier weather that the skipper and
where the damage occurs. It can burn out
on and get in your way is no good. Being crew will be stuck to the respective positions to
electrical wiring and electronics circuits and
disheveled in a howling wind can be a disaster. keep the boat sailing and passengers safe. To
even scorch a fiberglass hull.
A fully heeled over and powered up boat is be shivering and stiff is obviously not the best
actually fun if everything is where it should way to face a challenge. As things begin to shift
Some sailboats are built with a lightning
be. If something happens to snap or go boing remember this and grab the foulies. If youre
conductor at the masthead and a grounding
on a disordered boat, things can become chaotic dressed correctly for the event you can face it
system thats intended to conduct a lightning
quickly. Always be tidying in all weather but without compromise. Seems like an obvious
strike safely to ground while providing a cone
definitely if you feel it starting to pipe up. point but the environment can suddenly get
of protection for the rest of the boat. Such a
colder than one might anticipate.
system properly installed will provide a degree
4. Hunker Down
of protection for electrical wiring and devices.
Make sure everything that could get loose wont. 1. Grab that PFD
Perhaps some things in the galley are usually If it isnt already on, put one on. No one wants
Some of the damage caused by lightning results
fine for a normal daysail, but will create an to think that they could end up in the drink but
from induced electrical currents. You might be
obstacle course when the boat starts slamming heavy weather can get wild. There might be call
able to protect a handheld VHF or a hand held
around. Or maybe you have some things lashed to go up on a very slippery deck in an extremely
GPS by placing it inside the oven. Being a metal
down that need to really be lashed down now. bouncy environment. Its flat out foolish to not
box, it acts as a faraday cage, which external
Do a survey above and below and make sure it wear a life jacket in heavy weather. The chances
electrical and electromagnetic fields cannot
all looks solid for a rockin. of survival plummet should the worst happen.
penetrate.
Throw that baby on, plow through those big ol
3. Reef waves, enjoy this essential part of the sailing
This info nugget was supplied by the American
Its important to practice reefing on medium- experience and have a story to tell laterone
Sailing AssociationASA.com. There are over
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