2011 Delta/Bay Extravaganza and Catalina Offshore Adventure

Thanks for the tip Kent! Sorry you got sick, We missed you both and hope you're well by now.

Jim and Kathy (Pounder) organized another wonderful C-Dory gathering, They brought a delicious tri-tip for Monday's beach barbecue.

You now got me wanting to take some more days off from work to fish Dana Point just after returning from Catalina! The fishing stunk at the Isthmus. I worked hard at it, exhausted myself every day and was disapointed. The rock fish, salmon groupers and whitefish bit on cut squid, but that's meat fishing. Steve, his son Miles and three friends of Miles caught a lot of them on Tuesday. Me too, so we fed his hungry crew barbecued fish on Tuesday night. I could attract Calicos out of the kelp to the boat when retrieving my weedless swim bait lure, but not get them to bite. I often scoped groups of larger fish around the Isthmus in 75~ 150 ft depths that I guess were small yellowtails, but none took what I'd drop on them as an offering. By Thursday, I finally switched to bottom fishing again west of Arrow point. I used a whole octopus as bait, but was so tired that I just put one on a my spinning tackle which had 50 lb braid. I forgot the rod was rated for 25 pound line. Something big took my bait on the bottom and pulled line for ten minutes before the graphite rod broke. I then decided to cut the line. On our return, I split off from the group and fished Palos Verdes, but no bites there either.

I look forward to seeing you both next year. If you come on your own and want a companion boat. let me know.

Be well,
Keith
 
Hi guys. I split-off from you on our return so I could fish PV. No luck with the fish there either. I finally returned to MdR around 2~2:30pm. To my surprise, there were about six huge Samoan ocean sailing catamarans with a tiny hut, two masts, oars that were unbelievably huge, and a crew of about 5~6. Here's a photo and article of what I saw. To my amazement, they apparently sailed these crafts from New Zealand to San Francisco and then south along the California coast. I cruised along side one for five minutes just soaking in the beautiful wood construction of the boat. See http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1007/S00215.htm

Be well,
Keith
C-Pup16 in Los Angeles
 
Hello CVatalina Flotilla,

While I was fishing Palos Verdes on the return from our week at Catalina Island, I was greeted by Phil and Merry on the TomCat called "No Pressure". They dive and make wonderful underwater videos and scenes from their C-Dory at sea. Very nice of them to greet me. Merry passed a DVD of their videos over to me on C-Pup. I enjoyed viewing it a lot!

Keith
C-Pup16 (actually 15.917) in Los Angeles
 
Dear All:

Steve and Miles (Dora Jean), John and Robbin (Dinner Belle II), Ron and Bill (Islander), Russ and Theresa (Whale Watcher), Jon (Gypsy River), David and Donald (Gray Eagle), and Keith (C-Pup) - thanks for coming as we enjoyed your company. Kath and I had another great time hanging out at Number 9, String Line Float, Two Harbors, West End, Catalina, Channel Islands.

Kent and Marcia, we missed you both and we hope to see you soon at another event. We are sorry that you both were ill.

We dialed down our events somewhat this year in order to try to make it more relaxing for all. We feel well rested now that we are back at work!

We learned much about the cooling systems of Honda outboards on this trip from Dinner Belle troubleshooting. It was invaluable information, especially for offshore adventures.

We had many wonderful tender rides around the harbor enjoying the boat and people scenery. We also enjoyed a day trip on Ron's Lobster Boat to White's Landing. Finally, we had several relaxing hikes around the shore line.

We hope to see many of you again next year, along with some other new and old timers. We are already thinking about our next Buffalo Burger!

Sincerely,

Jim and Kath
 
Dear All:

I posted a few pictures of the 10th Annual Catalina Off-Shore Adventure. Sorry Kent that these are only i-phone pictures and not your good camera shots! I hope though that these pictures motivate others to join next year.

Sincerely,

Jim
 
One more interesting thing. This trip I navigated the entire 31 km offshore trip each way with my i-pad navionics attached to a RAM mount attached under my chart shelf by a suction cup! Very cool.

Sincerely,

Jim
 
Interesting. I wonder if my Blackberry has any similar features.

A fishing buddy uses the i-pad to position his boat over a long pipeline going out from shore at LAX/El Segundo. The pipe is an artifical reef. His i-pad app shows an arial photo of the coastal water that actually reveals the pipe under water, and shows the position of his boat in relation to it.

I'm waiting for Apple to have an app that dials up the fish I want for dinner. Then I'll leave Blackberry for Apple.

Keith
C-Pup16
 
Hi Bob,

I posted the old article for its photo. It does not do it justice, especially when five or more such boats are sailing together. It's an incredible sight. I wonder why the blog site you posted has no photos. I also wonder who funded the construction and support costs of the many boats I saw last Saturday (4 or 5).

There's a lot of misunderstanding about the "stink" of "oil spills" in the sea, located where there are oil drilling platforms in shallow water. This is found just north of Santa Barbara, California. The Samoan boat blog suggested the rigs are polluting the sea and causing the stink. I believe the sink actually has nothing to do with the rigs. This is the seepage of natural gas from the ocean floor. It always stunk there. The ancients in dug outs must have gagged the same as modern boaters.

I wonder if the off-shore oil drillers actually relieve some of the natural pressure in the undersea oil and gas domes, so that less natural gas seeps out than would otherwise.

Be well,
Keith
C-Pup16 in Los Angeles
 
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