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Nice pictures.
Emma and Eva are the oil drilling platforms off Long Beach, northmost and westmost, still in view of land. They are the “turn around” points for most sailors from HH or LB or wherever. Some of my pilot friends even call them that. Said pilots like to buzz the boats as some couples find it erotic to do it out in the open like that. They think it great fun. We should shoot them.
My friend from Huntington Harbor has been de-masted twice! He’s so embarassed. That big boat was on auto-p and he has one of those ion-gate compasses. He was sailing past one of the platforms solo, it tracked on it, then turned into and hit the platform. Breaking the mast. Then, he (thinking to stop the boat from tearing up itself on the platform) started the engine, of course the rigging wrapped around the prop-shaft. Big damage, broke the motor mounts, etc. Really, he’s an excellent sailor.
I was going to ask you if that is the new Bosun’s chair, to watch the crosspiece or even the yardarm…
Effing snow. it’s that cold, white, no gray, no watery stuff. and of course don’t eat YELLOW snow.
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