That looks like a great trip. Let me know when the next one is planned and I will try to make it.
Bob 1982 M15 #208 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We took a trip out to Catalina Island last week with 2 other Montys, 9 > Potters, and an O'day. Although the sailing was minimal due to windless > conditions > we did have quite the adventure. Some of the video you'll see quite a bit of > wind which we tried to sail in, however, it was a local phenomena, as the > isthmus on the island forms a venturi effect. As soon as we would get away > from > the isthmus, the wind would die. Bummer! The trip over (26 miles) was > supposed to have "morning patchy fog".....I guess "patchy" means 22 solid > miles of > heavy fog, cause that's what we got. When we broke out of the fog, though, we > > were greeted by awesome groups of really playful dolphins. That was way cool! > > Some lessons were learned along the way. One of the group lost his way in > the fog and ended up 26 miles northwest of the island before he was located > and > put back on the right path. We were all kind of worried about him for a while > until the Coast Guard rounded him up and let us know that he was OK and on > the right path now....He made it into Two Harbors at Catalina at 11:30pm ( > we > left LA Harbor at 6am and for most of us the trip across was about 6 hours) > Needless to say he was cold, wet, and exhausted. I'm going to post more on > what caused the whole deal on my website in the hopes that it might prevent > somemone else from the same circumstances. Suffice it to say it was a number > of > errors (all small) that added up and could have had a bad outcome. > Fortunatley, they didn't. Much of it had to do with GPS coordinates, a lack > of complete > understanding of the different coordinate value systems, blind faith in the > GPS as a sole navigation reference, and lack of having the proper charts. > > The video is posted in a site called tinypics. It works OK however sometimes > when you load it it says "video not found". If this happens, move the bar > at the bottom of the video forward until a picture appears. If the video not > found message is still there, hit the refresh on your browser and it usually > loads correctly. hope it works....this is a low budget operation!! there is > no sound to the still photos, but the video clips have sound (sometimes not > synced too well.....again...low budget!) I took all the video with 'Jo's > pocket still camera so its of so-so quality. > > Enjoy > > Here's the link > > _http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=e67uyb&s=3_ > (http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=e67uyb&s=3) > > Sean > M23 Dauntless > > > > **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for > fuel-efficient used cars. > (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats > > _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
