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COURTESY WISDOM
LETTERS
by the office. He says that while he's not as young or as fit
as he was when he won all those Olympic medals, there is no
way he'll be beaten by a dog.
Sailing Trivia: What boat did Mark Spitz race in the
TransPac, and in what year?
⇑⇓NEXT STOP: CHINA CAMP
I just read the September issue, and loved hearing about
different places in the Bay I can visit with my boat. I used the
information to spend a few nights at Angel Island with my
brother from San
Diego. By the way,
Angel Island has
a web cam that
shows the dock
and mooring field
at Ayala Cove. It's
a good way to see
Clausen uses Angel Island's webcam to check
out the moorings at Ayala Cove.
how crowded it is
and if the sun is
out at that time.
A n d h a v i n g
now read about
China Camp in the current Latitude, I'm planning on doing
an overnight there over a long weekend.
Greg Clausen
Wisdom, Santana 30
Marin County
⇑⇓"I'M APPALLED AT THE LACK OF EMPATHY"
On the evening of September 1, I received a phone call
from an old sailing buddy who was obviously distressed. He
called because he needed information on getting from Avalon
to Long Beach with his Cal 34, and getting a berth there. My
friend, who lives at Pearlblossom in the high desert, had just
received an alarming call from his family that the gigantic
Station Fire was threatening his community and home. He
called me because, until I moved to Seattle last year, I'd kept
my boat at Long Beach's Shoreline Marina.
My friend had asked the harbormaster at Avalon for a
mooring, saying that he needed to get home as soon as possible.
If he'd been assigned a mooring, he and his wife could
have caught a ferry for the hour ride to Long Beach, where he
could have picked up the car that I leave there. But the Avalon
harbormaster told him the moorings weren't the property of
Avalon, and he therefore couldn't give him permission to leave
his boat. So my friend called me.
Ultimately, my friend and his wife took their boat to Long
Beach, where they arrived at 9 p.m. The marine patrol told
them that while slips were available, they had to wait until
the office opened the next morning at 10 a.m. to get one. As a
result, my friend and his wife sailed through the night and half
the next day to get to Ventura, where they have a slip. It was
hard and frustrating but they had no alternative. Fortunately,
when they made it home, their house wasn't damaged.
I'm appalled at the lack of cooperation and lack of empathy
displayed by the authorities at both Avalon and Long Beach!
There wasn't anyone in the United States who didn't know that
the biggest fire ever was burning in Southern California. I'm
shocked that my friend didn't get more cooperation. Has the
boating community gotten so callous as to not lend a hand
to someone obviously in need?
Per Curtiss
Aquavit, Freedom 44
Seattle