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Gateway to the Bay & Delta • Competitive Rates! • Free Pumpout Stations • Ferry Service to San Francisco • Full Service Boat Yard and Chandlery • Two Restaurants for Breakfast, Lunch, Cocktails and Dinner • Great Restrooms and Showers • Easy access to San Francisco Bay and the Delta Page 44 • Latitude 38 • October, 2009 48-ft. BERTHS NOW AVAILABLE Visit Our Comfortable Guest Dock We always have room for one more! FALL SPECIAL • Stay three nights* • Get the fourth night free! *Nights do not have to be consecutive. Conditions apply. Special ends 10/31/09. (707) 648-4370 Fax 707-648-4660 42 Harbor Way, Vallejo, CA 94590 www.ci.vallejo.ca.us JOHN PRINGLE LETTERS at Coches Prietos, and she said yes! In addition, we'd stopped everywhere, visiting old friends and making new ones. When we got to Oxnard, my son showed up with the car and traded places with her. We rocketed cross Santa Monica Bay, crossed the L.A./ Long Beach shipping lanes at night with all lights on and the spotlight handy. Despite having no engine, we dodged eight container ships before we ran out of wind at the oil rigs off Huntington Beach. After we'd slatted for two hours, there was a sudden 25 knots from the southeast, meaning it was right on our nose. After it hit, NOAA was nice enough to issue a weather alert. Thanks. Down to a storm jib and a reefed main in big and sloppy seas, John sudden yelled, "Whale!" It was a broaching blue whale not more than 30 feet in front of us. Its spume hit the main of my boat. I didn't think I'd be able to miss what appeared to be an 80-ft long beast, and I know for sure that we sailed over its flukes. Running through my mind in a nanosecond were these thoughts: Where's the ditch kit? I need my belt knife to cut away the lashings on the kayak. Will there be time to get the paddles and my passport and driver's license from down below? Will there be time to get off a Mayday? Miraculously, the whale didn't hit us with its flukes. "Camera!" I yelled to John. He grabbed the Canon from below, and got a photo of the whale's flukes back in the air a few seconds later. Then we saw the whale-watching boats come pouring out of Newport, packed with people The fuzzy blue whale tail — it doesn't occur that way in nature, only when the shutter speed is too slow. who had paid $50 each for a chance to take a photo of a whale from 200 yards away. John and I high-fived each other, for none of the people on those boats had the remotest chance of experiencing what we just had. It was a hard sail the rest of the way to Mission Bay, but my boy is a trooper. He was born in Bequia, so he can hand, reef and steer, and has great reserves of fortitude. When I caught some sleep, I was comfortable with him at the helm — which is more than I can say when I'm with a lot of so-called sailors. Like my old buddies Don Street and John Smith, I'm a sailor, so my boat doesn't have an engine. William 'Billy Bones' Pringle Sea’Scape, San Juan 24 Mission Bay Billy — Congratulations on your impending nuptials! You sound like an experienced and intrepid sailor to us, so we're puzzled by why you would be concerned about gybing in 20 knots of wind. If you were doing 6 or 7 knots, the apparent wind would have been only 13 or 14 knots. Gybing in such conditions wouldn't concern us anywhere near as much as trying to dodge ships in Southern California without an engine. We admire your 'sail-only' attitude, but there are so many ships out there now. Based on our experience and that of others, whales seem to have made a huge comeback from Alaska all the way down to mainland Mexico. This being the case, everyone sailing from California to Mexico should have a plan of action ready in the
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