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We Still Offer More! Making boating easier – and more fun! is what a marina should be all about. That's why Oyster Cove Marina rates number one with many Bay Area boaters. It's an exclusive yet reasonable facility of 219 berths, accommodating pleasurecraft in slips up to 60-ft long. Oyster Cove is the private Peninsula marina closest to Blue Water boating. Want to cruise to Sausalito, lunch at Tiburon, or sail to Angel Island? How about a day's fishing outside the Gate, or a weekend at the Delta? No other private Peninsula marina is better situated or offers nicer, fresher surroundings. • Berths 30 feet to 60 feet • Double Finger Concrete Slips • Telephone Available • Five Minutes from SFO • Heated Dressing Rooms & Showers Page 58 • Latitude 38 • October, 2009 • Laundry Room • Nightly Security Patrol • Complimentary Ice • Cable TV/High Speed Internet • End Ties Available at $5.95/Ft! 385 OYSTER POINT BOULEVARD #8A SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO ( 650 ) 952 - 5540 LETTERS Lynn Thornton, and that person is Chief Deputy Russell Perdock. We hope he is prosecuted. A lot of people are assuming that the accident was the result of Perdock being drunk, but there doesn't seem to be evidence to support such a belief. We think he was just getting his kicks by recklessly hauling ass through the black night — as he testified he'd done many times before — without being able to see because it was black out, he wasn't wearing his prescription glasses, and because the speed would have made his eyes water up. It was just an instance of really poor judgement. ⇑⇓TELL ME THERE'S A SPEED LIMIT ON CLEAR LAKE I'm surprised that I haven't heard anything about it, but can you please assure me that, in the light of the death of Lynn Thornton, there is now a 5 mph speed limit on Clear Lake after dark? Carl Chesney Ghoolie, Catalina 22 Sacramento Carl — An attempt was made a few months ago to establish a night time speed limit but it was quickly quashed by Lake County's powerboater-filled Clear Lake Advisory Committee. Regardless, the California Harbors and Navigation Code does require that all vessels "be prepared to stop within the space of half the distance of forward visibility." Just how much forward visibility does one have on a pitch black night? Not much. By the way, having travelled from shore to our anchored-out boats well over 100 times this year — including in Mexico, the Caribbean and Catalina — we consider ourselves to be experts on operating sailboats and fast dinghies at night. We can report that on nights when the moon is full or close to it, visibility is actually pretty good. But on moonless nights, such as the night that Perdock rammed the boat Lynn Thornton was on, you're all but blind. No wonder two unlit pangas slammed into each other behind Profligate one night last December while we were anchored at Punta Mita. The worst conditions of all are moonless nights when there are background lights — as was the case the night of the Perdock collision. The biggest problem with background lights on moonless nights is that you have no depth perception, making it all but impossible to know if the light you're looking at is 100 feet or 1,000 yards away. And Perdock's stated concept of avoiding boats by looking for their silhouettes against background lights is sheer lunacy. For everyone headed south to Mexico this season, try hard to reach your anchorage or harbor while it's still light. If you must enter in the dark, proceed very slowly. We've entered the harbor at Santa Barbara countless times, but on a recent dark night, we felt that anything over two knots was still too fast to safely pick out the channel markers from the background lights reflected on the water. ⇑⇓"PEOPLE WANT TO HELP SO SUCK IT UP!" The Gold Country YC celebrated Bismarck Dinius' victory after three long years of his having to fight charges that he was responsible for the death of Lynn Thorton in that terrible boating accident on Clear Lake. Our little yacht club here in the foothills of Nevada County on Scott's Flat Lake has been behind Dinius, who is one of our own, for what's been a long and hard road for him. He was welcomed to cheers of joy as he arrived at our most recent general meeting. We, along with much of the sailing community around the country, had been praying for him all during the ordeal. And we haven't forgotten about Lynn Thornton. Our prayers are with her family
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