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lcharlot
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Initially Posted - 01/31/2003 : 00:05:02

Here goes, I have some scanned photos from last summer, Fleet 4 "away" cruises to Lake Tahoe and the San Juan/Gulf Islands. I have re-read Don Lucier's image posting instructions and uploaded the pics to Shutterfly.

These four are of me sailing "Quiet Time" in Ganges Harbor, Saltspring Island, B.C., and were shot about mid-afternoon on July 24, 2002. We are en-route from a fuel and lunch stop at Ganges to Montague Harbour via the Captain Passage.

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Catalina 22 Fleet 4 Raft-up at Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, July 3, 2002. NOTE: although we are a Catalina 22 Fleet, there are actually more Catalina 25's than -22's in the club, due to the members gradually moving up the boat size scale with time, age, and the desire for more creature comforts than a Catalina 22 can provide. Hence the 4:1 ratio of C-25's to C-22's that this picture indicates. "Quiet Time" is the last boat on the left side of the picture:
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"Quiet Time" is the nearest boat to the camera:
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"Quiet Time" with "Admiral" Lynn relaxing in the cockpit. Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, July 3, 2003:
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Lake Tahoe, July 4th 2002, Lynn steering us over to Stateline Beach. The entrance to Emerald Bay is in the background
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Lake Tahoe Sunset, at anchor near Stateline Beach, July 4th 2002, waiting for the big Fireworks show:
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Larry Charlot
Catalina 25 #1205 "Quiet Time"
Sacramento, CA

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 01/31/2003 : 00:24:58

Real nice photos, Larry! The scenery is fantastic. That first photo looks like you had some decent wind that day. I especially like the sunset photo. To me, that sunset is definitely worth the price of admission! <img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle>

Thanks for sharing them with us.

Don Lucier, 'North Star'
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Cradled on the hard, 200ft from Lake Erie

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Buzz Maring
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Response Posted - 01/31/2003 : 00:32:18

<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> COOL! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Buzz Maring, C-25 SK/SR #68, "Freya"
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Douglas
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Response Posted - 01/31/2003 : 01:45:05

Great pic's where are the ones of the San Juans ??? Good time of year to share. It helps the shut in's.<img src="http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b2d632b3127cce9fc8d685123e0000001610" border=0>

Doug&Ruth
Triska (Alberg 29)
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Ben
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Response Posted - 01/31/2003 : 07:08:22

Great pics, Larry. Feel free, even encouraged, to post more.

Ben
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tinob
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Response Posted - 01/31/2003 : 08:58:10

Larry,

Great pictures are a welcomed cure for the snowed in crazies....THANKS

Val on the hard DAGNABIT

Val Bisagni

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Shelby
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Response Posted - 01/31/2003 : 11:50:01

Great Pictures!! Julie, myself and another couple rented a C30 up there a couple of years ago and sailed for three days. Spent most nights in Emerald Bay..by ourselves. It was great because there was still snow on the mountains in July and we were in our shorts and t-shirts. Jumping in the water was very refreshing. I did notice that when the wind picks up..it really picks up, although most of the time it was easy sailing.

Here is a couple of our pictures:

Emerald Bay from the top of the mountain.

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Going slow...but moving.

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The Captain about to order me to do something.

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Shelby
'82 C25 "Third S", #3208, SKSR, Honda 9.9, Lake Pleasant, AZ

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Kirk McKay
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Response Posted - 01/31/2003 : 12:03:49

Great pics Larry!

(Do you always have your motor in while you Sail?)

Kirk in frozen Maryland

Kirk

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 01/31/2003 : 15:05:30

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>
(Do you always have your motor in while you Sail?)
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You don't have to defend yourself, Larry... I often leave mine down when we're daysailing, not worrying about how fast we get to anyplace in particular. I wouldn't do that racing, although I can't detect the drag. But as the saying goes, "You can get there faster in a powerboat--in a sailboat, you're already there!"

Dave Bristle - 1985 C-25 #5032 SR-FK-Dinette-Honda "Passage" in SW CT

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MattL
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Response Posted - 01/31/2003 : 15:12:53

Larry,
I was planning a trip to Tahoe with a group of people from the San Joaquin Valley. After all the info I found on two stroke motors and the lake I thought a trip to Tomalas bay would be easier. What is your take on the situation. For August would it be OK to go sans motor and just sail into any kind of docking situation. I mean are the marinas set up so you can sail in or do you have to weave through a bunch of docks with a motor. Not many of us have legal motors and I don't want any one getting in trouble. Thanks for any info

Matt/Brigitte Loeffler
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Shelby
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Response Posted - 01/31/2003 : 17:57:01

Matt,

When I was in Tahoe, getting into and out of the marina's (on the California side) is narrow and shallow and there are a lot of docks to manuvere (sp) around. Could be very tuff getting into them under sail (boats coming and going). On the Nevada side I did notice a few docks, not attached to marinas which you could probably sail up to, but not sure if you are allowed to tie up.

Shelby
'82 C25 "Third S", #3208, SKSR, Honda 9.9, Lake Pleasant, AZ

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 01/31/2003 : 18:38:32

"...would it be OK to go sans motor and just sail into any kind of docking situation..."

What about using a Yuloh to propel the boat? <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Don Lucier, 'North Star'
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Cradled on the hard, 200ft from Lake Erie

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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 01/31/2003 : 23:00:16

Okay, here's the lowdown on Lake Tahoe, for those of you interested in trying a cruise there.
1. 2-cycle boat motors, inboard or outboard, are banned totally. However, I would not recommend going to Lake Tahoe without a motor at all, the wind there is flukey and the lake is huge - 28 miles long x 9 miles wide, and being out in the middle with no motor if the wind died would not be fun.

2. The typical summer wind pattern is flat calm overnight, through about 13:00, then a west wind will fill in during the afternoon, dying away after sunset. Peak winds are typically 15-20. Emerald Bay, being long, narrow, and oriented west-to-east, acts as a wind funnel, and it get get very gusty in there in the afternoons. You want to raft up with good, solid anchors, not your light duty "lunch" anchor, even if it is dead calm when you arrive. Occasionally a high pressure system over northern California and a low over southern California combine to make strong north-westerlies that can reach gale force in the Tahoe area. When that happens, Lake Tahoe can get pretty nasty, even life-threatening to any kind of small open boat like a sailing dinghy or small powerboat. However, this is rare, requires special weather conditions and happens only a few days in a whole summer.

3. Launching and mooring. There are two kinds of shoreline around the lake - steep and rocky, and shallow and sandy. The steep and rocky parts don't have launching facilities that I know of, all the ramps are along shallow sandy areas. This can be a problem for a large keel boat like a Catalina 25, especially in drought years when the lake is low. Another issue is parking for your tow vehicle and trailer; in 1997 I went on a drive around the lake specifically to gather intel on the launch ramp situation, and discovered to my surprise and dismay that EVERY public launch ramp on both the Nevada and California sides of the lake is posted DAY USE ONLY-NO OVERNIGHT PARKING-TOW AWAY 10:00 PM-6:00 AM. This leaves only two or three privately-owned launch facilites that can accomodate a Catalina 25-size sailboat, and that also have off-street parking. All three are quite expensive, too. They are:
(a) Tahoe Keys Marina in South Lake Tahoe. Launching is $25 round trip. and parking for your trailer is $10 per day. Parking for your tow vehicle is free, but the parking lot doesn't have nearly enough capacity for the number of launch customers on the average summer weekend, so it's get there by 07:00 or forget about parking inside. If you can't find a space inside the marina lot and have to park out on the street, there is a 72 hour limit that is aggressively enforced by the South Lake Tahoe parking gestapo.

(b) Camp Richardson Resort. Actually, I am not certain that you could launch even a Catalina 22 here, let alone a Catalina 25. The ramp is a small one-laner, it has no more than a 9 or 10 percent gradient (15% is best for a C-25) and the parking seems very limited. Parking is a problem anywhere in South Lake Tahoe, I think.

(c) Meeks Bay Resort and Marina. This place has quite a few sailboats in the marina, but I have heard the ramp is not very deep. I have stopped at Meeks Bay a few times for scuba diving trips, and in looking at the ramp I am not sure I would want to try launching Quiet Time there unless the lake was full to the brim. Cost for launching and parking here is about the same as Tahoe Keys.

The three places listed above are all in the southwest area of Lake Tahoe. I could not find anywhere on the east or north shores that allowed overnight parking. It is almost as if the local government agencies are going out of their way to discourage recreational boating; they certainly don't make it easy to bring a sailboat to Tahoe for an multi-day cruise.

Anyway, all of my several cruises to Lake Tahoe with Quiet Time and her predecessors have been launched from Tahoe Keys. It is the only ramp that most of our sailing club people feel has enough depth for a Catalina 25.

Other Facilities: South Lake Tahoe is a big town with supermarkets for provisioning, and there are a few lakeside resorts where you can re-stock with ice and basic necessities without having to drive into town. Tahoe City, Kings Beach, and Incline Village on the north shore of the lake are somewhat smaller but have supermarkets and basic services too. If you want to bring your boat up there, the best time of the year is July 4th weekend, hands down. The Casinos and South Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commece put on a SPECTACULAR fireworks show, the best I have ever seen, bar none. They shoot the fireworks off of three large work barges anchored a few hundred feet off of Stateline Beach, and anyone with a boat is free to anchor quite close to the barges, within 75 yards I'd guess, the approximate radius of the ring of safety zone buoys around the barges. The police do patrol this zone and will not allow you anchor inside the buoys. But 75 yards is really close! These are full-size professional pyrotechnics and they go off practically right over your head. It's a much better "seat" on a boat than the people have who are on the beaches, much farther away from the barges. The show lasts about 40 minutes and trhere is a theme music show simulcast from one of the South Lake Tahoe radio stations on both AM and FM. Our club has a cruise there every July 4th, and if anyone would like to meet us, you would be more than welcome! It's a reasonable distance to tow from anywhere in California, maybe Oregon, if you can spend at least three or four days. Emerald Bay is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen to wake up in the morning on your boat and poke your head out of the companionway hatch for that first morning look-around. Fossil Bay on Sucia Island, and Montague Harbor in the Gulf Islands are pretty neat too, but we'll talk about the San Juan/Gulf Islands cruise another time.

If anyone has more questions about cruising Tahoe, please feel free to e-mail me directly at: lgcharlot@hotmail.com

Larry Charlot
Catalina 25 #1205 "Quiet Time"
Sacramento, CA

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