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lcharlot
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Initially Posted - 04/02/2004 : 23:31:27

I had a GREAT sail last Saturday, 31 miles round trip from Owl Harbor down the San Joaquin River to Antioch and back. I arrived at the boat at 14:00, got my gear and supplies aboard and cast off a few minutes later in perfect weather; wind fom the northwest at 12~15 mph and temp about 72ºF. The tide was on the last half of the mid-day ebb, so I decided to head west, going with the tide. This put me on a beam reach, starboard tack, for the first couple of miles, and the ride was incredible with the GPS giving boat speed readings in the high 5's and low 6's all the time, and high 6's occasionally in the gusts (about 3/4kt of this speed from the ebb current). The northerly direction of the wind meant that there was very little fetch (the San Joaquin runs generally east-west in the Delta), so the water surface was practically flat and the ride smooth as silk despite the boisterous wind. The GPS track log had 15 NM on it at 17:00, and the tide had begun to flood, so I decided to turn around and head back. I had retraced 12 miles of the return trip when the sun set, right after which the wind died as if someone had switched off a big electric fan. I got the sails down and stowed, and deployed the outboard, and made it back to my slip a few minutes after 20:00, a little tired but soul-satisfied. What a day! I did have a few tense minutes when I suddenly noticed the depth sounder, which had been reading 36 feet, was in the single digits - I hadn't paid close enough attention to my charts and was crossing a huge shoal area! I looked around and realized that the main channel was several hundred yards south of me, and turned that way immediately, suffering several minor heart attacks as the depth sounder dipped
below zero into the "negative" depth range several times before I was back in the channel. I probably came within inches of sticking the rudder into the mud! I will have to be much more careful in the future, as this boat does not have a retractable keel like my last two Catalinas!

Here is a clip from a portion of the San Joaquin River chart, showing the approximate route of my 5-hour cruise as a heavy purple line zigzagging down the river. Owl Harbor Marina is in the upper right hand corner, in Sevenmile Slough about 1 mile in from the main river. My turn around point is about 1 mile west of the town of Antioch, 15.1 nautical miles downriver from Owl Harbor.

A big natural gas fired electric power plant at Antioch

Eastbound on the return trip, approaching and passing under the State Route 160 bridge just east of Antioch

San Joaquin River near Threemile Slough at sunset.

Larry Charlot
Catalina 25WK/TR Mk. IV #5857 "Quiet Time"
Folsom Lake, CA

"You might get there faster in a powerboat, but in a sailboat, you're already there"

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Sea Trac
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Vanuatu
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Response Posted - 04/03/2004 : 00:00:36

It just doesn't get any better than that! Thanks for sharing, Larry. You got some incredible pictures, too.

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gnorgan
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Response Posted - 04/03/2004 : 01:32:25

Larry, next time I'm up your way I'd like to sail with you on your boat on the river. Someday, after retiring, my wife and I plan on moving up there so I need to see what it's really like.
Meanwhile, if you're ever in San Diego you should look up the five C25s on L Dock at Marina Village Marina on Mission Bay, the marina nearest the Pacific pond.

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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 04/03/2004 : 08:32:48

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by gnorgan
 Larry, next time I'm up your way I'd like to sail with you on your boat on the river. .
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Better make it soon, because I will only have a slip at Owl Harbor for one or two more months. As soon as I sell my old boat and get a trailer for the new boat, I will move to Folsom Lake, which is where my sailing club is based. I have a dry storage space there, but can't use it until I have a trailer for the new boat.

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OJ
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Response Posted - 04/03/2004 : 10:50:04

Thanks for the share & tell Larry.

This is the first time I've seen pictures of the later style cabin top . . . I never realized it was that different.

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tinob
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Response Posted - 04/03/2004 : 14:38:45

Great pictures Larry, Thanks.

Love the finish on your external teak...a few more years and it will be near perfect... my favorite, Cape Cod Grey.

How long have you been cultivating the patina?

Val on the hard DAGNABIT

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gnorgan
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Response Posted - 04/03/2004 : 21:18:12

Way to go Val

Nice pics of a quality boat and you point out what turns out to be the best part of this generation of C25. When you bought this boat new the "weathered-look" was an option....actually costs more to have it look this way

. This option allows the buyer to actually SAIL MORE!!!

I am currently in the process of returning my now varnished teak to its original fine "patina" as you call it.

I purposely left the tarp OFF my cabin last Wednesday after a late evening sail off the coast of San Diego. This allowed me more sailing time and I got home earlier, too.
When do you splash?

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 04/03/2004 : 21:22:47

I gotta teach you how to make a simple web site......

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Chip Hunt
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Response Posted - 04/04/2004 : 11:04:23

how many of you have your jib sheets inboard of the lifelines? i personally have mine going outboard of the lifelines before coming back in on the winces.

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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 04/04/2004 : 23:30:33

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Chip Hunt
 how many of you have your jib sheets inboard of the lifelines? i personally have mine going outboard of the lifelines before coming back in on the winces.
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It depends on when your boat was made. I think that the "inboard" genoa track - the cause of jib sheets being inside lifelines - started in 1986, at about hull number 5150. This is a rough guess, as I don't know exactly which hull was the first "Mk. III" to be built. If anyone has a Pre-1986 boat that has the inboard Genoa track, AND aluminum framed cabin windows (in other words a Mk. I or Mk. II hull), please let me know.

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