Kelp! Kelp!
 

The presense of kelp should be considered when
navigating a lee shore in lighter winds.

http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/kelpforest.html

Kelp! Kelp!
 

Pt Loma just off San Deigo has a great kelp forest. Full of otters
eating clams. Use to love to dive the kelp there. But your right, it
can stop a boat in it's track.

joe

Kelp! Kelp!
 

Sure does! I used to dive on them quite bit also.. when were you there? I
haven't done that in years.

I remember one time we went out in a friend Zodiac. Huge swells and people
were really getting green while struggling with their equipment. Finally, I
just grabbed the remainder of my stuff and went over the side... told my
buddy I'd meet him at 30 feet. The surge was amazing.

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"Joe" wrote in message
ups.com...
Pt Loma just off San Deigo has a great kelp forest. Full of otters
eating clams. Use to love to dive the kelp there. But your right, it
can stop a boat in it's track.

joe

Kelp! Kelp!
 

Good point Jon. They increase swell. I've read that
ships have been lost forced into kelp beds, and some
have lost masts in the swell before being beat to pieces
on the rocks.

I wonder how many have been lost on the coast of
California because of this?

"Capt. JG" wrote
I remember one time we went out in a friend Zodiac. Huge swells and people
were really getting green while struggling with their equipment. Finally,
I just grabbed the remainder of my stuff and went over the side... told my
buddy I'd meet him at 30 feet. The surge was amazing.

"Joe" wrote
Pt Loma just off San Deigo has a great kelp forest. Full of otters
eating clams. Use to love to dive the kelp there. But your right, it
can stop a boat in it's track.

Kelp! Kelp!
 

When I was diving off Catalina, you could actually crawl across the tops of
the kelp... Don't know the numbers, but there are boats lost all the time
off SF and environs. I saw a large commercial fishing boat on its side off
Santa Cruz several years ago. They missed the entrance in the fog and ended
up on the beach.

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www.sailnow.com

"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message ...
Good point Jon. They increase swell. I've read that
ships have been lost forced into kelp beds, and some
have lost masts in the swell before being beat to pieces
on the rocks.

I wonder how many have been lost on the coast of
California because of this?

"Capt. JG" wrote
I remember one time we went out in a friend Zodiac. Huge swells and
people were really getting green while struggling with their equipment.
Finally, I just grabbed the remainder of my stuff and went over the
side... told my buddy I'd meet him at 30 feet. The surge was amazing.

"Joe" wrote
Pt Loma just off San Deigo has a great kelp forest. Full of otters
eating clams. Use to love to dive the kelp there. But your right, it
can stop a boat in it's track.

Kelp! Kelp!
 

Back in 1979, While attending Amphibious boat coxian school on Coronodo
island.

Joe

Kelp! Kelp!
 

No way! I was there... just barely though... left SD in 1980. Mostly, my
girlfriend and I were in Solana Beach. We had a great place on the cliffs
overlooking the ocean. Even at the top of the summer, there were just a few
people on that stretch of beach.

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Joe" wrote in message
ups.com...
Back in 1979, While attending Amphibious boat coxian school on Coronodo
island.

Joe

Kelp! Kelp!
 

My borther and his wife lived in Solano Beach. They had a condo
right at the top of the hill, north of the race track. I loved it. I used
to go to dog beach and flirt with the girls. Then they sold that and
bought an orange grove under Mt Palomar. Motorcycle heaven.
Have you been out there? They were past the Rincon Indian Res,
and north of the La Jolla Ind. Res. His oranges were huge. The
first year he didn't have his labor set up in time and the oranges
were over two pounds! So big that they would split when they
fell. Some of them were over 3 lbs.

"Capt. JG" wrote
No way! I was there... just barely though... left SD in 1980. Mostly, my
girlfriend and I were in Solana Beach. We had a great place on the cliffs
overlooking the ocean. Even at the top of the summer, there were just a
few people on that stretch of beach.

"Joe" wrote
Back in 1979, While attending Amphibious boat coxian school on Coronodo
island.

Kelp! Kelp!
 

Amazingly, my ex girlfriend used to live just north of the race track.. if
you turned off Via De La Valle on the road just to the north of the track
entrance and made the first left, she was in that group of condos. We had to
rescue her and her roomie during the floods of late 70s. I almost drowned by
F-250 trying to get them out, and we watched a Chevy hi-boy float away.

I used to ride my cycle out of Del Mar east... can't do that any more...
toward Mt. Pal. Those days, there was nothing out there but farms and badly
rutted dirt roads. We also used to take our weapons out there and blast
away... no one around to complain. It was the first time I fired a 44 magnum
and a 45.

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"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message ...
My borther and his wife lived in Solano Beach. They had a condo
right at the top of the hill, north of the race track. I loved it. I
used
to go to dog beach and flirt with the girls. Then they sold that and
bought an orange grove under Mt Palomar. Motorcycle heaven.
Have you been out there? They were past the Rincon Indian Res,
and north of the La Jolla Ind. Res. His oranges were huge. The
first year he didn't have his labor set up in time and the oranges
were over two pounds! So big that they would split when they
fell. Some of them were over 3 lbs.

"Capt. JG" wrote
No way! I was there... just barely though... left SD in 1980. Mostly, my
girlfriend and I were in Solana Beach. We had a great place on the cliffs
overlooking the ocean. Even at the top of the summer, there were just a
few people on that stretch of beach.

"Joe" wrote
Back in 1979, While attending Amphibious boat coxian school on Coronodo
island.

Kelp! Kelp!
 

"Capt. JG" wrote in message .

I almost drowned by F-250 trying to get them out, and we watched a Chevy
hi-boy float away.

Yuo couldn't reach the pedals on an F250

.. It was the first time I fired a 44 magnum
and a 45.

Is that why your wrists are so ....Limp????

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CM