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US Sailing Advanced Race & Toy Drive p.m. and the other at midnight. Free admission.
Management Seminar Killer Shrimp Restaurant & Bar hosts this 7 p.m. - 12 a.m.
SCYA is arranging an Advanced Racing charity event and car show in the restaurant January 6
Seminar, for those interested in becoming parking lot. Free to show your car and free Berger-Stein Series
a regional or national PRO. The course is to attend! Take photos with Santa, join a pie- Del Rey Yacht Club is pleased to present the
only $50 and will be at Bahia Corinthian YC, eating contest, and browse the hot rods, muscle 45th running of its annual Berger-Stein Series
December 203 from 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. For further cars, and motorcycles on display. Bring an for PHRF, ORCA and Cruising boats. The five
information please contact: Kellie Fennessy unwrapped toy to be donated to the L.A. County race series begins Saturday January 6 with its
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December 2 info: 310-578-2293. PHRF, ORCA, Cruiser/Novice and Single and
Concerts at Fisherman’s Village December 10 Double-handed classes. Other races in the series
Friends (R&B) Concerts at Fisherman’s Village include Pt. Dume and return, Santa Monica
Break out your dancing shoes! Enjoy free concerts The Funky Sax Man Bay (formerly Squirrel Bank Buoy) and Cat
on Saturday and Sunday afternoons at Fisherman’s Break out your dancing shoes! Enjoy free harbor and return. Details: Del Rey Yacht Club,
Village. We’re back on the fall/winter schedule: concerts on Saturday and Sunday afternoons (310) 823-4664, www.dryc.org/racing Andy
1-4 p.m. Location: 13755 Fiji Way. at Fisherman’s Village. We’re back on the fall/ Kopetzky, (818) 324-5872 (andal@dslextreme.
December 3 winter schedule: 1 - 4 p.m. Location: 13755 com). Registration is thru U.S. Sailing
Concerts at Fisherman’s Village Fiji Way. Regatta Network.
Jimi Nelson & the Drifting December 16 January 13
Cowboys Marina Lights Safety at Sea Seminar
Location: 13755 Fiji Way. Saturday Entertainment Ever wonder what to do if someone fell
December 9 New to the Marina for 2017, Marina Lights overboard? Do you have a plan to deal with
Snow Wonder 2017 is a seasonal holiday light program at Burton heavy weather if you can’t reach a safe harbor?
Ring in the holiday season at Marina del Rey’s Chace Park that runs nightly from December These questions and more will be answered
most festive holiday celebration. The day begins 9 through New Year’s Eve. Make a night of in this seminar. The event is from 8:30 a.m.
with the family-focused Snow Wonder festival it with dinner at a waterfront restaurant, then -12:30 p.m. at the Del Rey Yacht Club on 13900
from 12 - 6 p.m. at Burton Chace Park. Children stroll through the park to take in the holiday Palawan Way in Marina del Ray. The cost is $75
will enjoy crafts, snow play and sledding, face light displays. On Saturday evenings, a live or US sailing members and $25 for junior sailors.
painting, DJ entertainment, and more. At 5:55 caroling performance and an outdoor holiday It includes a continental breakfast and lunch.
p.m., a brief fireworks show kicks off the Marina movie screening offer entertainment for the Register online at dryc.org or at regattanetwork.
del Rey Holiday Boat Parade, which runs till 8. whole family. On December 16, The Voices of com. Note: this seminar is a requirement for the
Read about all of the Marina’s holiday activities Christmas perform a capella style from 4 - 6 2018 Newport to Ensenada race. For more info
at the link below. p.m.; Home Alone is that night’s film and starts contact Judy Gavin at (818) 472-2959.
December 9 at 6 p.m. On December 23, The Wonderelles
Weekend Concerts at Fisherman’s
perform holiday songs in a 50s rock style; Ongoing
Village – IZMSKZM (Reggae)
A Christmas Story starts at 6 p.m. On December
Break out your dancing shoes! Enjoy free
30, The Voices of Christmas return from 4 - 6 Marina Del Rey Anglers
concerts on Saturday and Sunday afternoons
p.m.; It’s a Wonderful Life starts at 6 p.m. Free Monthly Meeting
at Fisherman’s Village. We’re back on the fall/
admission! Active in the Marina since 1975, we sponsor
winter schedule: 1 - 4 p.m. There is an extra
December 17 the Marina Del Rey Halibut Derby the longest
late performance leading into the Holiday Boat
Weekend Concerts at Fisherman’s running fishing contest on the West Coast. Our
Parade 4:30 - 6:45 Location: 13755 Fiji Way. Village – Blue Breeze (R & B) members sponsor the oldest Youth Fishing
December 9 Break out your dancing shoes! Enjoy free Program in California and have operated a white
Marina del Rey Holiday
concerts on Saturday and Sunday afternoons seabass nursery, since 1997. The Club sponsors
Boat Parade
at Fisherman’s Village. We’re back on the fall/ private boat fishing contests, participates in
Award-winning journalist Carol Costello is the
winter schedule: 1 - 4 p.m. Location: 13755 tournaments and charter boat fishing. See us
grand marshal of the 55th Annual Marina del
Fiji Way. on Facebook and www.mdranglers.com. You
Rey Holiday Boat Parade. This year’s theme is
December 31 are invited to our monthly meetings 7:30 p.m.
“Let’s Dance.” Spectators can watch the parade
New Year’s Eve Celebration the second Thursday of each month in the
from anywhere in the Marina that has a view of
Good-bye 2017! Ring in 2018 with your loved Community Center at Burton Chace Park, in
the main channel. The most popular gathering
ones at the Marina’s annual fireworks show. Marina Del Rey
places are at Burton Chace Park and Fisherman’s
New this year, join us at 7 p.m. for a Glow Party
Village. To sign up go to mdrboatparade.org.
at Burton Chace Park with face painting, music,
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Marina del Rey banner. Meetings start at 10:00 a.m. We hold
Outrigger Canoe Club a brief business meeting and then head out for
Come try this exciting team water sport, an afternoon of sailing on the Bay after which
beginning March 11 - 12, at Mothers’ Beach, we gather at a member’s dock for wine, snacks Varnishing Polishing Wax
Palawan Way (south of Admiralty), Marina and more socializing. Visitors are welcome Carpet Steam Cleaning
del Rey. Newcomers are welcome; women and a one day guest membership of only $10 Weekly or Monthly Washdowns
practice Mondays & Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m., entitles you to brunch and a day of sailing, if Email - dennisdetail7@aol.com
and Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. Men practice space is available. No prior sailing experience 310-466-8267
Tuesdays and Thursday, 5:30 p.m.; and is necessary. For more info call (310) 226-8000
Sundays, 7:30 a.m. For more information, or see website at www.marinasundaysailors.org
email info@marinaoutrigger.org or visit www. Catalinas of Santa Monica Bay
marinaoutrigger.org.
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Owners of Catalina yachts join us for our
monthly meetings at the Del Rey Yacht Club
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Every Wednesday 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. at The
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SERVICES
performs island music and pop/rock on guitar, We would like to welcome Catalina owners
ukulele, congas, and steel drum. Voted one to join our club. We have speakers, cruises to Captain
of the ‘Top 3 Bands on the Westside’ by The Catalina, races and other events throughout he Jeffry Matzdorff
Argonaut two years in a row. They are a “boater year. Our doors open at 6:00 for happy hour and
U.S.C.G Licensed 100 Ton Master
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Buffett requests! Happy Hour 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. after that. Join the fun and meet other owners of • Deliveries
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We invite members, guests, and prospective Attention sailors and singles. Single Mariners of Over 165,000
members to join us for cocktails, food, live Marina del Rey invites you for a dinner and a Blue-water miles experience
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here for entertainment. We are located at 13589 club built around weekend sailing on the bay.
Mindanao Way (310) 827-7692. Please visit We match skippers with crew for a fun day of
our website at www.smwyc.org for activities, sailing. We meet on the first and third Thursdays
membership details, racing, events, directions, of each month with a day-sail the following
and more. weekend weather and skippers permitting.
Women’s Sailing Association of The meetings are held inside Pacific Mariners
Santa Monica Bay
Yacht Club. There is a $7.00 charge to attend.
Meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at the
PMYC is located at 13915 Panay Way, Marina
Santa Monica Windjammers Yacht Club, 13589
Del Rey. For additional information contact
Mindanao Way, in Marina del Rey. The meeting,
Single Mariners Commodore, Alan Rock at
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held at 7:00 p.m., is preceded by a social hour
at 6:00, and a light dinner is served. Each
alanrock1@gmail.com, (310) 721-2825 or Auxiliary
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and cruises including destinations such as King
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Marina Sunday Sailing Club
Since 1981 MSSC has brought together skippers
and crew in a friendly social environment for
daysails in Santa Monica Bay and cruises to
Catalina and other destinations. We meet on
the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month on the
patio at Burton Chace park under the Club
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O F F TH E WI R E
Get a H o l i d ay G i f t F r o m O n e of Our Own!
It’s the gift giving season and sure, there’s Amazon, Target and a gabillion other stores to pick up that special something for that special somebody. But,
what’s also cool to do around this time of year that promotes thoughtfulness in every direction is to also support our own neighbors who are creating
products that make great gifts.
For instance, Bill McNeely, who writes the Catalina column in The Mariner, wrote a great Catalina cruising book called Cruising Catalina Island (2nd
Ed.) He also is part of two excellent how-to videos for “Cruising Catalina and Mexico”, “Cast Off for Catalina” and “Cast Off for Mexico”. All of these
are great gifts for local boaters.
Staying on the book theme, another one of our own, Peter Jenvay wrote an interesting book about his seafaring adventures called “The Life and Sudden
Death of Salt Peter.” Peter cast off from the docks of Marina del Rey by himself on a journey around the world and had some interesting adventures
along the way. It’s available on Amazon.
If books and videos aren’t on your list maybe some extremely unique handmade jewelry is. Dr. Maddalena Bearzi, a well-known marine mammal
scientist who studies the wildlife in the Santa Monica Bay and operates out of Marina del Rey is also a very talented jewelry maker. Her pieces are
inspired by the work she does and they are nothing short of stunning (see story on page 21).
Del Rey Yacht Club’s Rikki Barker is also a local artisan who is creating beautiful jewelry pieces. Rikki is the former General manager of The Argonaut
newspaper and the current President of the Marina del Rey Historical Society. After she left the Argonaut she dove full-on into creating jewelry and
these creations reflect her devotion. Check out her pieces at www.etsy.com/shop/WraptinWire.
Then there’s stuff like sailing lessons that Naos yachts runs or powerboat instruction that the Los Angeles Powerboat Academy provides (yachts4fun.
com). Canvas, electronics—there’s all kinds of things in these pages that will make for useful gift ideas. Let’s face it, owning a boat ain’t cheap and
there’s always something that we need. Let’s support each other this season and maybe we’ll all have a great holiday!
Check out our website www.smwyc.org for a calendar of all of our events and activities
Make event reservations early at reservations@smwyc.org. For facility rental and event information email clubrental@smwyc.org.
For membership information please email membership@smwyc.org
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ype in “marine weather apps” on your smartphone The best sites/apps give you current radar imaging with imaging from the
and you’ll find a mile-long scroll of weather last five minutes. A few offer a future-cast that predicts the track of the
forecasting apps. Some so deep only a Channel storm over the next 30 minutes to an hour.
7 meteorologist could sort it out and others like
Fish Out of Water (found tenth on the search list) 2. The Big Picture: Most weather apps focus on hyper-local forecasting—
that didn’t seem to have anything at all to do with what’s happening where you are right now. It’s helpful, but the best apps
weather forecasting. Side note: I paid the 99 cents also give you a broader sense of the weather in the region, so you know
anyway and wasted an hour launching animated how your local forecast fits into the big picture of where you plan to go.
fish in the air to avoid the digital sharks trying to eat them…Anyway, if
you’re planning a voyage, whether it be around the harbor of Marina del 3. Internet connection: This may seem obvious, but I’ve heard more than
Rey or a passage to Hawaii, you’ll want a reliable understandable source one tale of novice sailors venturing out to sea with only an iPhone or tablet
to present the current weather conditions and forecasts. that depends on a data connection to access weather information. If you
think, “I’m only going offshore a few miles and should still have a cell
Most weather websites have a companion app for smartphones, some free signal,” you’d likely be wrong. On an otherwise coastal trip to say, San
or low-cost but before we look at which ones are best, here are four things Diego from MDR, there are long stretches of dead zones in cell coverage
to keep in mind when choosing an online source for weather info: that are still well within sight of land.
1. Radar, Radar, rRadar: Forecasts are great, but don’t trust any 4. Interactive Apps Aren’t Always a Good Thing: Some apps allow
forecast, especially at sea, without also being able to see up-to-date radar. users to make comments on or input the weather around their location. If
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t’s not too late! You’re on the fence…you always wanted to “Whoa, I could win this thing. I better pick up a Christmas tree.”
do the Holiday Boat Parade, but you think it’s bunch of work,
you’re not sure exactly how to string these lights, the electrical/ Now most of your dock and some old friends are helping, the kids and their
technical element is a bit mystifying…sure, maybe you’re right, friends are on board and you’ve told work you’re going to need another
but who cares? Just do it anyway. There are two things that are day off. During the process, you realize how much you love using your
certain if you do begin the process: one is that however it turns power drill and you watch and laugh as your kids and their friends are
out, design-wise, you’re going to have a lifelong memory of trying to remove hardened wood glue from each other. Sure, getting the
you and your family/friends working on it and then participating in the generator on board and hooked up is a bit of a pain but it’s holy, like the
parade that will be great—even if you fail at making something nice. The sun—it’s powering the whole deal so you forgive its lack of cooperation.
second is you’ll figure it out one way or the other. Maybe it’ll be some
shabby slipshod attempt that will make people question your IQ or maybe Your father in law agrees to wear a Santa suit, which is sort of unbelievable
you’ll start to understand it better once you begin the process and you because A) he’s Jewish, B) he only ever referred to the boat as “that stink
realize, “wait, if I did this, then I could do that…” hole” and C) he doesn’t like you…you know this because he’s told you.
It will probably be the latter. Most boaters are the kind of people that Anyway, by the time you’re 85% done you ask yourself what you got
start to get involved with this brand of creativity—it’s fun. You start with into. You’ve hit a couple of technical snags, one of the kids glued another
stringing some lights along the lifelines and the next thing you know kid’s eye shut and you believe that you definitely bit off more than you
you’re realizing that if you employ a bit of inexpensive PVC piping from can chew.
Home Depot you could create a shape that looks like a whatever. Then you
figure out that with some black cloth and a bit of plywood you can add In the end, you power through and when it’s all done, it is nothing short of
a completely new dimension and lo and behold you can compete with the grand. On the Friday night before the parade you watch the legs kicking
top dogs. You realize your spouse has a friend who works as a set designer and the tree all decorated and the design of the surrounding lights…you
in Hollywood and she kicks down a bit of advice. feel like weeping. You’re embarrassed to think that this might be the
greatest accomplishment of your life.
Great, now you’re in waist deep. You price some generator rentals and find
out it’s not so bad and that allows you to take this thing way into the next It’s a hypothetical but it could happen to you!
level. The theme is Let’s Dance so you create what look like Rockettes
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hat do you think about when the holidays there. How awful! Fortunately, at this time of year, you pay for two nights
come around? Do you dread the pressure on the mooring and get the next five free. When you pick up the can, tell
of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New them you’re staying seven nights to make sure you have it tied up. You
Year’s or are you in love with the music can always leave early.
and decorations, and the positive spirit?
Are the parties too much for you, or do you A note on this year’s weather: As we head into the last quarter of 2017,
look forward to seeing folks you only see a mild La Nina event is brewing in the western Pacific. This year’s active
once a year? Atlantic/Caribbean hurricane season is a La Nina signature, too. So
another wet winter is unlikely, perhaps a 5% chance of above-average
Whatever your feelings, I suggest you make a visit to Catalina fit into your rainfall here. Overall expect modest rainfall and lots of sunshine this year.
schedule. In many ways, it is the perfect fix for holiday problems, and it
can raise the level of all the holiday goodness. If you’re invited to too few Before Christmas, expect everyone ashore to be happy to see you. Since
things, you will find a warm, happy, friendly welcome there. And if you this is a quieter time of year for island businesses, everyone can relax
are invited to too many, block off one or two you dread with the perfect and give you the attention they’d like you to have all year round, but
excuse: “Gee, I’m on my boat at Catalina Island.” often cannot give in high season. Neither Two Harbors nor Avalon will be
deserted on weekends, though.
If you think of Catalina as a summertime-only spot, think again. The island
glows in the winter. There’s often been a bit of rain, and everything turns It’s a perfect time of year for that hike you’ve always wanted to take around
green, so all the brown places you’re used to, now they’ll look completely the west end from Two Harbors. Relax and enjoy the island scenery as you
different. Daytime highs average 60 to 65, and lows at night are around might never otherwise see it. You can relax on a bench overlooking either
46. So, yes, it’s cooler than summer—but far from cold. There can be rain, harbor, or in the sitting room at the Banning House. Throw some snacks
but if a big storm is coming in, stay in port at home until it passes. You and a bottle of wine (and an opener) in your pack, and always take plenty
can still have a reason to miss that frightful event: “I, uhh, have to stay of water!
down here and protect my boat in the storm…” If the storm blows through
in a day, you can head for Catalina then. If the rain comes while you’re If you hike to Little Harbor, a beautiful walk under clear winter skies,
on your mooring at the island, well, you may have to stay an extra day make sure you have a Safari Bus reservation for the return. The hike
Avalon is busier, with nice shopping opportunities. How about the motor Bill McNeely is the author of Cruising Catalina Island 2nd Ed., the
coach tour you’ve always wanted to take, but never had time? This is the standard cruising guide for Catalina. It makes a GREAT holiday gift,
perfect chance. Have you seen a movie in the Casino Theater? On Friday and is on Amazon—check the reviews. He also “stars” in the videos
or Saturday nights, arrive an hour before the 7:30 p.m. showtime for Cast Off for Catalina and Cast Off for Mexico—PPV or buy from The
a concert on the 4-manual, 16-rank Page theater organ. It’s a throwback Sailing Channel—www.thesailingchannel.tv. E-mail him: islandguybill@
to a bygone day, and a lot of fun. Everything is decorated, and everyone yahoo.com.
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his past month, in the world of local politics, the The commission seemed to agree and asked Jones to take that clause
issue of copper pollution was back on the docket. away to which he refused. The item was tabled so the details could be
Maral Tashjian, Planning Specialist in the Planning worked out.
Division of the Department of Beaches and Harbors
took to the microphone and spoke of an ordinance the Jones wished openly for “support” from the lessees in helping them get
county is looking to mandate that would require divers this ordinance on the books.
(commercial or personal) who clean boat bottoms to
be certified. Divers will have to take a course to educate them in best Tashjian also spoke of other pollution prevention concerns like bacteria
management practice (BMP) for ensuring the lowest amount of copper exceedance from birds and illegal discharge from boats. The ordinance
debris fall-off when cleaning boats. It is unclear exactly how long or how amendment would require all marine sanitation sources (particularly
much the course will cost but there was inference to it being about $250 holding tanks on boats) to be secured and proven to be secured through
for a daylong course that would stay valid for a few years. The course a dye-tablet method.
would also educate divers in other form of mitigating pollution that
emanates from boats. Also on the agenda, of course, was more talk about chartering—legal,
illegal and the vast gray area in between. Michael Rodriguez, Chief
“Divers and people who work in the marinas who can get BMP training, Property Manager from the Department of Beaches and Harbors was
including boat owners, can get the recognizable strategies to actually see tasked with, yet again, trying to explain the path to legal chartering and
these [types of] things and report them back to the marina which prevents the defining of what is and what isn’t acceptable in this fuzzy nebulas but
larger issues,” said Marlon Hoffman who has implemented these kinds of important area of statute.
courses in other places in California.
Rodriguez showed a very cut and dry powerpoint that basically said
The idea is that the mandate would be tied to the Commercial Services there are two areas where someone can legally charter; at a leasehold,
ID that already exists and is currently required by the harbormaster to which is just a normal everyday slip in the harbor or at a commercial
conduct commercial services in MdR. According to Tashjian there would area, which for all practical purposes is Dock 55 (a specified area for
be an interpreter on site to help with Spanish speaking divers attempting freelance charters to work from). Rodriguez showed a color coated chart
to become compliant. showing where these divisions were geographically but more importantly
showed a slide that indicated that for a charter to work out of a private
“The back drop to all of this is the state mandate,” said Department Head slip it would require an entry fee of about 10-grand per anchorage. No
Gary Jones. “And there is a very aggressive timeline that is imposed on doubt sailing school owners who operate out of private slips in a multitude
the county. It’s a multi-faceted approach, but this is a very important of marinas took notice. Not that this is new, it’s not, this is something
element.” He continued, “The county does need to show to the state that that has existed but is coming to light on the coattails of dealing with
we’re taking this issue seriously. We, the lessee’s and boat owners in other illegal chartering situations. Rodriguez indicated to operate out of
Marina del Rey are responsible parties under the TMDL [total maximum a private slip is something that requires a good bit of trouble—hearings,
daily load], whether we like it or not, we’re all responsible, therefore, this reviews, permits, licenses and money.
ordinance needs to reflect that.”
It’s a sticky situation. On the one hand there are good honest Captains
The Small Craft Harbor Commission was supposed to endorse the trying to earn a simple living by teaching others to sail or offering their
ordinance upon hearing it, but hit a snag over some language in the boats for bareboat charter, both of which bring people into the marine and
ordinance that required the harbormasters to be the enforcers of the BMP visitor marketplace. On the other hand, unscrupulous and unsafe illegal
certificate. A local dockmaster explained that she had serious doubts about charterers operate without the costs of legality therefore undercutting
being able to monitor such a thing because divers always access boats those trying to earn an honest buck. Everyone agrees they should be
via dinghy and, even if she did see them, was uncomfortable being an removed but trying to do it through legislation and bureaucracy seems
enforcement officer. like a difficult means to the end.
“Spending thousands of hours at sea in company of whales and dolphins, Using methods and materials that tend to avoid depleting or destroying
I began to know some of them by sight and, like my human friends, they the Earth’s resources, Maddalena Bearzi pieces exemplify that style and
became an integral part of my life. I learned of their needs, not only sustainability go hand in hand. Many of Maddalena’s pieces are unisex
for space but also for companionship, and I witnessed their fluid, and can be worn in different ways
complex societies, which in many ways are quite similar to our own,”
says Maddalena It’s also important to note that Dr. Bearzi has been an active boater in this
area for many many years as she conducts much of her research in the
Her work, which involves watching marina mammals diving and bounding Santa Monica Bay.
freely in the open ocean impassioned this designer to create works or
wearable art that are clearly born from the uncountable hours she has A percentage of proceeds from sales are donated to the protection of whales
logged in the company of these animals. Many of her pieces are inspired and dolphins in their natural environment. Visit www.maddalenabearzi.
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RACING SCE N E
remember when The Mariner first started, one of the first on water photo-shoots I did was Del Rey Yacht Club’s Berger/Stein race. I had
a 9-foot hard bottom dinghy with a 5-hp Suzuki and I buzzed out to the starting line—beanie on head, camera in hand. It was winter and
a bit California cold—a bunch of the rockstar sleds were galloping along and I could hear the moaning sounds of purebred racing yachts
managing the loads their massive sail areas were carrying. I turned off the two-stroke and listened to the sounds of a local race start.
As the 90 boats all mingled, I noticed some skippers would nod respectfully at one another while their crew sat on the rail staring straight
ahead, others shouted over good-hearted stuff to friends they had on other boats. There were a few crews that were clearly practicing or
working out some new sail or piece of equipment, talking amongst themselves.
I didn’t quite understand at that time, that this race was special. It was the first of the year and an unofficial start to a new racing season. Many of these
boats hadn’t been racing in quite a few months, so there was an excitement and maybe even a form of relief to be back in the Bay competing. It was
nearly 11 a.m, the air was crisp and the starting area was filled with people who were happy to be out sailing again.
The NORs mandated the fleet sail up to Malibu and back, which is always a beautiful day sail. Should the wind rise above the 5-knots we were
experiencing many would get back just before the sun began to set.
I see the first Berger as something a bit more exceptional and particular, it has a kind of poetry and meaning that is distinct from other races.
So after the New Years celebrations are in the can, on January 6, it will happen again. The air horns will blast, sending 100 some-odd boats up north
and the 2018 yacht-racing season will unofficially begin. Get out there and join them!
The series is open to PHRF, ORCA, Cruiser/Novice and Single and Double-handed classes. For more information contact the Del Rey Yacht Club at
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