In Ventura County there are two sailing clubs at the Channel Islands Harbor. We are one of them. Marina Sailing is the other. To be fair, there is a very small rental operation in Ventura Harbor with a dilapidated fleet but I didn’t feel it worth any sort of comparison at all. There is another [...]

Yesterday afternoon was nothing but howling wind, sirens and helicopters. Now I know why. It turns out that a boat was lost about 2 miles North (west) of the Channel Islands Harbor entrance. It looks to be a small Cal or maybe a Newport to me in this picture. You can read what little information [...]

So some time around last Sunday afternoon I heard the word “breezy” creep into the local weather forecasting. Having heard this term used before around here, I double tied the boats. Monday and Tuesday it blew non-stop out of the North in the 40mph range with no letup and occasional gusts much higher. Monday evening [...]