La Niña kicked El Niño to the proverbial curb early this Summer. This caused Summer to never really arrive in Southern California. Now “the baby” is predicted to stick it out into the Winter which is predicted to cause drought conditions during the only period of the year that SoCal counts on for rain. A [...]

The Ventura County Boat Show is coming to Channel Islands Harbor, July 15-18, 2010. This will be our fifth consecutive year showing folks the affordable alternative to owning your own luxury cruising sailboat! We will have one of our 36′s showing in the water for people to see. The boat show is a great time [...]

In my business, textbooks are hard to come by. But recently, “Saving Sailing”, by Ncholas D. Hayes was published and it should be required reading for anybody involved in sailing. Not just the business sailors. It could have been called Saving Camping or Saving Hunting which have also seen dramatic declines in participation over the [...]