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Vol. 30 • No 1
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January 2012
Cheers to Another
Great Year on the Water!
Happy Boating in 2012!
41' PT Europa 1984
T-135 hp Perkins, $94,995
Seaward Yacht Sales
503-224-2628 • 877-469-9416
www.seawardyachtsales.com
• Citizen Award Given by the
Lake Oswego Fire and Rescue Dept...........3
• Events .................................................................4
• The Portland Boat Show®
Returns to the Expo Center
January 11-15 ....................................................4
• A.I.S. For Yachts — An Investment
in Safety
By Tim Jenkins, Rodgers Marine .........................6
• Sportcraft Landing Ramp in Oregon City
Receives Much-Needed Facelift...............6
• Look Out for Slow and No-Wake
Zones Around Portland’s
Two New Bridges.............................................7
• Seattle Boat Show, Jan. 27 - Feb. 5 ............7
• A Cast Away©: Memories
of Orca, Pike and Salmon
By Hobart Manns .................................................8
Photo by Alan Bosse
Early morning on the Columbia River at Steamboat Landing.
Photo by Terry Johnson
International Sailing Regatta series on the Columbia River.
• Cruising: South of the Border
Cruising Mexico: What Are You Afraid Of?
By Marili Green Reilly ..........................................9
• OSMB Reminds Boaters on
Coastal Rivers to Share the
Water With Bank Anglers..........................10
• Learn About Liberty Ships on
Sternwheeler “Portland” Jan. 8...............12
• Multnomah Channel Y.C.
Welcomes Christmas Ships
By Doug Walker...................................................12
• Sea Scouts Build & Launch Jiffy 9-7 Skiff
By Pat Kelley ......................................................13
• Ray DeFir Speed Skier, Boat Builder
and Racer (1930-2011)
By Peter Marsh ...................................................14
• Astoria, Oregon .............................................16
• Warrenton/llwaco .......................................17
• Coast Guard Keeps Keeps
the Junk “Flying Dragon” Alfoat
By Peter Marsh ...................................................17
• St. Helens/Washougal/Camas ..............18
Photo by Laura Lee Symes
Photo by Peter Marsh
2011 Waterfront Blues Festival - Tom McCall Waterfront Park.
Fall on the Willamette River — Willamette Sailing Club.
• Oregon Maritime Museum is
Looking Ahead to New Year
By Susan Spitzer, First VP, OMM .......................18
• Cathlamet, Washington ............................19
• Rose City RV Sale .........................................19
• Marine Traffic at Willamette Locks
Supports Jobs
By Susan Spitzer, First VP, OMM ......................20
• NW Marine Trade Association
Offering Grants to “Grow Boating” ........20
• Portlanders Building More i550
Sportboats — Five Completed!
By Eric Rimkus ..................................................21
• OCSA Tropical Party at PYC
By Marty Stainsby ..............................................21
• Commercial Crab Season ........................22
• Dale’s Corner:
Roller-Furling Headsails — Part 2
By Dale Waagmeester ........................................23
• Save the PT Boat, Inc., Annouces Plans
New Heritage and Education Center ....23
Photo by Stan Tonneson
Photo by Kathy Ursprung
• Fantome - A Schooner’s Life
By John Scott Rohrer ........................................23
Rockin on the river.
The Lady M II.
• Sexton’s Expands Used Gear Space .....24
• Marine Services Directory.......................25-27
• Capt. George Flavel
By Peter Marsh ....................................................27
• Ad Index & Classifieds ......................28-29
• Blake Island Adventure
By James R. Farrell ............................................30
WATERFRONT PROPERTIES
Photo by Laura Lee Symes
Willamette Sailing Club’s ship’s cat, Grace, crewing
on an Opti.
Photo by Bob Haldeman
Sailing the San Juans.
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FRESHWATER NEWS
JANUARY 2012
Jim Irwin
Brad Fairchild
Kevin Kidd
YACHT SALES
Por tland and Seattle
503-381-5467
503-703-7983
503-927-7241
New Listings and details at: www.irwinyachtsales.com
65' 1984 Lancer
PH Powersailor
One of nine in the world. Transoceanic
capability. 3 staterooms with an additional crew quarters stateroom forward.Totally refurbished with newer
exterior paint, re-varnished interior, new
RIB with custom davit, re-certified liferaft,
complete sail inventory, new Garmin
electronics package, pilothouse electric
winch to single-hand, roller furling gear,
newer painted mast, 85' clearance. T-200
Perkins, newer gen., flying bridge, covers, excellent condition, professionally
maintained. Yacht Show Reduced Price
Now $545,000.
65' 1996 Tollycraft PH
68' 2004 Azimut Evolution
3408 800 HP Cats, built to ABS specs, 680 hrs. Awlgrip painted hull, 3 staterooms, 3 heads, covered side
decks, huge bridge, upgraded new electronics, bimini w/enclosure, air-heat-5 zone, 2 generators, 2 diesel
furnaces, hydrualic power davit w/14’ Novurania & 50 HP Honda, 3 station electronic controls, Cabinmaster system, watermaker, thruster and lots more. One of 13 in the WORLD! Reduced to $847,500. Shown
by appointment, please call.
4 Staterooms w/separate Capt-Crew quarters, Cherrywood interior, 1150 HP MTU's, 25K cruise,
air /heat, watermaker, thruster, 2 Kohlers, Furuno Nav Net 3D, walkaround decks, Sats, crane
w/shoreboat. $1,250,000
56' 2001 Navigator - 1/2 ownership
54' 1987 Ocean Alexander CPMY
Volvo engines, 10kw gen., air/heat, diesel furnace, 2010-2011
upgrades/improvements, new bimini w/enclosure, new navigation
software, engine room upgrades, beautiful condition. $250,000
An Ed Monk JR. design featuring twin staterooms, all teak interior, fully enclosed bridge/aft deck and open cockpit area for easy boarding or sport
use. Powered by 6V92 475 H.P. Detroits she cruises at 15K and tops at
22K. The exterior has been recently painted with Awl Grip and it shows very
well. 12 KW Onan, inverter, complete electronics, bow thruster, air-heat,
diesel fired hot water heat system, vacu flush head systems, RIB, and everything else you would expect on a quality yacht. Reduced to $259,500.
Shown by appointment-please call.
REDUCED
DRASTIC PRICE REDUCTION
47' 1999 Bayliner PH
Pampered since new by it’s caring owners, this boathoused yacht almost
looks / feels new! Perfect gel coat, bristol stainless, immaculate interior, refreshed fabrics, newer carpets, bridge carpeting, new wall coverings,
new pilothouse upholstery, etc. The 370 HP Cummins engines show
741 hours use and the 12 KW generator 387 hours. Air conditioning /
heat, Webasto diesel hot water heat system, with electric backups-thermostatically controlled. Trades for smaller trailerables? Was $275,000.
Now $250,000
REDUCED
NEW LISTING
Major Reduction
48' 2004 Navigator PH
48' 1930 Dawn Bridgedeck
Just over 300 hours on Volvo diesels by retiring original owners, high
gloss cherrywood, pristine throughout, watermaker, furnace, electronics, canvas, thruster, davit, just bottom painted w/barrier, upgrades galore! Competitively priced @ $397,500
Classic Bridgedeck Cruiser built in New York. One of the last remaining
of its type. Excellent condition, covered moorage, caring owner retiring
from boating. Reduced $10,000 to $69,000 for immediate sale.
REDUCED AGAIN
46' 2001 Carver Motoryacht
46' 1989 Grand Banks Classic
45' 1998 Sea Ray Sundancer
Low hour 2 1/2 stateroom design w/full beam salon-mid level galley-serving bar, walk around island beds, 2 head compartments, Cherrywood interior wood, and completely covered aft deck w/wing doors, and hardtop
on the bridge. Like new condition. Generator, electronics, davit w/RIB,
windlass and all the rest! Make a great liveaboard. Was $269,500. Now
$249,500
Beautiful and well cared for 46' Classic. 3 Stateroom - up “L” galley layout. This vessel has been in the same family since new. Fresh bottom
paint, zincs, & maintenance (7/10). No blisters. When not up north the
vessel has been boat-housed in fresh water since new. Boathouse and
water-space rights are also available. $229,995. 46' 1988 and 2001
models also available.
Absolute best buy in the west! Cats, TNT lift, Sat TV, air/heat, fresh water
use w/all the bells-whistles! Berthed on Lake Union and turn key.
$159,875. 46' 1999 Sundancer also available.
Major Reduction
DIESELS
DIESELS
44' 1990 Tollycraft CPMY
42' 1990 Grand Banks Classic
42' 1988 Carver MY
42' 1952 Chris Craft
Absolutely beautiful, 300 Cummins, Kohler, MMC controls, Roskelly davit
w/11' Whaler, aft deck hardtop w / carpets-covers, bimini w/enclosure, Espar
diesel furnace, dripless shaft seals, aft deck freezer, Raytheon and Furuno
radar-gps-radios-sat TV, all teak interior. $189,500
Absolutely beautiful example of a G.B., 135 Lehmans,
boathoused, MMC controls, newer electronics, teak decks,
fresh varnish on the rails, 1300 hours, generator, new furnace-hot water, barrier coat-bottom paint 2011, $299,950.
Reduced $30,000 more to $269,000!
300 Cummins (1100 Hrs), Onan, Windlass w/ 200' chain,
SS Anchor, Full Enclosed Bimini, 2010 Decorator Interior,
Local - Always Boathoused, Zodiac RIB, Thrusters.
$159,500.
Boathoused in great shape, 500 hours on 300 HP Yanmars, newer
diesels, lots of improvements, own a legend, worth a look. Asking
$69,950. Offers?
NEW LISTING
40' 1989 Tollycraft Sedan
Rare find in good running order. Needs some TLC. Retired
Columbia Bar Pilot’s private boat w/Detroit Diesel power,
gen., furnace, inverter, upgraded wiring/panel, needs some
wood refinishing and window sealing. Alaska veteran as
well as Cal. Try $135M? It’s a bargain!
39' 1985 Sea Ray Sedan S.F.
350 hrs. on professionally rebuilt engines, original owners retiring, gen.,
12' X 9' cockpit, boathoused, complete bimini, new interior teak decks,
windlass, new batteries, lightly chartered. $44,950.00
37' 1996 Carver Sedan
454 XL Crusaders (687 hrs.), elevated galley-dinette with two staterooms forward, large bridge w/bimini, windlass, radar, generator, inverter, new batteries, just detailed-serviced. $88,500.00. Offers?
38' 2011 Cascade PH Trawler
Tom Seaton design under construction in OREGON! Cummins power, generator, windlass, thruster, all wood interior, electronics, blue hull w/white superstructure. Call for details and a viewing appointment. $450,000
NEW LISTING
REDUCED
34' 2007 Sea Ray Sundancer
Like new yacht with 114 engine hours, 8 hours on the generator, engines and generator serviced 10/10, high gloss interior, all the factory options and includes an extended engine warranty good until 2014! Turn the
keys and GO! Reduced to $149,900. Shown by appointment.
31' 1992 Sea Ray Super Sport
One of a few on the west coast. Always in fresh water and stored in the
winters. Twin 454 Mag. Mercs w/425 hours. Interior hardly used. Sleeping-galley-enclosed head-shower. Professionally maintained and it
shows! Reduced to $32,500 / Offers?
30' 1988 Tollycraft Sedan
32' 1969 Grand Banks Classic
Substantially upgraded w/new bimini-enclosure, new fuel tank, new interior
teak-holly deck, new strainers-thru hulls-bottom paint, new dripless seals,
new setee cushions, new windlass, 270 Crusaders just tuned w/fluid
changes. $46,500
Very nice and freshly painted by a caring owner now retiring from boating. Covered moorage, 120 Lehman power,
clean in/out! $49,750
REDUCED
29' 2008 Seaswirl Striper W/A
Twin 250 Yamahas (65 hrs), 5 kw generator, Garmin 5212 system,
Alaska Package, live well, in deck fish boxes, rocket launchers, rod racks,
blue hull, hardtop with drop curtain, heaters, galvanized tandem.
$139,950. 2008 twin diesel model also available!
Owner w/Carry
Contract
29' 2002 Boston Whaler Conquest
T-225 Yamaha's (927 hrs.), hardtop, Furuno radar, Lowrance LCX-15M
w/chips, live well, bait tank, windlass, canvas, rod holders, turnkey. $79,900.
Boathouse available separately.
20' 2007 Chris Craft Speedster
Volvo 350 DP w/47 hours use, completely equipped, rack stored inside
between uses, looks like a new boat. $37,500.
98' 2005
Anacortes
Boathouse
@Twin Bridges
Marina
NEW
72' 1990 Boathouse
Original Hargraves Boathouse that’s been raised in door height (21') and remodeled w/apt. Complete w/water rights (1960') subject to Yacht Club Membership approval. O/A 26' X 72' Well 15' X 48' X 21' New stringers 2006. New
door 2007. Remotely monitored smoke-heat-fire alarm system 2010. $93,250
63' New Christensen
Steelheed Boathouse
Completion early December 2011, 52' X 16' well X 20' electric door,
metal stringers, metal siding-roof, entrance rollers, 50 amp service, remote monitored fire-smoke-heat alarm system, includes Water Rights
subject to acceptance of Yacht Club Application. $112,900 Terms available.
71' Larson Boathouse
71'x29'x21' w/electric door. Well size: 55' X 18'-will accommodate a 60' boat.
Typical Larson interior finish with the addition of a workbench and substantial boarding platform. A remotely monitored fire-smoke-heat alarm system
and complete electrical inspection in 2009 are valuable assets. Located in
Columbia River Yacht Club and includes 2053 sq. ft. of Water Rights. Yacht
Club membership application is required. $125,000.00
63' 2012 Steelhead Boathouse
53' well, 20' electric door, 16' width, all steel construction including
stringers. 4-8 week construction time depending on modifications.
$70,000
Constructed of hot dipped galvanized float steel and foam filled rotationally molded float modules for
longevity. The siding is base metal
55% Aluminum-Zinc Alloy-Coated.
120V single phase 100 amp / 30
amp sp. (8)-120V outlets and 12
dual lamp fluorescent light fixtures.
98' long side / 78' short side x 32'
width, 5' interior fingers. Interior well
dimensions are 75' x 22' x 28' high.
$595,000.00
For more details on listings: www.irwinyachtsales.com • e-mail: irwinyachtsales@comcast.net • (503) 381-5467
JANUARY 2012
Citizen Award Given by
the Lake Oswego Fire and Rescue Department
FRESHWATER NEWS
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RiversWest at the Portland Boat Show
Homemade wooden boats
Boat building Resources
Info about skills workshops
Demonstrations
Wooden Boat Comradship
RiversWest Small Craft Center
Open House 1st and 3rd Saturday mornings at Pier 99 near I-5 and Marine Dr.
www.riverswest.org
www.seawardyachtsales.com
Victor and Joanne Breen were recognized with a Citizen Award by the Lake Oswego Fire and Rescue Department on December 1st 2011 at the Tyee Yacht Club. Fire Chief Ed Wilson presented the award, and
thanked the Breens for their efforts in the water rescue of an overturned kayaker on April 17th 2011 in the
Willamette River near George Rogers Park.
41' PT Europa 1984
41' Canoe Cove Sedan 1984
T-135 hp Perkins ................................$94,995
T-260 hp 6V53 Detroits .....................$89,900
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32' Bayliner 3288 1989
T-210 hp Cummins ...................................$189,900
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40' Schooner Creek ’01 ...............$199,900
40' Pilgrim Tug ’84......................... $169,900
38' Bayliner 3888 ’94....................$116,900
38' Offshore Sundeck ’87..............$94,995
38' Uniflite Sportfish ’78 ...............$92,500
36' Grand Banks ’91 ...................... $189,900
30' Tollycraft Sedan ’78 .................$37,500
28' Bayliner 2859 ’02 .....................$34,900
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JANUARY 2012
EVENTS
January 11-15
Portland Boat Show at the
Portland Expo Center go to
www.otshows.com
The Portland Boat Show®
Returns to the Expo Center January 11-15
With An Abundance of Boating!
M a r i t i m e Heritage
Center on Portland’s
waterfront.
January 24
January 15
Get your Captain’s License
- National Maritime Courses Informational Meeting Requirements for a USCG License
Location - West Marine Delta
Park Store 12 - 2pm Phone - 503
891-5521 or e-mail - nationalmaritime@teleport.com
January 17Maritime Heritage Coalition River in Focus brownbag
(noon to 1 pm, Portland Building
Auditorium) with Chris Finks
describing this newly-formed
coalition of like-minded maritime
organizations whose aim is to celebrate, promote, and preserve the
maritime heritage of Portland and
the Northwest through education,
exploration, and discoveryincluding by establ i s h i n g a
OUPV (six pack) & Masters
Class, 5:30 - 10 p.m .(Classes
every Tues, Weds, & Thurs for six
weeks) Location - To be announced. Phone - 503-891-5521 or
e-mail - nationalmaritime@teleport.com
January 28
Boater Education Card
Class - Coast Guard Auxiliary
Flotilla 78 in collaboration with
Clark County Marine Patrol offers this personalized interactive
class to meet the needs of both
Oregon and Washington residents to earn the required
Boater’s Safety Card. Completing this class can reduce your
boat insurance by 5 - 25%. Cost:
$10 per boater. 8:30 a.m. - 5:00
p.m. Space is limited ~ call 503799-5250 or 360-256-2991
BROOKS YACHT SERVICE
Varnishing • Polishing • Detailing
Deliveries • Charters • Brokerage
www.brooksyachts.com
Starting January 11, the Portland Boat Show returns to the
Expo Center—the only facility big
enough to hold the biggest all-indoor show in the Northwest.
Boaters are going to take pleasure
in a great show with more convenient hours, an updated floor
plan making it easier to compare
and shop, and plenty of new and
returning boat lines. It’s all in
200,000 square feet of floor space,
with a full five days January 11-15
to see it at the Portland Expo Center.
For more than 52 years, the
Portland Boat Show has been one
of the biggest—all indoor—boat
shows in the Northwest. Each year
the show looks for the most eyecatching features, the newest boat
designs and lines and provides a
wealth of boating choices for all
boating fans.
Of course, the big draw for
boaters in the area is seeing what’s
new in boat lines, technology, accessories and gear. Manufacturers,
dealers and retailers will be bringing in their latest designs for introduction to the public.
Returning this year is kid's boat
building! For more than 10 years,
thousands and thousands of kids
ENJOY
Denise J. Brooks
Portland
503-764-8588
Owner - Operator
References Upon Request
Our local waters…
They’re great
WELCOME TO PORTLAND YACHT CLUB
Play Now, Pay Later*
(now extended)
Our Home on the River
Your boating experience can be more complete, more
satisfying and more fun with the activities, facilities
and camaraderie you’ll find at Portland Yacht Club.
As a member, you can participate in as many parties, cookouts,
cruises, regattas, kids’ events or educational sessions as you like,
or just hang out in our newly refurbished Flag Room and shoot the
breeze with kindred souls…power, sail or both.
Our large moorage is undergoing an upgrade to concrete docks, and offers
power, water, fire protection, pumpout and our own fuel dock.
Our Home Away from Home
Only 12 ½ miles downstream from
the club on Sauvie Island lies our
members-only Willow Bar Outstation
where members visit any time of
year, or gather for organized cruises.
Modern docks with power, water and an
enclosed float with kitchen, restroom
and shower facilities make this peaceful
destination one of a kind on the river.
* Deferred Initiation Fee Plan lets you
enjoy PYC right away, but hold off
periodic fee payments for six months.
Offer good only through April. Special fee and dues breaks for younger
members, too. Ask about membership at PYC’s Portland Boat Show Booth #70
in the Expo Center outer lobby. Or call our office at (503) 285-1922 or visit
our website www.portlandyc.com.
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have had their first chance to build
a wood boat to take home—for
free! Schooner Creek Boat Works
will be manning the area once
again. Bring your kids!
The Oregon State Marine
Board will have extensive information and resources plus boating
safety activities for the kids with
their award-winning Junior Boater
Program. The Marine Board will
also be educating boaters about
the Aquatic Invasive Species
Prevention Program, Mandatory
Boater Education (plus offering
equivalency exams), and highlighting the state's new online
boating access map, environmental programs and offering boat
registration renewal; plenty to
learn and do at their display!
Boaters: you have five days to
make your best deal with hundreds of boats on display including sailboats, cruisers, pleasure
craft, countless sport and fishing
boats.
The Portland Boat Show has
always marked the start of the next
boating season for local dealers
and boating enthusiasts in the
Northwest. The show accounts for
a strong amount of business for
local dealers, as hundreds of boats
are sold. The show is a very
important business stimulus for
dozens of small and large companies.
For more info visit: www.
otshows.com.
JANUARY 2012
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AIS is a new navigational system I believe is one of the best
new products that we have seen in
years. Automatic Identification
System or AIS is used primarily
by ships and vessel traffic control,
principally for identification of
vessels operating at sea. AIS helps
to resolve the difficulty of identifying ships when not in visual
contact, such as at night, in the
fog, or while transiting through
blind channels.
The Class A system was designed for ships and traffic control
to exchange information with each
other, such as vessel identification,
position, course, speed, etc. It
works by integrating an onboard
12-watt VHF transceiver with a
GPS receiver, gyro compass, and
rate of turn indicator. All of these
items are monitored continuously
by the vessel’s onboard AIS system and then broadcast in a quick
burst of digital information. The
IMO’s SOLAS regulations requires AIS to be installed onboard
all ships greater than 300 gross
tons. It is estimated that 40,000
or more ships, tugs, and large noncommercial vessels currently
carry Class A AIS equipment.
While the cost of installing a
Class A AIS transceiver aboard a
small pleasure vessel is prohibitive for most boaters, several manufactures are now offering a low
cost, 2 watt Class B unit. The
Class B is considered a recreational version, created specifically for pleasure boaters. It has
fewer connections, just a stand-
alone GPS and VHF antenna dedicated to the AIS transceiver. It is
also less stringent as far as the
mandatory reporting of daily operations required of a Class A system. The cost for the Class B AIS
transceivers is now down below
$1000.
AIS receive-only units are also
available in either a single, or
faster reporting dual channel
model. They require just a small
VHF antenna for reception, and
will pick up locally transmitted
Class A and B AIS signals up to
20 miles away. Computers utilizing marine navigation software, as
well as most of the newer chart
plotters, are capable of displaying
information from AIS equipped
vessels.
The information transmitted
from the AIS receiver to your
chart plotter includes a live real
time ship icon, along with heading
and turn vectors. Also available
are informational displays of
things like ship name, call sign,
bearing, speed, closest point of approach, size, weight, and type of
ship. Utilizing the plotted vessel
targets, along with heading vectors from those targets, you are
able to make informed course and
speed decisions aboard your own
boat.
A customer of Rodgers Marine
who had recently installed an
AIS receiver, sent us the following
email from Panama. “We just
came into Panama City for the
first time with the AIS working.
Had up to 32 targets on the screen.
It was so much better than just
“AIS helps to resolve
the difficulty of identifying ships when
not in visual contact,
such as at night, in
the fog, or while transiting through blind
channels.”
radar, it saved us at least 45 minutes getting through the gantlet of
shipping here because we could
immediately tell which ships were
at anchor, (most of them) waiting
to go into the canal, which were
under way and whether they posed
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around shipping, as here in the
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Almost everyone who has been
boating for a few years has had a
close call with a large ship or passenger ferry. It always seems that
the vessel “just appeared out of
nowhere.” With an AIS receiver
onboard you can literally see the
moving ship before your radar
does, and way before it becomes a
collision situation.
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The Willamette River is the second most-used water body in Oregon. The majority of boat use
occurs below Willamette Falls and Sportcraft Landing is an extremely popular access point.
In 2009, the Marine Board awarded a
grant to Oregon City to improve the Sportcraft Landing boat ramp below Willamette
Falls. After a year of planning and permitting, work on the boating facility was
completed in October 2011. The City of
Oregon City hosted a re-dedication ceremony on November 14 that included state
representative Dave Hunt, Marine Board
member Jenn Tonneson, and Oregon City
mayor, Doug Neeley.
Sportcraft Landing now has a two-lane
launch ramp, new piles and boarding
floats. Emerick Construction completed
the work on time, and within budget. The
Marine Board provided technical assistance for engineering and permitting to
maximize the existing configuration to improve the flow and designed the ramp,
piles and boarding floats. The City of Ore-
gon City also worked closely with the construction team, city commissioners and
city staff to make sure the work on this
project was effectively communicated in
the community and to various user groups.
In 2009 the Marine Board approved
$166,255 in state boater funds combined
with $87,491 in applicant match, $43,346
in applicant in-kind contributions and
$166,254 in federal Sport Fish Restoration
funds from the Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife.
Sportcraft Landing is an extremely popular access point to the Willamette River
below Willamette Falls. All of the agencies
worked cooperatively and the proof is visible in a much improved launch site for
boaters and anglers to enjoy, which helps
to boost the local economy.
JANUARY 2012
FRESHWATER NEWS
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Look Out for Slow and No-Wake Zones Around Portland’s Two New Bridges!
News from the Multnomah
County Sheriff’s River Patrol
If you spent any time on the
water this past summer you may
have noticed a few more waterway
markers indicating slow or nowake and construction zones.
Four main waterway locations in
the Portland Metro area will have
waterway makers and operational
rules for which boaters should be
aware. They are the North Portland Harbor, the Tri-Met bridge
construction site, the Holgate
Channel/Lagoon and the recently
begun Sellwood Bridge project
site.
The Sellwood Bridge contractor will operate a barge during December and January to install river
piers for a detour bridge. The
barge will remain through January
and will be lit. The main navigation channel will be marked and
will remain open to river traffic at
all times. Boaters should note that
a “no wake” zone will be in effect
within 500 feet of the bridge, to
ensure the safety of river users and
construction workers.
Next summer the contractor
will slide the river spans of the existing bridge 40 feet and attach
them to the temporary river piers
to create a detour bridge. Moving
the old bridge out of the way will
allow the contractor to build the
new bridge in one phase, saving
up to one year in construction time
and reducing project costs as
much as $10 million. Construction of the new bridge will begin
in July 2012. For information,
visit www.sellwoodbridge.org.
Slow Down—It’s the Law..
A designated area requires a
boater to slow to 5mph or slower,
as necessary to prevent your boat
from causing a wake. It is important for boaters to remember that
it is not necessarily the speed of
the vessel but that your boat cannot cause a wake. Boaters are responsible for any damage caused
by their boat or the wake from
their boat.
They can be cited for a violation that could result in a fine up
to $287.00. Construction zone
sites require slow or no-wake and
often have areas around the site
that are restricted access for all
types of boats. Boaters found in
violation of restricted areas can
be cited resulting in a fine up
to $282. Safety zones are created
in both bridge construction areas
because they have trestles and
cranes that create serious hazards.
Waterway markers come most
often in the form of floating signs,
can buoys, booms, and posted
signs at boat ramps and bridge
abutments. It is the responsibility
of the boat operator to adhere to
operational rules as designated by
waterway makers as well as all
local rules created by your Oregon
State Marine Board.
As a reminder, boaters and the
general public are asked to call
911 for waterway emergencies.
For non-emergency needs please
call 503-823-3333 to be put in
Exercise Your Right to Boat at the 2012 Seattle Boat Show.
January 27 - February 5—Support the Boat Party!
The 65th annual Seattle Boat
Show has something for everyone.
No matter your party or persuasion, it’s your right to boat! The
Boat Show organizers are nonpartisan and guarantee that there
is something for every boater at
the show. If you wakeboard, waterski, fish, kayak, cruise or race,
under power or sail, on boats
small or large, want to trick out
your boat with new gear or hone
your skills at seminars, this show’s
for you.
This year’s show also promises
tons of opportunities for boaters to
indulge their inner techie as so
many advances have been made in
electronics and software in the
past year. Some highlights include:
Simrad Broadband Radar
Simrad’s new 4G Broadband
Radar at the Yacht Masters’ booth.
This truly dual-range radar has
two processors in it allowing a
boater to have one range set at a
mile for close-in targets while the
other range can be six miles for
longer-range planning. What really sets this radar apart from its
competition is the elimination of
the main bang or the area around
your boat that is always a dead
zone where close-in targets are
lost in. This radar uses a different
technology that allows targets
next to your boat to be seen.
Flir First Mate MS
Also at Yacht Masters will be
Flir's new First Mate MS hand
held thermal imagine camera. This
award-winning night technology
is now available in a go-anywhere
hand held size for less than
$2,000. The Flir First Mate MS
fits in the palm of your hand and
turns the blackness of night into
daylight. Put it in your pocket
when you head out for dinner in
your dingy and be sure of your
safety when you are coming home
in the dark!
Touch Screen AIS
Miller & Miller Boatyard will
have the world’s first touch screen
wireless AIS transponder, the
WatchMate VisionTM from Vespar.
The system is incredibly userfriendly and can be accurately
controlled with ease, even when
hands are wet or wearing gloves.
The full color touch-screen is
capable of operating in direct
sunlight. WatchMate Vision is the
first dedicated display-based AIS
transponder to integrate WiFi
functionality, allowing AIS interaction with any wireless smartphone, tablet or laptop.
iPhone and IPad Systems
DMK Yacht Instruments is new
company formed in 2011 by three
Northwest boating aficionados
and industry veterans with a
goal of linking IOS capabilities
(iPhone and IPads) to the marine
environment. They will be displaying their DMK 11A for the
first time ever. The DMK 11A is
an electronics device with inputs
for NMEA 0183, AIS, NMEA
2000, and Seatalk. Once wired to
the vessel, the 11A sends data
packets via a wireless connection
to a mobile device like an iPad or
iPhone. The vessel’s instrument
data, such as depth, boat speed,
wind speed, and GPS position can
be displayed as well as vessel
monitoring information such as
engine data.
Raymarine Multi-Function
Raymarine will have their
new e7D. It is a compact yet powerful navigation solution for recreational and light commercial
boaters. The e7D brings to the
market multiple unique features
never before seen in a marine multifunction display, including: builtin Wi-Fi connectivity and an
H.264 video encoder which enables wireless video streaming to
Apple iPhone and iPad devices;
Bluetooth networking that lets you
link e7D to digital music players
and control them right from the
helm; and a Sport-Optic Friendly
LCD display does not black-out
when viewed with polarized sunglasses.
Folding Electric Bikes
Less techie, but no less useful
to the boater, will the display of
Prodeco folding electric bikes
from Seattle E-Bike. Eleven of the
13 Prodeco models fold at the
frame, and at the stem, making
them very compact. It takes 30
seconds to fold them, 30 seconds
to unfold them and get on your
way. No tying them out on the
rails of your boat, you can keep
them dry and un-salty inside.
They make a special 20-inch
frame for boaters, private airplane
owners and RV owners, called, appropriately, the Mariner. Its stem
folds in three places. The high end
Mariner 7 will let you circumnavigate even Orcas Island at 18 mph
without pedaling, uphill and
down, provided you plug in for an
hour. When you stop for lunch.
Pedal moderately, and you will go
faster, and can skip the charge. In
other words, you no longer have to
be an athlete to explore the countryside at the ports you visit.
Seminars Galore:
The seminars are always a
huge attraction at the show
and 2012 is no different. Visit
www.seattleboatshow.com for a
complete listing of all seminars.
Know Before You Go
Online is the place for the latest
information, updates about the
show and special offers:
• The show website (www.seattleboatshow.com) is updated daily.
• Purchase tickets online and
receive $20 off at Fred Meyer, a
free cup of clam chowder at FX
McRory’s and a free one-year
boating magazine subscription.
The show’s indoor location is
the CenturyLink Field Event Center at 800 Occidental Avenue S.,
Seattle and S. King St., Monday -
Thursday: 11 a.m.- 8 p.m.
Weekdays: 11 a.m. - 5 pm, Fridays: 11
a.m. - 9 p.m., Weekends: 10 a.m. - 5
p.m.*, Saturdays: 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.,
Sundays: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.*
The show’s outdoor location is
South Lake Union. (Free shuttle
runs continuously between the
two sites
• Weekdays: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
• Weekends: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.*
* The show will close at 4 p.m.
on Sunday, February 5th
Tickets Purchase tickets online
at www.seattleboatshow.com
• ADULTS: $12
• 5-DAY PASS: $24
• YOUTH (11-17): $5
• KIDS 10 and under: Free
contact with on-duty or on-call
Multnomah County Sheriff River
Patrol Deputies.
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A Cast Away©
JANUARY 2012
By Hobart Manns
Memories of Orca, Pike and Salmon...
This year’s boat
show will become a
stroll down memory
lane for me—this fall
I sold my favorite
boat because I had
become too clumsy
Hobart
around the water to
Manns
use it. So you may
find me looking at some of the
boats offered for sale with that
wistful look in my eye, wondering
what adventures that new model
might have gotten me into or out
of?
The Boat Show has always
been the show of wishes and
dreams, and now it will be of
memories—thinking back to all of
the places and times spent on my
Smokercraft, one will always
stand out above all others.
Wally Pease, cameraman Rick
Spenser and myself were filming
the fishing and other sights out of
Farewell Harbour B.C.. At one
point we encountered a pod of
killer whales that were very filmworthy. Everything else took second place as Rick went nuts filming the orcas and their antics. The
second boat from the lodge picked
Rick up from my Smoker and they
followed the pod elsewhere.
Wally and I went back to our
fishing and viewing other things.
After perhaps thirty minutes we
spotted several large boils on the
surface, so went over to see what
was going on. To our complete
surprise we found ourselves right
over a mother Killer Whale and
her young one killing and eating a
seal. The surrounding water was
blood red with small chunks of
what ever it was they had killed.
The mother circled our boat,
which was possibly smaller than
her, a couple times then swam
right up to the boat no more than
five feet under us and looked me
right in the eye. Her eye was the
size of a nice dinner plate. Mine
may have been at least that big and
with only one thought in mind,
and that was, to get the hell away
from that spot. Which we accomplished post haste!
I’ve had close encounters with
bears and other critters in the wild
but none more un-nerving than
that moment. So, if you see me
standing too long in front of some
display at the show it just might be
recalling a moment in time, long
past. Or perhaps dreaming about
where that shiny new model might
take me. There is a lot of dreaming that happens at the show. Why
not see if you can make yours
come true?
Upper Columbia Problem
This past month, the Washington Department of Fish and
Wildlife took notice of a longrange, harmful problem happening
in the upper reaches of the Columbia River. Northern pike are
now entering those waters coming
from lakes in Idaho and Montana
Dale Lammers and Mike Manns with two King Salmon taken out of Chinook Washington (24 to 21 lbs). These eager biters
went for cut plug herring.
where pike have been residents for
a long time, and whose waters
flow into the Columbia River. The
upper reaches of Lake Roosevelt
have now become the conduit for
their downstream spread.
So the WDFW is going to introduce a program to catch more and
slow the spread of the toothy critters. The first proposed rule change
is to allow the use of two rods. I
have fished for and caught pike up
to fifteen pounds from Lake Coeur
d’Alene and we never trolled for
them. Casting was the preferred and
most productive method.
It is my observation that pike
have been in those upper waters
for more than a few years. Almost
any high water event from those
Idaho lakes would surely send
some fry or small pike down
stream, down the Spokane River
to Nine Mile Lake and again over
the spill way into Lake Roosevelt.
The fish we caught up there were
taken over ten years ago and must
have been more than a few years
old, as some in the lake at that
time were in the 30-pound class.
I would really like to know
just how far down stream these
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surprised if someone catches them
here in Oregon in the near future.
This is not a good--this is a problem that should have been addressed long ago and with a better
solution than fishing with two
rods. Have you ever tried casting
with both hands!
The Nez Perce Solution
A couple years back, I wrote
about the programs that the Nez
Perce were using and the results
they were getting. At that time,
several of the local folks who were
promoting programs that ran
counter to those used in the upper
river doubted these results. Well, a
couple of weeks ago The Oregonian reported the results on the
upper river much the same as I
said. They have been able to get
their salmon runs of Fall Chinook
from less than fifty spawning pair
to over 5000 pair on the spawning
redds.
Our local hatcheries need to
take real notice and perhaps
change some of their practices to
include that upper river science, or
develop a single river watershed
devoted to their programs. It just
may be the Nez Perce really have
it right .
On the other hand, perhaps the
reality is what I've maintained for
a very long time: that salmon as a
product of scarcity, are worth
much more than if we had an
abundance. Would it be in the best
interest of the commercial industry and all the hatcheries, if we had
oversized returns? I think not.
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Cruising: South of the Border by Marili Green Reilly
Cruising Mexico: What Are You Afraid Of?
Whenever we talk
to friends and family
at home, they often
express anxiety about
us cruising in Mexico. All the news
about drug cartel vio- Marili Green
Reilly
lence, shootings, and
piracy has them concerned that we
will be the next casualties.
I can’t explain away what is
being reported in the news back
home, but from what we have experienced ourselves and from what
we’ve heard about from the cruisers’ networks, those tragedies
haven’t seemed to have occurred
near where we are cruising. While
I would never encourage you to ignore your own judgment about
coming to Mexico, I can report
that our experience has been nothing but positive.
We have just begun our fourth
season of cruising, and we have returned each year in our own car
over the Mexican equivalent of the
Interstate. Through numerous border crossings, most often through
the truck route outside Nogales,
Arizona we have seen security
measures on both sides of the border become tighter and tighter. s
Dave observed during a trip back
to Phoenix this fall, if the U.S. border crossing was our first impression of this country, we wouldn’t
want to go to the United States. It
is not a “welcoming” facility.
The actual experience of crossing, however, has not gotten any
more difficult. The U.S. inspectors
still ask what you’re bringing into
the country, and if you have consulted the U.S. Customs website
before re-entering you’ll know you
are within the limits of what’s allowed. Although we’ve sometimes
endured waits of an hour or more,
we haven’t otherwise felt harassed
re-entering our own country.
When heading south, it’s natural to feel some trepidation about
entering a foreign country, but if
you drive slowly and take time to
find the English signs, the border
crossing goes quickly. Your actual
check-in will take place 21 kilometers south of the Nogales crossing, but signed instructions are
clear and the people are friendly as
they help you through the process.
Beyond the border area we
have seen an increase in the number of check points set up by the
Mexican Army over the three
years we’ve been driving down. In
every case, they have waved us
through without comment. I guess
that no matter which direction
we're driving, we don't fit the profile of drug dealers or gun runners!
Calling at the various ports
aboard S/V Tamara has been even
less uncomfortable. In fact, the
best part of Mexico has been the
people. In the coastal towns we’ve
visited, most of the locals we've
met have been friendly, helpful,
and courteous, from the marina offices to restaurants and shops to
vendors on the street. Admittedly,
the loss of tourism has made the
time-share salesmen more creative
in their approaches, but even they
realize that it does little good to
exert too much pressure, given the
It may be unnerving to see a small, fast boat such as one of these pangas approaching you at sea, but it’s most likely to be a fisherman warning you away from
his nets.
current political atmosphere.
Folks at home worry about
piracy, but the only incidents reported on the cruising networks
have been in Central and South
America. When a sailboat is approached by a small, speedy vessel, the people signaling them to
stop are more than likely fishermen trying to warn the skipper
away from nets or floating long
lines.
Once you slow down and meet
them, they become very friendly
and direct you around their gear.
It is a worse fate to motor over one
of those hard-to-spot long lines
when there is no fisherman around
to tend it. We’ve heard many reports on the radio nets by sailors
who have had to let the boat drift
while they dove on a fouled propeller to cut away nets or lines.
Smaller thefts outside the domain of pirates are much more
common, with outboard motors
being the most popular target.
Friends have told us of encountering thieves who have paddled up
to the boat during the night to steal
a motor from the rail of the boat.
We’ve heard of a stolen inflatable
showing up on shore several days
later with the transom and motor
mounting cut away. Thieves or
their fences brazenly attempt to resell the motors with severed security cables still attached. The
easiest safeguard against such
thefts is to lock your outboard onto
the rail of your boat every night.
The only cruiser-reported crime
we’ve heard of so far this season
was a boat broken into while anchored in the San Blas estuary.
Unfortunately, this charming town
and its neighboring anchorages
have a higher rate of crime against
cruisers than other areas. When we
have anchored at San Blas, we
have felt safer landing the dinghy
at the marina and paying a $5
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at some of the other landings, and
we always lock our boat while we
go ashore.
San Blas, like other towns, also
has a marina, and boats left in
marinas are usually more secure
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duty 24/7, and many also have
locking gates as well. Even back
home on the Columbia River,
though moorage residents are
urged to remain alert to intruders,
thieves still find their way in and
help themselves to equipment.
With the security at Mexican marinas, I feel at least as safe here as I
do at home.
Beyond safeguarding your
property, however, you also need
to feel safe while visiting the
sights ashore. We use the same
prudence here as when we go out
on the town at home. There are
neighborhoods in Portland where
we would never walk at night, and
when we visit other cities, whether
in Mexico or the U.S., we exercise
the same precautions. If you steer
clear of seedy, disreputable areas
and stick to areas frequented by
tourists or by Mexican families,
you will probably avoid most dangerous situations. Some Americans may go looking for drug
deals, but if your drug of choice
isn't sold in a pharmacy or liquor
store, you can expect to encounter
trouble.
It may seem like I’ve painted
an unusually rosy picture of this
country that I have come to love,
and I’ll admit I have lost most of
the fear I felt during the first
month we spent in a Mexican port.
Though I may have developed a
bias, however, I remain circumspect at the big festivals and events
we attend.
As safe as we have felt here
over the past three years, two incidents have given us pause. One occurred on a major Mazatlan
thoroughfare during rush hour.
We were driving friends to the
airport when we approached a
big, Fred Meyer style supermarket that also happened to have
a temporary amusement park
erected in the parking lot. The
traffic had slowed to a crawl, but
we didn't realize the gridlock was
caused by a gang-related shooting until we pulled even with a
bullet-riddled car in the left turn
lane.
Another incident was reported
by fellow cruisers via emails and
the cruiser nets: a police officer
was shot and killed less than a
block away from a popular tourist
and cruiser hang-out near some of
Mazatlan’s biggest hotels. No visitors were injured, but it was
a sobering interruption to our
friends’ otherwise festive evening.
When I look at these two
events, I am thankful that neither
we nor other by-standers were
injured. I have heard of many
drive-by shootings and police encounters in Portland over recent
years where that has not been the
case. Perhaps it’s just a matter of
perspective: we are more quick to
point out dangers in unfamiliar
foreign countries than in our own
hometown.
So Dave and I do our best to
reassure the friends and family
members who worry about us
that we appreciate their warnings
and love them all the more for
their concerns. But we will also
continue to enjoy our Mexican
cruise and look forward to the
new adventures awaiting us.
Like this street vendor hawking candy and nuts from a wheelbarrow in Santa
Rosalia, most of the people we’ve encountered while in Mexico have been hardworking, friendly, and helpful.
OSMB Reminds Boaters on Coastal Rivers
to Share the Water With Bank Anglers
A number of small coastal
rivers are expecting good returns
of steelhead this winter, and
weather forecasters are promising
water. When the two come together, anglers line up for a
chance at the hard-fighting fish.
The Oregon State Marine Board
reminds boaters to share these
small rivers with each other and
with bank anglers.
“When conditions are good,
anglers crowd in using their favorite fishing method from the
bank, a drift boat or a power boat
if allowed,” said Randy Henry,
Policy Analyst for the Marine
Board. “If people are polite and
friendly, everyone gets along. If
people are aggressive and rude,
someone walks away angry looking for a way to restrict the other
person’s activity.”
Henry noted that complaints
between motorized and non-motorized boaters on the Chetco,
South Fork Coquille, Siletz and
several other coastal rivers come
in every year. Violations of the
slow-no-wake zone below Sollie
Smith Bridge on the Wilson River
are also a problem right now. Conflict between boat and bank anglers will likely pick up in January
and February. On the Sixes and
Elk rivers, there will likely be
complaints of drift boaters an-
choring up in a prime hole for
hours on end, making it difficult
for others to fish through.
Henry suggests the following
etiquette to help everyone enjoy a
day on the river:
• Boat anglers should minimize
motor use on small rivers.
Drift boats do not plane -increased throttle provides little
increase in speed but creates a
larger wake and more noise.
Have patience and travel
slowly. If motoring back upstream means disrupting bank
anglers, limit your trips.
• Boat away from bank anglers to
avoid interrupting their fishing.
If boating away would put you
over holding water, communicate your intentions to float
by the bank anglers to avoid
spooking the fish.
• If a bank angler or a boater has
a fish on, give the other person
room to play and land the fish.
Reel in your lines and move
away.
• Bank anglers need to share
their fishing hole with
boaters. Acknowledge and
work with the boater. You take
a turn, they get a turn. Invite
boaters to fish through, then
return to fishing as they are
safely past.
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cast across the river and expect
boats not to pass through.
Bank anglers legally cannot
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• Bank anglers fishing narrow,
fast water, should watch carefully for boaters and let them
pass. Boats have limited control
in these waters. Don’t place
yourself or fishing gear in restricted areas unless you can
quickly move out of the way.
Bank anglers and boaters both
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“It really comes down to sharing
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by Doug Walker
A long-standing tradition at Multnomah
Channel Yacht Club was once again shared
by members, family and friends on a clear
Sunday evening in December as the combined fleets of Christmas Ships plied their
way up the channel from Coon Island to
the Willamette River. It was after a great
dinner of chili dogs and brats that the Scappoose fireboat brought Santa by to visit the
children (young and old) and collect the
gifts the folks had brought for the Toy &
Joy Program.
Just as Santa left for his next stop the
first of the Christmas Ships arrived followed by 25 more brightly decorated boats
of all sizes, each with a display that showed
the spirit of Christmas in a variety of ways.
There were oohs and aahs for each vessel
and many shouts of “MERRY CHRISTMAS” across the water from clubhouse to
boat and back.
The fleet performed maneuvers for
everyone to enjoy, and the end of the parade was for the special delight of the children as the ‘FIRE TRUCK’ ship lit up all
his lights and sirens as it cruised by just a
few feet off the dock. Most of the viewers
had seen the Christmas Ships before, but a
few were first timers. To give you an idea
of what an impression the event had, I will
share a blog that one young mother posted
later that evening. (with permission)
Floating Cheer
“Tonight, Dillon, Alison and I shared a
first — the viewing of the Christmas Ships!
I love the Christmas Ships—a parade of
boats with holiday lights making the season even more festive and bright. I cannot
believe that I have lived in Portland for fifteen years and had never made the effort to
see them! My desire was there, but the cold
and difficulty in finding a spot was always
Photo by Maria Swearingen
The Gambler
a deterrent—and would have been so again
were it not for Mike’s friend Bruce and his
wife and two daughters. And of course,
Bruce’s parents and the Multnomah Channel Yacht Club (MCYC). They graciously
allowed us to crash their holiday party and
watch the Christmas Ships go by.
The children, all of them, enjoyed it immensely... After an American version of a
sausage sizzle, the evening got off to a surprising start when the Fire Boat pulled up
with Santa on board. Santa and his crew
were there to retrieve all the gifts left for
boys and girls under the giving tree. Then
the parade of ships began. I felt like a kid
at Christmas! And my kids did too! The
whales were Alison’s favorite. And, of
course, Dillon’s was the fire engine boat. It
was such a great evening and fun to catch
up with Mike’s friends.”
I’m sure that all who have viewed the
Christmas Ships Parade would agree that we
owe a HUGE ‘thank you’ to all the Christmas Shippers for their dedication of time, effort and money that they give so freely. They
do it for the sheer pleasure of making everyone else's holidays a little brighter. If you get
a chance be sure to give that ‘Thank You!’ to
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Sea Scouts Build
and Launch Jiffy 9-7 Skiff
Photo by Pat Kelley
Members of the Sea Scout ship City of Roses.
by Pat Kelley
One of the requirements for advancement for Sea Scout members is to participate in a boat
maintenance project, which must
include wood working, prepping
for paint and varnish, and all other
skills that are typically needed.
One of the youth members working on this requirement suggested
that the group build a dinghy as a
way to include all the members
and perform all the tasks that need
to be demonstrated.
So in January 2011, a few designs were considered. A selection
was made that was thought to
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This design features a plywood
hull with a double bottom to make
the boat self bailing. The Sea
Scouts anticipated that it would
take three months to complete the
boat.
With the plans in hand, materials were purchased in late January.
The stem was laminated, and
transom cut out. (Both had to be
cut out twice since the first one
was cut narrower than the plans
called for. This set construction
back two weeks.)
In February, construction
started in earnest, with the joining
of hull sides to bottom. Likewise,
this operation had to be done, redone, and redone again. Finally,
things fit per plan.
During the several months it
took to complete this boat, construction was suspended on other
projects. There were sail races to
enter, and cleaning and maintenance on the Sea Scouts 29' sailboat and 44' motorboat, as well as
advancement work on other skills,
cruises, and several community
service projects to be accomplished.
In late October the boat was
completed, after somewhat longer
that the planned three months!
Launching was also delayed by
the crush of other events: Thanksgiving Holiday, and the weather,
which was very wet. On Saturday
December 3, the skiff was finally
removed from the building site
and carried to the water’s edge and
launched. The inaugural voyage
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JANUARY 2012
Ray DeFir Speed Skier, Boat Builder and Racer (1930-2011)
by Peter Marsh
Ray DeFir, an active and wellknown figure in the Portland boating scene for over 50 years, died
recently at the age of 81. Ray had
a lifetime love of water sports and
was well-known as a recordbreaking water-skier, designer and
builder of high-performance runabouts, and as an exhibitor at every
Portland Boat show from 1960 to
2010. He was born in El Paso,
Texas, but it was in Portland that his
boating career began and took off.
His adventurous life spanned
the entire post-war period, beginning in 1943 when his family
moved here from Oklahoma to
work in the ship yards. They
moved into the new town of Vanport (now the site of PIR), which
was built to house the wartime
shipyard workers. It grew so fast,
it soon had the second highest
population in the state.
Ray was an adventurous lad,
and in the summer of 1944, at the
age of 14, he began exploring the
nearby lakes and the Oregon
Slough with his brother Charles.
He told how they found a Popular
Mechanics magazine with plans
for a diving bell made out of an
old water heater tank. They built
their own diving bell, attached an
air hose connected to an automobile tire pump, and took turns
walking on the bottom of the lake!
Next, they discovered a 38-man
life boat on the undeveloped west
end of Hayden Island. It was partially buried in the mud some distance from the water, so he
enlisted more boys from Vanport
to dig out the mud, and patch the
rusted-out metal with bolts and
pieces of inner tube. Then they
dragged it down to the river using
logs as rollers. They paddled the
boat up and down the river for a
few weeks until some people in a
moorage decided it was too dangerous and sunk it.
The last youthful adventure he
described took place in 1946. In a
war surplus yard, he found an auxiliary belly fuel tank for a P-38
airplane. It was flattened on the
bottom, suggesting a pilot had
landed with the wheels down. He
bought that tank, cut out the flat
section, added a 10" keel, and had
an aluminum boat that he paddled
around in the slough.
In 1947, the DeFir family
moved into Portland, and Ray
graduated from Roosevelt High
School in 1948. That was also the
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and Upholstery
year when the Columbia rose so
high it broke through the dyke and
destroyed Vanport in a few hours.
In 1952, Ray started working for
Freightliner and saved enough
money to start building his first inboard boat. It was a 16' Crackerbox design powered by a 296 c.i.
flat-head Ford V-8 engine.
In 1954, Ray met Bill Lauderback at Freightliner. Bill went on to
start a water-ski school below the
parking lot of Waddles Restaurant
on Hayden Island. Ray quickly
learned to ski and became his assistant. They taught many people
to ski, including Russ Waddle and
other employees at the restaurant.
Soon, the pair were putting on
water-ski shows and Ray demonstrated amazing skill-by now he was
truly hooked on the sport.
His adventurous nature soon
began to devise water-ski stunts
that had never been performed.
These began with him becoming
the first person ever to ski behind
a float plane in 1955, then a
year later, a helicopter! Both men
taught themselves how to take off
from a dock backwards on one ski.
Lauderback later manufactured his
own brand of Sea Skis here in
Portland, which Ray publicized in
some of his exploits.
In 1956, Ray built his first midengine ski boat. Again it was 16'
and powered by a Ford Flathead.
Its superior hull shape was one of
the factors that gave him confidence to set records in the coming
years. In 1958, his goal was to ski
to Astoria and back. To ensure a
finish in daylight, he had to start in
the middle of the night. “It was
difficult,” he admitted. “All night
long I had to dodge channel markers and logs.”
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After the “training run” to Astoria and back, Ray had put in
around 500 hours behind the boat,
so was well prepared to challenge
the world endurance record of 715
miles set by John Musser of St.
Joseph, Missouri the year before.
Ray and his team began the work
by marking out an oval-shaped
course 12 1/2 miles long. Then the
marathon began.
Everything went smoothly up
to the 24-hour mark, when Ray
passed the 725-mile mark, and became the new record holder. The
crew celebrated, but Ray yelled
that he felt good enough to carry
on and try for the 1000 mile marka step so huge that it had never
The crew celebrating after Ray set the incredible 1000-mile record for non-stop
water-skiing in 1958.
even been considered feasible.
His crew continued passing him
food like soup, sandwiches,
chocolate milk and beer.
But that 275 miles remaining
became increasingly hard, as the
pounding at over 30 mph caused
more fatigue and the monotony
wore him down. Around his neck,
he wore a small portable radio that
carried music from KVAN. The
disc jockeys tried to help by encouraging him between tunes. In
spite of the lively music, twice in
the last 200 miles, Ray fell asleep
on his feet.
To combat this irresistible urge
to doze off, he beckoned for the
other boats milling around in the
water to swing in close so that he
could talk to them. He was riding
on only one ski, and the heel of his
right foot became painfully tender,
which forced him to place all of
his weight on the left leg for the reminder of the 200 miles.
He covered 1,000 miles in 33
hours and 27 minutes non-stop,
finishing at 9:44 a.m. on a Saturday morning. The record was
Ray and Lori in the 1960s posing beside a very successful DeFir boat with the skiing and boat-racing trophies they had won in a single weekend at Klamath Lake.
Ray and his beautiful DeFir boats were a stand-out at the Portland Boat Show
for 50 Years.
listed in the Guinness Book of
Records and has never been broken. A couple of years ago at the
boat show, Ray revealed to me that
his legs never completely recovered from this effort. This was
confirmed by Ray’s wife, Lorita
(Lori), who was a part of the team.
The two met at Freightliner in
1958 and dated for the next ten
years. She recently told me the moving story of their relationship. In
1961, Ray left Freightliner to start
his own boat building and moorage
business at 9545 N.E. Marine Drive.
He built her a small but beautiful
houseboat that she lived in at his marina, and then he designed his first
and only outboard-powered ski boat
for her, which she drove while he
skied. Then their relationship cooled
down and they drifted apart.
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Ray went on to establish his
home and shop in Corbett, east of
Portland near the entrance to the
Columbia Gorge. He specialized
in hand-crafted high-performance
boats from 16 to 21', and gradually acquired a huge inventory of
parts needed to repair various
types of waterjets and drive systems. Ray DeFir set high standards for himself and his boats, so
he was always up by 6.30 a.m.,
putting in long hours to work on
what he enjoyed most, his boat
business.
He built around 50 of his superb mahogany DeFir boats single-handed, and he also produced
fiberglass hulls from a mold built
in California by Rudy Ramos. He
fitted them with the same attention
to detail as his wooden boats. He
was a perfectionist and would not
accept anything but the highest
quality in his finished product.
He began displaying his first
boats at the Portland Boat Show in
1960 in the brand-new Coliseum.
The show founder Bob O’Loughlin remembers meeting Ray for the
first time, never imagining that
they would still be with show 50
years later! “Everybody was talking about Ray and his record,” he
recalled. “Then they saw his beau-
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Ray DeFir Speed Skier, Boat Builder and Racer... continued from page 14
tiful hand-made boats that were incredible for that time. No one had
seeing anything of that quality.”
Ray kept coming back to the
show, year after year, until he became a permanent feature. “In
later years, the boats were really
spectacular,” said Bob, “and he
had so many friends that his space
was often crowded with people.”
The collection of wooden boats he
brought to the show every year always stood out among the massproduced fiberglass ski craft.
That was equally true on the
water, where his customers could
be assured they would turn heads
with a custom built DeFir boat.
Many of these owners became his
friends and supporters, while
some of his boats became treasured family heirlooms, passed
from one generation to the next. A
Rayson craft bought in 1963 by
Dr. Lloyd Greenlea has remained
in the family for three generations.
In 1998, it was brought to DeFir
Marine for a complete restoration
by the current owner, Andy Wurtz.
No matter what kind of boat
you had, Ray was always ready to
answer any questions and search
for obscure parts. Rays’ favorite
engine was the Olds 468, which
could push his boats over 90 mph,
and he loved racing at top speed in
organized events around the northwest. At the 1974 Marine Days
event on the Willamette he hit 98
mph on a measured quarter mile.
It was his idea to hold a New
Year’s Day Ski contest around the
bridges in downtown Portland-it
was held every year in the 1970s
and 80s.
He continued speed skiing until
Ray DeFir stands next to the display plaque along with Bob O’Loughlin, founder
of the Portland Boat Show. The plaque commemorates DeFir’s 50th consecutive
appearances at the show.
1983, when his feet started to go
numb. He went through three surgeries to try restore his mobility.
That was followed by another operation on his lower back, but
throughout the ordeal, he remained optimistic and managed to
some light skiing into his sixties.
But more remarkable still is that in
2002, he made the decision to try
to find Lorita, who he hadn’t seen
for over 30 years.
He put an ad in the Oregonian
that only reached her through luck
and coincidence. By then, she had
been married and divorced for a
fair amount of years and had just
retired from her job as a legal secretary and victim-witness assistant
at the U.S. Attorney’s office in
Portland and was now single
again. They met again in 2003 and
their old flame was re-kindled.
‘This time, he asked her to
marry him before she changed her
mind! It was “just like the old
times,” she said. Ray located the
boat they had used in the 60s-it
had been run for many years on
the upper Willamette River. He restored it completely and put it
back in the Columbia. Now the
couple were together and enjoying
the boating life as if time had
stood still.
Well into the 21st century, Ray
continued maintaining and restoring boats, even though he was now
in his late seventies. He went on
driving his own boat on the Columbia until the summer of 2010,
when his health began to fail. Ray
is survived by his wife, Lorita.
(Lori); son, Steve DeFir; daughter,
Jan Phillips; step-daughters Natalie Gras and Christine Banks;
grandchildren Korri and Jennifer
Phillips, Melissa Swirtz, Jesse
Schindler, Angela Gras and
Codyray, Ella and Savanna Banks;
and great-grandchildren, Nick and
Scout (Sara) Branham.
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Astoria
Fishermen who launch their boats at the 37th Street ramp in Astoria next season will find a solidly-built new fish cleaning station next to the ramp. This will
be a fine addition to the ever changing scene at the east end of the waterfront.
Freshwater News editor Peter Marsh is also the volunteer director of the Hanthorn Cannery Museum in Astoria at Pier 39 on the east end of the town. The museum has added large banners of historic waterfront photos to its exhibits which
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June TBA:
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35th Annual Beach to Chowder
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June 17&18:
31th Annual Garlic Festival Ocean Park
July 4:
Salmon Fishing Season Ilwaco
July 4:
Old Fashioned 4th of July
Parade - Ocean Park
At the Port of Astoria near the West Boat Basin
Fireworks on the Beach Long Beach
July 28:
Oregon Tuna Classic
August 17&18:
Blues and Seafood - Ilwaco
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Jazz and Oysters - Oysterville
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31st Annual Kite Festival Long Beach
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The impressive 50' Chinese
junk that has been berthed on local
waterways for many years and
often seen at waterfront events like
the pirate festivals, has finally set
sail for warmer climes. But years
of smooth water sailing had not
tested this unique vessel as much
as an hour on the Pacific, causing
a very narrow escape off the
mouth of the Columbia River.
A little after noon On Dec. 4,
the Flying Dragon broadcast a
Mayday call after a major leak
began to overwhelm the engine
and stop the pumps. The Coast
Guard at the Astoria airport received the call and a few minutes
later Coast Guard Station Cape
Disappointment launched a 47foot motor lifeboat. In about half
an hour, they reached the spot,
seven miles southwest of the Columbia River entrance, where the
crew of two were fighting to keep
the boat afloat.
By then, the rising water had
killed the engine, stopping the
pumps from running. The lifeboat
captain quickly decided to pass a
self-contained engine and pump
unit plus one of their crew on to
the Flying Dragon. He ran the
pump and removed approximately
500 gallons of seawater, then returned to the lifeboat. The CG
crew then took the Flying Dragon
in tow. But the yacht once again
began to take on water and the two
crew were unable to re-start the
pump.
Again a CG crewman was
transferred to the sailing vessel.
He was able to start the engine and
remove another 1000 gallons. This
time the Coast Guardsman remained aboard attending the pump
as the lifeboat again took the vessel in tow. A second 47-footer was
ordered from the Cape Disappointment station to stand by and
assist. The Flying Dragon was
successfully towed to the Port
of Ilwaco, where it was moored at
6 p.m.
The next day, the vessel was
hauled out by the port’s Travelift.
Here I met the owner, a young
Frenchman who seemed unperturbed by the drama, and a crewman from Portland. Both were
intent on getting going as soon as
possible.
They had employed a local
craftsman to re-caulk the garboard
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The Flying Dragon hauled out at the Port of Ilwaco. The small masts in the bow
and stern are missing, and may have been broken during the rescue.
opened up the teak planking on
the bar, and had slapped some
black goop on the caulk to protect
it. This looked like a reasonable
repair, but the boat’s lack of a keel
and ineffectual rudder were certainly evident once it was out of
the water.
I noticed that the boat had lost
its short fore and aft masts, presumably while being boarded by
the Coast Guard, but didn’t feel
the need to press the question,
since they were looking quite confident... they assured me the 120
hp Perkins engine was now working fine and all would be well on
their trip south to the tropics and
the Panama Canal.
Well, they seem to be on their
way now. Yet I cannot help but
wonder why anyone would choose
a junk like this with a very high
price tag (originally over $200,000
and still listed at $148,000 when the
boat is self-evidently more suitable
as “a live-aboard, party boat, for entertaining or as an art studio” as
the sales literature suggests. It is
self-evidently only able to sail
downwind or on a broad reach.
The Flying Dragon started life
on the shore of Hong Kong around
1925, spent the majority of its life
as a fishing boat until it was
bought by an airline pilot and converted into a cruiser in the 1960s.
Northwest Orient Airlines had it
shipped back to the US to
Spokane, Washington in 1974 as a
floating pavilion in the World’s
Fair.
After the fair, it saw many own-
ers and eventually ended up in
Astoria, supposedly as a floating
bawdy house. Being boarded up
with a hot-tub in the forepeak, a
lot of rot developed. In 2001 Jerry
Joslin, an artist and sculptor began
a complete restoration with the
help of Speed Carter’s boatyard in
St Helens.
One can say it is a pity the boat
had to leave our waters, but there
was plenty of opportunity for a
local boater to make an offer. If it
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St. Helens/Washougal/Camas
2012 COLUMBIA COUNTY
AREA EVENTS
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friends could do the same?
Early Saturday, July 7, 2012,
twelve teams will begin transforming flat pieces of wood from
RiversWest Small Craft Center
kits into twelve river-worthy vessels. Less than 48 hours later, the
boats will launch amidst a cheering crowd at the Willamette Sailing Club. Families and groups
participating in the Wooden Boat
Festival Boat Build will not only
come away from the event with a
boat, but they also take away
something bigger. For many family members this may be their first
time with wood working tools.
Over the weekend they will learn
how to use those tools, discover
how boats are built, and identify
parts of boats that many sailors
rarely see. Through boat building
individuals also gain confidence
working with their hands, and the
satisfaction of achieving a lofty
goal of a boat that’s ready to
launch with just a weekend of effort.
If you’d rather watch a boat be
built than build it yourself, join
the Wooden Boat Festival at
Willamette Sailing Club on Sunday, July 8, and watch the families
and teams finish and launch their
boats. Visitors are invited to discover the other activities, includ-
ing beautiful antique and classic
wooden boats from the area and
riding on small sailboats. There
will also be live music, food, a
beer garden, and children’s crafts.
Wooden Boat Festival
Date: Sunday, July 8, 2012
Time: noon - 6:00 p.m.
Where: Willamette Sailing Club,
6336 S.W. Beaver Ave, Portland,
OR 97239
To learn more about building a
boat, please visit www.WoodenBoatFestival.com or 503-2465345. The Portland Wooden Boat
Festival is organized by Willamette
Sailing Club, RiversWest Small Craft
Center, and the Oregon Maritime
Museum.
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Ships. The weather cooperated
nicely on both days, and visitors
and members enjoyed standing on
the historic tug’s open decks to
shout our thanks to the Christmas
Ships volunteers who go all out
for the holidays. (Did you know
that you can rent the docked sternwheeler for this or other events?
Contact information is below.)
The Oregon Maritime Museum
celebrated all the progress made in
2011, and we are very grateful
for the community support. The
steamer just gleams, the exhibits
are more informative than ever
and the museum store welcomes
you to shop. What you can’t see
(unless you’re one of our hard
working volunteers) is the behindthe-scenes improvements in the
accounting system, membership
data processing, and library and
archival records management. We
have to give a big shout out to our
members, and the local maritime
community for donations of fuel
and towboat services, and finding
or making unique replacement
Photo by Peter Marsh
The weekend before Christmas, the Oregon Maritime Museum held a Christmas
Ship viewing and cookie swap for its members on the sternwheeler Portland.
parts that to keep our 1947-built
sternwheeler thriving!
All of these successes make us
proud to be the region’s best small
maritime museum! The challenges
in 2012 will be just as big: The
tough economy is affecting donations, but we have so much momentum and additional support
will make a huge difference. We
are closer than ever to gaining certification for carrying passengers
on cruises, and we are committed
to at least one event outing away
from the dock. We are determined
to remain an icon of Portland’s
maritime history-nothing less!
Find us at the dock, on the web
at oregonmaritimemuseum.org, or
by phone at 503-224-7724. See
you at Booth 113 at the Boat
Show!
JANUARY 2012
FRESHWATER NEWS
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Cathlamet
2012 CATHLAMET AREA EVENTS
March 10 - 28:
September 1 - 9:
Annual Crab and Oyster Feed
The Chambers largest fund
raiser; proceeds from this event
are used to produce Bald Eagle
Days. Tickets will be on sale soon.
We usually sellout so mark this
date on your calendar, get your
tickets and bring friends.
Annual Buzzards Breath Chili
Cook-off
Our 9th year and our first year
at hosting a state sanctioned cookoff. The winner of the sanctioned
cook-off wins points to be the
state champ. We will still have
music, games and local cooks
competing for prizes. The challenge is on!
July 20-22:
31st Annual Bald Eagle Days
Festival, Wooden Boat Show &
Fireworks
This is our largest event; it
brings thousands of people into
our community. This event supports our local merchants, and
provides fun for local families and
visitors.
August 24-26:
4th Annual Cathlamet
Downhill Corral
This skateboard event has
turned into a multiple interest
event known around the world in
the longboard community. It’s
perhaps the most fun you can pack
into a weekend, even if you don't
skate.
Pioneer Church
September 28:
3rd Annual Fall-fest
& Punkin Chunkin
Follow the parade of people to
the Farmer’s Market and Fall-fest,
where along with fresh produce
the smell of something good is on
the grill. Both young and old try
their skill at chunkin’ pumpkins at
a target to win prizes. Start planning now if you have an inkling to
build your own launcher.
October 31:
Neewollah Daze
The Bank of the Pacific is the
place to be after trick or treating
down Main Street. Costume judging for kids of all ages, with a
prize for everyone, along with
cookies and punch.
Wahkiakum County Historical Society
Museum
November 24:
Christmas Lighting
& Festival of Trees
Christmas season starts with
the Chamber bringing Santa to
town and the Christmas lights
being turned on. This event encourages people to start their
shopping locally with the stroll
down Christmas Lane. An opportunity to bid and vote for their favorite decorated tree or wreath
and visit with family and friends.
Proceeds from this event goes towards its expenses.
For more information
on these events go to
www.wahkiakumchamber.com
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produced by the Northwest RV
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and same organizers as the Portland Fall RV & Van Show will be
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when you buy your Portland Boat
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Rose City RV Sale as well as the
Portland Boat Show. RV’s and
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percentage of people who own
boats also own an RV—all part of
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The Sale will be a new event
within the Portland Boat Show
taking advantage of 2012 RV
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and all presented by local NW
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O’Loughlin, show manager.
Some of the dealers participating in the Rose City RV Sale include: B Young RV, Cascade RV,
Fred’s RV, Paul Evert’s RV Country, Town & Country RV and RV’s
to Go. The RV Sale will be inside
the Expo Center, in an adjoining
hall next to the Portland Boat
Show. The sale will provide a nice
assortment of RV’s; class A, trailers of all sizes, a great selection of
previously owned units and family friendly trailers and campers.
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FRESHWATER NEWS
JANUARY 2012
Marine Traffic at Willamette Locks Supports Jobs
at Port of Portland and Beyond
by Sandy Carter, One
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Two long-standing marinebased businesses that work the
Willamette River found themselves passing in the canal basin
at Willamette Falls Navigation
Canal and Locks early on November 1st, but onlookers, had there
been any, would have been hardpressed to spot them in the chilly
predawn, as a persistent mixture
of fog, steam and mist from the
falls shrouded the canal’s historic
industrial area.
In a scene that echoed uncounted similar passings over the
previous 138 years, operators at
this small but vitally important
West Linn transportation facility
started locking the Pit Bull towboat and barge upstream in the
hour before dawn, with the Pit
Bull’s lone spotlight piercing the
fog in the four lift chambers.
Meanwhile a small fleet of tugs
and crane and bin barges from
Wilsonville Concrete Products
waited upstream in the darkness,
mobilizing after three months of
intense preparation for a Port of
Portland dredging contract at Terminal 6.
Wilsonville Concrete Products,
working under the Port’s Terminal
6 low-bidder Marine Industrial
Construction, LLC, will be doing
the annual dredging of four berths
at the terminal—a job that would
not be possible without the historic Corps of Engineers lock
at Willamette Falls. Depending on
seasonal factors, the familyowned companies employ between 65 and 300 workers.
The continuing operation of
the canal and locks by the COE is
central to these companies and
others who support and service
AWARD WINNING “HOOT”
the many communities along the
river both above and below the
falls. Unfortunately, the COE
budget for 2011-2012 does not include operations money for the facility, which is now officially in
‘caretaker status’ and is just being
opened one day a month for routine maintenance checks. WCP’s
marine operations have been supporting ODOT’s contract with
Wildish to rehabilitate the Arch
Bridge between Oregon City and
West Linn by squeezing into those
monthly openings during 2011.
Future operations of the locks
are still in doubt in a Congressional
climate not partial to local earmarks. The 2010-11 earmark for
Willamette Falls Locks operations
died in February with all other special allocation requests and the
Corps of Engineers announced in
December that—based on a recent
engineering study—it has closed the
canal until money for repairs to the
gudgeon arms and anchors can be
requested and appropriated (possibly 2015). Community stakeholders
are now catalyzing around getting
the Corps to prioritize repairs.
The Pit Bull’s owner, Eric Dye,
of Ken’s Floatation Services, Inc.
who says the company has been
servicing the residential and commercial community in this area for
over 25 years, adds, “The locks are
a vital part of our business and it
has been very difficult to work
around the one day a month schedule. I contract out to other marine
companies every summer to come
through the locks to help with our
installations.” An estimated half of
their dock-building and repair customers are above the falls and their
busy towboat’s moorage is below
the falls at SportCraft Landing in
Oregon City.
With hundreds of prevailing
Photo courtesy Sandy Carter
The Pit Bull tugboat nudging a private dock upstream through Willamette Falls
Locks in the early hours of November 1st while Wilsonville Concrete Products
barges and tugs wait upstream in the canal basin, running downstream for a
Port of Portland dredging contract.
wage jobs and their commensurate community benefits potentially on the line, a coalition of
supporters of the 1873 canal has
begun a search for grants and a
conversation with the Portland
District COE aimed at creating a
second Challenge Partnership
with the Corps, similar to an
agreement in 2007 that directed a
federal Transportation Efficiency
Act grant for historic transportation facilities into operation of the
locks. In an era of intense focus
on sustainability and carbon
emissions, the One Willamette
River Coalition will be emphasizing the robust benefits of marine freight movement over
trucking and the importance of
keeping the West Linn locks operational as a ‘green’ option—an
option that reduces pressure on
highways and bridges and saves
jobs in the community, while preserving the romance of thirteen
decades of ships passing in the
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non- profits seeking assistance in
promoting boating in the region.
The grants are being awarded
through the NMTA’s Grow Boating program whose mission is to
increase the number of boaters
and encourage current boaters to
boat more often. Since 2003,
NMTA has spent more than $1M
to promote boating in the Pacific
Northwest through various
events, sponsorships and programs. The NMTA will award up
to $9,000 to one or more organizations by April 1st, 2012.
The application can be downloaded at: www.NMTA.net or
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“We are very excited to make
these grants available to help
promote boating in the region,”
said John Thorburn, NMTA’s
vice president of communications and marketing. “Our own
efforts and programs have introduced boating to well over a million people since 2003. These
grants should help us build new
partnerships in the community to
spread the benefits and joys of
boating to even more.”
Applications must fall into
one the following categories:
• Youth Boating Grant
Awarded to a group or organization seeking funding support for an event or program
aimed specifically at getting
or increasing youth participation in boating activities.
• Discover Boating Grant
Awarded to a group or organization seeking funding support for an event or program
aimed specifically at introducing new people to boating.
• Boater Education/
Safety Grant
Awarded to a group or organization seeking funding support for an event or program
aimed specifically at educating new or current boaters on
how to be safe on the water.
Completed applications must
be received by February 24,
2012. Grants will be awarded by
April 1, 2012. For questions, contact John Thorburn at NMTA:
john@nmta.net or 206-6340911.
JANUARY 2012
Portlanders Building More i550 Sportboats—
Five Completed!
FRESHWATER NEWS
PAGE 21
the Sextant Bar & Galley
Celebrating 39 Years
by Eric Rimkus
It was about two years ago that
a group of Portland sailors got together over a few beers after racing to talk about establishing a
new one-design for the river. It
had to be something light weight
and fast with a large asymmetric
spinnaker and a retractable strut
it needed a lifting bulb keel to
make it easy to tow and easy to
store.
Of all of the production boats
out there, none really met our
needs for a fast, fun, affordable
design, so we started to look at
building our own boats. The more
we talked about it, the more we
focused on the i550—and the
more people we found who were
also interested in the “Portland i550
Project.” So with five partners committed, we set out to build a fleet of
little racing keel boats.
This new Australian design
is18-ft. LOA, 8-ft. beam, draft 4ft. 5 inches, displacement 800 lbs,
keel weight: 165 lbs, crew 2-3.
Fast-forward a year to January
2011 and we were at the Portland
boat show with the first Portland
i550 (PDX #1) rigged and on display and PDX #2 that was still
under construction. The boat certainly generated a lot of interest
from the local sailing community
and it hadn’t even sailed yet! Lots
of people were asking questions
and were excited to see something
new. The number of active builds
in Portland jumped from five to
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seven, with another half-dozen
showing interest.
As spring arrived, we were finally ready to get PDX #1 out on
the water and with a little fanfare,
the boat was finally sailing on the
Columbia River in 15 - 18 knots
of breeze with gusts to 23 knots.
We made a conservative decision
and didn't fly the spinnaker, yet
boat speed was impressive, with
the Boston Whaler filming the exploits struggling to keep up with
us as we broke out planing on a
close reach. (Watch on youtube at
“The Maiden Voyage of the Portland i550 Fleet’s 1st boat.”)
The best part for us at the end
of the day was that we didn’t
break anything and the boat didn’t
Portland Yacht Club was where 135
sailors, families and friends met on
November 12, when OCSA (Oregon
Corinthian Sailing Association) once again
put on a fabulous event to celebrate the
conclusion of another great season of sailboat racing on the Columbia River. The social hour was raucous, as sailors told war
stories—some true, some not so true, and
all heavily embellished—from their races,
both recent and long past.
The stories were split between their
own adventures/misadventures and those
of their competition, with the latter being
met with loud howls of protest and laughter. When the dinner bell rang, everyone
trooped to the dining room, where they
were treated to a buffet with three types of
paella for dinner, followed by a variety of
cupcakes, all provided by Pete’s Paella.
After dinner, Commodore Kim Rimkus
opened the program by announcing a proposed slate of officers for the coming year
and asking for additional nominations
from the floor. When none were forthcoming, a vote was called and officers for 2012
were elected:
• Commodore: Kim Rimkus
• Vice Commodore: Jeanine Hohn
• Treasurer: Ailona Dundore
• Secretary: Mary Stainsby
• Rear Comm:Mark McCuddy
Next, it was time for the trophies. Rose
City Yacht Club led the way, followed by
Corinthian Yacht Club and Portland Yacht
Club, all of whom had lots of awards to
distribute for the 2011 racing season. Once
those were done, OCSA finished off the
evening with the presentation of their annual awards, voted on in advance by members of the racing community:
Sailor of the Year (given to the individual who has gone beyond the call of
duty in their contributions to the sailing
community): Ryan Barnes
OCSA Performance Trophy (earned
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US Sailing Sportsmanship (awarded
to the individual who has exhibited
Corinthian sportsmanship, both on and off
the water): Frank Noragon, Alan Bergen,
Randall Barnes, and Eric Collins. It should
be noted that this award is normally given
to only one person. In 2011, however, an
exception was made for these men, who
stopped racing on the Oregon Offshore
Race and stood by to render assistance to
the racing boat L’Orca after she was hit by
a whale and severely damaged. Only after
L’Orca was deemed able to return to Astoria under her own power did these skippers
resume their race.
Welcome Slough (awarded in recognition of a new sailor who has put forth extra
effort to be involved in the sailing community): Petra Gilbert
Good Times (the sailor who always
seems to have had the most infectious good
time): George Brown
Busted Breech (this award is given to
the skipper or crew who would rather it
didn’t exist): Jerry Barnes, who earned this
distinction by having his boat jumped on
by a very large whale during the Oregon
Offshore Race. It should be noted that his
boat is (was) appropriately named L’Orca.
Sandbox (awarded to the person who
spent the most time on a sandbar during the
year): Chris Schweiger, who managed to
be late for the start of the SYSCO Cruise
Race to St. Helens, trash-talked to several
boats he passed, then managed to put his
boat hard aground on the clothing optional
beach on Sauvie Island, where he was
greeted by several swimmers. Observers
claim it took at least 20 minutes to free his
boat, Panama Red from the sand.
OCSA wishes to thank all those who attended the party, as well as all who participated during the year in making 2011 a
great year for racing on the Columbia! See
you next year!
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JANUARY 2012
Commercial Crab Season Kicks Off with Highest Price Ever
Dungeness crab season—the
most valuable fishery on the NW
coast—began on Thursday, December 15 with an opening price
of $2.30 per pound. This is the
highest opening-season price
since supervised price negotiations began in 2003. (In December
2010. it was $1.65 per pound.) In
Oregon, the state-supervised negotiations involved the state’s five
ports with crab marketing associations and five seafood processors.
The crabbing industry brings in
between $30 and $40 million for
the fishermen, and about double
that after processing.
Oregon is the top producer of
this type of crab worldwide and
great steps have been taken to ensure the quality and size of the
catch. The Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife and the Oregon
Dungeness Crab Commission
sample the crab regularly to deter-
mine their maturity. (This season
was delayed for 15 days to allow
the minimum “meat fill” requirements to be reached.) Juvenile
males and all females are returned
to the sea to insure healthy stocks
for future harvests.
This continuing effort was rewarded in 2010 when Oregon’s
Dungeness crab fishery was certified “sustainable” by the Marine
Stewardship Council. Marketing
to Asia has also been successful
and last winter saw the arrival of a
new export market for crab. Buyers collect live crab from the fishing boats as soon as they arrive at
the dock, truck it to Vancouver,
B.C., or San Francisco, which
have the largest Chinatowns on the
west coast. The bulk of it is
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length of line and a buoy attached
to mark its position for retrieval.
The pots are baited with squid or
razor clams and set on the ocean
floor in 30 to 600 feet of water.
The pot is raised by a hydraulic
power-block, the crabs are sorted
and only mature male crabs measuring 6 ¼" across the shell are harvested. They are kept alive in
circulated seawater until they are
delivered to shore-side processing
plants.
All commercial boats have a
permit that specifies how many
pots they can use-the maximum is
500.
The ocean crab season continues through August 14. The peak
harvest occurs during the first
eight weeks of the season with up
to 75 percent of the annual production landed during this period.
Effort traditionally decreases in
the spring as fishermen gear up for
other coastal fisheries, but fresh
crab continues to be available
throughout the summer months
thanks to a small number of boats
that fish right up to the closure in
August.
Oregon imposed a ‘limited
entry’ system on the crab fishery
in 1996, and there are about 350
vessels presently engaged in crab-
The maximum number of pots a boat can drop is 500. At 100 lbs a pot, that
means as much as 50,000 lbs of weight piled high on the deck, creating a serious stability problem.
bing. They range from the small
wooden troller with its two-man
crew to large steel combination
vessels with a four-man crew capable of fishing around the clock
for extended periods of time. Hundreds of workers are also employed by processors.
A clear sky and good sea conditions greeted the fleet when they
set out to set their pots Dec. 12
for the pre-season “soak,” but the
satisfaction of the opening was
dimmed by the capsize of the FV
Randi near Coos Bay with its
decks loaded with crab pots. Two
crew were rescued by another
boat, but the owner Jim Peterson
was lost despite a search by three
CG lifeboats. This is a reminder
that the Dungeness fishery is the
most dangerous in the USA, with
28 deaths over the past decade. a
fact that has led the US Coast
Guard to inspect every vessel before it is allowed to begin fishing.
Recreational harvest of Dungeness crab is open in all Oregon
waters. A license is required and
the limit is 12 male crabs, minimum size 5 ¾ inches.
Portlanders Building More i550 Sportboats... continued from page 21
plode into pieces or sink. We
might actually be building a quality boat here, we thought.
From there it was a steep learning curve of dialing in rig tension,
mast pre-bend and sail shapes on
PDX #1. A series of regattas in the
spring taught us that we still have
a lot to learn to sail this boat well.
But with more time on the water,
we started to improve our trim and
with that came better speed.
We packed up the boat in July
for a trip to Detroit Lake for the
distance race from along the
length of the lake and back. We
have participated in this event several times in the past in other boats
and knew that this was going to be
a great opportunity to sail the boat
in breeze, and it was. The boat was
plenty fast upwind, but downwind
it was on fire; we were first to finish, well ahead of our competition.
You can watch a little video from
the tiller cam that even captured
the crashes on youtube at “Detroit
Lake 2011 on the i550.”
Over the summer, focus continued on the project to get all five
boats finished, so more time was
spent in the shop than on the
water. There were still a few days
of sailing, racing and demo rides
though and we discovered that all
of the effort in the shop was well
worth it once the boat was out in
breeze and skipping along downwind.
Our demo days in Cascade
Locks saw the boat out in fresh
breeze with experienced sailors as
well as with teenagers new to sport
boats; everyone had a great time
and interest grew.
As it turned out an i550 built in
Sacramento was for sale and one
of our demo rides in Cascade
Locks quickly turned into a road
trip to scoop up the boat and bring
it back to the Northwest. The fleet
grew by one overnight!
Fast-forward again to December 2011, and we have PDX #1
sorted out and sailing well, and
PDX #2 & #3 are finished and
awaiting rigs and foils while PDX
#4 nears completion. So besides
the sweat and effort to build these
boats, there has been some great
sailing along the way and this
spring will see at least five of the
class out on the Columbia and
traveling to various regattas
around the Northwest.
For more information check
out the i550 North American Class
Association at:
http://www.i550na.org/
Our building blog can be seen at:
http://www.i550na.org/eric/blog
And as always, feel free to stop
by the Rivers West Workshop to
check out the progress.
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by Dale Waagmeester
Roller-Furling Headsails — Part 2
In last months
issue we started this
discussion on sail design for roller furling
headsails, and we
will continue in that
vein this month. We
left off on clew
Dale
height and the rea- Waagmeester
sons that it is a good
idea to have a higher clew on a
furling headsail.
With that in mind, as a general
rule, when I start designing a furling genoa (150% through 130% or
so), I begin with a clew height of
approximately one inch off the
deck for every foot of boat. In
other words, for a 38 foot boat, I
will start with the clew 38" above
the deck. More important, however, is where a particular clew
height will sheet to the genoa
track.
In many cases, particularly
with a shorter overlap genoa, the
clew must be raised considerably
from this starting point for the sail
to sheet properly to the genoa
track. It makes no sense for a furling genoa to sheet to the front of
the boats genoa track. As you
furl/reef the sail, the sheet lead
will move forward. Why have the
sail sheet to the front of the track
so that when you reef the sail the
proper sheeting point is in front of
the track? It will make the sail useless as a roller reefing sail.
If this is the case, I will raise
the clew height until the sheet lead
hits more in the middle or aft end
of the existing track so that there
is some room to move the lead forward when the sail is reefed. This
becomes even more problematic
when the headsail has a shorter
overlap; say 110%. In many cases
on these shorter overlap furling
sails, I have to raise the clew six
feet off the deck or more to hit the
existing track, or have the owner
install more track.
This is why I am such a stickler
about getting good boat measurements. I can input the rig information into my sail design software
and get an extremely accurate idea
of where the 3-D sail is going to
sheet on the track, eliminating any
guess work. Once I have the leech,
luff and foot determined on the
computer, I can determine the
proper shape input for the sail.
There are some differences in
the shape of a roller furling headsail compared to its hank-on counterpart. The biggest difference is
that we make the sail a bit flatter
than if we were designing a nonfurling headsail. This makes the
sail better when used in a partially
furled/reefed state. With the flatter
shape, we will also design the luff
entry angles a bit fuller, to make
the sail easier to steer by and to
give the sail a bit more power.
This extra fullness up front will
disappear when the sail is partially
furled, especially if your furler
has an independently turning tack
swivel, which will flatten out the
front of the sail before the tack
starts rolling up the foot. This is a
great feature that is included on
most top of the line-furling units.
The addition of a foam luff also
helps flatten the sail when partially
furled. A rope luff is also an option, but I believe that the ability
to taper the foam luff to an exact
design profile makes it a more effective flattening device. Rope luff
enthusiasts say that the foam will
eventually rot, but I have yet to see
this ever happen. I think that the
fact that a rope luff is quicker and
easier to install (read less expensive) drives this argument.
Both of these luff flattening devices find their roots in the old
roller furling boom of the 60’s and
70’s. In those days, sailors found
that if they stuck beach towels inside the layers of fabric while they
rolled up the main from the foot,
the sail would flatten dramatically.
The foam luff is this same concept
turned on its side.
Of course, if you are considering the purchase of a new furler,
don’t think that you necessarily
need to buy a new sail to go with
it. You can certainly retrofit an existing headsail to fit a roller furler.
In most cases you need to shorten
the luff (the furlers tack drum and
head swivel shorten the maximum
available luff), install the corresponding headfoil tape to fit the
furler, and, if the sail is in good
enough condition, install a sacrificial sun cover on the foot and
leech of the sail.
If the sail is fairly old, we typically recommend leaving off the
protective sun edge, as they are an
additional expense. There is no
need to put that much money into
an old sail. Put it in your rainy day
fund towards a new headsail purchase in a couple of years.
However, it is surprising how
quickly Portland’s minimal sunshine will rot an unprotected leech
and foot. If your sail is in good
enough shape to warrant the expenditure, you definitely need to
have the sun edge installed right
away.
While a retrofitted sail will not
be the perfect furling headsail, in
most cases it will still do an extremely serviceable job. In boats
25 feet and below, the cost of a full
retrofit can be between 1/3 to ½
the way the cost of a new sail, so
if your sail is not fairly new, retrofitting might not be the best option. As you go up in size,
however, a retrofit starts to make
more sense.
Today’s roller furling/reefing
systems are a vast improvement
over what was available 25-30
years ago, and the sails that go on
them have also improved. With a
quality furling unit and a properly
designed headsail to go with it, the
cruising sailor can have years of
convenient and trouble free sailing.
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Naval History and Oregon’s rich
Maritime History. The Heritage
Center will bring alive the PT
Boat experience using interactive
exhibits, artifacts, and oral and
video histories that preserve the
memories and tell the stories of
our heroic PT Boat veterans. Architectural drawings and cost-estimates for the new facility have
already been donated.
The PT Boat Heritage and Education Center will derive its architectural expression from the
river and the unique qualities of
PT boat construction, most notably wood and their wooden
hulls. Massive glulam beams form
the main structural ribs of the center. Wood floors and wall panels
create a feeling of being below
deck as you explore the first floor.
Proceeding to the second level,
the wood gives way to glass and
views of the city and river traffic.
Wooden platforms provide a gateway to the PT Boat House, giving
unprecedented access to historic
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Common to Portland's waterways are tugboats that maneuver
freight ships in the narrow channel. These work horses of the river
with their tall wheel houses reflect
the overall form of the building
and the physical interdependence
The Harris Group, Inc. designed this rendering for the new Heritage Center.
between the Heritage Center and
adjacent PT Boat House—as if
one is pulling the other upriver.
The strong attachments that many
sailors feel for their wartime vessels create a visualization of the
tug forever pulling their PT Boat
home to its final resting place.
Because the work of the tug is
never done, it must now pull PT658 forward to the next generations, so that the lessons and
sacrifices will not be forgotten
with the passing of “The Greatest
Generation.” Extensive displays
and interactive areas will span the
breadth of PT Boat history, from
its critical role in WWII to its
unique construction, engines,
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Fantome - A Schooner’s Life
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popular Used Gear Locker. The
consignment department of
Portland’s favorite locallyowned boating supply store has
outgrown its original space. “We
have been taking in more items
for consignment than ever,” says
Marty Katke of Sexton’s.
“In these tough economic
times, it makes sense to consider
turning good boating gear,
equipment and other nautical
items that you aren’t using, into
some cash. On the other end,
people love a bargain, so shopping our Used Gear Locker is a
great way to save money. We
also like the fact that these items
are getting a new lease on life,
and not just lying around somewhere taking up space and deteriorating,
To accommodate the increase in consignment items,
we have opened a new, second
room full of good used boating
gear.” So stop in, say hello, and
see what treasures may await
you. “We always welcome
good, clean, new and used boating gear, nautical antiques, and
décor, for consignment.
Let us do the work
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Almost any Seattleite alive in
the Forties and Fifties can recall
the large, black, four-masted
schooner Fantome (ex. Flying
Cloud). She sat, anchored, in
Portage Bay like a centerpiece,
visible from both bridges and numerous points along the shore.
More than one duffer at the old
University golf course tried to
drive a ball onto her decks. At over
280 feet long and 1200 tons, she
looked closer than she was.
Fantome came to the Northwest as much by an accident of
history as anything else. Originally she was ordered for the Italian navy but before completion,
was purchased by the Duke of
Westminster who finished her as a
yacht (launched, 1927). Westminster used her only a few years before she changed hands twice in
short order. Ultimately she was acquired by Irishman, A. E. Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune
that bore his family’s name.
Guinness had taken her into the
Pacific in the late Thirties and,
when war broke out in Europe in
'39, she was in Alaskan waters.
Reluctant to cruise further, or return to Ireland, he elected to lay
her up here for the duration of hostilities.
Fantome carried a compliment
of 30 crew when underway, domestic help not included. Laid-up
afloat, she was cared for by no more
than two or three. The caretakers,
Mr. and Mrs. Long, landed their
tenders at Seattle Yacht Club. They,
and the schooner’s owners, were afforded guest privileges at the club
throughout their stay. The Longs
made numerous friends at SYC primarily among the small circle of
members who lived aboard their
yachts on club docks.
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At war’s end, Guinness had no
immediate plans for Fantome, so
she lingered in Portage Bay until
sold to local owners in 1951.
After a layover in Lake Union,
where much of her opulent interior
and equipment were removed, she
was towed away in 1953. It is said
that when Aristotle Onassis purchased her a short while later,
it was as a wedding gift for
Princess Grace of Monaco (the
former Grace Kelly of Philadelphia). Legend has it that Onassis
was left off the invitation list for
the royal wedding and decided to
keep the ship instead. She sat in
Spanish and German ports, unused, for almost seventeen years.
Windjammer Barefoot Cruises
purchased Fantome in 1969 for
service as flagship of their Floridabased fleet. After a $6 million refit
she accommodated up to 128 passengers for pampered tropical
cruising. Topsails and two more
foremast cross yards were added
to her rig. Fantome served well for
almost thirty years and developed
a following of repeat passengers
that especially enjoyed her casual
Caribbean charm.
Captain Guyan March was a
ten year veteran with Windjammer, but had only been aboard
Fantome for a year when, late in
the 1998 season, he steered her out
of the tiny Honduran harbor of
Omoa with a hundred paying passengers aboard. The driving rain
reminded the crew that a large hurricane, “Mitch,” was brewing a
thousand miles to the east. Assuming Mitch would follow the
typical northwest track of so many
late-season storms, March first
headed for the Bay Islands off the
coast of Honduras - a safe choice
at that point.
On October 25, Capt. March
altered course abruptly when it became obvious that Mitch was not
following any typical pattern. The
skipper was making a dash to Belize City where the passengers and
some crew could be put ashore,
but where no shelter could be assured for the vessel.
Hemmed in to the west, and to
the south, Fantome had limited
options when the storm deepened
and stalled. The following day the
National Hurricane Center reported that the prevailing air currents, the “steering winds” that
usually guide tropical storms in
predictable ways, had evaporated
and Mitch’s path could lead anywhere. By the 26th, Mitch was
classified a Category 5 hurricane.
Capt. March had laid a course
to the island of Roatan to lie in its
lee but soon it was obvious that
Mitch was headed due west, not
up toward Belize and Yucatan. By
Wednesday, the 28th Fantome was
at a position that was rapidly becoming ground zero. It was already blowing a hundred knots.
Over the four days March had
been in radio contact with Windjammer offices in Miami Beach
working out various strategies
with owner Michael D. Burke.
Their last decision had been to
head due east, sailing broad under
bare poles, to narrowly slip under
the storm into a weaker quadrant
of the spiral mayhem. At that
point, there was no other choice.
Fantome was never heard from
again. A few life jackets and some
loose gear were all that remained
of the proud ship and the 31 souls
aboard—no rafts, no EPIRBs, no
bodies. Whether she capsized,
pitch-poled, or her steel hull
failed, Fantome had no watertight
bulkheads and was gone in a hurry
once stricken.
Her 32 year-old English skipper might have done something
else to save the old schooner, but
that is debatable. Most agree that
he and Fantome had very little opportunity to escape once Mitch
started running them down.
If anyone has recollections of
Fantome or comments on this
story, they are encouraged to contact the author at 206-634-9328 or
at scottr@rhins.com.
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Portland, Oregon 97211
Telephone 503/287-1101
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STORAGE
Since 1956
Specializing In Floating Home
Auto & Boats
Sales • Repair • Service • All Sizes
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503-283-4733
5933 N. Greeley Ave.
Portland, OR 97217
Email: thokanson@comcast.net
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Captain George Flavel and the Wreck of the General Warren 1852
by Peter Marsh
Astoria ship captain George
Flavel, who is the most famous
citizen in Astoria’s history, was
born in New England around
1824, but little else is known about
his early life. He probably sailed
around Cape Horn carrying
would-be miners to the California
Gold Rush in 1849, then took
command of a coastal schooner
that called on the Columbia River.
He found the port to his liking and
quickly became familiar with the
shifting sandbars and currents
that had already caused several
wrecks.
He was awarded the first pilot’s
license from the Oregon Territorial
Legislature in 1851 and organized
the first official pilot service, the
forerunner of the modern Bar Pilots. A year later, he made a heroic
attempt to save the General Warren, a ship that ran aground in midwinter with more than two dozen
passengers and crew aboard. He is
still remembered for his selfless
action.
Lewis & Dreyden’s Marine
History of the Pacific Northwest,
published in the 1920s, gives the
following stirring account of the
wreck: While en route from Portland to San Francisco the General
Warren passed out of the river late
in the afternoon, January 28th, in
charge of Captain George Flavel,
who left her soon after crossing
the bar. She stood out to sea tacking southwest into a stiff breeze
blowing from the south. Toward
midnight the foretopmast was carried away, and the Captain determined to return to the Columbia.
His ship was deeply loaded
with grain that had scattered in the
hold and choked the pumps, so
that water was slowly gaining
from a leak caused by her overloaded condition. She sighted the
Columbia River in the morning,
but was unable to communicate
with the pilot schooner until afternoon, and it was three or four
o’clock before the pilot Flavel
came aboard again.
The General Warren had an
auxiliary steam engine, but Flavel
still opposed taking the ship in,
stating that it was too late, and
with a strong ebb tide running, unsafe to make the attempt. But as
the vessel was leaking and the passengers were fearful of drifting
into worse danger, they crowded
around him, begged so earnestly,
and even taunted him with cowardice, that he finally said: “If you
insist on going I will try to take
you in, but will not be responsible
for what may happen.”
He then ordered the pilot
schooner to accompany the ship,
and at 5:00 p.m. crossed the bar,
the wind meanwhile dying out so
that the schooner could not follow.
The steamer was now taking on
water faster than ever and was so
unmanageable that it was difficult
to control her movements, and
with the strong ebb running she
made so little headway that Flavel
requested the Captain to anchor.
Captain George Thompson informed him that the steamer could
not live in such a sea, and that she
must be beached immediately.
This statement surprised Flavel,
who had not until then realized how
thoroughly worthless the old tub
was, and he obeyed the Captain’s
wishes and headed her for Clatsop
Spit, beaching her at 7:00 p.m. In
a short time the sea was breaking
clear over her.
At 9:00 p.m. everything abaft
the foremast had been carried
away, but as yet no lives were lost.
Every one was mustered forward
hoping that the wreck would hold
together until morning, when they
could expect relief from shore.
By 3:00 a.m. the steamer was
breaking up so rapidly that Captain Thompson was determined, as
a last resort, to attempt to launch a
boat and send for assistance. Captain Flavel was asked to take
charge and volunteers were called
for to man her. Most of the people
on board preferred to take their
chances by remaining on the
steamer rather than to rush into
what had the appearance of certain
death in the breakers.
The skipper asked Flavel to
take the Warren’s only remaining
lifeboat and row through a blinding snow to Astoria to summon
help. “Pilot, do you think you can
make it?” Thompson asked. Flavel
replied: “If I live, I will return. ”
Ten men responded to the call for
a crew, were lowered over the side,
and cleared the wreck by shear
luck.
After hours of desperate struggle, they reached Astoria, where
they found the bark George &
Martha. Her master Captain Beard
immediately started for the scene
Captain George Flavel was a brave
sailor, a capable pilot, and a clever
businessman.
The Flavel House is open to the public and maintained by the Clatsop County
Historical Society.
of the disaster with a large whaleboat, but when they reached the
spot where the doomed vessel had
been the night before, she had disappeared from view; and the
corpses of the unfortunate passengers and crew that drifted ashore
on Clatsop Beach were the only
evidence of the disaster.
Nonetheless, grateful Oregonians presented Flavel with a gold
medal, engraved with his words:
“If I live, I will return.” Captain
Flavel’s monopoly on official pilotage meant that no ship could
enter or depart from the Columbia
River without him on board, and
he became a respected member of
Astoria’s maritime business circle.
This gave him a huge influence in
local affairs and he soon began to
find ways to profit from his connections.
By 1853, he was 30 and already an influential citizen. His
proposal of marriage was accepted
by 14-year old Mary Boelling.
(Into the early 1900s, this was not
unusual age for a girl to marry.
Another captain connected with
Astoria history, William Clark returned from the Corps of Discovery in 1805 and also married a
14-year old.)
Flavel went on to establish his
own dock and warehouses, traded
in imported cargoes, founded the
First National Bank of Astoria and
built Astoria’s finest hotel, the Occidental. Mary Flavel was not
overshadowed by her illustrious
husband as he became the wealthiest man in Astoria.
She became one of the leading
social figures in the town, spent
part of each winter in San Francisco, and sent her two daughters
to be educated at the best schools.
In 1886, the Flavels moved into
the splendid Queen Anne mansion
on 714 Exchange Street. This
11,600-square-foot mansion has
been preserved and restored by the
Clatsop County Historical Society.
(Its location behind the county
courthouse may have been coincidental, but it reflected the owner’s
influence in local affairs.)
The Flavels only lived for
seven years in these elegant surroundings. Captain Flavel died in
1893 at the age of 70, but his wife,
who was only 54, showed her independence by setting off to see
the world with with her daughters. They made the grand tour of
Europe and later sailed to Asia.
Opinions of Flavel differed:
seamen admired his courage and
skill, but others saw him as dour
and cold. You can learn more
about the Flavels’ fascinating lives
by visiting the mansion’s carriage
house visitor center and watching
the 15-minute film in at no charge.
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162
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MOORAGES
175
Pirate's Cove Marina. Open slips up to 50' located
in a beautiful country setting on the Multnomah
Channel. Laundry facilities, showers, pumpouts
within reach of each slip. 503-543 5153
1981 Tollycraft TriCabin all new spent over
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and all. Must Sell, Will Sell, Must See, Make Offer!
$90,000 Call 360-430-6603
Four world-class moorages with superb amenities:
Columbia Crossings on Hayden Island & Riverplace Marina. Covered or open moorage from
28-106’. Boat, RV and public storage also available. Toll-free 1-888-299-4942 or 503-283-2444.
35’ X 72’ Boathouse Combo, Boat well 15’ X 55’,
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OFFFICES/STORE SPACE
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150-199
BOATHOUSES
162
185
Oregon City. (503) 880-9138
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503-543-7003 www.rpmarina.com
57'X36' LOA WELL, 16'5" ELECTRONIC DOOR, SITTING AREA, STORAGE LOFT, NEW STRINGERS,
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Covered Slips 50’, 44’, 40’, 30’, 26’. Located on
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503-543-3939 or 503-543-3337
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NAME ____________________________________________________ PHONE______________________________
Acme Welding.....................................6
Advance Marine Group ....................31
Anchor Marine ..................................10
Anderson Signs................................12
Astoria Regatta.................................16
Astoria Chamber of Commerce ......16
Bank of England...............................15
Bed Time Mattress..............................8
Best Western Plus ............................18
Boulton Power Boats .........................7
Brooks Yacht Service .........................4
Columbia Crossings ........................32
Columbia Marine Assistance ..........15
Columbia Marine Exchange ............12
Columbia Ridge Marina .....................6
Columbia River Maritime .................16
Complete Controls .............................9
Cook Engine .......................................3
Danish Marine...................................10
Don Peterson....................................20
Duck’s Marine Construction ...............28
Englund Marine.....................................17
Fred’s Marina.........................................23
Grace’s Antiques ..................................18
Jane Betts-Stover Oregon Realty ...29
Harvey Marine...................................24
Hayden Island Canvas .....................14
Independent Marine Propeller.........23
Inflatable Boat Center ........................4
Irwin Yacht Sales ................................2
Jantzen Bay Fuel..............................14
M Maltase Real Estate Group..........29
Metro Marine.....................................24
Microtech ..........................................24
Mike DeVaney Insurance ...................7
Multnomah Yacht Repair..................32
Neal Booth’s Boat
Insurance Agency .............................13
Linda Barth, Farmer’s Insurance ....19
Lower Columbia Realty ...................19
Moore Auto & Marine .......................19
NOTS Boating Club..........................22
Norgard/Kirkpatrick..............................24
NW Battery Supply .................................7
Oregon State Marine Board.............15
Pacific NW Sportsmen’s Show .......13
Paladin Info Tech ..............................23
Portland Engine Rebuilders ............21
Portland Yacht Club............................4
Port of Astoria ..................................16
Port of Ilwaco....................................17
Potter Webster ..................................22
Rich Haynie Insurance.....................16
Richmond Boatworks ......................19
Riverside Marine ..............................18
RiversWest..........................................3
Rocky Pointe Marina ..........................8
Rodger’s Marine Electronics.............6
Rusty O’Shaughnessy .......................8
St. Helens Marina & RV....................18
Schooner Creek Boatworks...................5
Seaward Yacht Sales ..........................3
Sells Marine ......................................27
Sextons Chandlery.....................10, 22
Sportcraft Marina........................12, 21
SunQuest Charters ..........................20
Sundance Yacht Sales......................11
Vercoe Yacht Sales .............................9
Warrenton Boat Yard ........................17
Weenies On The Water .....................20
West Coast Propeller .......................16
MARINE SERVICES DIRECTORY
2-Deep Diving, LLC ...........................26
A & D Yacht Service...........................25
A. Mazon & Associates .....................26
Banner Bank ......................................25
Banks Sails ........................................26
Bentley’s Manufacturing...................27
Blue Heron Marine.............................26
Boat Insurance Agency ....................26
Brightwork NW ..................................25
Captain John Regitano .....................25
Carol’s Custom Metal Fabrication ...26
Carol’s Custom Canvas ....................27
Columbia Marine Assistance ...........25
CWE Construction ............................25
Dike Marine Service ..........................25
Divine NW Realty...............................26
Firehouse Boatworks........................25
Graham Marden Prudential NW Properties.................26
Hokanson Insurance.........................26
Hayden Island Canvas ......................27
Impact Marine Services ....................25
Inflatable Boat Center .......................26
Instruction/Marine Classes ..............26
Jack’s Overhead Doors.....................26
Julia Meyer, Massage Therapist .......26
McCuddy’s .........................................25
Martin’s Boat Detail...........................25
Neathamer Insurance........................26
North Sails Oregon ...........................26
Northwest Inflatable Boats...............26
Oregon Realty-Stover .......................26
Pacific Power Boats ....................25, 27
Pacific Power Products.....................26
Passion Yachts...................................25
Potter Webster ...................................27
Port of Astoria ...................................25
Premier Rubber & Supply.................26
RE/MAX-Susan Colton......................26
Royal Flush ........................................26
Rocky Pointe Marina .........................25
Rodgers Marine Electric ...................26
Schooner Creek Boatworks..........25, 26
Sells Marine ............................................25
Sheffield Propellers...........................26
Tomahawk Boat Works .....................25
Waagmeester Canvas .......................27
West Coast Classic Boats ................25
White Marine......................................25
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Waterfront Living • Floating Home & Waterfront Properties
Time to Sell!!
FIRESALE No fire just a firesale price on this beautiful NEW floating home. Reduced $45,000 to just
$204.750 Too much to list.Call Mike for full details.
503-939-8188
Susan Colton,
Broker
DOCKS & FLOATS
Working and Living
on the Island
Visit my web site www.susancolton.com
Direct: 503-270-4582 Mobile: 503-936-0161
STUNNING WATERFRONT TOWNHOME
176
condo overlooking Hayden Bay and Columbia River.
No yard work - more time to boat.
An entertaining home with high end finishes
2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, office, 2 fireplaces • Double car garage
CHANNEL ISLAND- Beautiful home, outside slip, 2
car garage only 9 miles from the City. Almost 2400
sf, plus boat slip for about 32-34ft bt. Walls of windows, great outdoor living with decks, balconies &
Covered Deck. Awesome views on the outside with
river and Mt.Hood & St. Helens out your door. Call
agent for a list of extra’s. MLS #11678229 or view
www.colton-homes.com. Call Susan Colton, 503936-0161.
$649,000
525 N TOMAHAWK ISLAND DRIVE
Seaplane float. Lift your seaplane out with a hydro
dock $3500. Ryan 503-880-9138
FLOATING HOME SLIPS
JANTZEN BEACH Moorage: $119,000 Slip and Tender house no living quarters. Tender house can be
sold separately.Slip size is 32 x 80.Visit http://www.equitygroup.com/mls=11115634. Or http://www.equitygroup.com/mls=10072157. Which is cute one
bedroom great room home & slip for $119,900. Call
Susan Colton Broker 503-936-0161
WITH BOAT SLIP
2400 sf townhome lives like a home with the ease of a
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Don Maltase 503-780-7882
More photos at www.rmls.com
M Maltase Real Estate Group RMLS# 11389836
Columbia Ridge Marina D-2 - Built by Marc Even.
4bed/3bath, 2440 sf, “Healthy Green,” Energy Star.
Contemp,3 outside decks plus lani, Greatrm plan.
Room for a boat 12x40 -Own both sides of dock. Slip
included -HOA $285.00/mo. MLS10037927 $559,000.
Call Susan Colton 503-936-0161
Beautiful Floating Home Slips Available Now.
Why pay rent when you can OWN? Includes a
12X40 boat slip. ColumbiaRidgeMarina.com
(503) 789-6559
Beautiful Inside and out. Class Harbor moorage slip
owned with garage. Elegant remodel, natural hickory
floors, floor to ceiling windows, front and back newer
trex decking. Take the tour on line: http://www.equitygroup.com/mls=11436105. 2bd plus loft, 2 full baths,
stainless & new Kitchen Priced $399,900. Call Susan
Colton, Broker 503-936-0161 or visit www.coltonhomes.com
PRIOR DEAL FELL THROUGH! SELLER VERY MOTIVATED! Waterfront property 2 acres. 200' of dock
with steel piling. 20x40 dock 12x24 float house with
loft. Deck surrounding float house, kitchen/ bath/
woodstove. Located in Clatskanie on Westport slough.
Very secluded/private $69,000.00 (503) 351-3089
FLOATING HOME SLIPS
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Happy
New Year!
Jane Betts-Stover, GRI, Broker
SPECIALIZING IN FLOATING HOMES!
To Live On The River Is To Love It
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MEGA PRICE REDUCTION Floating Home Slip
For Sale at Jantzen Beach Moorage. 31'W X 64'L
Now asking $130,000. JBMI may carry contract
for qualified buyer. Call Pam Pariseau @ 503-2832151
Waterfront views of Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Hood and
Sauvie Island on Multnomah Channel. 42 ft wide
slip. Propane. move-in fee. Rocky Pointe Marina
503-543-7003 www.RPMARINA.com
11690 N. Island Cove
11662 N. Island Cove Ln.
1677 N. Jantzen
11638 N. Island Cove Ln.
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173 N.E. Bridgeton Rd. #23
18989 N.E. Marine Dr., #B-24
2630 N. Hayden Is. Dr. #42
2023 N. Jantzen
2bd/2ba remodeled in 08. This is a WOW! New
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3bd/2ba Brand new. 2 master suite, granite,
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50776 Dike Rd. #3-A
3bd/3ba Huge outside slip- open views! Fabulous and Spacious Master suite w/sun porch.
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23510 N.W. St. Helens Rd. N-8
11702 N. Island Cove
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1705 N. Jantzen
18989 N.E. Marine Dr. #46
3bd/2ba Corner slip with big river views.
Vaulted, Lg windows for view and light! Master
suite w/ bath. Lg swim float, tie up boats! Poss
Contract. Price reduced $189,900
2bd/ 1ba Charming Chalet, gas firepl, swim float
w/ hot tub Outside Slip!$49,900 Cash/$81KContract/ $135 would include new flotation system
Over 1,000 sq ft. w/3 bedrooms! Hdwood flrs, gas
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in great outside slip for wonderful River Views!
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Slip Ownership. Near shops and restaurants.
Low moorage fee! $229,000
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FRESHWATER NEWS
JANUARY 2012
Blake Is. Adventure—The Beginning or Damn Near the End!
by James R. Farrell
We had decided to start our sailing trip to Desolation Sound, BC
with a short sail from Tacoma to
Blake Island, just to “get our sea
legs under us” and put our Beneteau
423, Autumn Daze through her
paces to check out her systems before we left Puget Sound. That way,
if by chance something did go haywire, we would be close enough to
home to address whatever problem
came up.
This short leg would give my
partner of many years, Becky, the
chance to run the deck by herself
without me trying to prove to her
how brilliant I am. Of course, I
have to learn to give up a little
control, which I can do now and
again; if I go below and play with
the computer or sleep to keep my
mind off of what’s happening
above me. Becky learns best by
making mistakes and finding the
best way to solve a problem for
herself. It may have something to
do with her being from Missouri.
My presence above deck during
this trial and error period only
hampers the learning curve and
may lead to a time of tension. I’m
relieved that she will ask my opinion and request my “expertise”
occasionally and almost always
before an emergency happens. As
it happened, we had a great sail
with all working as it should and
our relationship stayed in good
order.
We approached the southeast
buoy off Blake Island with Becky
still at the helm, which gave her
the opportunity to practice grabbing the buoy in a controlled environment. All went well, in fact so
well that I was able to grab the eye
of the buoy and slip our mooring
line through it and make it fast to
the other side with no problem.
The engine went quiet as Becky
killed it and all was made safe for
our quiet night tied to a buoy looking at Seattle lights as they
gleamed and danced across the
water. The best part is we didn't
even have to mess with the anchor.
How much better does life get?
Morning came with a light
breeze offering us a downwind
sail north as we were about to release from the buoy. The breakfast
meal had been eaten and enjoyed
with everything stowed away for
the next leg to Mud Bay on Lopez
Island. Becky was again at the
helm and I was taking the mooring line off, while all the time
thinking “how lucky we are to be
sailors on such a great day” when
Becky asks me, should she back
off or go forward and turn out?
I, the sailor with great experience, looked at the situation and
decide that we’re too close to the
island and the tide was pushing us
further in so I had her go forward
and turn out. But the great Captain
of years of experience failed to tell
her to go ahead slow until she got
the stern close to the buoy and the
forest of kelp clinging to its chain,
then kick it out of gear and let it
gently slip past the buoy, and then
put it back into gear and turn out
once we cleared the kelp infested
buoy.
Backing away wasn’t an option given the inability of a sailboat to back straight and our
approximation to Blake Island. My
lack of appropriate communication
shouldn’t have posed a problem, in
fact, that choice would have probably been OK, had it not been for
the accumulated forest of kelp!
No sooner had Becky come along
side of the infested buoy and
began her turn toward open water,
that the forest of kelp reached for
our churning prop, grabbed that
spinning piece of machinery with
its tentacles, wrapping not only
the jungle of kelp, but the mooring
chain itself round the shaft, stopping the engine cold!
Silence. Silence with a cold,
gentle wind blowing in the right
direction for a perfect days sail.
Instead here Autumn Daze sat in
the water, moored to the buoy by
her prop, surrounded by a forest of
kelp! Quiet. Too quiet. My first
mate in life seems to be in shock.
Me? My first response is to blame
the lovely first mate, but no, that
would not be a wise choice, because the truth be known, it was
the experienced captain that had
not made his wishes known in a
way that the first mate understood.
She did everything that I had told
her, and oh, so much more. Now
what?
I took a deep breath, went
below and checked for any water
coming in, then kicked the transmission out of gear and hoped
against hope that something major
hasn’t happened to the engine itself. As the luck of the Irish would
have it, it started and there seemed
to be no problem except for our inability to move and the sinking
feeling of a trip starting out completely wrong!
Now there were choices that
had to be made. Do we call for
help and have the added embarrassment and additional expense
of someone else saying at the end
of the day, “boy you should have
seen the mess I had to clean up for
another dumb blow boat”...or we
It didn’t take much to begin its treacherous wrapping pull the kelp and buoy
chain around the prop. Washington State Parks Buoy
Seattle’s skyline from Blake Island before the tangled mess around Autumn Daze’s prop.
could handle it ourselves. No contest, Becky and I decided to handle it ourselves...well, I decided
with her looking at me with that,
oh boy, here he goes again look.
I kept on board an old, and I do
mean old wet suit, fins, mask,
snorkel and even older scuba gear
that I've picked up along the way
just for such an emergency, or at
least that had been my thought at
the time I acquired it by bits and
pieces. Into the dark recesses of
our aft lazarette I dove and came
up with my never-used outfit, only
to find while I’m putting it on, I’ve
also been putting on a little weight
by pieces of pie, cake and maybe
some other sweets since I retired
from my job the year before.
Becky on the other hand, always
the voice of reason is still suggesting that we call someone to help
us, alluding to my general health,
the temperature of the water, and
starting to bring even more the
question of my sanity. I on the
other hand had something to prove
to myself. I got us into this situation, by god I'll get us out of it!
Into the water I went with the
snorkel, old suit with gloves, boots
and hood, sporting a serrated dive
knife and holding onto a life line
as I felt the cold water make its
initial assault. After a couple of
minutes I began to warm up and
my personal attack on the forest of
kelp began.
Once I’d caught my breath
from the coldness of the water, I
started by taking a few deep
breaths, dove down to the prop,
hung on to anything I could grab
and began to harass the tangled
mess. I say harass because I'd only
been able to make a few desperate
slashes and I’d have to surface for
air. Again and again I repeated
the process and only seemed to
achieve very limited success. Following about a half an hour of diving while holding my breath.
I finally thought of a way to extend my reach further into the forest with the knife while breathing
through the snorkel. To be quite
honest, for a man my age and condition I was getting tired and my
brain was beginning to slow down
along with my body.
The next trip up to the surface I
asked Becky to find my old 'fix
anything' roll of duct tape and the
boat hook. With a look on her face
that could have been anything
from concern for me or her wondering just how daft I really was,
she reluctantly complied.
Ignoring the visual questions
from Becky, I proceeded to attach
the serrated dive knife to the end
of the boat hook with the duct tape
(man I love that tape) which provided me with a new weapon in
my war with the forest of kelp. I
hacked and cut. I cut and hacked.
I poked and pulled with each attack producing bits and small
pieces of kelp that floated up from
the forest.
I'd been in the water for a little
over an hour by this time and my
exertions seemed to be slowing
down, but I was so close to conquering the enemy! Or, so my
mind was telling me. I made one
last great effort and dove down to
the prop only to see the forest
mostly gone, but the chain to the
buoy anchor was tightly wrapped
around the shaft. I popped up for
another breath and by this time
Becky was really getting worried
about my sanity. Had I really lost
track of reality or what? I knew I
could do this. One more trip down
to the prop, I pulled, I tugged, I got
nowhere, and we were still stuck
to the buoy with my mind not
working anymore. I finally realized that given our current state of
entrapment, we weren’t going
anywhere and the cold was affecting my reasoning abilities and I
damn sure needed a rest. I pulled
myself out of the water with
Becky's help where a very hot cup
of cocoa and a warm blanket
awaited my pleasure. Now was
the time to rest.
I recovered for about two
hours, regained some feeling in
my body parts and began to think
again. My son had given me a
scuba tank along with the BCD
and regulator that went with it.
While I’d every intention of becoming certified, I hadn’t. But on
the other hand, I had spent many
years as a volunteer firefighter
who by chance taught the proper
use of the firefighter’s best friend,
the Scott Pack. I knew how to control my breathing and make the air
last in a smoke filled building,
now how much different could
that be than a scuba tank? I was
about to find out.
I found myself back in the
water, wet suit and all, with the
added weight of the scuba tank,
looking like I really meant business. How much air do I have?
Should I really be doing this?
How old is the air? Many such
questions should have been running through my mind but all I
could think of is, on a boat “you
work on a problem until the problem is solved.”
I tried to go back down to the
prop and all I did was pop up
again! I kept trying but I kept popping back up. I began to think that
maybe, just maybe the weight belt
my son gave me had a purpose. I
put it on and it kept sliding down
my hips. I pulled it tighter
and...voila, it stayed in place!
Autumn Daze attached to a marine
park buoy.
Down I went to the unmoving
chain and finally got enough purchase to lift the chain by placing
my back against the hull to keep
from popping up. I began to lift
the first of many wraps of chain
from around the shaft. Ten minutes more of my labor—and worry
for the first mate above—and I
was able to pop up with the news
that not only was the shaft free, the
forest kelp defeated, but that there
appears to be no damage to the
prop or the shaft!
While I got myself back
aboard, Becky started the engine
and I was sure she said some kind
of St. Louis, Missouri ritual as she
put the transmission into gear.
Autumn Daze moved! She moved
without any vibration! No water
came through, no loose fittings; all
seems good again in the world.
We did take it easy for the first
part of the trip north as we
watched the tall ships head down
the sound to Tacoma for the 4th of
July celebrations, and we celebrated our own freedom as we motored away from the bondage of
Blake Island!
For our part, we dropped the
anchor into 25' at Mud Bay on
Lopez Island, and played out another 100', just to make sure we
didn’t move. No mooring buoys
for us that night and for many
nights thereafter. We had Autumn
Daze checked over when we arrived in Vancouver, BC by a real
diver. And, I began to put together a
proper scuba outfit and yes, I did get
my scuba certification and became
a certified PADI open water diver
thanks to Cindy Ross of “Girl
Diver” in Tacoma! http://www.girldiver.com/
NOTE: Moorage and rafting
limits for the buoys at Blake Island
State Park have changed. Boats 37'
and longer are no longer allowed
on the buoys at the south end of
the island. Limits are posted on
the buoys.
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