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Greetings from your Marina Manager
May Barbecue & Chili Cook-Off A Big
Hit! Plenty
of sunshine; good food; and great conversation made our May
Barbecue and Chili Cook-Off a great way to kick off the Summer
boating season.
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All in all, a great time was had by
everybody. Our next boater BBQ is scheduled for Saturday,
August 19th- don’t forget to mark your calendar and plan
to be there!
Boat Name of the Month
Every once in a while you see a boat name
that just
makes you chuckle or admire the
creativity. This month’s honorable mention goes to
L-Dock’s “Miss Goodie
Two Screws”. Makes you
wonder what’s behind that name, eh?
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Congratulations To All Of You Who
Volunteered To Participate In “Operation Clean
Sweep”
Good show everybody. The San Diego Port
Tenants Association (SDPTA)
reports that with your help, over 400 cubic yards of trash were
cleaned out of the bay and areas where it might have ended up
in the bay. Among the treasures, 3 sunken sailboats in the A-8
anchorage, toilets, tools, engines, tires, mattresses,
batteries, and even a lawnmower and a disco ball!
Uncle Sam Needs YOU!
The 4th of
July is coming, and that means we
could really use your volunteer
help to greet and work with the
entire City of Chula Vista who will make their annual
pilgrimage to the water to see the fireworks which start at 9:
00 p.m.. The crowds have the natural curiosity to want to use
rest rooms or “check out the boats and the
docks”, so please everyone don’t let anyone in
without a key. Call the marina office at 619-691-1860 today to
sign up to be a goodwill ambassador and direct people to the
Bayside Park public park areas - you’ll have a good time
and you’ll also get a cool
marina security t-shirt as a thank
you.
Parking on the 4th of July
The best advice is to come early to avoid
parking hassles on the 4th of July. The marina lot will be almost full by noon,
and the Chula Vista Police Department will close Marina Parkway
in the afternoon, and after that, the only way in is if you
have your parking permit displayed.
Ramps at Gates 1 & 2 Will To Be
Upgraded
We will be replacing the carpet and
plywood on the ramps at gates 1 and 2 sometime in the first
part of July. There will be temporary ramp closures, so please
check with the marina office for closure dates.
“Bon Voyage” to Nancy Hershman!
We will all miss Nancy Hershman who is
leaving our marina. Nancy has worked in the Marina Office for
two years. She and her husband Greg moved aboard their
boat 8 years ago and are now starting on a new adventure.
They have both retired and with the help of K.C., their
15 year old cat, they are going cruising aboard their boat,
Festima Lente.
If all goes as planned the trip will
start the middle of July with the first three months in
Catalina and the other Channel Islands. After this three
month shake down cruise they plan to head south to Mexico and
points south. Bon Voyage, Nancy - Let us hear from you!
Great Deals on Marina Repo Boats
We have two repo boats for sale - The
first boat is a 1958 31’ Maas; main sail & jib
needs some TLC which is a nice project; bottom professionally
glassed; built-in head. $1,000.00 or best offer.
The second boat is a 1965 20’ Cal
Jensen; 2 sails. $500.00 or best offer. Call the marina office
at 619-691-1860 for more information.
San Diego Summer Boat Show
The Southern California Marina
Association’s annual Boat Show is being held at the
Sheraton Harbor Island Marina Thursday through Sunday, July
20-23, 2006.
The SCMA show is open from 12 noon
– 8:00 p.m. on Thursday and Friday; from, 10:00 a.m.
– 8:00 p.m. on Saturday; and from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00
p.m. on Sunday. The show is open to the public – Adult
admission is $10.00; children are admitted free. For complete
information about this boat show, please visit www.scma.com.
Thanks - That’s all for now. Hope
you all have a terrific July!
Liesel Smoyer – Chula Vista Marina
Manager
Clif’s Chronicles - Did You Know?
On September 28, 1542, Juan
Rodríguez Cabrillo hung a right turn while coming up the
coast from Mexico and "discovered" San Diego Bay. He
named it San Miguel after St. Michael the Archangel because it
was the day before the feast day of St. Michael. About sixty
years later, another Spanish explorer, Sebastián
Vizcaíno, came sailing in on November 12, 1602 and
re-discovered the bay, which he re-named San Diego after the
patron saint of his ship.
The San Dieguito migrated here across the
Bering Strait land bridge somewhere around 9000 to 12000 BC and
the local Kumeyaay Indians settled on the bay around 1000 BC,
but since Juan Cabrillo was the first to record a name, he
generally gets the credit for “discovering” the
bay.
-Clifton Oliver
Editor’s Note - Clif Oliver is an
Information Management consultant who, as a San Diego Native,
enjoys learning more about the town in which he was raised. If
you have an interesting bit of trivia about San Diego's bay
areas you would like to share, please e-mail him at clif@BlueSkynews.com.
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July Packed with Great Events for Boaters
Monica Giobbi
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From the Poop Deck
Madeline
Editor,
Poop Deck
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Editor’s Note: Once again - We
apologize for Madeline. We’re trying to get her to be
more polished, but we’re not making much progress. If you
have a pet question or photo to send to her, please e-mail it
to Madeline@BlueSkyNews.com.
Paint Your Bottom
Bill Rocco
President,
Aquarius Yacht
Services
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On a related topic, you should know that
copper is the active biocide ingredient in bottom paint which
helps to reduce marine growth from attaching to your boat
bottom. Well guess what, in Shelter Island for example, the
State and Regional Water Quality Control Boards have approved a
plan which calls for the reduction of the number of boats with
copper based antifouling paint. At the end of the plan about 16
years from now, no boaters will be allowed to have copper based
bottom paints on their hulls. So what’s the alternative?
Well as of now it looks like more frequent hull cleaning. All
of the "Biocide Free" bottom paints tested to date
that I know of do not retard marine growth like the current
biocide copper. So, stay in touch with your diver and ask him
to keep you informed on any improvement to the new
"Biocide Free" paints.
Editor’s Note: Bill Rocco is the
President of Aquarius Yacht Services. If you have a boat maintenance question for Bill,
send your e-mail to bill@BlueSkynews.com.
Dear Flo-tilla
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I want to know who put women in charge of
where things go on our boat? “The knives go in this
drawer; the life jackets go in this compartment; that
doesn’t go there; ad nausea.” What makes them think
they are the grand poobah of stuff?
Sincerely,
Feeling Put-Upon
Dear Put-Upon,
Whoever it was probably took one look at
the mangled wad you call a dock box and said keep “mayhem
man” out of the way while somebody with a brain instills
some order on board.
Regards,
Flo-Tilla
Dear Flo,
I hear the city of San Diego and the US
Navy are planning to put a thirty story office tower and two
forty story condo buildings on the bay-front land now occupied
by the Broadway Naval Complex. Is that the best use of this
fantastic piece of land?
Yours Truly,
Disappointed
Dear Truly Disappointed,
Oh Boy! Where is the thinking on the
level that the eighth largest city in America deserves? Have
these guys ever visited cities like Sydney and seen what
they've accomplished at Darling Harbor and their Opera House
complex? This is the last opportunity for San Diego to have a
downtown gateway icon on a par with the Statue of Liberty,
Saint Louis' Arch, or Seattle's Space Needle.
Regards,
Flo-Tilla
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Letters to the Editor
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Regards,
Dave Herring
Dear Dave,
According to a Port District spokesman,
they are soliciting bids for reconstruction of the docks
located in front of Peohe’s Restaurant. Between the wind,
the orientation of the docks, the wave action, and boats
bumping into the docks over the years, they sustained a lot of
damage.
When they do reconstruct the docks, they
will be open to the public. If possible, the Port hopes to
achieve a better orientation of the docks. No date for
re-opening is available at this time because the Port is
debating various options for reconstruction. “We would
like to complete the project as soon as possible but another
difficulty in getting bids is that most of the contractors are
busy with other major dock modernizations", the spokesman
said.
Sincerely,
BlueSkyNews.com Editor
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