Also juicy surf secrets!
I sometimes use our BeachGrit like a personal soapbox, screeching about this or that, jabbing my finger into the air because I have caught a wild hair and think whatever non-sober passion smashing through my brain is sensible, valuable and makes great sense. I’m sorry but what I love most about this space is that it feels like a conversation. Like a real, honest, funny conversation and in our day and age of bots and purchased “likes” “shares” etc. that feels important even when I’m just screeching.
Which brings me to my point. As you know, I have recently fallen in love with sailing. Not the sort of sailing that Travis Rice and recently injured John John Florence do all masculine and tough but sailing nonetheless (and involving Yemen, Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt) and I need your help. My best friend with a wonderful 70 foot downwind sled is losing his mooring in Newport Beach. I had no idea but moorings and slips, like houses in Southern California, have unhinged value attached. The man who owns his bought it a few years ago and sold it for double at the beginning of the month.
He needs a new one and, ergo, I need a new one. Do you know anyone renting a mooring or slip anywhere in Los Angeles or Orange Counties (and I’m gonna throw San Diego County in here too even though he’ll be mad)? For a 70 footer? Oh I’d be the most grateful ever if you did and emailed [email protected]. You could come sailing all you wanted and also I’d tell you all the surf secrets I know that I can’t print.
There’s some juicy ones.
And the sailing is too much fun.
Email [email protected]?
Thank you!
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Those “were” good beers one day a while ago. Similarly, Sierra Nevada had its day w Fat Tire
I bet Mission Bay has a slip.
https://www.dockskipper.com…
Chas only gargles vodka soda when he runs out of toothpaste
Thurston’ for Moore.
There are always a ton of moorings for sale in Newport (see craigslist or The Log) if you can deal with the fore-and-aft Newport clusterfuck, but 70′, fuckin A, there are a few but not many, and how much draft were you expecting? Good luck with that.
So of course somebody’s got one up. $110k, such a bargain. https://thelogclassifieds.c…
If it flys, floats or fucks, rent it!
Is that James Bond Daniel Craig sitting on a classic 40′ Cheoy Lee offshore monohull ?
In Venice (not California Venice) no less!
Anchor out in San Diego Bay Or Sausalito. Or just keep going. Like this guy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
Everyone knows Tyler will contest the men’s QS, Next year.
is owning a boat without a mooring kind of like owning a surfboard while living in middle California
Nope – its way more expensive. The best boat is someone else’s. These days I have access to the in-laws. The only issue is that its moored in the Whitsundays. I am currently trying to convince them that New Cal is calling them next winter.
yes, no boat is fine with me, though fun when i am on one. question though.. how does one buy a boat that is 70 feet long and not have a place to put it before buying it, locked up. seems like a terrible hassle.
Oh man, parking boats is a whole thing! #goodluckwiththat
Welcome to the boating world, everything is a pain in ass and expensive.
Boat: bring out another thousand
Isn’t there a place to Lemoor it nearby? Or is that in France?
thats a yacht to moore
Good luck on your hunt.
This reads like the fine print in Israel Folau’s bid for financial freedom.
You could come sailing all you wanted and also I’d tell you all the surf secrets I know