Harbor 20' "Catch and Dispose"

Team Drayton

Sunday, April 26, 2020, Newport Beach CA, Five Points area of the harbor. “Catch and Dispose” Tournament. The fog lifted a little later in the day while the traffic decreased substantially within the anchorage area from the previous day. 11 Teams showed up for the tournament and at 12:00 each team headed out like prospectors looking for gold.

Team Bose headed to Bayshores and walked the docks, where Jennifer found a boat brush in the water, while retrieving it she realized it was a little stinky. “We are not putting this in the boat it smells really bad”,  she said. while placing it in the dock trash can. Our next stop on our prospecting plan was the Balboa Bay Club where we gathered most of our flotsam along the sea wall. As we started to depart Team Kerr/Thompson sailed up and expressed their excitement finding the mother load in the SOL restaurant marina. Wendy had the quote of the day “Len, this is so much fun! We just take these boats out to race, I never knew you could have this much fun in them.” Phil and I had a good laugh then commented on how many boaters, that we're watching us, we're so thankful for our efforts. It felt good and ya it was fun.

Team Kerr/Thompson 

Team Kerr/Thompson had hit the jackpot and we wondered if we should continue with our plan or head over to the SOL marina. We continued with our plan and found more flotsam in the Calypso Marina. Just like that an hour and a half had passed so we started our sail to Fernando street Public Pier.

We arrived at 14:00 and was greeted by Team Volk and with the smile, on their faces of accomplishment, they had found a huge amount of flotsam on one of the islands in the upper bay. Next to arrive at the Dock was Team Drayton who had also hit it big at the UCI Rowing base in the upper bay. By the way, I do not recommend sailing under the PCH Bridge in your H20, Team Drayton was in a 22’ Duffy BayIsland and Volk was in a ridged dinghy Both teams found mounds of flotsam.

Meanwhile, aboard their Boston Whaler, Heidi Hall and Steven Guzowski were prospecting Balboa Island and China Beach and reeled in over 8 full bags of flotsam. At the same time team Camerini, Davies, Campbell, Menninger, Simmonds and Mcchesney were all trolling the waters and brought in full bags of flotsam.

Like I had mentioned earlier when other boaters recognized what we were doing they all wanted to join in and help out. Jennifer and I must have had over 8 people thank us for our efforts that day, we heard the same stories from all the other teams in the tournament. After everyone had left and Jennifer and I were surrounded by all the flotsam bags I said to Jen “Now the hard work” of bringing all the bags up to the trash cans at the end of the pier. Another boater had been watching us and pulled up and asked if he could help and thank us again.

Truly a heart-filling day by all the Newport Luv’n! HUGE shout out to all the Harbor 20 owners who participated in the tournament. Each one of them went the extra mile. Len Bose 

EST : #350 Pounds of Flotsam collected