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“Hello Poorman thanks for inviting to your show” I listened to “The Mayors introduction to me yesterday and I had to laugh when he referred me a the Harbors Historian, guess that means I must be 39 years old like you, I have been the harbor report for 12 years now 500 stories. Hey Poorman, do you think that the mayor can get us a City parking permits? Mayor Will O'Neill
- Harbor Master Paul Blank: I would like to recognize
Started Last May 3rd 2021:
Prior Blank had worked on the Harbor Commission for 8 years. (During this time I quickly recognized that Blank is a person that stays on task and completes objectives, Its difficult for me to express how fortune we are to have him as our Harbor master)
First year on Watch
- Elly Oil Spill. (Involved closing the harbor during one of the busiest days, events the HB Airshow, working with the Coast Guard clean up of our local boats) send out his crew of Harbor Services Workers
- If that did not stir things up
- Tsunami warning (Tonga earthquake)
- Downed helicopter providing traffic control and security.
- Three sever weather warnings all of which involved multiple dewatering activities. Helping boaters remove water from their boats) Harbor Services Workers
- Sewage spill (4000-5000 gallons) into the harbor from an upland restaurant closing recreational swimming, diving and contact with the water activities
- ( A person that is mentally unstable…Out of control stolen boat doing significant damage in the harbor.
Can you imagine receiving these phone calls Oil Spill, Next Call Tsunami, Downed Helicopter, Sewage spill, and a crazy guy crashing into a bunch of boats?
Another phone call Blank receives often is Kids jumping off the different brides
- Bridge Jumping, want happened to attract the attention of the city: “The kid that jumped into the Duffy a couple years back” Now there is a Life Guard on the beach of the Lido Bridge during the summer. The Harbor Departments Code enforcement responds to any phone call, along with a code enforcement officer riding his beach cruiser by the bridge. “he first fine is $100, the second, is $200; and the third is $500. the Harbor Code. 38th street Bridge
Blank is also the Commodore of The Balboa Yacht
Opening Day at the Yacht Clubs: Preside
BYC with over 100 boats
NHYC
BCYC “Getting back to Normal”
Summer sailing. Can any of you picture the peanut charter Snoppy doing his “Happy Dance” That’s me at the start of each years Summer Sailing season,
Tonight is the first beer cans, Which is where summer sailing all started
Most of you have already seen it's been rather sporty on the harbor this week. Yes, it has been "nuking, "breeze on", "Victory at Sea", and "Blowing dogs off chains" this week with the breeze at 15K to 20K range to start the week. Keeping most of the fleet, myself included, on the sidelines earning their first kitty pins of the season.
American Legion Sundowner Series Results and attendance (Weather, Race,) Your old time sailing club. American Legion Yacht Club Sundowner Series. Races were canceled when the Race committee boat raped up its mooring lines around the prop while leaving it’s mooring, That had to be a bunched-up moment with the breeze at 20 knots!
BCYC Taco Tuesdays BCYC Taco Tuesdays Rhonda Tolar Raffle. With 30 boats entered 19 showed up to the starting line with the winds gusting to 20 + knots.
Harbor 20 A’s Had two boats with Phil Thompson winning both races, Steve Schupak and Tucker Cheadle sailing with a reefed main were second.
Harbor 20 B’s Scott Barnes faced off against Matthew Hurliman with both of them winning one race. The two boats sailed with reefed mains.
In PHRF:
A Fleet was very competitive with 5 boats on the line with Bruce Cooper sailings the J 105 Legacy ahead of Amante and Destroyer
B Fleet had four boats on the starting line with Rodger Gooding and his boat Rhythm winning by over 4 Minutes.
C Fleet also had 5 boats with BCYC J 22 correcting out over John Fullers Ericson 35 Horsefeathers. On a side note: There has been a resurgence in the Ericson 35 MK II Fleet, with 4 boats in our harbor now this fleet will be fun to watch over the summer.
BYC: Wednesday Twilight, 4 Lazers challenged the weather yesterday with Siena Nichols keeping the boat upright winning in the Laser fleet, along with John Papadopouls keeping together his Lido 14. Dust off your Laser’s and Lido 14’s for next week.
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I first met Blank:
UCLA Sailing while I was a coach at OCC in the late 80’s.
City sailing lessons in the summer of 1975, at the age of 10.
Blank first joined and sailed out of South Shore Yacht Club. His first coach was Mark Gaudio. “Mark really honed his skills of how to sail efficiently while introducing me to racing,
Pauls Sail boat Herreshoff 12.5 “Nate”
Blank perfect day on the water:
Here is my perfect day on the water, while I never have achieved it, I am pretty darn close. I would go paddle boarding on the harbor in the morning. I would go racing in the afternoon on a keelboat or small boat, then wind down the day with a really nice dinner aboard Promotion, my powerboat anchored somewhere in the harbor.”
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