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November 15 - Turtle Bay, BCS
Today's Photo of the Day is courtesy of Jim Hosie of the Folsom-based Catalina 42 Renaissance, who, along with some of his crew, was good enough to show the Baja Ha-Ha fleet at Turtle Bay how not to make a dinghy landing through the surf. The thing everyone should take note of is that it's not hard to take your dinghy vertical even if the surf is just two or three feet high. A sailor for just a few months, the good-natured Hosie took the most spectacular dinghy dumping we've ever seen in good stride.
More seriously, dinghy landings through the surf have the potential to be deadly, particularly if the dinghy is powered by an outboard. As such, we'll have a feature on dinghy surf-landings in the December issue of Latitude 38, which will come out on Friday, November 30.
While normally not quite as dangerous, you've got to think before taking your dinghy out through the surf also. If you're a guy, and your wife has just gotten her hair done and picked up all the laundry, you never want to find yourself in a 'surf squall' such as seen in the second photo.
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