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Last of the Mohicans

john english

john english

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Tommorow, May 6th we leave our winter home in Emeryville to spend the next 6 months on the hook in our summer home for 26 years; Steamboat slough general anchorage. It has been a summer refuge for the SF bay area sailing community for over 100 years. It now appears that we are the last regular habitual Delta rats with a sailboat. They used to line up stern to the levee from the Steamboat slough bridge down to Sutter island crossroad. Get out of the cold and into the sunshine. Come for a week or stay for a season. Additional equipment may be necessary!
Cheers,
John and Sue
Coast Starlight Ltd.
M382075
N6IFW
 
John
We were for a time back in 1987 near Birdslanding. We spent a lot of time around that area including Collinsville. I hope you have read about Jack London and his wife Charmaine on their sailboat Dreamer sailing up and down the sloughs and the Sacramento. A time gone past now...
 
On that same note, we have been to sevearl piano recitals at the "House of Happy Walls" that Charmaine built after Wolf House burned in Jack London State Park. The piano was a gift from Jack To Charmaine. A true link to the the many facets of the Londons life.
 
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On that same note, we have been to sevearl piano recitals at the "House of Happy Walls" that Charmaine built after Wolf House burned in Jack London State Park. The piano was a gift from Jack To Charmaine. A true link to the the many facets of the Londons life.
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We got to meet Jack's daughter Betty "Bessie" in Glenn Ellen. Do you know the story of London's Valley of the Moon?
 
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Another good read is "The Cruise of the Snark", which is about the Londons' attempted circumnavigation and the building of their S/V "Snark" in Oakland during the period of the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Never buy a cast iron capstan!
 
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Another good read is "The Cruise of the Snark", which is about the Londons' attempted circumnavigation and the building of their S/V "Snark" in Oakland during the period of the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Never buy a cast iron capstan!
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That's so neat! Yes we read that one...of course I think the story goes that after Slocums Sailing Alone came out...RL Stevenson and others getting sailboats was all the rage.
We lived for a time near Collinsville where Jack and Charmaine London sailed up the Sacramento River a few years before his death.
 
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Another good read is "The Cruise of the Snark", which is about the Londons' attempted circumnavigation and the building of their S/V "Snark" in Oakland during the period of the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Never buy a cast iron capstan!
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Here they are on the Snark "wheel" in hand. Jack London center.

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john english said:
Tommorow, May 6th we leave our winter home in Emeryville to spend the next 6 months on the hook in our summer home for 26 years; Steamboat slough general anchorage. It has been a summer refuge for the SF bay area sailing community for over 100 years. It now appears that we are the last regular habitual Delta rats with a sailboat. They used to line up stern to the levee from the Steamboat slough bridge down to Sutter island crossroad. Get out of the cold and into the sunshine. Come for a week or stay for a season. Additional equipment may be necessary!
Cheers,
John and Sue
Coast Starlight Ltd.
M382075
N6IFW
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Speaking of Last of the Mohicans...we live in that land now...Lake Champlain...lots of history
 
Negative contact on Russ Kingman. We have been at anchor now just over a month. We saw our first river otter ever. A couple of years ago we were visited by 3 mink. The first flood tides reached us just before Memorial day so the river is now warmer and swimable. Still no other boats on the hook in the anchorage. Kinda feels like we chartered the place.
 
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Negative contact on Russ Kingman. We have been at anchor now just over a month. We saw our first river otter ever. A couple of years ago we were visited by 3 mink. The first flood tides reached us just before Memorial day so the river is now warmer and swimable. Still no other boats on the hook in the anchorage. Kinda feels like we chartered the place.
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John
When my wife and I were in Birds Landing we use to visit some friends on Grizzily island they had a tame wild river otter "Otto" was his name. They found him as a baby and raised him. What a riot he was. Jack Londons daughter lived in their place next door. Russ Kingman. He was a real expert on Jack and His wife Charmian.
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