Big Lagoon (mostly) Wooden Boat event

[Thorne]

Took Friday off and hauled my dory up past Eureka on its new trailer --- and lived to tell the tale!

We had great weather and better sailing, and the bowsprit / jib combination really balanced the rig on my boat.

http://www.luckhardt.com/biglagoon1.jpg

This is really just a group of friends from the area with a few strangers like myself along for the ride.

The blue wooden kayak, lovely sprit-rigged "Tortuga"(see end of the pics), riveted-ply sailing canoe, and glassed Indian-style canoe were all built by Ed, shown in the photos ready to take his canoe out after the launching ceremony (involving rum of course). Not bad for an 80+ year-old boatbuilder, eh?

http://www.luckhardt.com/biglagoon2.jpg

The cutter is a converted Italian-style workboat, and the punt-like Puffin is taped ply with leeboards.

I've put my pics into a QuickTime movie (get the free player from http://www.apple.com ) at -

http://www.luckhardt.com/biglagoon06-med.mov

And the photos in a web slideshow are at -

http://www.luckhardt.com/big-lagoon-06

[Robert W. Long]

Hi Thorne: Looks like a wonderful place to be on the water. Thanks for the photos. Could you say where "beyond Eureka" is? I am in Mendocino, and would like to go where you were to kayak.
Robert.

[Thorne]

This event was at Big Lagoon, part of the Humbodt Lagoons State Park just north of Trinidad, about 20 miles north of Arcata.

These folks also have a "guys-only" semi-Napoleonic costume event in July at the next lagoon north, Stone Lagoon, which has a very nice boat-in campsite on the bluff just south (left) of the bar in the photo below.


http://www.luckhardt.com/stnlgn2/stnlgn2-Images/0.jpg

I have some pics and QuickTime movies of their 04 and 05 events on my site -

http://www.luckhardt.com/pics.html

http://www.luckhardt.com/stnlgn2/stnlgn2-Images/1.jpg

http://www.luckhardt.com/stnlgn2/stnlgn2-Images/12.jpg

[Kim Whitmyre]

Wow, looks like fun!

[Thorne]

It was almost more fun than I can handle, particularly the drinking and singing around the campfire.

To link in with the previous thread on naming / launching ceremonies, here's a picture of Harvey "blessing" the "TT", Ed's latest creation, before she goes into the water. Immediately afterwards we did the same for my dory, christening her the "Lord Chamberlain" and pouring Pusser's Rum all over the boat and water...

http://www.luckhardt.com/big-lagoon-06/images/DSCN7441.jpg