January 3, 2006
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…info about the musicClick on the blue music icon above to hear some of the first movement from my “Current Events” titled “Surge,” to accompany these photos.
Not long ago, after a Pacific storm similar to the one we had here this weekend, I walked down the path to the shore and was greeted with this saddest of sights. It’s not an uncommon occurrence; each winter a number of unlucky boats are ripped from their moorings and are thrown with the roaring tide to a final resting place aground. I see these fallen soldiers once in a while here at Paradise Cove, and more frequently to the south of the wharf up in Santa Barbara. Those vessels live precariously in an area known to locals as “poor man’s harbor,” and bear the brunt of bad weather with varying degrees of success.
As a sailor who has spent a fair amount of time living aboard, it is always a jolt to my system to see such a carcass. This ketch was almost 40 feet; not an insignificant boat. I had seen her anchored off the coast for quite a while and yet never spotted her owners. Like a composer’s muses needing attention, so are these great floating beasts.
I stared at the sea through her gaping hull, and apologized.
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