As part of the International Coastal Cleanup Day, Ventura County beaches will be a great place for you and your family to be on Saturday morning (9/20). The 24th annual California coastal cleanup event runs from 9am to noon. As an international event, this day can boast being one of the largest volunteer events of [...]

Some morning in the not-too-distant future you will wake up and log on to check out what the wind is doing at the Western reaches of the Santa Barbara Channel and you will have a hard time knowing. Buoy #’s 46023 off Point Arguello and 46054 in the middle of the Western Channel itself are [...]

I have a couple of lifelong passions that pretty much keep me busy; music, photography and sailing. To be sure, they are highly combinable. I grew up during the golden years of rock and roll and in 1975,  I was 20 years old when The Mothers of Invention released their last album. A major influence [...]