Long Beach Sailing Foundation one design Catalina 37’s.

Looking back one night on a Wet Wednesday. Mid week break after work during the summer hosted by Long Beach Yacht Club.

Another Wet Wednesday. I started taking pictures because I bought a waterproof camera back before cell phones took good pictures. Now cell phones take good pictures and are waterproof. One of my phones (Note 8) spent a half hour at the bottom of the slip before I retrieved it; was still working over a year later.

The old Paranoia (Santa Cruz 52) down the back side of the Long Beach breakwater. Look in the background for the: Carnival Cruise boat, old Spruce Goose dome cruise terminal (should have been called the Birch Bird), downtown Long Beach, Queen Mary smoke stacks, and Wyland wall on the Long Beach Convention Center.

Heading out to the start line on a Sunday of Southern California Mid Winters Regatta. Farr 40 Dark Star. The day was cancelled shortly after due to heavy wind.

Seal Beach Yacht Club Sunday Sailors race day. Long Beach breakwall and Catalina in the background.

Same Sunday Sailors race day as previous photo. Snow capped mountains in the background.

Boats heading to finish during Sunday Sailors race day. In the background: the actual beach called Long Beach, an oil island, Signal Hill just protruding out from side of oil island. The oil islands are named after astronauts, most from Apollo 1. There is a lot of history to read about them: How they got their name THUMS islands, how someone who worked for Disneyland got involved with them, what those towers that look like hotels that actually move around the island on a track do, what they were built with.