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Ventucky Red and Boomer. Good on you for holding up the tradition of supporting the Rudds.
I lived at Hollywood beach for 40 years and was in there only a handful of times. A very "shady" p!ace. I don't "remember" ever having had a "good time" there. I knew Punchy Pete the bag pipe player. A lot of my mates went there. They were " professionals" I was a "higher class" drunk :) Any girl that went there, well I don't think I would take her home but I guess if you were blind enough? A legend of a spot. Thanks for dredging up the memories!
 
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Billy Bob said:
Ventucky Red and Boomer. Good on you for holding up the tradition of supporting the Rudds.
I lived at Hollywood beach for 40 years and was in there only a handful of times. A very "shady" p!ace. I don't "remember" ever having had a "good time" there. I knew Punchy Pete the bag pipe player. A lot of my mates went there. They were " professionals" I was a "higher class" drunk :) Any girl that went there, well I don't think I would take her home but I guess if you were blind enough? A legend of a spot. Thanks for dredging up the memories!
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I only went there twice. Once with fellow Seabees, and the Friday night I met the cute little Blonde with a Bob haircut. A widower who lost her husband in Vietnam - Not her usual place to go as I recall, not even the drinking type that habituated that bar, nor was I as said above - in fact she was drinking a Shirley Temple. I had made a date to take her down to Anaheim the next weekend on a real date - after which on the drive home, I explained, I didn't have any plans on get married in the foreseeable future or ever....declined to go in once at "her" house, after this second date - we made out for a bit and said our goodbyes. Haven't thought about her for a long time, she was cute enough, it could have easily ended different, but I didn't want a ready made family.

50 years ago the Channel Islands Yacht Club where I usually went for a drink after racing, was at the end of the center peninsula in a large modern contemporary fronting the moorings, the building is still there. Today Channel Islands Yacht Club is on Harbor Blvd. The hot sailor there at that time was a young man with a young family, who sailed a Ranger 26 quite well, after racing he'd bring his toddler son on board, and let the kid steer, while the dad did the sail handling, often in tight maneuvers, sailing down one of the breezways, then do a 180 and sail out of the breezeway. Do you remember that Ranger 26. There was also a Cal 40 on the east side of Channel Island off of Victoria Ave, do you remember that Cal 40, or the Islander 30 Mk II out of CIYC, that always raced, every series, every race, with a gregarious skipper who wore horn rimmed glasses, who did like his booze, but held his booze well and a real kick to be around.

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boomer said:
The hot sailor there at that time was a young man with a young family, who sailed a Ranger 26 quite well, after racing he'd bring his toddler son on board, and let the kid steer, while the dad did the sail handling, often in tight maneuvers, sailing down one of the breezways, then do a 180 and sail out of the breezeway. Do you remember that Ranger 26. There was also a Cal 40 on the east side of Channel Island off of Victoria Ave, do you remember that Cal 40, or the Islander 30 Mk II out of CIYC, that always raced, every series, every race, with a gregarious skipper who wore horn rimmed glasses, who did like his booze, but held his booze well and a real kick to be around.

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You were there a few years before my time. I got there in 79 and started working at the Whale's Tail (the place with the red roof lower right side). Oye.... between that and parties on Silver Strand Beach (aka Beirut), who needed the "college dorm experience."

I used to whore myself out to anyone the needed a crew at the time, as I was in college and couldn't afford a boat. This is where I got introduced to the Moore 24. We did a Wet Wednesday, where it was a real stink... many folks were shutting it down and heading for the barn, and we plowed on (literally) to the finish line. The little boat was up for the chore, and if they weren't so expensive, I would have one right now...

Do you remember Bud Smith's converted PT boat?
 
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Boomer you speak of the master sailor Gary Swenson and his dad Roy that had the Ranger 26.
Gary is still one of my best friends. He is a legend that won about every race that California had to offer. All of us learned how to properly sail with him, either against or with him on his boats. he has natural ability, salesmanship and balls in spades.
The Islander 30 mk2 was owned by Frank Klatt (we called him fine entry Frank) and sailed by mostly his son David we called him Deek, still a great sailor. Yeah he wore glasses but he could see shit that others couldn't. Frank's daughter Liz also a very good sailor did a lot of racing with and against us as youngsters.
The Cal 40 was notorious for the guy that owned it. We won't mention his name or the boats name. He had a wife and a girl friend that mysteriously fell overboard on separate occasions on sails out to Anacapa Island. They never made it back but he did. I was never quite sure if this was a myth or not and I was around. That lot is long gone.
There was an other Cal 40 owned by Walter Pressel. That's probably the one your thinking about hopefully.
Ventucky, you didn't sail with me on one of my Moore 24's did you? Saltshaker or Zinfidel?
One was red the other was yellow.
We probably know a lot of the same people. I surfed Hollywood and the Strand when it was HARDCORE 60's 70's 80''s and the 90's when it was over run with southers (which could have been people from the north too including Ventura). very tight group of locals there. I was just there a few weeks ago. I hardly recognized the place. Over run! I remember mostly fields of beans and cilantro as far as the eye could see. Now strip malls and condos.
 
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Ventucky Red said:
You were there a few years before my time. I got there in 79 and started working at the Whale's Tail (the place with the red roof lower right side). Oye.... between that and parties on Silver Strand Beach (aka Beirut), who needed the "college dorm experience."

I used to whore myself out to anyone the needed a crew at the time, as I was in college and couldn't afford a boat. This is where I got introduced to the Moore 24. We did a Wet Wednesday, where it was a real stink... many folks were shutting it down and heading for the barn, and we plowed on (literally) to the finish line. The little boat was up for the chore, and if they weren't so expensive, I would have one right now...

Do you remember Bud Smith's converted PT boat?
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As I recall, or rather was told it was an air-sea rescue boat, though I thought it was a converted PT Boat called Dry Martini. Bud Smith's Wagon Wheel restaurant was a long time favorite of Seabees for taking their families to, but I never went there. The Whales Tail restaurant just up the road from the Rudder, was another Seabee favorite place, but never went there either.
 
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As I recall, or rather was told it was an air-sea rescue boat, though I thought it was a converted PT Boat called Dry Martini. Bud Smith's Wagon Wheel restaurant was a long time favorite of Seabees for taking their families to, but I never went there. The Whales Tail restaurant just up the road from the Rudder, was another Seabee favorite place, but never went there either.
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I thick the air-sea rescue boate is 75 feete longue and a PT boate wase 90 feete longue.
 
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