Why do you own a boat? If this great little edit by Kevin P. White doesn't remind you, nothing will. A group of friends, two boats, and the highlights of a weekend getaway to Catalina.
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Here's a great little edit of diving the kelp beds off of Catalina. It's high quality 4K video, with cool music, put up by Todd Hansen. In under 3 minutes, we get a good look at many of the creatures living in and around the kelp beds of Catalina Island. Another reminder of why you love to get out on the water.
California Ocean Life blog is brought to you by Marvin Davits. With 30 years of fabricating experience, Marvin Loetterle is available to install dinghy davits on your boats. He's available to work the Southern California coast: Marina Del Rey, Redondo Beach/King Harbor, San Pedro, Long Beach, Huntington Harbor, Newport Beach, and Dana Point.
The is the tale of a Norwegian who led an expedition to sail a raft across the Pacific, from Peru to the Polynesian Islands, to prove it could be done. Anyone up for a 4,300 mile trip on an open raft? Thor and his crew were, shortly after World War II.
Today we know the Vikings made it across the Atlantic, to mainland North America, long before Columbus. There are many who believe that Phoenicians, The Celts, The Chinese, The Polynesians, and maybe even Africans, all made it to North America long before Columbus. There are a handful of artifacts, and much conjecture, about ocean travel in pre-Columbian times. It's a great mystery unfolding in bits and pieces as time sails on.
More than 70 years ago, it was assumed by scholars that ocean crossings were not possible by humans before the 1400's. Adventurer Thor Heyerdahl thought the crossings were possible, and very likely in ancient times. No one believed him, so he built a raft and sailed the Pacific in 1947 to prove the crossing was possible. This is a short new piece promoting the 2012 movie about the story of Thor and the crew of the Kon Tiki. Here's the 2012 documentary about the Kon Tiki (full length).
Few may know, but there are some among the Chumash nation (Malibu area native tribe) that believe Polynesians sailed to this area, and traded with their ancestors.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021
A nautical themed, stencil street art piece, just outside CBS Studio Center (aka the Radford studios), in Studio City, California. This reminds me of Captain Jack Sparrow at the beginning of one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
California Ocean Life blog is brought to you by Marvin Davits. A fabricator with 30 years of experience, Marvin Loetterle is available to install dinghy davits on your boat. Serving the SoCal coast from Marina Del Rey down through Long Beach and Newport Beach, to Dana Point. Scroll back to the previous post for photos of his work, or @marvindavits on Instagram.
Here's are a couple recent dinghy davits installed by Marvin Loetterle. With 30 years experience working in fabrication, Marvin can install davits on your boat quickly and at a great price. Why tow a dinghy when you can hoist it out of the way. He covers the area from Marina Del Rey down to Dana Point in Southern California.
To contact Marvin, call (949) 500-0951
tell him you were referred by "White Bear" (aka Steve the Blogger)
Marvin can also install deck railings while in your slip. Here's a recent installation below.
Marvin Davits California Ocean Life blog is here to remind you to spend more time out on the water.
Here's a great little edit of the 2016 Huntington Beach Air Show, the first year it took place, from a boat, off of the H.B. Pier. Roman Bojorquez put this video together. A relatively new, annual event in H.B., The Great Pacific Air Show, as it's officially called draws dozens, maybe a couple of hundred, boats to the Huntington Beach Pier area, as well as thousands of people watching from on shore. The next GPAS is scheduled for October 1-3, 2021. Here's their website to find out more.
This California Ocean Life blog is brought to you by Marvin Davits, reminding you to spend more time out on the water. Marvin Loetterle is a fabricator with 30 years experience, and is available to mount dinghy davits on your boat. He covers the area from Marina Del Rey down to Dana Point, CA.
Tucked between the huge swells at Maverick's and Jaws (previous posts), Todos Santos, far down on Baja California in Mexico. Another huge Pacific swell, part of what will likely be remembered as Big January, another great XXL session happened in Todos Santos. January 2021.
To have Dinghy Davits installed, call Marvin Loetterle at (949) 500-0951.
With 30 years experience as a fabricator, and 18 years building off road racing trucks, Marvin is now available to install davits on your yacht. Mention that you were referred by "White Bear."
This blog is brought to you by Marvin Davits, to remind your why you should spend more time out on the water.
Here's a crew loading their boat up with yellowtails off Catalina in late 2020. One guys lands is personal best yellowtail and halibut within a few minutes of each other. Great day on the water, you know these guys (and family and friends) were eating good for a few days.
This blog is brought to you by Marvin Davits. Experienced fabricator Marvin Loetterle is available to mount dinghy davits on your boat or yacht. Contact Marvin directly at (949) 500-0951. Mention you were referred by "White Bear."
This video popped up on YouTube in January 2021, bit it now appears this is from a session in 2013. So while it's not part of the Big January swells across the Pacific earlier this year, it's an epic surfing edit. If this video doesn't make you want to get out in the water, I don't know what will.
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Is this Black's Beach, or is this Pipeline? While Maverick's and Jaws were in the spotlight in January, there were great barrels happening right here in Southern California. This edit from SoCal Surfer compiles rides of the day from the big swell at Black's Beach on January 11th, 2021.
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After the huge swell at Maverick's on January 10th, in Northern California, the XXL surfing kept going with this huge swell at Pe'ahi, aka Jaws, off Maui in in Hawaii, on January 16th. This is a great edit, featuring epic rides by Kai Lenny, Shaun Walsh, Tyler Larronde, Ian Walsh, Nathan Florence, Z. Schettewi, 12-year-old Steve Roberson, Justine Dupont, Niccolo Porcella, Eli Olson, and Makua Rothman. Near the beginning you also see Brad Domke with the biggest wave ever ridden on a skimboard at Jaws. An epic day on the water by some of the world's best big wave surfers. But January 2021 wasn't done yet, in it's bid to earn the title Big January.
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After the crazy year of 2020 finally ended, 2021 began with epic surf swells around the Pacific. On January 10th, Mavericks started the party with a huge swell. This edit includes incredible rides by Kai Lenny, Ian Walsh, Nathan Florence, Jutine Dupont, and more. The cold water near Half Moon Bay started off 2021 with a bang.
This blog is brought to you by Marvin Davits. To contact fabricator Marvin Loetterle for dingy davits installation, call (949) 500-0951. Mentioned you were referred by "White Bear."
A local at Costa Mesa's famous Sheep Hills BMX jumps, Marvin Loetterle is a long time S&M Bikes rider, seen above in the their video Please Kill Me (2004).
Marvin Lotterle has 30 years experience as a fabricator. Starting young working in the trade, Marvin was also a hardcore BMX rider, and one of the Sheep Hills Locals crew coming up in the 1990's. Then the most famous BMX jumping trails in the world, many of the first X-Games dirt jumping riders rode at Sheep Hills, in Costa Mesa, California. S&M Bikes, created by dirt jumping legend Chris Moeller, was born in Huntington Beach, and now resides in Santa Ana, California. Marvin was a part of the S&M Bikes team form 1997 to 2006, and appeared in their videos, like the clip above.
Marvin has focused his mechanical skills largely on building pro level off road racing trucks since 2002, and is now turning his skills to do work in the yachting world as well.
To contact Marvin to install dinghy davits, call him at (949) 500-0951.
21 years old and still ready for action, here's one of Marvin's first truck builds.
My name is Steve Emig, aka Steve the Blogger in this blog. I was a BMX freestyler in the 1980's. A zine I published led me to a job at BMX Action and FREESTYLIN' magazines in 1986, followed by several years in the BMX, skateboard, and the TV production industries. I followed that with a series of odd jobs, and began blogging seriously in 2008 when my taxi driving went downhill. I've written over 2,500 blog posts, across many blogs, which have drawn over 370,000 total page views. I met Marvin as a BMX rider in the 1990's, and I'm the guy publishing this blog for him. "The White Bear" is a nickname that came from a poem I wrote after getting dumped by a girlfriend. That's the name I'm known as to 90's BMX riders.
