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Rick checked in with this great picture of Boethius.The light is perfect, the empty cockpit, the flag, the tell tales, and you just know Boethius is going to pinch out that weather boat. Note the fully battened main. He has had her since 2001. Her former name with former owner Scott Hoeschen's was Dancing Dolphin. Rick keeps her on a mooring off Shelter Island in San Diego.
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March 18, 2009. Rick is a university professor of History and so has a certain perspective on his sailing. He sent in the following email (minor edit), and an essay about sailing in the California Bight - and more.
Dear Ron,
I appreciate very much your work on the Dolphin site. I was at the orthodontist this week talking with another Dad. He was looking for a boat and mentioned that he had checked out a great Dolphin web site.
It would be fun to have a meet this summer (in response to my telling him of a possible upcoming Dolphin Rendezvous)
You ask for what I have been up to. I attach a short, late-night-thoughts essay I wrote about a trip last summer. I use such essays to try to get my students thinking about their readings.
Rick Kennedy
Boethius, San Diego
Click here to go to Rick's essay in the Stories Section
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June 17, 2010 Correction - Boethius is Hull # 149, not #148.
Dear Ron,
The web site has me listed as owning Dolphin hull #148, but actually I own #149. I must have given you the wrong number earlier. Sorry.
I enjoy the website and check in every month or so. I like the pictures and stories.
Rick
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July 29, 2010 - Proof!
Here is a photo for your collection
Rick
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June 22, 2011. Rick sent in a story about Boethius's trip to Eel Point on San Clemente Island. Click here to go to it.
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October 28, 2011. An oversight by your webmaster corrected. Rick's story about Boethius' trip to Eel Point included some pictures that should have also been posted on this page. Here they are with Rick's excerpted comments (minor edits and repositioning)
I add a couple of interior pictures. (I would like to see more pictures of what people have done with their own interiors.) I cut several inches off of the table to allow for easier movement
**Webmaster Note: Click the caption below the pictures for a larger view - use your back arrow on your browser to get back here. Also, your webmaster's Marionette, Marscot/O'Day #12 has a similar stove, except his is powered with Butane, not Propane. And, these interior pictures and Rick's comments have been included in the Technical Section on Interiors/galleys.
Here is my anchor set-up on the bow. It is awkward, but the anchor needs to be mounted so that it is not hit by my mooring ball. My mooring area has an official name but is always called by everybody: “Rock-n-Roll.” It is the cheapest mooring, I think, in all Southern California.
I have 200’ of anchor chain plus a 175’ of rode. The Channel Islands are rocks that rise steeply out of deep water. Anchoring on them is often simply clinging to a broad ledge fairly deep below the surface. (There is no need for a swing-keel here in these waters. No wonder the Pacific Dolphins converted to a fixed keel.) Webmaster Note: Rick must be thinking of the New Zealand Dolphins which have a fixed keel - the Pacific Dolphins had centerboards. As for the need for good scope, the Santa Barbara channel anchorages are especially windy. Even what looks like a protected anchorage in the lee of an island can turn out to be where particular gusts hit after being concentrated in island canyons. A lot of chain aids one’s sleep. To get all that chain-weight away from the bow, I put a PVC pipe angled aft from the deck pipe. This pipe is visible in the picture of my V-berth. I drop rode and chain down the deck pipe and every once in a while go below and pull the weighty mass as far aft as it will go.
I offer a picture on a calm morning before the fishing boats start roaring by—not to mention the cruise ships, tug boats, aircraft carriers, tour boats, and Navy Seal teams that always drive through the bay at full throttle.
Boethius motoring west, mid morning June 18, 2011. Note the calm seas - also the self-steering rig
The Pacific usually lives up to its name on Southern California mornings. You can see this in the pictures. I bought Boethius ten years ago, and the price included a Tohatsu 9.8 hp long-shaft, 2 cycle outboard along with an elderly autopilot. The motor is bigger than the boat normally needs, but I can hook it up to recharge my batteries while it pushes me along. This means that my electricity-sucking autopilot can suck continuously during the long mornings when Southern California has no wind. See below the pictures that were taken when Boethius and I were about 15 miles west of Point Loma with 40 more miles to go.
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Note the safety line running from my harness to a pad eye bolted at the aft end of the cockpit.
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Note that on aft starboard quarter is a coiled-up rock-climbing ladder so that if I did fall overboard, I could get myself back on board.
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