Southern California Cruising: All You Need To Know
Coastal Cruise Highlights for Boaters
SoCal boaters usually make a beeline for Catalina Island given a free week. But if you’re a new boater and a shakedown cruise across 30 miles of open Pacific doesn’t sound enticing, consider coastal hopping and checking out several highlight harbors in relatively compact cruising grounds.
People Watch At Venice Beach
Manhattan Beach Pier at sunset, Los Angeles, California. Image credit: Luxury Liners
Let’s start in Marina Del Rey which has been Los Angeles’ major boating hub since 1965 and has over 6,000 slips. There are plenty of yacht clubs here that offer reciprocals. Once you’ve secured a transient slip, rent bicycles and peddle over to Venice Beach for great restaurants, iconic building murals, the Muscle Beach gym, and possibly the best people-watching in Southern California.
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By NOAA – Shipwrecks are the stuff of epic tales and imagination. Some sank in battle, some in transit. They were war machines, whalers and luxury cruise liners. Their doomed crew and passengers became legends. Rich and poor, from Gilded Age millionaires luxuriating at sea to sailors and deckhands in service to their country. But how are they found and protected in United States waters?
Shipwrecks have been honored in story and song through the centuries, from the Edmund Fitzgerald of Gordon Lightfoot’s song to Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Melville’s Moby-Dick. Even Shakespeare had his say in The Tempest, when the spirit Ariel sings, “Full fathom five thy father lies,” to the shipwrecked Ferdinand.