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Smooth SailingOn The CaliforniaBy CLARENCE ZAITZ(UPI)ASAN DIEGO little bit of sailing forlandlubbers can be a lot offun but the threshold at whichit becomes boring or sickening is quickly reached.That’s why the 9 3 * f o o t sailing ship California only puts out in pleasant weather and why her excursions to sea are kept short..Captain George Falkesgaard this year began running tour cruises by day, cocktail sails at night out of San Diego aboard the barquentine — a replica of sailing ships of the 1800s.If the ocean appears to be getting too choppy, he quickly refunds his customers’ money and returns them to the dock. Better no customers at all, than sick landlubbers bad-mouthing the California.So far as the passengers areconcerned, Falkesgaard concedes “there is blessed little to do aboard a boat.“About 1% or 2 hours Into it, they begin to get turnedoff,” said Falkesgaard, who comes from a Danish family which has been involved with the sea since 1378.So his cruises are short and smooth — usually including a quarter-mile excursion out of Mission Bay into the Pacific. Group* can charter the boat and board in Mission Bay,then sail out Into the Pacific and back Into adjoining SanDiego Bay and tie up at a restaurant for dinnerHe will take them only If conditions are ideal because, as he puts it, “the ladies don’t want to get wet seawater on them or windblownhair. “They want to look as good when they arrive as they did when they left the hotel.” The California has a color-Fcrlt;TaMiroidacodiiinfui history. She was the Navy in World to move Australian behind Japanese line.used by War II spottersIhafrcthlt;Falkesgaard operated in the red only two months after purchasing her in Marina Del Rey near Los .Angeles and bringing her here. He broke even grossing $8,000 in the third month. Now be isthinking about expanding his one-ship fleet.seiSiM;CRUISING TIME IS i...PICAM our cnimm fuHy aacortad, rou Sarasota araa to ahipstdt, port taxi bada. ---- S-DAY CNfttSimDoc 18 SOUTWWARFaaaong 0 holiday fsatMtMt gakx Rtoa, Grand Cayman, Cozumat.3RD ANNUAL BOHEMEJan 15. 7 nappv day* and ■■ Haitian Puerto Plata, St. Thom**]TRY A MEW 8HIP, Tl7 days, Jan. 22. Dtacoaar a na# ahi the pom of Monaago Say, Port-au-l port. Ptanty of tfnqla oafatna. (Rag. Wt*SARASOTATRAVEL9554SERVICE, INC.18308OVER 20 YEARS OP DEPEMOAB
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Sarasota Herald Tribune
Sarasota, Florida, US
Sun, Oct 31, 1976
Page 86
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