Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Symon

Very nice Bob. I remember the “Goose”. We would bring the boat up from Dana Point to do the Sunkist Series and would always do the Friday night beercans. The start was at the head of the Bay, by the Rusty Pelican; you reach down to the channel marker at the Corona bend and then beat back. You pass the Goose (Hornblower docks) coming and going, and there was almost always a lift at the Lower Bay corner, at Wayne’s old house.

Sad to say, his original, rambling, comfortable, and very pretty, property was sold to a “nouveau” and in 2002, it was demo’d and rebuilt into a typical SoCal, neo-ostentatious, my-dick-is-bigger-than-yours, money temple, travesty; they even took down his flagpole. And totally screwed up the righteous breeze in the corner. But the Goose was still there when I left, and still doing tours.

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ORIGINAL: Symon

Oh, gosh, my friend. That's the 2002 joke. But they insist on calling it John Wayne's house. The property is, but the house isn't.

Here's what it looked like at the time of his death, and for about 19 years after, till the jerk-pimple got hold of it.



His kids had the house for a while and kept it staffed and maintained. To get the lift, you had to dig deep, scary deep. Couple times there were people on the lawn watching the races that obviously knew about boats and lifts and knocks; we dug in hard and they were going "hoot, hoot, hoot" at us. We went scary deep and then did a perfect snap tack right in front of them. Doff the cap, do a bow, let them see our YC burgee. Life was fun back then.