Brigantine on the beach

Crying shame. Hope she survives.

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4305500/detail.html
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Ship Battered By Waves Off Oxnard Coast
No Injuries Reported

POSTED: 5:07 pm PST March 21, 2005
UPDATED: 7:54 am PST March 22, 2005

OXNARD, Calif. -- The Coast Guard continues working to free a two-masted sailing ship that ran aground near a rock jetty off Oxnard on Monday.

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The ship carried 20 crew members and students, all of whom were brought to shore in dramatic rescues after the ship became stuck in a sandbar.

Rough surf knocked at least four people off the boat into the 58-degree water. They were picked up by rescue workers. One by one, the rest of the people on the ship jumped off, wearing life jackets. They also were picked up by rescuers.

Three of the passengers were taken to area hospitals for treatment of hypothermia. The rest received food and clothing from the Red Cross.

The rescue effort was broadcast live on NBC4.

The vessel was identified as the Irving Johnson, a brigantine completed in 2003 for the Los Angeles Maritime Institute's TopSail Youth Program. The boat was being used for a seven-day team-building trip through the Channel Islands by students from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, said Laura Trulson, the institute's education director.

Ten students and 10 crew were aboard the boat, she said.

The vessel is 90 feet long, with 4,450 square feet of sail, a rigging height of nearly 88 feet and a diesel engine. The sails were furled during the rescue northwest of Los Angeles.

After the students and crew members were rescued, a rescue boat tugged on the vessel with a tow line, straining to pull it bow-first into the waves, but the vessel turned sideways to the waves, which crashed over its decks. The surf eventually turned the abandoned ship bow first toward land, pushing it in and out of the shallows along the rocks

A couple of the folks I worked with on the Schooner Va. , helped build these 2 boats .

http://www.latitude38.com/LectronicL...#anchor1085433

Unknown situation ofcourse, but why didn't they drop an anchor off the bow?

Lotta questions!

Heads should roll!

Makes my stomach churn!

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I hope she can be saved.

I used to live in that area and it is notoriuos for shoaling in that place.thats the dangers of a lee shore nomatter how large of a vessel.getting a anchor out that quickly and effectivly on such a large vessel would have been a challenge.what a place to loose power.

My sources are now saying that the ship didn't lose power. She hit bottom on recent shoaling. Waves and windage drove her further aground.

They're going to try and drag her off this morning.

Does look like a tight spot. Ship draws 11 feet.

http://www.lamitopsail.org/

No joy today.

I think they're running out of time as she works her way in.

Here's a link to local news.

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4305500/detail.html

Pull her out on her bilge using multi layers of cheap plastic like vinyl. Something that slides like grease against itself. Two bloody tugs at slightly differing angles, two lines pulling alternately - like a fish.

A testament to her stout construction.

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Crews only had brief times daily during high tides

By Angelica Martinez amartinez@VenturaCountyStar.com
March 24, 2005

Salvage crews freed the tall ship Irving Johnson Thursday night off a sandbar near Channel Islands Harbor to the cheers on onlookers.

"The boat is free," U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Chris Grisafe said. "She's seaworthy for the immediate purposes."

Salvage crew members were inspecting the boat to assess the damage, Grisafe said.

Teams emptied the water and dug a temporary berm on the shore side of the boat so waves breaking on the beach would instead bounce back and push the boat to sea. Salvagers planned to tug the 90-foot sailing ship, which ran into the sandbar Monday afternoon, five miles to Ventura Harbor, Grisafe said.

The 20 people on board Monday were rescued without serious injury. Attempts Tuesday and Wednesday to free the boat failed. After a failed attempt Thursday morning, salvage workers secured the ship to keep it in position for the next attempt. The $4.5 million vessel had its bow in the air and facing the sea, and its stern resting on the sand.

Crews said they are only brief periods when the tide is high enough -- about 90 minutes -- to try to move the ship, and that the tide was not as high as it was Monday. The lower tides also mean the ship had to be pulled farther out to sea before it could be safely towed somewhere for repairs.

Salvage crews also had to seal off hatches and windows broken by the force of breaking waves this week. And two of the ship's six compartments were full of water, said Steven Peckham, the boat's regular captain, who was not sailing the vessel when it got stuck. Crews had planned to remove the excess water Thursday night and build a new towing bridle to use.


--The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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She's gonna need a bit of work there Mike. Bring your tools

that will bring much needed tourist money to the local economy there.I spent alot of time in that place and its full of sailing 'wannabees'.they will haul that boat out there and put it in the limelight.it will be the newest and latest attraction.sort of like the bearded lady at a circus :pthey better be careful going into ventura because that harbour entrance is even worse.they will probably charge money just to see it