Posted on 03/29/2020 2:02:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Pilgrim, an icon at the Ocean Institute, has keeled and is sinking in Dana Point Harbor.
Officials at the center were informed at 5:15 a.m. Sunday, March 29, that the beloved vessel, which served as an inspiring real-world classroom to hundreds of thousands of students and visitors, had keeled starboard tilted toward the right side during the night at the Ocean Institutes dock near San Juan Capistrano.
It was not immediately clear Sunday morning what caused the ship to sink.
A boom has been placed around the ship and an inspection is forthcoming, said Wendy Marshall, executive director of the Ocean Institute.
We are concerned it will keel more when the tide comes up, she said.
The ship a full-scale replica of the vessel immortalized by Richard Henry Dana in his classic book Two Years Before the Mast was also a favorite during the Ocean Institutes Tall Ships Festival. It is valued at $6 million.
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Actually, I was told by a Dana point local that “killer Dana” is the name of an outcropping of rocks that lie just outside the harbor. Many a ship found the wrong side of Killer Dana in the past. Hence the name.
THAT is the ship Dana went “’round the Horn” in? DAYAM!
Sad to see it is sinking. Beautiful ship.
“...his classic book.” Classic book, for sure. Impressive story: Richard got off the ship in Boston to visit his parents and a fellow sailor went along. The sailor asked Richard, “Where do your parents live?” Richard said enough so that the sailor lead the way and found his parents’ house by using the stars in the sky alone.
The surf break was notorious because it came out of deep water and broke close to the rocks that lined the beach.
The Killer Dana wave was destroyed when the Dana Point Harbor was built in 1966
From Dana’s description I wouldn’t care to take an aircraft carrier around the Horn...not at certain times of the year at any rate.
It was not immediately clear Sunday morning what caused the ship to sink.
Im gonna guess water got inside.
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I always knew it as a surf break...
Send in the Mythbusters. They’ll re-float her with a massive intake of ping pong balls.
Just a wild guess.
Okay, we are! LOL!
Sounds like water infiltration.
Maybe the ship was run aground.
Looks like the 4-8 watch fell asleep. No bilge level alarms? Or was it instantaneous sea level rise due to glow bull bull.
We are farmers, bum ba dum bum bum bum
Well, yes, the break there threw vessels into the ‘Killer Dana’ rocks there from time to time in the past. Before they had motors onboard to escape it.
“Keeled to starboard = Heeled to starboard? Keeled isnt a typical nautical term for tipping over...”
Neither is ‘heel’.
The term ‘keeled over’ refers to a capsized vessel where the keel is in an. unusual. position. Now widely used in other situations.
That caught my eye as well.
A true sailor did not author this piece
Humm 2 masted. Thanks for posting.
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