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The Harbor Report: The good, bad and ugly for 2011
Watching the news and reading the Daily Pilot this week, I felt I better review my 2011 Harbor Report columns. This year I wrote 40 columns, and to receive the best presentation of this year's review you must recall the theme song of the Clint Eastwood...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Manufacturing and Engineering, Clint Eastwood, Fishing
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Santa gets lifted by a jet pack
NEWPORT BEACH — It's an unlikely place to find something out of a science-fiction novel.
Next to the Balboa Boat Yard, where hulky trawlers are hauled out for repairs and rusted containers are stacked high above corrugated metal gates, is a...Tags: Water Skiing, Video Supplies and Services, Santa Claus (fictional character), Companies and Corporations, Cruise Line Ports
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The Harbor Report: Top 10 powerboats in Newport Harbor
Every year I compile a list of what I consider to be the top 20 boats in Newport Harbor. I divide my list into two categories — sailing boats and power boats — and count them down from 10 to 1. I spent a couple of days cruising the bay and...Tags: Power Boating, Sailing, Manufacturing and Engineering, Fishing
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The Harbor Report: Observations about Newport Harbor
As I carefully tucked away my prized collection of 27 Christmas Reyn Spooner shirts and thanked the Man Above that the holiday commercials have stopped, I thought it was a good time to head down to the harbor and take a look around. When I started out on...Tags: Lotteries, Manufacturing and Engineering, Manufacturing and Engineering, Bananas, Holidays
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Beloved shipwright sets sail
COSTA MESA — Gilbert Iwamoto, a pioneering catamaran builder who continued his craft well after he had gone legally blind, has died, friends said Monday.
Iwamoto died at home Wednesday of complications following a heart attack. He was 90.
Known...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Hawaii, Values, Health, Ethics
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A flavor for everyone
Smoked billowed off the two grills as Sicilian sausage, hand-stuffed with three types of imported cheeses and coiled into neat foot-wide circles, cooked over the mesquite coal.
The sausages went from the grill into a C'est Si Bon roll, topped with...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Dining and Drinking, Sandwiches, Restaurants, Sausages
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The Harbor Report: It's open season for yacht clubs
The end of March marks the Return of the Swallows at Mission San Juan Capistrano. And in Newport Harbor, the end of April marks the return of "the whining of buffers." That means it's Opening Day for the harbor's yacht clubs, and the whining buffers are...Tags: Santa Ana, Sailing, Los Angeles, Manufacturing and Engineering, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California)
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Room for the big ships
NEWPORT BEACH — Some call the coastal stretch from Dana Point to Huntington Beach the Southern California Riviera. Soon, they could have the mega-yachts to prove it. City officials are considering how to accommodate the ultra-rich who want to...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure, Elections, Companies and Corporations, Manufacturing and Engineering
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The Harbor Report: How many megayachts are in town?
While making my daily rounds Wednesday, I left my office with the idea of finding a story for my column. My route first took me to a stop at the Newport shipyard. Then I looked across the bay at Balboa and South Coast shipyards, walked through Lido...Tags: Newport Beach, Manufacturing and Engineering, Weather Reports, Hatteras, Human Interest
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The Harbor Report: Rounding out year with top 2 boats
This week it's time to wrap up my list of Newport Harbor's 20 Most Interesting Yachts. During the last six weeks, 10 of the harbor's sailboats have been recognized. Now, we are down to the last two of the 10 most interesting powerboats.
No. 2 —...Tags: Travel, Cruises, Manufacturing and Engineering, Alaska, Tourism and Leisure
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The Harbor Report: Cruising by the Boat Show
As a yacht broker I walk the docks of Newport Harbor, introducing myself to boat owners and just getting a hands-on feeling for how the boating market is doing. This week, I report on my dock-walking and point out some of boats that caught my eye, along...Tags: Long Beach (Los Angeles, California), Boats
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Marina development plans wrapping up
Etco Homes Inc. a development company based in Beverly Hills, is finalizing plans to build a 36,000 square-foot commercial, retail and residential mixed-use development at the site of the Newport Bay Marina, the former location of the historic World War...Tags: Newport Beach, Jim Campbell, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense, House Building
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