Mishaps continue for hapless skippers on California coast
My boat, the King Midas, the summer of 1967, was moored in the San Diego harbor after an attempt to sail to Santa Barbara failed because of a dead battery.
However, with a new co-pilot, Ren Tryal, I was excited about our second attempt to sail the King Midas up the coast. Ren, a federal narcotics agent, had confiscated a machine gun and…