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Thursday June 20, 2013 – Thursday June 20, 2013

113 Harbor Way, Suite 190

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by Bob Burtness

Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, California

What: An inexplicable and practically unknown series of three tragic events left 16 people dead along the California Coast

When: Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 7 pm

Members only Reception at 6:15 pm

Cost: Free (members), $5 (non-members).

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On July 4, 1943, a B-24 Liberator on maneuvers over the Pacific ran low on fuel. The Army Air Corps crew parachuted out, two into the ocean, and the unmanned heavy bomber crashed near Santa Barbara. A second B-24, assigned to the search-and-rescue mission over the ocean, literally vanished. That plane’s remains and those of its 12 airmen were found eight months later on San Miguel Island. The Coast Guard cutter carrying Air Force investigators in 1954 to wrap up details of the San Miguel disaster rammed a yacht, killing two others. Author Robert A. Burtness recreates this tragic trilogy of errors in this painstakingly researched volume.

Bob Burtness has lived in Santa Barbara all his life, except for a few years spent serving in the Air Force and at graduate schools. He made a 30-year career of teaching English, mostly at San Marcos High School. His outside interests include helping to rebuild the Arlington Theatre pipe organ, driving trains at the Goleta Depot, re-roofing a back country landmark cabin, teaching wood refinishing to adults and other subjects in public and private schools, conducting oral histories with World War II aviators, photographing sunken Japanese vessels, including a submarine like the one that shelled Ellwood, and aircraft in the South Pacific, rafting the Colorado River with an underwater camera, visiting retirement residents as a Raggedy Andy, working in scout camps, playing with toy trains, writing camping guides and histories … and the list goes on with his past and present interests.

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Saturday July 13, 2013 – Saturday July 13, 2013

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Fun in the Sun & Surf Team Challenge in Building a Kayak and Race it to Win

Who: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum in collaboration with Semana Nautica, hosts the annual SBMM Kardboard Kayak Race

Where: West Beach (across from Sambo’s) for Kayak construction and Races

What: Teams of up to 4 create and paddle Kardboard Kayaks

When: Saturday, July 13, 2013 from 1 – 3 pm (Registration: 12 noon)

Why: Provides a test of wits, design capabilities, and builds team camaraderie

Cost: Entry fee of $25 for SBMM members and $30 for non-members per team provides participants with supplies & infinite fun

To Register Call: (805) 962-8404, x115 or Register Below

Number of Teams are limited, so to guarantee entry, please register early.

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum in collaboration with Semana Nautica hosts the annual SBMM Kardboard Kayak Race on Saturday, July 7th from 1 – 3 pm (registration: noon). Teams of up to 4 are invited to challenge friends and fellow community members to a test of wits, design capabilities, and courage as each team attempts to create a functioning cardboard kayak, using only cardboard, a utility knife, a yardstick, tape and a marker (all included in your entry fee of $30). After an hour of vessel design and construction at West Beach, competitors race their kayaks, finding out whose design can hold up under pressure and paddling. The Kayak Race is divided into separate heats, with prizes awarded to participants in the Family Fun heat (geared toward family groups where kayak paddlers must be 14 years old or younger) and the Paddling Pros heat (geared toward adult and/or “skilled” competitors). Speed will be the true test!

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Thursday May 16, 2013 – Thursday May 16, 2013

113 Harbor Way, Suite 190

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Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, California

What: Spanish Period (1769-1821) settling California and the need for shipping supplies along the coast.

When: Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 7 pm

Members only Reception at 6:15 pm

Cost: Free (members), $5 (non-members).

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Spanish California was lonely and isolated from the rest of the world. To protect its claim on Alta California (or present-day California), the Spanish government built presidios (military posts), missions (church communities), and pueblos (towns) along the coast. These settlements were highly dependent on outside goods. Both the Santa Barbara Presidio (1782) and Mission (1786) received supplies from official government ships that came from the Spanish Naval Department at San Blas, Mexico. La Favorita was one of those ships bringing food, tools, weapons, clothing, cooking utensils, furniture, and ceramics.

Alan Kemp will provide an overview of supplying California with a focus on the early seaborne encounters between the Chumash and Spanish in the Santa Barbara Channel.  Particular attention will be paid to La Favorita, and Jerry Blair’s model of her on exhibit at the museum.

At the time of his retirement in 2004, Alan Kemp was Chief Engineer on U.S. Navy missile propulsion programs for Pratt & Whitney’s Space Propulsion Operations. During the early 1980s he directed engineering consulting services and managed software applications for shipbuilding and marine structures at Control Data Corporation’s Cybernet Services.

Alan now applies his engineering and research skills to reconstructing the sailing vessels and analyzing the maritime operations associated with Hispanic Alta California and the Pacific Northwest Coast. He is a frequent lecturer on maritime topics for the California Mission Studies Association, the Anza Society, California State University Monterey Bay, San Jose State University, California State Parks and numerous central California civic groups. Associations include the California Mission Studies Association, Anza Society, Nautical Research Guild, North American Society of Oceanic History, Captain Cook Society, and Canadian Nautical Research Society.

An avid sailor who has crewed on square-rigged ships and schooners, Alan has a longstanding interest in maritime history and marine illustration. A recent member of the Board of Directors for Monterey History and Art Association and former Research Librarian at the Maritime Museum of Monterey, he is currently a consulting curator for the Museum of Monterey for maritime exhibits. He is also a volunteer docent for California State Parks at the San Juan Bautista Mission Plaza and at the Point Sur Lightstation.

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Saturday April 27, 2013 – Saturday April 27, 2013

113 Harbor Way, Suite 190

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Tall Ship Bill of Rights

Sunset Public Sail

Saturday, April 27, 2013

4:30 – 6:30 pm
Sunset Sail aboard Tall Ship
Bill of Rights
(boarding at 4:00 pm)
$40 (ages 13 +); Juniors: $19 (ages 4-12)
Call 805-962-8404 x 115 for tickets

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Saturday April 27, 2013 – Saturday April 27, 2013

113 Harbor Way, Suite 190

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Hosted by SBMM

 

Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, California

Featuring: Tall Ship Bill of Rights Sunset Public Sail 4:30 – 6:30 pm

When: Saturday, April 27, 2013, 11 am – 4 pm

 

Maritime Fun for the Whole Family  

 

11am – 4 pm

Tall Ship Bill of Rights and SBMM Flagship Ranger Dockside Tours

Chumash Booth with Tomol Paddle at 12 noon

Maritime Arts and Crafts for Kids

Hard Hat Diving Demonstrations

11am – 12 noon

Storytelling by Alan Romain

11:30 am & 1:30 pm

Munger Theater showings

In Memory of Mike deGruy, Underwater Photographer Films:

Sharks on their Best Behavior

Incredible Suckers

Tempest from the Deep

The Octopus Show

12 noon – 3 pm

Learn how to Shuck and Barbecue Oysters on the “Big Green Egg”

by Chuck’s Waterfront Grill

12:30 – 1 pm

Sea Song Sing-a-long in the Children’s Gallery

1:30 – 2:30 pm

Dixie Hicks Band on the patio

1:00 – 4:00 pm

Artist Fish Printing Workshop

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4:30 – 6:30 pm

Sunset Sail aboard Tall Ship

Bill of Rights

(boarding at 4:00 pm)

$40 (ages 13 +); Juniors: $19 (ages 4-12)

Call 805-962-8404 x 115 for tickets

 

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Thursday April 18, 2013 – Thursday April 18, 2013

113 Harbor Way, Suite 190

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by Ken McAlpine
Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, California

What: A look at our fast paced times through the lens of our lovely Channel Islands

When: Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 7 pm

Members only Reception at 6:15 pm

Cost: Free (members), $5 (non-members).

To Register: Go to www.sbmm.org or call (805) 962-8404 x115
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Author Ken McAlpine stands in his front yard one night in Ventura, California, trying to see the stars. His view is diminished by light pollution, making it hard to see much of anything in the sky. Our fast-paced, technologically advanced society, he concludes, is not conducive to stargazing or soul-searching. Taking a page from Thoreau’s Walden, he decides to get away from the clamor of everyday life, journeying alone through California’s Channel Islands National Park. There, he imagines, he might be able to “breathe slowly and think clearly, to examine how we live and what we live for.”

 

Islands Apart: A Year on the Edge of Civilization is a humorous and wise look at contemporary American life—and how time spent alone in nature can give us a fresh perspective and greater clarity about what matters most.

In between his week-long solo trips through these pristine islands, McAlpine reaches out to try to better understand his fellow man: he eats lunch with the homeless in Beverly Hills, sits in the desert with a 98-year-old Benedictine monk, and befriends a sidewalk celebrity impersonator in Hollywood. What he discovers about himself and the world we live in will inspire anyone who wishes they had the time to slow down and notice the wonders of nature and humanity. McAlpine, notes American Way Magazine, is “a humorous and humble guide who takes his contemplation of our busy world into unexpected places.”  .

 

Author Bio: Award-winning writer Ken McAlpine is the author of four books. His just released novel Together We Jump was praised by Sunset Magazine as “lyrical, evocative and deeply moving… a luminous American novel”, and by the Los Angeles Review as “a poetic roller coaster ride through the mind and soul… rendered with eerily realistic plot and dialogue”. His novel Fog, an eerie maritime mystery that unfolds on the wreck-strewn coast of Cape Cod in 1882, was described by a reviewer as “one of the most intelligent, richly detailed, deeply felt and evocative novels I’ve read.” His first book, the non-fiction work Off Season: Discovering America on Winter’s Shore, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. His follow-up non-fiction book Islands Apart: A Year on the Edge of Civilization was called “a rumination on what it means to be human.” McAlpine’s magazine articles have earned three Lowell Thomas awards, travel writing’s top award. More important to him, assignments from magazines ranging from National Geographic Traveler to Sunset, have provided him unbridled opportunity for play; from diving with white sharks, to running the Inca trail to Machu Picchu, to sparring with the world shoot fighting champion (you cannot learn a martial art in a week).Most important, Ken lives in Ventura with his beautiful wife Kathy and their two sons. He likes to stand in his yard at night looking at the stars, but he does not like to spend any time during the day doing yard work.

 

 

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Thursday March 28, 2013 – Thursday March 28, 2013

113 Harbor Way, Suite 190

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Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, California
What: Wildlife Art Exhibit by local artist runs from March 28 to June 30.
When: Thursday, March 28, 2013

Artist Reception Free to the Public 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Please RSVP: Call (805) 962-8404 x115 or register below

Kim will have, at least, 25 oil on linen paintings from small to large and all for sale.

“The abundance of wading birds such as herons, egrets, as well as the California Brown Pelicans, peregrine falcon and others that rely on the diverse estuaries, tide pools, harbor and ocean of our maritime environment gives me endless subjects for the paintings I chose for this exhibit as well as the tall ship the Bill of Rights, seascapes. It’s my pleasure to showcase the great stewardship of the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, with this maritime art exhibition.”

“I am moved by the abundance of wildlife that surrounds us living in our coastal environment of the Santa Barbara County. At age 54, making art professionally over 35 years, my painting career has taken my art in different directions but always comes back around to our wildlife. While walking on the beach, bluffs and wetlands, if see an animal I enjoy stopping and observing them in their habitat, hunting, resting, and showing off to their mates and potential mates. I love to capture their movement and personality and spirit in paintings for others to see, remember, enjoy and bring this peaceful and joyful imagery into their homes.”

-Kim Snyder

“What makes your paintings so special is that your soul and inner beauty is reflected in your art. Your horses, dogs and birds make everyone smile.”

-Barbara Doran at the Gallery of Kathryne Designs Inc, Montecito, CA

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Thursday March 21, 2013 – Thursday March 21, 2013

113 Harbor Way, Suite 190

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The Real Story Behind How We Got Our Breakwater
by Erin Graffy de Garcia, author 

Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, California
What: Erin Graffy de Garcia will provide us with a compelling story behind the building of the breakwater.
When: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 7 pm
Members only Reception at 6:15 pm
Cost: Free (members), $5 (non-members)

Register: Call (805) 962-8404 x115

(To guarantee admission please reserve your ticket(s) prior to event)

“Philanthropist Max Fleischmann didn’t have a place to park his big yacht, so he gave the city money to build the harbor.” This is the usual explanation locals give when discussing our waterfront breakwater.

However, the real story is far more interesting, and was a half century in the making before Max made an offer the city could not refuse. Starting in the nineteenth century when Senator De La Guerra made a pitch to the state legislature, and continuing through the twentieth century by pulling strings with Navy admirals and U.S. vice-presidents, and voting on numerous ballot measures, Santa Barbara pursued it all.

But what other sites were considered? Why were the Feds so interested in Point Sal up in Guadalupe for a harbor? What was the real reason the Bird Refuge was overlooked? Why did our best plan for a breakwater come 12 years earlier — from an engineer for the Boston Transit? Could the breakwater have happened without Max? You might be surprised to find that the biggest impetus for our harbor came three years earlier — from America’s first air mail pilot!

Erin Graffy is author, editor and publisher of more than 50 books, monographs, publications, and articles on regional history. Her latest coffee-table book  The Santa Barbara Yacht Club: A Waterfront History — richly details in rare photos and text, the history and developments along our waterfront since the middle of the nineteenth century. (Available for sale $90; order in advance egraffy@aol.com)

 

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Saturday March 9, 2013 – Saturday March 9, 2013

113 Harbor Way, Suite 190

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Harbor Treasures & Tastings
Saturday, March 9, 2013

Tickets:

$200 – Patron Admission (5:00 to 9:00 pm)
$100 – General Admission (6:00 to 9:00 pm)

Patron Tables are $1,800 to $5,000
(for tables please call (805) 962-8404 x102)

Register for tickets below or call  (805) 962-8404, ext. 102 or email at  development@sbmm.org

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