Like the parking lot, the club was built on a floating foundation, rather than secured by pilings sunk into bedrock.Īs Christopher and Talsky shared concerns about their boats another large swell cleared the breakwall. The Yacht Club itself was in jeopardy of a similar fate. The Yacht Club parking lot looked like a jigsaw puzzle that had been tossed in the air. The previous day a 20-foot-plus swell cleared Redondo Breakwall, and blew out the windows of the Portofino Hotel. Talsky was living on his 32-foot Tollycraft, and had come ashore as a precaution. Christopher was there to check on his 65-foot bugeye ketch, Pandora. Shortly after midnight on the morning of January 18, 1988, Doug Christopher, and Bennett Talsky met up in the King Harbor Yacht Club parking lot.
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