Look Who’s on Candid Camera

"I was walking through the new air terminal in Santa Barbara and, while on my way to my gate, passed a video screen that had a slide show of nature ‘beauty shots’," writes Paul Marston, crewmember of the Corsair 31 Drei in the last Ha-Ha. "When the accompanying photo came up, I not only recognized that it wasn’t a nautical scene of Santa Barbara Harbor, but that the boat on the right looked familiar. I was on my way to sail aboard Rick Waltonsmith’s Corsair 37 Transit of Venus, which we are prepping for the summer’s Pacific Cup from San Francisco to Hawaii. Our goal is to be the first multihull to ever finish that race."

If we’re not mistaken, the shot that included Profligate was taken years ago when we combined with Dawn Riley’s America’s Cup campaign to take a bunch of "at risk" kids for a sail on the Bay. The kids enjoyed the sail, but what they really liked was having a pillow fight with all of Doña de Mallorca’s accent pillows. As you might expect, de Mallorca wasn’t aboard for that sail because she normally doesn’t allow things like that.
 
But it brings up the question, have you ever been surprised by a photo of your boat on a calendar, newspaper, advertisement, Google Earth segment or the like? We’d like to hear about it.
 
On an entirely different subject, does anyone know of a hot/slutty-looking young woman who goes by the name of ‘Baja Ha-Ha’. A reader, who prefers not to be identified, reports that he/she somehow found himself/herself on an internet ‘dating’ site, where one of the female posters listed her internet name as ‘Baja Ha-Ha’. We don’t suppose there is any point in asking her which sex act she prefers most.