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The Storm That Rewrote Half Moon Bay

A Christmas rescue, a Harbor Master’s legacy, and the storm that changed Pillar Point Harbor

Christmas 1979. A routine holiday sail down the California coast — and a winter storm no forecast saw coming. A seamanship story worth reading.

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