Catalina by Sea: A Transportation History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780738531168)

A fancy flight of lyrics specifies that Santa Catalina Island is 26 miles across the sea. But mapmakers put the distance at 19.7 miles from the closest island point, Doctor's Cove (near Arrow Point), to the closest mainland locale, Point Fermin at San Pedro. Today boats and helicopters operating out of the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Newport Beach, and Dana Point transport musing songwriters and everyone else to Catalina for the song's much-promised romance, romance, romance, romance, as well as fishing, sightseeing, and gainful employment. But the history of getting to and from the island's ports of Avalon and Two Harbors has been an epic across centuries of business and pleasure, involving a collective flotilla of side-wheelers, yachts, lumber schooners, steamships, water taxis, converted military vessels, crew boats, and today's fast and convenient jet boats.

Author: Jeannine L. Pedersen,Catalina Island Museum
ISBN-10: 0738531162
ISBN-13: 9780738531168
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Language: English
Published: 04/19/2006
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.56w x 0.36d