Looking for the name of the wreck at Salt Point.

[Benthos]

Hey. I've been looking around trying to find the name of a wreck. There are so many along the Sonoma Coast I'm having trouble narrowing it down. I'm trying to find the story on the one that's in between south gerestle cove and the gerestle cove preserve. If any locals have any info I would love to hear it.

Thanks
Rich

 

[Scubaroo]

Here's all of the Sonoma county shipwrecks listed on the California shipwreck registry:

http://shipwrecks.slc.ca.gov/Shipwr...rmOrderBy=[ship's+name]&frmOrderDirection=ASC

Have you dived this particular wreck, or others in the area?

 

[Benthos]

I know the above website well. It is not a terrific resource as it is wildly in accurate. The coordinates are a rough guideline and many wrecks in the same area have the same coordinates even though in actuality they are a mile or so apart. In addition some of the most famous and historically well recorded wrecks are not even listed. Kind of a surprise as they have dive buoy’s with there names written on them and university dive classes visit and publish information on them regularly. There are three wrecks in the immediate area of salt point. The one I'm speaking of has been there for about 100 years. I've heard stories that the captain thought he was sailing through the golden gate in heavy fog and ran a ground. But based on the position if some extremely large anchors in the area I think maybe something else may have happened. Based on the size of the boiler I would say it was a steam ship. A name is often a good place to start so I just thought I would throw it out here and see if any old Sonoma coast locals new.

Cheers

 

[Scuba Cowboy]

I caught one of the rangers at the information center one day a while back and asked about that wreck. Name starts with a W, I think it might be the Wilkinson or something like that. At low tides like this last weekend, you can see the bow sticking out of the water. I dove it once on a good day, big piece of it still there, but pretty pounded up. The boiler is in deeper water, about 60 ft, found it once by accident and haven't been able to find it again.

 

[Benthos]

Norlina

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

I caught one of the rangers at the information center one day a while back and asked about that wreck. Name starts with a W, I think it might be the Wilkinson or something like that. At low tides like this last weekend, you can see the bow sticking out of the water. I dove it once on a good day, big piece of it still there, but pretty pounded up. The boiler is in deeper water, about 60 ft, found it once by accident and haven't been able to find it again.

Hey Dale! hows it going? Sorry I missed you guys out there the other day. I was bummed. You don't get out here much and it would've been nice to dive with you.

About that wreck. It's listed in the California Wreck Destroyers papers as a 367 foot freighter. Wheeler's a member so that's where I saw the listing. Mark Weitz told me the wreck is sticking straight out at 90 degree angle from shore so if you were to find the bow at low tide you could take a compass reading and probably follow the debris out and find the boilers. As good as the vis was last weekend you probably could've snorkeled out on top and seen the whole thing from the surface.

Eric

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22804 sez Norlina

 

[Scuba Cowboy]

Hey Eric,
We had a pretty good dive at Gerstle, wish you could have been there. I really miss the north coast. Wheeler and I found the boiler once by accident, about 60ft deep and the size of a truck. The wreck still has a large section, sits in about 20ft of water, divable on calm days. Too bad wrecks don't stand much of a chance up there against the north coast winters.

 

[mweitz]

Hehe, not me. I can barely find my bathroom in the morning let alone give directions like that ;-)

Mark

<SNIP> Mark Weitz told me the <SNIP>

Eric

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Hehe, not me. I can barely find my bathroom in the morning let alone give directions like that ;-)

Mark

Now I'm really confused. Maybe it wasn't you, I can't remember who it was that told me then, But I do remember someone telling me.

I any case we should kayak out there and see if we can plot it out.
What are you doing Sunday?

ZKY