The really "Old School" boating thread

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What happened to the Salton sea? It's like a wasteland now. Pretty sad.

It is sad. Lot of people don't realize it, but the Salton Sea was the number one vacation destination in the 60s. More people went to the Salton Sea than went to the Grand Canyon during that period. It was called the American Riviera.
Holly Corp, the same company that Robert McCulloch hired to develop Lake Havasu City, tried to develop Salton Sea, but it just never caught on. When once the run off from the surrounding farms started pouring nitrates into the lake virtually unchecked, the lake started dying, and the entire community around it died with it.

Hopefully they will get the place cleaned up, and it will return, but it will be a slow long drawn out process at best.