Dana Point’s Annual Tall Ships Festival

Is so Much Fun to Attend, So Go!

Friday, Sept. 7 through Sunday, Sept. 9

Dana Point, California in the Yacht Harbor

(Note:  Take the Free Shuttle and avoid parking problems.  Read the daily schedule here. 

To learn about the shuttle and all about, be sure to spend time on the great web site for the Dana Point Tall Ships Festival  And if you are considering moving to Dana Point and want to know about Dana Point, just visit my extensive web site section on Dana Point Real Estate.

It’s a gas and its mostly free and you see so much. On Friday at sunset, watch the Tall Ships sail by Dana Point Harbor along with thousands of other people on the cliffs, shores and from their Dana Point real estate homes.

On Saturday, tour the Tall Ships and visit the Ocean Institute in Dana Point Harbor.  For other places to visit in Dana Point, be sure to visit my Dana Point real estate page where you will find tons of links to Dana Point home information, businesses and services.

On Sunday, listen to all day music by many different groups in concert.

And bring kids, not only do some of the booths have toys for kids, there are tons of kiddie-related activities SPECIFICALLY designed for kids at Baby Beach in the harbor.

And that’s only the start…remember to read the daily schedule here. 

MarbleHead Coastal Real Estate

Is Coming Soon – Luxury Homes

Real Estate, the luxury kind, is alive and booming in San Clemente with the development of the Marblehead Coastal property.  This nearly 300-acre parcel surveys the ocean from its gently sloping plateau between Avenida Pico and

Homes here will include those built on 69 custom lots of a size from 5,573 to 12,263 square feet.  Buyers can build homes up to 9,000 square feet on a single lot, or to 13,000 square feet on up to two merged lots.  But get this:  LOT prices starft at $1.65 million and go up to more than $5 million!  EEEEEKKKK.

The well-heeled are already at work buying up the lots…you have famous athletes, dot com jillionaires, top investors, celebrities, media stars, etc. involved in, what is for them, just another minor investment as part of their portfolio.

Now there are condos for far lesser purchase prices that will be built, plus there will be outlet stores, a hotel, shops, rec center and more in the Marblehead Coastal development.

See how all this fits in with other San Clemente real estate and Orange County Homes by going to my Orange County real estate website.

San Clemente Clean Ocean Fee

Gets Voted on in September

Okay, gang…let’s all vote for the Clean Ocean Fee to be extended when we get our ballots in the mail in September.

Under the existing San Clemente Clean Ocean Provision, extant since 2002, each household gets assessed a fee of from $3.51 to $5.02 per month.

The funds cover costs of handling our storm run off water and creating public awareness of things like not washing your car outdoors where the water runs into public road drains, proper street sweeping, treatment of residential water from sprinklers, etc. and education of residents.

Without the fee, penalties would draw $2 million a year from city recreational and other programs.  To learn more, go to the City of San Clemente or call

For more about the city of, or real estate in San Clemente, visit my extensive Debbie Ferrari Orange County real estate web site

The lower yellowed area is Marblehead “Coastal.”

MarbleHead Coastal Real Estate

Is Coming Soon – Luxury Homes

Real Estate, the luxury kind, is alive and booming in San Clemente with the development of the Marblehead Coastal property.  This nearly 300-acre parcel surveys the ocean from its gently sloping plateau between Avenida Pico and

Homes here will include those built on 69 custom lots of a size from 5,573 to 12,263 square feet.  Buyers can build homes up to 9,000 square feet on a single lot, or to 13,000 square feet on up to two merged lots.  But get this:  LOT prices starft at $1.65 million and go up to more than $5 million!  EEEEEKKKK.

The well-heeled are already at work buying up the lots…you have famous athletes, dot com jillionaires, top investors, celebrities, media stars, etc. involved in, what is for them, just another minor investment as part of their portfolio.

Now there are condos for far lesser purchase prices that will be built, plus there will be outlet stores, a hotel, shops, rec center and more in the Marblehead Coastal development.

See how all this fits in with other San Clemente real estate and Orange County Homes by going to my Orange County real estate website.

Dana Wharf Sport Fishing, Night Cruises

and Corporate/Family Reunion Charters

Dana Point harbor’s Dana Wharf Sport Fishing Company is not just about fishing.

Now of course you CAN go fishing most any day on group charter boats

or charter one yourself for your own private group, but there’s much more to do

wtih those boats.

For example, last summer, I chartered a whole boat and invited all my local

San Clemente and Dana Point, CA real estate clients to go with us on a two

hour cruise along the Dana Point and San Clemente

coast.  We had great food, wine, beer and the ship ran a bar, too.

Everyone had a ball and we plan doing it again some day.

Dana Wharf also sells gift certificates, you can go whale watching for

both blue and grey whales, there are sunset music cruises on Saturdays

from 6-8 pm, and parents can have kids’ birthday parties on the boats, too.

Periodically, you can enjoy Family Fishing Day…the nearest one to this

writing is Monday, August 20, 2007.

See more about Dana Point’s many fun things to do in my Dana Point Real Estate section of my main web site for South Orange County real estate.

30-year Veteran Realtor/Broker Debbie Ferrari

Needy Non-profit Groups Can Now

Earn 10% of Realty Agent Commissions

In a move designed to assist non-profit* groups in San Clemente and South Orange County, CA 30-year Realtor/Broker Debbie Ferrari is donating 10% of her commissions to participating non-profits through RealtyCares, a new, national organization. (*Groups defined under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.)

Buy or sell your local home after registering

it with RealtyCares.org and get 10% of this

local realty agent’s commission donated to

your group* in your name!

RealtyCares at www.RealtyCares.org is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to working with a city or area’s most successful realty agents who want to make a difference…both for their clients and participating area charities.

Non-profit groups benefit because for each referral that a member makes to RealtyCares that results in a sale or purchase of a home, participating realty agents donate 10% of their commission to that member’s choice of charity.

The non-profit group members enjoy being served by professionals who believe that “giving something back” is the right thing to do and who, because of high home prices in many areas, can significantly increase donations to a non-profit group.

For realty agents, it means a chance to perform home (or land, commercial property, etc.) buying or selling services for motivated, cause-minded members of local non-profit groups who are committed to strong community service as a way of life.

RealtyCares is at (800) 952-2735 | www.RealtyCares.org . 

Or visit her huge Orange County real estate web site.  Her website is at www.DebbieFerrari.com .  Ferrari is listed as one of real estate mogul Donald Trump’s top 100 advisors in the United States in his newest book.

San Clemente’s Fred Swegles, a reporter with the
San Clemente Sun Post newspaper,  is seemingly at every
event, every political activity, every city council meeting

….and is a terrific writer.

The Casa Romantica (www.CasaRomantica.org) says:

In conjunction with the The Life and Times Exhibition, Casa Romantica invites you to spend an evening with Fred Swegles of the Sun Post News. Learn how this San Clemente chronicler reports on his town and take a nostalgic photographic trip back in time as Fred shares his favorite San Clemente memories.

Debbie and I are definately going to his Monday, August 20 special presentation of San Clemente through the eyes of his camera and through his own recollections, back to the Western White House days of President Richard Nixon who lived here
on the coast in San Clemente.

Monday, August 20th at 7pm

All ages welcome!

Adults $3

Members and children under 12-Free

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Addendum

The event on the 20th was a tremendous success.  The Casa Romantica was packed.  Fred did a magnificent job and included some pretty funny anecdotes as he showed tons of slides and discussed them.  He even had photos of three past U.S. presidents.

See more about San Clemente activities and San Clemente real estate on my big web site.  See my banner at the bottom of the San Clemente Chamber of Commerce home page.