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Model boat NeNe grounded at San Clemente Island again
ROP class’s trimaran ends up a few miles north of where it ran aground early Monday.
The model trimaran NeNe, launched by a Regional Occupational Program class, appears to have run aground again on San Clemente Island, two days after it hit the island and shook free.
The 6-foot-long sailboat's onboard GPS indicated at 5:10 a.m. Wednesday that it was moving around in the surf in an area about 130 feet wide, some 60 miles from where it began its voyage from Capistrano Beach on Thursday. It is on the northeast side of the island, a few miles north of where it went aground early Monday.
Since breaking from the shore Monday morning, the craft has traveled erratically, first sailing north, then south, then into open water to the east, then back west toward the island.
The NeNe is one of two boats built and launched by a Capistrano-Laguna Beach ROP 3-D model-making class at San Clemente High School. They originally set sail Jan. 26, but the NeNe washed ashore in San Clemente and needed repairs before being relaunched last week.
The other boat, the 6-foot-long monohull WikiWiki, has been stranded at the southeast end of San Clemente Island since running aground there Jan. 29.
Class instructor Malcolm Wilson canceled a planned boat trip to the island Saturday to try to retrieve the WikiWiki after the Navy, which owns the island and uses it for training, said it would look for it.
There was no word about that from the Navy on Wednesday.
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