Please do not sail your boat on the salton sea!! Whatever you do
It is the most polluted body of water in california.
I went here last year on a geology field trip with my college. It was absolutely disgusting. The smell was horrific. You could smell it as soon as you got anywhere even close to the water. When we got closer, we came to the shore, the whole shoreline was covered in dead washed-up decomposing fish. The water was completely brown and it looked like if you put your skin in the water it would melt it off.
Imagine your sailing the salton sea in high wind and you capsize...
would not be good
And for another thing, the salton sea is 25% saltier than the pacific ocean. As if the ocean water is not salty enough on your hobie this water would probably eat through your hulls
"It is fed by the New River, A river that flows from mexico north into the salton sea. The New River originates just south of Mexicali, Mexico, and picks up agricultural pesticides, dead cats, industrial wastes, and human excrement as it flows north. A recent report by the California Water Resources Control Board found that
Mexicali is dumping 20 to 25 million gallons of raw sewage into the New River daily because of breakdowns in its municipal treatment system. By the time the New River crosses the U.S./Mexico border near Calexico, California, the river violates water quality standards by several hundred-fold. Border Patrol agents who have jumped into the toxic flow to rescue drowning immigrants have had to be treated for skin rashes and infections. The New River is a caustic cocktail whose ingredients include 26 viruses—hepatitis A and polio to name a few—assorted pesticides from Mexican farms (some of which have been banned in the United States), together with hazardous chemicals and heavy metals from maquiladora factories.
Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is paying 55 percent of a $50 million addition to Mexicali's sewage treatment facility, it has yet to tackle the pollution which has already been carried across the border and deposited in the Salton Sea. Fecal coliform is at levels of 100,000 to 5 million colonies per milliliter at the border checkpoint, far above the U.S.-Mexico treaty limit of 240 colonies"
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http://www.fdungan.com/salton.htm
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