He’s a bay watcher, but not for bikinis

Ingo RADEMACHER plays a corporate raider on ABC’s “General Hospital,” but in real life he sits on the board of Heal the Bay. The native of Letmathe, Germany, was inspired to get involved with the Santa Monica-based environmental organization several years ago when he was kayaking off the coast and saw the ocean littered with plastic bags after a rainfall. “One of the most important things is to teach people not to throw things into the gutter,” he says. “Plastic bags and cigarette butts: Those things don’t break down.” Rademacher is also outfitting his new Venice home with solar panels. “This will supply all the electricity for the house,” he says. “It’s one of the best things you can do to keep the air clean.”

Dropping a paddle

Saturday morning starts with a kayak paddle either in Marina del Rey or out on the ocean. I go with my workout buddy Mike Newman -- he played “Newmie” on “Baywatch.” We’ve been training together for a long time, since ’94.

We’re out on the water by 8:30 or 9 and we go for an hour or an hour and a half. We start off slow, sizing each other up to see who is doing better that day. Usually it turns into a race toward the end.

A “surf-ski” is the type of kayak we paddle. They’re 19 feet long, 1 foot wide and weigh 30 pounds. When we paddle out of the marina, we overtake the boats.

His mantra is fitness

Usually I throw in a yoga class on Saturday. There’s this place on Abbot Kinney called Yoga and Spinning; they’ve got a thing called Yoga for Athletes. It’s an intense class; you sweat like crazy. Basically it’s just exercise, not from the spiritual point of view. But that’s something I do as well. I did my kundalini yoga teacher training at Golden Bridge in L.A.

I ride my beach cruiser a lot. I don’t like to drive, and that’s why I like living in Venice. At the moment I’ve been doing a lot of searching for things for the house. It’s so much easier to jump on the bike.

It’s gotta be organic

Saturday night I don’t go out very much. I’m more of a homebody. But I do go to a place called Wabi-Sabi. I get sashimi, nothing else. Other than that I don’t eat out a lot because there’s nothing organic. The only places I eat out at around here are Real Food Daily and Figtree’s Cafe on the boardwalk in Venice. Real Food Daily is only vegetarian. Figtree’s has more of a range.

Sometime during the weekend I go down to Abbot’s Habit, my little coffee shop, and get a coffee, black with milk.

Two-wheeled thrills

Sunday it’s usually a motorcycle ride in the canyons -- on the roads, not the trails. I have a Honda CBR 1000 RR. It’s one of the fastest bikes around right now. We get a group together; Francesco Quinn, Anthony Quinn’s son, he’s a really good rider. Sometimes I also go to the racetrack with [“NYPD Blue” star] Mark-Paul Gosselaar: California Speedway, Fontana or Buttonwillow. On Fontana we hit about 160. But when you’re doing 160 on a track it really doesn’t feel like 160. It feels like 80.

If we go in the canyons it’s Malibu Hills. We go to a place called the Rock Store, a huge bikers’ meeting place on weekends. We look at everyone else’s bikes, have coffee and maybe get some breakfast.

Sunday night I love to go to Moonshadows. They have this great patio with a tiki bar -- like a little straw hut. And there’s a DJ. It’s like cocktails and dreams, that island feel I love.

-- Leslee Komaiko