Bahia Tortuga
Arrived at anchor in front of the beach in Turtle Bay. Beach party starts in 10 minutes!
Arrived at anchor in front of the beach in Turtle Bay. Beach party starts in 10 minutes!
Today was pretty uneventful. Woke up in San Diego Harbor, La Playa Cove and Pete got ready for his departure. I loaded up all the laundry sheets and towels, and headed to shore with Pete and I spent the morning at the laundromat. Came back to the boat after doing laundry and hung out with… Read More Day 7: San Diego
Today we left Oceanside to head for San Diego Harbor. It was pretty foggy overcast most of the morning, but it cleared up later in the day as we were arriving. It was about A five hour trip. We once again saw lots of dolphin on the way in. We went directly to the fuel… Read More Day 6: Oceanside to San Diego
Today’s itinerary is to cross from Avalon on Catalina Island over to Oceanside yacht club. The passage was like glass. Incredibly flat, calm water, and no wind. Oceanside yacht club kindly provided us with a complementary slip thanks to our Westpoint Club membership. This is where we were dropping Eric off as he had to… Read More Day 5: Catalina to Oceanside
Today we woke up in Santa Barbara and motored over to the fuel dock to fill up. That took longer than expected so we didn’t get out of the harbor until about 7:40. Reset the course to Catalina Island just pretty much a straight shot and spent about nine hours crossing the Santa Barbara. The… Read More Day 4: Santa Barbara to Catalina
First thing in the morning, we had Eric dive into the water and check out the bow thrusters for clogs. When we talk last night, the bath thruster died. We figured there must be kelp or seagrass lodged inside of it. He did remove some, but not a ton. We left Morro Bay around 8… Read More Day 3: Morro Bay to Santa Barbara
Day two was very calm and long. We ran approximately 110 miles and it took at least 10 hours. It seemed like we were running through a wildlife desert after yesterday. The second half of the day we saw absolutely nothing in the water. We did see a few dolphin earlier in the day, but… Read More Day 2: Monterey to Morro Bay
Left Sausalito at 6:50 AM. Beautiful sunrise as we were crossing under the Golden Gate Bridge. Great conditions down the coast with some chop early and then smoothing out by the time we got to Monterey. As we came down the coast, we saw tons and tons of whales. Probably saw 10 to 15 in… Read More Day 1: Sausalito to Monterey
Today was a beautifully calm day when we left Salt Spring Island at around 8:30am. Our first stop was to be Montague Harbor on Galiano Island. It is only a 7.3 mile run and took us around 45 minutes to get there. When we arrived we dropped anchor and threw the dinghy in the water.… Read More Galiano Island, Wallace Island and Thetis Island
We stayed an extra day at Ganges Marina to give us more time to explore town. We walked around town and went to Salt Spring Wild Cider for lunch and cider tasting.