11/15/12
Made it around the infamous Point Conception on glassy seas,
in fact, I slept through the entire thing.
I must have been tired. We made
great time with the 60hp diesel and long slow swells pushing us along. There was no wind, and no moon, but other
than making sure to avoid the well-lit oil rigs it was an uneventful
evening. Things went pretty slowly the
next morning, as we now had a current running against us and we were going
about 4.5 knots instead of the 6.5 knots we had been enjoying. We were able to put up a sail and for a
couple of ours enjoyed my first sail on the boat.
We arrived at Channel Island Harbor around 1:00, fueled up
and took a slip for the night. Will be
checking weather and plan to go to Catalina and then on to San Diego.
There are a couple of things we need to work out: The
steaming light burned out(the light about ½ way up the mast that indicates to
other boaters you are underway), the starter is not working correctly, and we
need to rig the reefing lines on the main sail.
Reefing lines allow us to sail with a smaller sail so that if there is a
lot of wind the boat will not be overpowered.
Last night we made a quick trip to West Marine, the grocery
store and Starbucks for some internet action.
When I returned to the dock, Marcus was chatting with a couple on the
dock next to us that had come in while we were out. Ken and Danetta are also heading for Mexico
in their Islander 40. Turns out they are
from Owl Harbor, right across from where we were in the Delta. I couldn’t believe that in this vast area of
anchorages, cities, harbors and slips, this couple that had left for cruising
just a few weeks before us would turn up right next to us! The cruising world is certainly small!
A little Champagne with strawberries to celebrate the
rounding of Point Conception puts a nice end to a long 2 days.
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