Everisto

San Gabriel to Everisto

Winds out of the Southwest were no fun a this anchorage! High winds, 22-28 knots, which led to high wind waves made for an uncomfortable night. Early the next morning the boat was continuing to pitch or hobbyhorse, with the bow rising up and crashing down into the waves, this while still at anchor. As Marcus came up into the cockpit, he realized we had drug anchor and were MUCH closer to shore than we had been, much closer than was safe. At the same time as he was turning on the depth sounder a neighboring boat sped over in his dinghy to see if we were ok. Marcus told him we were preparing to leave and everything went into warp speed as the pitching of the boat led to a slight bounce off of the bottom, then a bigger bounce, yikes!! Time to go, started the engine, and I motored slowly forward, trying to keep us off the bottom, while Marcus quickly pulled up the anchor. I can tell you that was a rude awakening!!

We were a little disquieted as this was the first time we had drug anchor; we are pretty careful about anchoring. The anchor is designed to dig in deeper as the boat is pushed back by the wind. Marcus found some scarring on the anchor chain and surmised that with the wind shifting and the boat bouncing the anchor drug a little then a rock caused the anchor to skip over the sand and lose it's hold.

Since we were already up and on our way, we headed North towards Isla San Francisco (NOT in California) taking advantage of the wind that was going our way. We had a nice sail and as the wind weakened we put up our spinnaker for the first time. The spinnaker is a big pretty balloon like sail made out of very light material to be used in light winds. Ours is for a smaller boat than ours, but still worked pretty well, coasting along at 3 knots in 5-7 knots of wind.

When we came close to Isla San Franciso it was still early in the day, so we headed on to San Everisto where we knew we would be protected form pretty much all points of wind. We needed a good night's sleep!

Salt mining?

Here are the upscale homes!

Following the tracks led to the donkeys

Our boat anchored at Everisto, lovely protected bay

 Everisto school