Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Friday, October 13, 2017
Where are we now.... It is September 11 and we are in the beautiful Bay of Monterey...
We spent yesterday provisioning the boat, walked to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, participated in happy hour on the boardwalk and just generally relaxed.
We had spend about 10 days in San Francisco, actually Sausalito at anchor until the winds turned nasty and SW at a steady 30 knots with gust of 40-45... and yes this happened at midnight and blew to about 3 in the morning. We saw a small unattended sailboat drift into another occupied by a family of 4 (2 adults and 2 kids). The coast guard was called into rescue because the unattended sailboats anchor rode got wrapped in the prop of the other boat as they tried to get away from the drifting boat. Once the family was rescued we watched as that unattended boat drifted passed us and onto other boats anchored in the bay. After 3 hours of this activity the winds finally eased to 20 knots and we all got some rest. At 10 am the following day the winds again built to over 30 knots and I desperately called every marina in San Francisco, Richmond, Alameda and other areas in the bay to see if we could get a spot to wait out the system..
This was remnants of the hurricane that hit the Baja just a few days ago and was accelerating over the hill in Sausalito bay so I just wanted a quite place for a few nights. Lucky for me Richmond Yacht club answered my call (after many hours of getting voice mail ... it was Labor Day Monday and most marinas, yacht clubs were not answering). We spent 4 wonderfully peaceful nights on reciprocal at the Yacht club, the members were very friendly and made some new friends.
When we arrived in Monterey there was an Italian Festival that ran all weekend so we enjoyed some good homemade Italian food, Wine and great music, did some site seeing at the Aquarium and went shopping for my birthday presents.... After all I was told by a reliable source that you don't just celebrate the day you are born but for the whole month!
We certainly did that in Monterey, leaving the day after my birthday for Santa Barbara and rounded my nemesis Point Conception.
We had spend about 10 days in San Francisco, actually Sausalito at anchor until the winds turned nasty and SW at a steady 30 knots with gust of 40-45... and yes this happened at midnight and blew to about 3 in the morning. We saw a small unattended sailboat drift into another occupied by a family of 4 (2 adults and 2 kids). The coast guard was called into rescue because the unattended sailboats anchor rode got wrapped in the prop of the other boat as they tried to get away from the drifting boat. Once the family was rescued we watched as that unattended boat drifted passed us and onto other boats anchored in the bay. After 3 hours of this activity the winds finally eased to 20 knots and we all got some rest. At 10 am the following day the winds again built to over 30 knots and I desperately called every marina in San Francisco, Richmond, Alameda and other areas in the bay to see if we could get a spot to wait out the system..
This was remnants of the hurricane that hit the Baja just a few days ago and was accelerating over the hill in Sausalito bay so I just wanted a quite place for a few nights. Lucky for me Richmond Yacht club answered my call (after many hours of getting voice mail ... it was Labor Day Monday and most marinas, yacht clubs were not answering). We spent 4 wonderfully peaceful nights on reciprocal at the Yacht club, the members were very friendly and made some new friends.
When we arrived in Monterey there was an Italian Festival that ran all weekend so we enjoyed some good homemade Italian food, Wine and great music, did some site seeing at the Aquarium and went shopping for my birthday presents.... After all I was told by a reliable source that you don't just celebrate the day you are born but for the whole month! We certainly did that in Monterey, leaving the day after my birthday for Santa Barbara and rounded my nemesis Point Conception.
Sunday, October 1, 2017
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)