Del Ray Yacht Club

We arrived today at the Del Ray Yacht Club in Marina Del Ray. The entrance is very narrow into the harbour and all the weekenders were returning home. Some sailing, some motoring, big boats, little boats and we had no idea were we were going......The place is huge. There are something like 6000 boats moored here. After finding the guest docks (with help from a Laser sailor) we did get into the proper slip at the yacht club. As soon as we tied up people were welcoming us to the club and made sure we felt right at home. We left our last port at 7 am in the fog and thought we were back off the coast of Oregon, but the fog lifted and we had a great downwind sail for at least half the trip. Must note that this fog did not make it rain inside the enclosure like it did when we left home Debbie did not have to dress like this anymore at night

Rick and Lynn very disappointed by Venice Beach  Dawn and i told them that had it been a warmer day maybe it would look like what they see on TV   Plus the shap of this bow it must be going through ice

Pacific Corinthian Yacht Club

Thursday Oct 23: Arrived here after a very hard 7 mile trip from Ventura. The club here has a pool , hot tub, bar, and dining room. Last night we met a lot of people in the bar and one of them then took us out today for a trip around the harbour in his electric boat. A lot of the homes are built on canals so most of them have these little boats to travel around in. The actual town is called Oxnard. We are heading out on Sunday to Marina Del Ray (Oct 26). All is well on board, the weather is great. One day of rain since leaving Canada.

Here is where we saw Sailboats manoeuvring  under a bridge

didn't think it would fit

Oct 15 to 22

What can we say about Port San Luis, it is so picturesque. We have a lovely white sand beach, dolphin swimming and jumping around the boat. While sea otters are floating on their backs as they fill up on sea urchins and sea cucumbers. The sea lions and seals keep swimming by for a quick snack on the fish the below. But they do not stick around to rest or sleep which is fine with us as we had enough of thier barking and baying while in Monterey. Both boats agree that it feels like we are somewhere exotic.

They offer a free water taxi which Lynn and I used to see the town of Port San Luis. We really should have filled up our dingy and tryed a surf landing here. Oh well guess we will practise once we get to Mexico.

We left at 6:00am on Oct 15 thank goodness for radar. While we were asleep we had a few more boats come in and anchor behind us and right in the clear pass we had planned to use to leave by. We are heading for Cojoh anchorage which is just past Point Conception. The locals refer to this point as the Cape Horn of Pacific it was a pussy cat to us. We had all heard that the weather gets warmer and the seas settle down once you pass this point; boy was everyone right about that.

We spent 3 days in Santa Barabara, they have a trolley that runs all direction in the city for only .25cents. We found  almost ever type of store was within walking distance of the bus route. With this in mind we did a major restocking here. This means San Diego will not be such a rush to find stuff.  We toured the city hall that was covered in murals 

LYNN FOUND A FRIEND

We are tied up in Venture at the Venture yacht club. We were only going to stay 3days but even though the marine weather did not call it we are having Santa Anna winds that are blowing at 30-40 knots. Really strange cause at 7:00am it was calm and by 8:30 they had blown in. Around Noon the marine weather picked up the wind and gave a warning. Looks like we might be here till Friday

WE STARTED SEEING OIL ON THE WATER

THERE IS A NATURAL LEAK 

FROM A DISTANCE THE LOOK LIKE BIG SHIPS 

VENTURA 

Port San Luis

We arrived in Port San Luis after an overnight sail from Monterey. Everyone who had holed up in Monterey all left at the same time making for an interesting night as us and Kaligan tried to find are own space.  

The forecast  was for 10-15 Knots of wind but we had 15-25 with gusts to 30 and 35 Knots. Who knows with the weather man, but it made for some good sailing and lumpy seas. Not sure how long we will be here as the Santa Anna winds are starting to blow to the south of us.  

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Still In Monterey

Well we are still here and enjoying the area. A gale has been blowing through here the last couple of days so all the boats travelling down the coast have been staying at the dock. The weather looks good for Sunday so we should be out of here for Morro Bay tomorrow.

Our tours have taken us to Carmel, Pebble Beach (and no Lynn did not play golf), where we enjoyed  wine tasting , bus tour on where different movies have been filmed, and a nice walk on the beach along with numerous places in town. As we were walking down to the beach Lynn and Rick helped an elderly couple remove a piece of furniture out of their car, both men don't know how the salespeople got it in there.

FAMOUS PEPPLE BEACH TREE

LYNN LONGING TO GOLF HERE

 COULD WE HAVE ANCHOURED HERE

CLOSE AS WE WILL GET TO ASIA

ONE OF THE OLDEST CHURCHES

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Monterey California

Arrived here on Sunday October 5th and will be here for a few days . The yacht club here was very friendly in fact they gave us the combination to go in and help ourselves on the honour roll, how very civilized 

 As we approached the assigned slip we found that  both sides had plywood fences on them, this is to keep the sea lions off.   

We needed to do  a huge load of laundry when we got here. To get to the laundry we had to use a pay phone, only it did not appear to be working correctly, as the sheriff showed up.  They asked us if we had called for help we explained that some young people had been playing with the phone.  We were just trying to call a taxi to get to the laundry-mat.  The Sheriff decided it would be better if they called the taxi for us.  

 We also met up with some sailing friends from Victoria (Tony and Nancy on Moodancer)they had tried anchoring outside the marina but the swell was building up and they decided to move into the marina

Spent Monday touring their world class aquarium and taking a tour of the area on a transit bus. For 4.50 you cannot go wrong.

   Lynn spent most of the first night tearing the boat apart as we had a strange sound inside it sounded like electrical snaps  Little did we know it was coming from the ocean. This is where we were introduced to Snapping Shrimp.