Arrived in the marina safely after a nice quiet night at anchor at Santa Cruz Island. Very strange after 3 weeks at sea to be on a non moving with the engine off boat. Jordan’s introduction to diving in a kelp forest went well. He could not believe the amount of fish life. We saw …
We had planned to arrive at Ventura harbor today. After three horrible days of bad weather we decided we could not end what has been a great voyage on such a bad note. The bad weather was pushing us to the islands of the Channel Islands National Park. We decided to take advantage of this …
The gale in the Channel Islands area and the 10 foot seas it generated have slowed our progress. The wind and seas would hit us directly on the beam if we were to continue in a straight line to the harbor. Very unsafe. We have had to detour north so we could round Pt. Conception …