Avalon to San Diego

AVALON TO SAN DIEGO


Avalon N33.20.803
W118.19.566

Avalon was ok, but not really my preferred type of spot to hang out. All the fun things to do require plenty of money and I was busy spending my limited supply on boring things like maintenance and groceries. Also the internet cafe here charges $20 per hour!! Doing the blog was a big expense this week!!

Anyway Rob's friend Jenny came out to crew on the leg from Catalina to San Diego.

First we headed around to the backside of the Island to Cat Harbor. We did some fishing on the way and caught some kelp. It was a big one and it put quite a fight. Unfortunately we don't have the skill required to prepare seaweed so we just threw it back...



We arrived at Cat Harbor to a cold cloudy mid afternoon. It was really quiet here with only a handful of other boats around.

Cat Harbour

The breeze picked up and the temperature dropped so we settled in to a bit of chess and some reading for the night.




We spent the night there and headed off for San Diego on Tuesday afternoon.

Cat Harbor
N33.25.651
W118.30.471

We expected about a 20 hour run, arriving Wednesday morning, and that’s about what it took. The wind was really light again and so we motored more than we sailed. I think if this keeps up I will have to consider reclassifying Symphony as a “slow motorboat” rather than a “sailboat”…



The only excitement on this run was that 20 miles from anything there was a gigantic Super-Tanker just drifting around with enough lights on to confuse it with a small city, (You really have to see one of these things up close to realize how BIG they really are). Then, within the next hour, 3 large ships came within 2 miles of me. (That is actually REALLY close, by the way). After that it was a pretty boring night.

IN San Diego I got a slip at a marina in mission bay. Time to clean up, reload and get ready for the jump to Cabo !!!!


SAN DIEGO

N32.45.617
W117.14.200

Well I’m not really doing anything fun here. Jenny helped me get some groceries before she left so at least I didn’t have to cart all of those around in a taxi. Thanks Jenny!! Other than that it’s just laundry, and the final prep for the big jump south,