We give thanks for getting the hell here…….. Rounding Cape Mendocino After the UPS medication delivery fiasco we were stuck in Eureka. The weather deteriorated significantly, with high seas warnings to 30 feet and wind in in the 30 knot range. We watched the weather each day looking for a break – on Wednesday we…
Seems like the best time to see ocean critters is when there’s no wind and the seas are flat clam. Ocean sunfish (the little ones, it turns out) drift along the surface of a calm daytime sea. The big ones – 10 feet or so, like what the Monterey Bay Aquarium has in their Big…
California, that is. We arrived in Monterey in the early evening of August 28, 2007, and we plan to head further south on Saturday, September 1, as early as possible. Fog permitting. Har. We scored a great slip at the Municipal Marina (sorta tight entrance fairway, boys!) but found we had arrived at precisely the…
Along the West Coast of the US, warm summer air moving over cooler ocean water produces fog. In the usual summertime pattern, fog develops offshore, moves inland overnight, and lifts or dissipates the next morning. The fog can be light or heavy, localized or widespread, short-lived or lingering. Whether it’s characterized as marine fog, radiation…
After an 80 mile motor down the coast, inside the so called crap pot lane (Not!) we arrived at Eureka. We originally intended to stay here about four days – rent a car, see a few sights and then move south – the next jump to Drake‘s Bay is about 210 miles. Also – we…
…or is it a figurehead? Meet the sailing ketch "Desperado" berthed in Newport, Oregon. She hasn’t sailed much recently, judging from her rig, but looky here: (For lubbers, a dolphinspike is that rod that goes underneath the bow to the chain running from the hull to the far end of the bowsprit, basically to create…
The passage from Bamfield BC to Newport, Oregon, took 38 hours: two full days and one night. Coming in to Newport from offshore, we dodged a bazillion crab pots – including a set that some entrepreneur placed right in the middle of the fairway between two entrance buoys. Between the tuna boats and the crabbers,…
We left Bamfield in Barkley Sound, BC, on August 5, 2007, at 0600. Environment Canada and NOAA characterized the 1-4-mile visibility fog as “heavy.” The Fox does not like fog very much but it was doable so we left with caution and a good dose of radar – the better to see the buckaroos who…
Crossed back from Canada into US waters the morning of August 5, 2007. Visibility was a bit limited by fog. But that really IS a pic of Cape Flattery and Tatoosh Island from about 5 miles offshore.