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JimB517
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Initially Posted - 08/09/2008 : 20:39:04

If you read "Like a Tradewind Passage" you'll know I am back in Catalina headed home.

Monday I was up at 0500 well aground here in Cat Harbor but I was able to motor out through the mud, get outside, and be underway at gray light. It was a 65 mile passage directly to windward. I was very lucky (and I waited for good weather) to have a NW course and light SW winds the whole day. I motorsailed with main and jib the entire way, maintaining about 2.5 knots under sail and with the motor got it up to around 4.5. I arrived at smugglers cove just at dark and was able to get anchored in 30 feet, a bit too close to another boat but it was late, no winds and I shortened scope a bit after getting well set. This was a 15 hour passage and I was exhausted. Motorsailing at 4.5 knots the Tohatsu 9.8 consumes 1/3 gallon per hour (like clockwork).

Tuesday I did not set the alarm and got up and underway about 8 AM. I sailed all day, motored some, and completed a 30 mile passage to Forneys' Cove (I went from the extreme east end of the island to the extreme west end). It would have been a perfect day for crossing to Santa Rosa Island, a big Cal 40 that was sailoing in my vicinity did just that when we cleared Gull Island. I contemplated following them but I had my plan and a very good forecast for Wednesday. My plan was to sail from Forney's directly to San Miguel on the weather side of the islands, that way I would know exactly what the weather was and if it was too much I could easily head back.

Forney's was quiet, windy and cold. I took the kayak to the beach with only my camera and was dumped by a wave. Soaked to the bone qand camera ruined. Later that night I watched the stars and saw the International Space Station fly overhead.

I got up the next day at 0500 and got the weather radio on. I had gone to bed with a forecast of winds NW 10 to 15, seas 2 to 3 and got up to a small craft advisory, winds 25 gusting higher, seas 5 to 7. That was too much especially as it bloew all night and was windy at 5 AM. I wanted to explore Willows Anchorage and look for aqny remains of the Eaton's old cabin, so I sailed for that cove on the lee of Santa Cruz Island. I did at least sight San Miguel as I reached across the Santa Rosa Passage that morning.

Willows as way to bumpy, windy, and with a big S swell arriving. I went to Coaches Prieto, a small cove, which was very crowded with 6 boats. I got well anchored but 20 knots of wind came up from the SW, S swell, it was very uncomfortable and with big rocks directly to leeward of me a deadly lee shore. I dared not leave the boat and slept a very brief night keeping an eye on the rocks. Eventually the winds dropped and shifted.

I took a very slow and leisurely sail back to the east end the next day, anchoring at Yellow Banks. It was hot and sunny and I had all day so I cleaned everything - bedding, cushions, pillows, salon, even myself got bathed and showered with my solar shower.

Indiscipline 1978 FK SR #398

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