November 2008
San Diego
After Dana Point, we stopped at Oceanside for a night, then anchored in Mission Bay the following night. Mission Bay was lovely - a free, protected anchorage just north of San Diego Bay. We would have happily stayed there a few days, but we were meeting Bob and Gay (the previous owners of Scream) in […]
Dana Point
After leaving Catalina Island, we motored in glassy seas to Dana Point, a wealthy settlement on the mainland. We had an appointment with Outbound Yacht Services to get a Spectra Ventura 150 MPC (more about that in another post) installed, so we were headed to the docks at Dana Point to get that done. Our […]
Santa Catalina Island
Scream arrived on Catalina after an unpleasant trip from Santa Barbara (city). To our joy, we entered the calm and shallow Emerald Bay. Utterly confused by the semi-private mooring system (more below) we anchored in the south entrance of the bay. Emerald Bay has clear green water and a sandy bottom. We saw our anchor […]
Santa Cruz Island
Scream consulted a few sources before deciding on visiting Smuggler's Cove on Santa Cruz Island. All of our sources agreed that Smuggler's Cove was the best place to anchor in NW weather. We had a forecast for 10-15 in the Santa Barbara Channel. Predictably, we had no wind most of the way across so we […]
The best falafel (AKA Santa Barbara)
Scream pulled into Santa Barbara Friday morning after a motor/sail from Port San Luis. We sailed to point conception, which some people think of as a dangerous location. There we encountered force 1 to 2 winds in flat seas when the forecast was for force 5, so we motored the remaining distance to here. Talking […]
San Luis Obispo
We sailed from Morro Bay to Port San Luis on Tuesday. It was a short sail, in brilliant blue water with sunny skies overhead. We pulled into the anchorage after checking with the Harbor Patrol about the correct place to stop. It has been piping up a little while we've been here, as we've been […]
Morro Bay
After buddy boating from Monterey with Demelza, we arrived in Morro Bay on Wednesday. We has planned to anchor in San Simeon, but southerly winds were predicted, and none of us wanted to end up in a bad anchorage so we pushed on. We after crossing the bar in small seas but strong current, we […]