SpringDay: Friday Oct 25 / San Diego

Departure from Long Beach CA at 5 am, seas are 2 foot swells maybe 15 seconds apart, perfect!

After

Calm and dark water flanked for a while by oil rigs that look like "sea" Christmas trees. It's amazing to think that five eights of this earth is covered with water, surely the water creatures don't need that much space, so why would our Creator put that much salt water on earth I wonder. I think back a few days ago when He sent a couple of humpback whales directly into our path, we put the engine in neutral and watched this giant of the sea diving in slow motion under our port bow, no time to grab the camera, just enjoy, my neck fully stretched over the slanted window in the pilot house, until the last part of shiny dark skin disappeared. So I dismiss the question sit back and I thank Him for the gift.

Before

We should arrive in San Diego around 4pm. At sunrise I took a picture of all the instruments dressed up in their best colors, the skipper seems very happy with the choice of electronics. The credit goes to Aaron Smith, this bright, hard working always happy under 40 young man. He is flying in tonight and will have to work relentlessly until he leaves Sunday. AIS antenna replacement, monitor replacement, satellite compass replacement, No 2 auto pilot replacement, these are the last of the big "stuff". SpringDay! I beg you…

Don is so enthralled with his Maratron. This is a monitoring system that displays info on engine, tanks, pumps, wind, temperatures and a gazillion more pieces of data. He put a screen in the pilot house, one in the salon and one right by the bed. Exhausted he often falls asleep while looking at the Maratron, notice the touch-screen finger.... I had to snap a picture!

Next I will introduce you to the O'Mearas, our boating partners we met during the FUBAR of 2011......

Thinking of you...

P.S. This blogger program is not very user friendly, I don't have much control over where the text and pictures end up,
very frustrating.