Our days here in Half Moon Bay often start at that magic hour when the predawn light just starts to punch through the night time sky. For me that is such an amazing time of day, full of optimism, potential and curiosity. What will this new day bring…
We had a very good and productive call with Bev’s sister Carolyn who is a retired Red Cross, regional disaster relief coordinator and had generously agreed to be our land based safety coordinator. On our last passage our inReach satellite tracking device stopped tracking midway through our last passage for some odd reason. This caused a lot of concern amongst many of our friends and family who have been flowing our voyage and poor Carolyn, was at the epicenter of all that. We had a very good conversation about our emergency plans and communication system. The outcome is that we’ve made some new plans to make it better going forward and hopefully less stressful for our land based loved ones. Carolyn is an amazing person and I feel vastly fortunate and grateful that she has our backs on this voyage.
We’ve been mostly working on the boat, fixing things. The sea is hard on boats. It’s hard on people too. Bev got a massage the her day because her shoulder was hurting her from all the hauling on lines she’s been doing lately. While Bev was out I managed to get up the mast for the first time in along time by myself. I had to sort out some lines that had gone FUBAR during the night of the high winds. All sorted, nice and neat now and it's great to know that I can still get up the stick too. I'm feeling good about that.
It was foggy all day. I took a break in the middle of the day to walk the docks and look at boats:
Interesting boats, lots fishing boats and lots of character.
There are plenty of both sail and power boats in this harbor.
Both big and small.
It's a working harbor that gives it an authenticity that I love...
Our dock-mates from Newport, Mike and Angie of S/V Madrone who live aboard their boat which is now in Sausalito came down for a visit yesterday. They are both very cool folks whom I'm enjoying getting to know. They're surfers, so afterward we took a walk over to the bluffs overlooking Mavericks, the famous surf break that happens form time-to-time and is one of the biggest in the world. When it goes off, the waves can top out at over 60 feet.
Today was a small day on the break, not even reaching 6' but it was still very cool to see this legendary surfing spot.
Speaking of surfing, there seems to be more that the usual number of boards on boats here in Half Moon Bay.
Some of the boards are in much better that the boat they are on. That might be an indicator to their relative order of importance. It's all good, just different.
We'll soon be headed on down the coast but until then we'll make the most of this incredible spot.
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