Date: 13 August 2009 1900 UTC (1200 Samadhi Time)
Distance sailed in last 24 hours: 173 nm
Distance to Half Moon Bay: 168 nm
Latitude: 38 01.176 N
Longitude: 125 58.987 W
COG: 085M
SOG: 7.1 kts under sail
Wind: 12 kts NNW
Seas: 4 ft NW swell
Weather: 10% Cloud Cover
Barometric Pressure: 1021.0, steady
Sea Temperature: 61 F
Less than 170 miles to go--we are almost there!
Last night the weather suddenly grew colder, and we encountered a light mist that dropped visibility to less than a mile. The mist was particularly interesting as we encountered three Los Angeles bound ships at once. We weaved through the ships using radar and AIS. Around 3 a.m. the wind freshened and we resumed sailing. By 5:30 a.m. we ripping along at close to ten knots, but the wind dropped around mid-morning, and now we are back in the sevens. We are bouncing around in an annoying cross swell that makes the boat move up and down constantly (boat motion called heaving). The up and down motion is more difficult to deal with than rolling or pitching, but we aren't uncomfortable.
We expect the wind to build throughout the day, maybe to 30 knots. Along with the increase in wind we will be seeing 10' waves that are closely spaced. Tonight is probably going to be a bumpy one. We have put away most of the "projectiles" and are ready to go.
The seawater temperature is down to 61 degrees! The temperature inside the boat has descended to the point where we are wearing insulated foul weather gear and thick wool socks. Quite a welcome to "Sunny California"!
For those of you interested in meeting us at the dock, we still don't have a good idea of precisely when it will be. It's fairly certain at this point that it'll be tomorrow morning. Tonight we should get a better idea. We'll be in touch with Pat when we can be more specific about the time.
Hope to see you on Sunday at the Dutch Goose!
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