This is pretty cool the grib file reader projects your position and tells you the wind speed for where it thinnks you will be based on your last position direction and speed. Click on the picture to enlarge it you can see what I am talking about.

Great day of sailing arriving at the Pacific Corinthian YC at sunset. You might wonder why your not hearing about all the stuff we do working on the boat, it's a long list but today we fixed the alternator, I think it hasn't been working since August, but I have so much new stuff and we are using way more power than I normally would that I thought it was normal to be needing to charge the batteries. Well after fixing that we motored very little today and we really didn't even need to plug in for the night. Amazing what working stuff will do for you. A day full of dolphins, the reason there are no pictures is I love driving this boat under sail and Anne is cooking as well as talking to family in Belgium, she is sharing this trip with live skype broadcasts.

 The cat is thinking maybe this could be my boat. I could go fishing.

 Nice light again.

 Santa Barbara harbour full of birds

Including this pretty blue heron.

Amazing Day

 Started with this beautiful sunrise

 We are leaving Morro Bay about 6AM

 The light got nicer and nicer

 The humpback whales got so close I heard them before I saw them. I got a lot of tail shots as they stayed at the surface and kept popping them up. Two of them swam along with the boat for a while.

 Some really cool clouds

 Great light

 This cloud is at Diablo Canyon, must be radio active.

 Anne never stops her focus on food, getting a leek soup going.

 For you RVers this colander is great stores flat but it is huge.

 Then the sunset was even better than the sunrise.

Then anchoring at Coho under the full moon.

 Another surface shot that looks like I'm diving, these are sea creatures on the side of the dock

 Mucho with Morro rock as a back drop

Testing out the cats new harness, doesn't seem to be really excited about it. I hope he gets that going for a walk is not that bad. He has a hard time getting me to take him where he wants to go, since he wants to go where ever I am not going.

 Sorry for the blur on the photo but it was my best tail shot. We were dodging whales all morning as we left Monterey

 The California coast is beautiful here, we are about 5 miles offshore this is a long lens.

If you are not familiar with the Beach Boys "California Saga" this is what they are singing about. "Big Sur I've got plans for you"

 Pt Sur Light House

 Nice enough that the cat came up to enjoy the sites.

 As the evening came we could see we would have flat seas and nice light from the moon we decided to sail all night to Morro Bay.

Seas like this we call free miles.

We were told we could no longer stay at the yacht club in Monterey, if we were going to have to leave at least we were making room for Santa Claus and his Hinkley, if your not familiar with Hinkley's look them up on the net, Santa has a very nice boat.

Anne was worried she was going to miss all the festive Christmas things at home, but everywhere we have gone we have events and lights, look at how dressed up the kids are at the yacht club waiting for Santa.  

 The fish shaped lights on the boat won the boat parade, it is owned by an ichthyologist.