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Absolutely good name...!
Keep us up to date on your ventures.
-tristan
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:12:10 -0800, Mike Batchelor <> wrote:
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> I posted a gleeful message a month ago about the boat I had found and
> fallen in love with. Well, I completed the purchase formalities last
> week, and this weekend I sailed her down from Sausalito to Marina del
> Rey (almost!) with my delivery skipper and his friend as an extra
> hand. Well, I say sailed only because it's a sailboat. We had
> hardly any wind, and motor-sailed about 80% of the time. Even around
> Point Conception, which is usually one of the windiest areas in So.
> California, we had only about 10 knots of warm wind coming off the
> land, and had to motor in to Santa Barbara on water like glass. I had
> to disembark at that point because of work the next morning, and drove
> a rental car home to Los Angeles. The delivery skipper is bringing
> her in today the rest of the way after a night's rest in a guest berth
> in Santa Barbara harbor. She should arrive at her new berth at about
> 8:00pm this evening.
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> It was a great experience, and I am more enthusiastic than ever about
> embarking on a extended cruise sometime in the next 3 or 4 years. As
> we passed offshore of the Hearst Castle near San Simeon, we motored
> through a pod, or several pods, of grey whales. They were all around
> us, we could see the spouts near and far in every direction, and some
> were surfacing just a hundred feet from the boat. There must have
> been three dozen whales in our vicinity. Some whales about a mile
> ahead of us were breaching, but they had finished with the big
> splashes by the time we reached that area. Unfortunately, I had
> forgotten to bring my camera with me. <big frown>
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> I named the boat "Valinor", after the land to the west of Middle Earth
> across the Great Sea which is where Frodo, Bilbo, Gandalf and the
> elves were sailing to at the end of Lord of the Rings.
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