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From: tristan le (no email)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 20:38:40 EST
Absolutely good name...!
Enjoy reading the emails (both the last one and this one), keep posting.
On another note, I was out sailing in Santa Cruz bay this past
weekend, after at least 2 weeks of continuous rain we had, the past
weekend was the first nice break of the weather, so I took the
opportunity and head out. The intention was looking for some whales on
their migration South. After much of the day sailing around but
nothing insight, finally we motored back to the habor, and puffs...
there were 2 small whales poping up quite close to shore...!
Mission accomplished!
Fair winds,
-tristan
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:12:10 -0800, Mike Batchelor <> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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>
>
> 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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