Playing It Safe
01 October 2017
I am writing this from Noyo Basin in Fort Bragg, California. We arrived here after leaving Brookings OR Thursday afternoon. There was very little wind and we ended up motoring south along the northern California coast. Before leaving Brookings, we had been watching the forecasts for wind from Windyty and Passage Weather. They looked somewhat ominous, predicting 30-40 knot winds along the coast starting Friday night during the time that we would be in the last 140 miles into San Francisco. We were close enough to the coast to occasionally get cell service and keep up with these forecasts.
Hence, we decided to duck into Fort Bragg hoping to make it before the wind increased and making the harbor entrance difficult. It is very rocky outside the harbor with a very narrow space between two jetties that are exposed to westerlies. Luckily, we were able to make it in before the winds came up. We arrived here Friday afternoon.
We have been making the best of it. We toured the town yesterday. We went to Glass Beach and looked at the Pacific in turmoil out there and congratulated ourselves on a good decision. We ate lunch at a good Deli. I got to catch up with an old friend, Mike Armstrong, with whom I worked some decades ago. We shopped for a few items for the boat's galley and had a delightful dinner on board of smoked pork burritos accompanied by the local brew.
We are here until the wind dies. We probably will not leave until Tuesday for a run to San Francisco that will take a bit over a day.
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