Glorietta Bay Anchorage
02 August 2014
by Windy in the afternoon and overcast in the morning, pleasant at night
I've always wanted to anchor in Glorietta Bay and this seemed the right time. The wind was up and the anchorage was already full. I found a spot near the beach, but it was just too close to another boat and too close to the shore if the tide went down too much, so I pulled anchor, went around, and re-anchored in an acceptable spot at the very rear of the yellow buoy rectangle. The wind was too high to row to shore safely, so I pulled out the 6hp from the cockpit locker, hoisted it on to the Saturn inflatable, closed up the boat, and zoomed to Seaforth Boat Rental right next to my family summer home on Coronado Island. It was near closing time, but they still charged me $5 to park my dinghy until later that night. They gave me a code to get back in after hours. A short walk later, I was with my parents in air conditioned comfort with a beverage in hand. We went out for dinner with more family and my nephew Brett was kind enough to sit across from me and ask questions about the trip. After dinner, I got dropped off near the Boat House and found the code to the gate worked on the gate, but not the chain and padlock. I needed the dinghy to get back to the sailboat and wound up easily hopping the fence around the gate. A short nighttime zoom back to Boker Tov, and I was soon warm and cozy in another safe, historic anchorage. I learned over the course of this trip that if I close up the boat as much as possible in nice weather, it doesn't get damp and clammy overnight. Leaving the pop-top open and the boards out of the companionway is a great way to experience the environment and look at the stars and feel the breeze and all that, but you wake up with a damp bed. By this point in the voyage, I had spent four nights on the sailboat, this was to be the fifth. I had things pretty much sorted out and I was getting used to the cruising life again. But I had to be back in town to spend a day at the office and head off to Canada with the other side of my family. The next morning I awoke early, cruised for an hour back to my slip at Chula Vista Marina, and began the process of de-rigging the sailboat and securing her back on the trailer.
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