The weather for the ride to San Diego was not great. It did allow us to motor-sail at over 7 knots which meant we could get there while the San Diego Yacht Club was still open. The trip itself was pretty uneventful. We radioed Krissy on our way out to discover that they left the same time we did, buddy boating again!

You could definitely tell where the border was, the amount of US military traffic was pretty impressive. There where several Seahawks doing patrol duty along with Navy small boats. On some obscure level this was comforting.

We pulled into the club just in time to check in and get keys. This also allowed us to go to the Olive Garden for my birthday :-) The next 2 days where about cleaning the boat, an oil change, fixing the head (broken flapper valve) and getting enough fuel to get to Marina Del Rey. We managed to squeeze lunch in with the crew of Krissy and our good friends Val and Richard came over to the boat for dinner with their two boys Chris and Ryan. We had a great time catching up, unfortunately it was all too short as we had a 5 am wake- up.

Today we managed to pull out at 5:41 and move north to Oceanside for the night. Then it's off to Marina Del Rey tomorrow, that will be about a 15 hour run. From there we are still trying to decide. It looks like our north bound window may close at the end of next week so we are discussing the merits of a couple of overnighters to get home before that happens.

Cheers, Darrell