San Pedro

I had a good trip up to San Diego, picked up some kelp on a prop and had a diver in San Diego clear it off after I had checked in at Customs. Customs was no big deal but they did go thru EVERYTHING, they looked thru the engine room, lifted all the floor hatches, took my lettuce, carrots, celery, green onions, I knew that they would take anything with seeds like the limes and tomatoes but they took all fresh agricultural products.
The weather has been nice and Carl Dalton from Tyee Yacht Club offered to come down to San Diego and spend a week to ten days or so with me to help head north. We got as far as San Pedro and the weather around Pt. Conception is going to get nasty in a few days so we holed up here for a few days and we'll go up to Oxnard for a few days then on up to Ventura and maybe Santa Barbara as we wait for the weather to settle down before we head up around Pt. Conception to Monterey or Santa Cruz.
Monterey and Santa Cruz are not very protected harbors so I need 4 good days to make it to San Francisco from Pt Conception with just day stops along the way, so I want at least a 5 or 6 day weather window in case the weather prediction is off a day or two. Right now they are predicting 12 to 15 ft seas and I don't want to be out in more than 5 to 7 ft seas so we just hurry up and wait in So. Cal. it's tough in the 75 to 80 degree weather here.
Until I have something new I'll just be sitting here waiting. LaVons at home cleaning, painting and puttering 'til I get home.
IRV