Sailing Vessel Chessie

San Diego to San Francisco Transit / Log Archive

4/21/05 Under the Golden Gate (inbound) at 1530 PDT. Great transit from Morro Bay. R & K

4/21/05 Pt. Sur drawing abeam to stbd at 10.0 nm. Posit N 36 09.2 W 122 01.4 2300 PDT. A little lumpy but nothing over 6'. Winds NNW at 15 kts. The Golden Gate at Sunset tomorrow on a flood tide. :-) All the best - again thanks for the great recommendations/observations. I thought for a bit I put my Pt. Sur waypoint too far out. It got a wee bit trafficky with the big boys so we cut the corner just a bit.
Richard

4/17/05 We've just considered the satellite weather, the voice weather, touched all the appropriate web sites, dialed the buoys, etc. and massaged the oujie board. We're here in Morro Bay for another 2+ days waiting for the onshore flow to subside. The crew has voted not to do anothe Pt. Arguello day.

At present it looks like Thursday-Friday will be very respectable days underway from here. Current tentative plan is midnight Wednesday underway with a straight shot to San Francisco arriving early afternoon Friday.

4/16/05 Moving North from Port St. Luis to Morro Bay (about 22 miles) to wait for this offshore flow 25-35 knots to subside. We can get alongside in Morro Bay and be comfortable (and get fuel) with a potential departure in the early hours of next Tuesday.

Location: http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=14&Z=10&X=216&Y=1222&W=1

4/15/05 Arrived Port San Luis - San Luis Opisbo Harbor - N 35 9.5 , W 120 44.9 - 5:18 PM PDT.
Greater wind & seas than we would have liked North of Pt. Arguello but boat & crew doing well.
Firming departure after next weather fax and broadcast, and will send you our plans - most likely a.m. departure for Monterey.

4/15/05 We cleared the Cojo anchorage at 0721 A.M. PDT and are bashing North in 10-12 foot seas with acceptable northerly breeze. We'll make the voice report on arrival Port St. Luis at about 1600 PDT today. Consider us overdue if no voice report by that time. Thanks - all well - R & K

4/15/05 We're still stuck in the Cojo anchorage. (I thought it was Lodai you were supposed to be stuck in.)

For those with charts: N 34 26.9 W `20 26.4. We had planned the wind dropping at sunset last night and heading "around Cape" to Port San Luis and thence San Francisco direct.

The two highs to the west and the low to the east had different plans and have maintained a very respectable flow ... even here is this protected achorage ...of up to 30 knots. We do have some indication that it is lessening. We see an occasional wind speed just below 15 knots and the direction has clocked about 45 degrees to the east. And, the weather service is a bit more positive about tomorrow afternoon.Even a prediction for SW winds which we could definitely live with.

No departure time from here yet. Pretty comfortable - except there's no going anywhere.

4/14/05 We're in Cojo anchorage right at Pt. Conception. Beautiful but windy. Left Santa Barbara with zero wind...hit 45 knots on the way up. Up plan, if the weather cooperates, is to leave here at midnight and make Port St. Luis by noon tomorrow. The leave there in the evening and head straight for San Francisco. We'd like to arrive Sunday. Stay tuned.

4/13/05 We intend to be underway from Santa Barbara just prior to 12:00 P.M. PDT tomorrow and round Pt. Conception prior to midnight. We'll call if we don't get underway.
The weather has the winds becoming light late tomorrow and variable and filling in with a South West flow :-) which would be excellent. We intend, weather permitting, to head to San Francisco direct. If we do fuel or the wind drives us in it will be most likely Monterey or San Simeon. There is a large Pacific High which, if we can time the front passage correctly, we'll give us a nice window.

4/11/05 We departed on time...or a minute early this a.m. at 0659...currently 15 miles North of La Jolla. Beautiful and calm day. We expect to arrive in Santa Barbara tomorrow a.m. and will file our arrival with you before 12:00 PM PDT. Thanks - for everything...Richard