From Seattle to San Diego by Sea

I flew from Victoria to SeaTac on Saturday, Sept 19th and boarded Furthur on Lake Union. Furthur is a Selene 48 Ocean Trawler, powered by a 330hp Cummins diesel. Skipper Brian Calvert, a fellow skipper in the Seattle Singles Yacht Club, plans to circumnavigate the Pacific Ocean. The first step is to move Furthur to San Diego & so I signed on. We slipped our lines at 1945 & made for the locks in Ballard.

The 10 knot westerlies in the Strait of Juan de Fuca had built to 25 knots out of the NW, so we ducked into Port Hudson for the night. Leaving the next morning at 0530
we enjoyed this view of the spires of Cape Flattery at 1700.

We ran nonstop to Bodega Bay, north of San Francisco.

We are traveling in tandem with Big Chill, a Selene 43, that will end up in Alabama.

Derek gets ready to photograph a pod of feeding California blue whales.

Here you see these baleen whales feeding on krill.

As I key this in, we are in Santa Cruz, California, having arrived here at 2100 last night. We are docked at the Santa Cruz Yacht Club. We are currently 310 nm from San Diego & will likely stop in Santa Barbara along the way.

After two days of coastal fog, the day is clear. A good day to be on the water!