Santa Barbara to San Diego

[Don C L]

Kinda windy today

[Don C L]

Well?
Hope it all went well for you!

[magentawave]

I just got back last Friday. I took the train up and had a brutal first night on the mooring in Santa Barbara because the nuking Santa Ana's in Ventura sent a nasty short period swell up the coast that hit me on the beam because the wind was coming from a different direction. The next morning I took the dinghy into the harbor with plans to pay for a guest slip and get gas and by the time I finished the wind started nuking and I couldn't take that dang tippy wine glass hulled dinghy back to the boat because I would have gotten swamped. I had to stay in a motel that night. The next morning was calm so I brought my boat into the guest slip and spent a few days cleaning her up and preparing for the trip south. Santa Barbara is definitely my favorite little harbor on mainland Southern California.

Since I was solo I decided to harbor hop down the coast. First day was from SB to a guest slip in Channel Islands Harbor. Day 2 was to Marina Del Rey. Day 3 I anchored in the free anchorage in Newport Harbor. Day 4 was to Oceanside Harbor (which has the cheapest guest slip's in Southern California). Last day I decided to forgo Mariners Basin and go to my mooring in San Diego Harbor.

I need to talk to the Navionics people because using their automatic routing feature put me too close in around Point Loma which had me dodging kelp beds and literally hundreds of lobster pot floats. Unfortunately I had to motor sail about 90% of the time because winds were very light but it all went well. The most wind by far was mid afternoon off of Point Loma and coming into the harbor there.

In spite of the light winds, and excluding the last day which was mostly foggy, I'm thankful that the weather was so warm and beautiful. It was a good trip. I think I mentioned before that I'm not new to sailing but doing a trip like this solo was/is new to me and I learned a lot from it.

[Zzmeyer]

Congratulations! You need to be careful with any of the automatic routing software as you learned. I forgot to mention in an early post that you need to go around Buoy 3 to avoid the kelp in San Diego. Oops.

[Don C L]

Originally Posted by magentawave

I just got back last Friday. I took the train up and had a brutal first night on the mooring in Santa Barbara because the nuking Santa Ana's in Ventura sent a nasty short period swell up the coast that hit me on the beam because the wind was coming from a different direction. The next morning I took the dinghy into the harbor with plans to pay for a guest slip and get gas and by the time I finished the wind started nuking and I couldn't take that dang tippy wine glass hulled dinghy back to the boat because I would have gotten swamped. I had to stay in a motel that night. The next morning was calm so I brought my boat into the guest slip and spent a few days cleaning her up and preparing for the trip south. Santa Barbara is definitely my favorite little harbor on mainland Southern California.

Since I was solo I decided to harbor hop down the coast. First day was from SB to a guest slip in Channel Islands Harbor. Day 2 was to Marina Del Rey. Day 3 I anchored in the free anchorage in Newport Harbor. Day 4 was to Oceanside Harbor (which has the cheapest guest slip's in Southern California). Last day I decided to forgo Mariners Basin and go to my mooring in San Diego Harbor.

I need to talk to the Navionics people because using their automatic routing feature put me too close in around Point Loma which had me dodging kelp beds and literally hundreds of lobster pot floats. Unfortunately I had to motor sail about 90% of the time because winds were very light but it all went well. The most wind by far was mid afternoon off of Point Loma and coming into the harbor there.

In spite of the light winds, and excluding the last day which was mostly foggy, I'm thankful that the weather was so warm and beautiful. It was a good trip. I think I mentioned before that I'm not new to sailing but doing a trip like this solo was/is new to me and I learned a lot from it.

Great! Thanks for adding the info!