Friday, June 16th Time: 1200 local (1900 UTC)
Position: 24’33 N 110’24 W
65 Miles West of Point Conception, CA Days run: 90 miles (24.5 hours)
Weather: Sunny and clear Wind: 22kts out of 350’T
News:
Timoneer departed from San Diego at 1130 Thursday morning for the 2250 mile
journey to Homer, Alaska. Exiting San Diego harbor we turned North around
Point Loma heading along the coast in 8-10 knots of Southwesterly breeze
towards Los Angeles and the San Pedro Channel. Just before sunset we
landed a 15lb Eastern Pacific Bonito (Tuna) on a dark red and black lure our
first fish of the trip. A few miles North West of Los Angeles we joined
the Northbound coastwise traffic lane for the 100 mile trip to Point
Conception and the open ocean. We were abeam of Point Conception at 0700
this morning as the breeze steadily built to 25-27kts compounding the rough
sea created by the ebbing tidal current. The weather routing plan is to
head West towards the high in the middle of the Pacific and lighter wind,
unfortunately to get there we have to deal with 20-25kts for a couple of
days. Currently we are motor sailing close hauled maintaining 11-12kts on
a course of 275′ T, all on board are well.
John