Thursday
We were up early and headed to the Yacht Club dock only to see it empty. George and Carl must have left at the crack of dawn as nothing was visible on the horizon.

It had been decided the day before not to continue north and the new plan included a visit to Smugglers Cove for a few days. We heard later this did not happen as the auto-pilot had developed problems. They endured a boisterous rounding off Point Conception and instead went to Channel Islands Harbor. From there they decided to head back to Long Beach ending a somewhat frustrating cruise north. Going further north was not destined to be, at least not this year.

We had Breakfast and discussed our next move. It was decided we would drive north and then decide what we would do based upon how I was doing.