At last we were ready to cast off, for the start of the new adventure, first stop was to be Two Harbors on Catalina Island and the annual Latitudes & Attitudes cruisers party. We were to be joined there by our sailing friends and their boats as a send-off for our trip.
Our crew Pat had arrived Thursday afternoon and Sailing to Catalina was to prove an omen of what was to come. We had motored as there was little wind and at nine miles from our destination we ran into a wall of fog with under a quarter mile of visibility.

This dim, cold wet and miserable fog lasted until we were just short of Isthmus where it finally lifted. Friday became Saturday and we did not expect the day to turn into a glorious warm and sunny day for the party, but it did. There were only a few cruisers heading south for the winter, still it is always good to listen to the yarns from Captain Woody, Bob Bitchin and others who have “Been out there.”