Friday
After waiting a number of weeks to depart on my friends 40 Endeavor; Avalon Blew lll, the weather improved off Point Conception. The boat has been meticulously maintained with all of the systems replaced or rebuilt. On Friday, we headed out early morning, crossing Santa Monica Bay in light wind and calm seas. During the afternoon off Ventura/Channel Islands Harbor, we hit both a strong current with a headwind and a contrary tidal flow which had us pitching into confused seas for a number of hours. These calmed down towards the late evening as we headed into the Santa Cruz Channel towards Point Conception during the overnight hours.

We all had some of the prepared stew for dinner and then prepared the boat for overnight sailing. It looked like we would have a calm night as we headed for Point Conception.