We're leaving Monterey Thursday morning

after 4 nights at the Monterey Marina we are again heading south.  As it turned out we could have stayed just one night and made our way south but the extra night led to waiting 2 more nights to wait for some substantial headwinds to ass.  As it is we hope to get south of Big Sir before another few hours of stronger headwinds moves in.  Once south of there it's 5 to 10 knots from varying directions.  We may just co tinge on all the way to Santa Barbara which would be about 216 NM of sailing so about 45 hours or so swapping 3 hour shifts.  About halfway we have the option of pulling in at Morro Bay to anchor and rest a night maybe fuel up then push on to Santa Barbara.  It looks like quite a stretch of safe sailing conditions once we are down that far so likely no or at least less multiple nights staying at Marinas waiting for weather Windows.
We went to fuel up today and went right past the breakwater covered with Sea Lions.
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