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We pulled into Santaa Barbara harbor at about 0900 Thursday and got a slip, $45 per night.  It was a good call, the small craft advisory changed to gale warnings and held until Monday morning.   It was a day by day delay, with close monitoring of the weather reports, hoping for a break.  The weather in Santa Barbara has been great, but just afew miles north the seas were boiling and wind howling.   Jeff and I played tourist, completed some more projects on the boat and did a general consolidation.  I managed to empty about four bins to free up storage.  We unpacked the fold up bikes and took a trip down the beach.  We made a beer stop at Trader Joes for Jeff and picked up a few groceries as well.

Jeff needed to refresh his beer suppy, so we unpacked the bikes.

  We found some reasonable quick eat local places over the next few days and ate a burger at the yacht club one night, as well as thier  happy hour snacks.

Encinal Yacht Club Coastal Sail Race

The Encinal Yacht Club had a week-end coastal  race in progress when the gale warnings went up.  One boat was demasted and another rolled over in heavy seas.  No one was hurt but  many of the cruisers left their boats in Santa Barbara for the week an drove home instead of cruising back. 

It is now Monday, we plan to cruise to Coho anchorage today and spend the night, athis will put us close to Pt  Conception for an early morning crossing on Tuesday.  Next stop is Half Moon Bay, hopefully. 

We did enjoy the weather and scenery.

And sampled some of the local quisine.

Relaxing with a cold one on the aft deck.

And enjoyed a few libations.

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