When we’re bouncing around 3 days here, 3 days there, and 3 days yon…time really flies without getting much done. The only really good thing that is happening is that we’re becoming increasingly familiar with the processes of anchoring, picking up a mooring, and docking Mahdee. Every once in a while, a sail happens, but usually we’re moving about too early in the morning for good winds.
We’ve made the rounds of Fiddler’s Cove, Glorietta Bay, La Playa, the public dock, and so forth. Mahdee got to spend a little quality time on the mooring at Fiddlers’ Cove while we visited with David’s father in Mesa Arizona. When we returned, it was back to 72 hours here and 72 hours there, 72 hours yon.
We’re spending a luxurious 4 days! yes–96 hours! at the public dock before resuming our regularly scheduled no-more-than-3-days-allowed visits to various anchorages in the San Diego area.
Friends Chris and Rebecca on Stargazer remind us that we said we’d be up in Newport Beach Harbor while they were still there. Since Rebecca leaves for Eureka in March sometime, I think we will be packing up and making the sail up to Newport Beach very soon.
Keeping track of when we’re “allowed” to be where here in San Diego is a little complicated. In involves so many days allowed at certain locations during 30 or 40 day periods depending upon the location. Looking at the calendar on my Palm Treo where I keep Mahdee’s “location” dates like a mother keeps her children’s play dates, I see that we’ll be totally out of play dates for Mahdee in San Diego’s various anchorages and public dock by…Monday the 8th of March. Tentatively, it would seem that since we have to be in San Diego to volunteer at the woodshop that day and evening, we’ll spend that Monday at one of the local yacht clubs at $54 (ouch!) for the night but then sail up to Newport on Monday night and Tuesday… unless “something” happens unexpectedly with Mahdee’s systems that is.
