David is nothing but smiles during a sailing day. The longer at sea, the scruffier he is…and the bigger the grin.
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Trips are Good
In September 2004, David and I took a driving trip from Washington, DC to Nova Scotia. We drove completely around Nova Scotia and every night we’d stop and camp somewhere, pull out the computer and start writing up the application for a particular patent. Getting away from our business for those two weeks, we not only had a lovely trip, but we were able to get the application completed and turned in by our deadline for it. It took many years for that patent to issue. It just issued late this spring 2011. I was looking through pictures today and decided to post a slide show of our trip. There are pics of Buttercup getting a new alternator bracket made up behind the Ace Hardware store, David writing on a picnic table next to the car, and many photos of back road driving and a very lovely time in Nova Scotia.
Pictures from the trip North to San Francisco 2011
You’d think we were in Canada, not California…
Kelp bed at Catalina Harbor
As we sail along on a stiff breeze, the autopilot is managing the wheel in the cockpit whilst David and I enjoy sitting cosy and warm inside the charthouse.
A sunny sail by Point Conception
Unexpected shipping company between Catalina and Santa Cruz Islands. Ships are now staying out of the shipping lanes to avoid the California EPA clean-fuel requirements close in to shore. Thus, they pop up everywhere but the shipping lanes.
We had fishing boat company further North around San Francisco.
And, fishing boat company early in the morning at the fuel dock at Pillar Point Harbor
The view of the foggy Golden Gate Bridge from our anchorage in Horseshoe Bay at the base of the bridge.
Anchored in Horseshoe Bay
