San Diego: going sailing; in vino; refugee
San Diego: going sailing; in vino; refugee
For those of you staring out at spring snow, you may take some measure of satisfaction in knowing San Diego’s weather hasn’t been perfect either. The past two days and evenings have been sunny, warm and clear. But also still. There hasn’t been enough wind to move even GANNET, and I don’t need drifting practice, so plans to sail out around one or more of the Channel Islands have been delayed, and probably changed. I feel the sympathetic waves rising from around the globe and am grateful.
Today there is some wind and some haze. So, probably, tomorrow I am going to go sailing, though only about ten miles around Point Loma to San Diego Bay, where I expect to tie up for a couple of nights to the guest slips at the Shelter Island Police Dock. I am told that these used to cost a flat $10 a boat. Now they are $1 a foot per night. Another advantage of having a small craft.
I’ll activate the SPOT just to see if it is still working. If you want to follow GANNET’s short track, the page is:
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0G4Vm011XB7Ors0poyEFYJK0lstIxbCoo
I will not be making an early start. There is seldom wind here before 11:00 a.m.
I’m going to be using the old batteries in the SPOT, which already have the first twenty-four hours of the trip west on them, so don’t be concerned if the signal is lost.
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Aboard GANNET on Friday evening, In vino veritas became ‘In wine masts.’
The wine, boxed Almaden Chardonnay. The glass, plastic.
Compromises. Compromises.
Though GANNET does continue to be perhaps the only vessel of any size on which the instructions for making breakfast began: “First you move the Laphroaig.”
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Sunday, March 24, 2013