Santa Barbara
October 12th 2009 At 1230, Echo and Ansa left Morro Bay for Santa Barbara. This course takes us around the infamous Point Conception, aka the Cape Horn of California. Because we waited two days in Monterey, and one day in Morro Bay, for a south moving low to move on, we were rewarded with an easy passage. We were off Point Conception around 0300 with 10 to 13 knot winds, maybe two foot swells, and no wind waves
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