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we're entering crescent city and my dad

said that now that we're in california

we get a new fishing license and i get

to go fishing

again i'm so excited

so

you know the rules don't come back

without a fish

okay

we're having fish tonight

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now that we're in california we got our

fishing license we have all our gear

it's a beautiful day so

we're going fishing

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this looks like a good spot

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i've hooked like 10 of these but this is

the one that i actually landed

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we're coming back with our bounty

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is this dinner yeah good job guys

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get out this is awesome good job emma

this makes me so happy because eva and

teal

have become my ultimate gatherers

these guys got a first thing in the

morning and

went trolling for some fish

and emma caught her first black rockfish

which

i got to work on my filleting skills but

this is

this is just awesome we have been

waiting for this

there is nothing better than fresh

caught fish and these guys caught me

three extra dungeness crabs so

score for me it's kind of funny because

emma's gotten into the habit

now of naming her fish that she catches

tonight's fish is taco so obviously

we're having tacos tonight i'm just

doing a simple

taco seasoning which i make myself on

board and just lightly flour it and just

pan fry it

so pretty simple

not only has tl and emma been fishing

every day and bringing

home something for me this morning they

went out crabbing

and they got i think three dungeness and

two red rocks we don't normally keep the

red rocks because they're smaller

but this one is huge check this out guys

look at this seven inches across on a

regular

size of these claws i gotta be careful

but yeah this is seven

inches so i'm very excited way to bring

home the bacon honey

what i do oh this is so awesome

kind of eerie weather here tonight in

crescent city

the sea state's been a little bumpy out

there for the last couple days but

looks like we'll have our window here

not tomorrow but the next

we're looking forward to heading south

hopefully this fog lets up

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it's been kind of interesting you know

we get a little break a little bit of

sun every morning

and then the fog kind of settles in

around noon

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every evening even though there's not

much wind here

it's been blowing pretty good offshore

out of the south from here

which is odd because offshore it's

blowing out of the north

kind of whips around here and

creates this little zone between

i would say uh cape blanco and cape

mendocino

offshore it'll be blowing north to south

and in here it'll be blowing south to

north

so we're looking for that uh little

window to

fly some sails as we head out of here

looks like that may be coming

it's been nice here it's quiet protected

just had a wonderful dinner emma caught

a nice fish

lynn cooked up an amazing meal

our tummies are full and our eyes are

heavy

so we'll uh get some rest hit hard again

tomorrow

get the boat all ready for the next leg

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last night's dinner was awesome and i

think it had something to do with me

catching the fish in all seriousness

every time we pull on support my dad and

i will

go and talk to the local fishermen about

what kind of fish are here the best

spots to catch them

and what kind of lubers to use

those guys are so happy with their catch

that they have no problem

sharing their tips and tricks with us

in this area there is a lot of halibut

lincoln and rockfish

so the fishermen say that for rockfish

shrimp flies are the best

we got two colors iridescent and red i

used this one and my dad used this one

for some reason they liked red a lot

better

so score one for me

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when we pull into a port i like to learn

about the local history

the multiple tsunamis that devastated

this region are definitely worth

mentioning

on march 27 1964

the largest earthquake ever recorded in

north america

struck anchorage alaska the 9.2

magnitude quake set a 20-foot tsunami

slamming into crescent city

killing 12 people and destroying 289

structures

this was the single worst tsunami

disaster to ever strike

u.s soil

nearly 50 years later an 8.9 magnitude

earthquake in japan

on march 11 2011 generated enough energy

to send an 8.1 foot tsunami more than

5 000 miles on a direct course for

crescent city

the harbor was destroyed sinking at

least 16

boats since 1933

31 tsunamis have been observed in

crescent city

coining this peaceful harbor a tsunami

magnet

so i've been hiding out here in my room

my cozy room i absolutely love this

you know most of the time you will find

me out in the cockpit or in the galley

but since we've been in california

i'm not complaining but we really

haven't seen any sunshine it's been

foggy and believe it or not it's 53

degrees today

with wind so it's actually

warmer in oregon state than it is in

california

but i'm gonna have to make an appearance

because i know that teal is doing some

route planning

and i kind of not want to know what's

going on

but i have to

so

what's the verdict captain uh

the verdict is well wait wait wait

do i need some wine for them

i think you know the answer to that okay

hang on a second

you have your wine go

so the original plan was we were going

to get up

and leave port at 5 30

this morning but what happened

well let me tell you what happened alarm

goes off

bright and early pitch black outside a

walkout

dense fog and a south wind

south wind probably 13 14 maybe 16

knots right on our nose

you know it was hard to get motivated

to move today well yeah everything was

wet and cold

and and just you couldn't see the next

talk over it was that dense and

we made a decision together and i think

was a pretty easy decision

just to roll over go back to bed and

revisit this for tomorrow morning

and i'm glad we did actually we've been

watching the weather all day today and

it's been

blowing stiff out of the south

and it's it's no fun to just

kick on your engines every time you want

to travel we want to sail

and with the wind coming out of the

south

it's not going to be fun we would have

to be just

we'd have to head 50 miles offshore

probably not that far probably 30 miles

offshore to get the right wind

and then we could probably run with it

and then head 30 miles in

only to travel 45 miles south of here so

it would have been just unrealistic for

us well the other thing is is we

we do want to sail and you know we are

not on a schedule

so the beauty of that is we can pick and

choose when we want to take our passages

because we want to sail why do we want

to motor

right now fuel costs in california is

almost double what it is in oregon yeah

which is crazy

we were in brookings 25 miles north of

here

brookings oregon fuel diesel fuel 1.98

gallon

we pull into california here at the dock

340 a gallon

so so that's just more motivation for us

another incentive not to

turn those keys yeah i mean i don't want

to motor anyways

in and out of port is fine but for the

most part i want to experience sailing

to the fullest and that's what we've

been kind of gearing up for

anyways correct and i think

another big factor for why we didn't

leave this morning was with the wind

blowing out of the south i

really want to hit trinidad head

trinidad head is an anchorage i've never

been into

it looks intimidating on the charts but

i think it's going to be a pretty

spectacular anchorage

wind out of the south there's no way

we're anchoring there

we need to wait for the right conditions

to hit that spot and

it looks like tomorrow's a lot better

we'll get up tomorrow morning and make

that decision

okay okay so i think i'm comfortable so

let's

talk about what is in store for us

for the rest of 2020 well 2020 has been

it's been an odd year for us it's been a

really weird year

it is and and we're not alone i know the

whole planet's going through this

our cruising plans have changed so much

and we've been trying to hold true but

it's

it's definitely has to change six months

behind

yeah we wanted to bomb down the coast

be into california by spring uh get some

projects done

headed to mexico late summer

uh be up into the sea of cortez and be

playing on the you know

on the mainland for this winter but

it's not happening no it's not happening

and we just have to take that into

consideration of the fact that that's

life

i mean things happen and sometimes

you can control it sometimes you can't

in this instance

we can't and you know being

in a hot spot of california and

the unknowns of mexico is just kind of

change our thought process of how we

travel

because a lot of things are closed yeah

and we're getting some reports from

other cruisers

in mexico and

we've seen how many have we met a dozen

boats that have been yeah

over a dozen boats have done a

big migrating i guess migration north

yeah they are been fleeing mexico and

heading back to washington

oregon and canada and canada yeah and

we've met a few

already at least a dozen and they're

saying take your time

they're saying don't go down there right

now take your time it's

it's weird because

we just don't know what's happening and

do we want to put ourselves in a

position

where something can happen because we're

being irresponsible or being a little

careless

you know it's you know we want to have

fun we want to explore

but at the same time we also want to be

safe as well

i mean this is this is our our family

unit yeah

this is it we're not trying to race into

mexico we're

this is our life it's our lifestyle we

want to make sure we're safe the

family's safe

but there's still a ton of things we

could do and

mexico is definitely on our list of

things that

will happen when the time is right and

we'll have to make that decision a

little bit later this year

but we have other things that we can do

oh there's a ton of things i'm

i want to take on this hard top project

i am

itch i know you are too i'll

we'll probably do that in the bay area

i'm thinking maybe napa

uh be down there in a month and and take

on that project

a month it'll take me a month to build

that project no no it doesn't take you a

month to get to the bay area oh well i

don't know

we're winging it right now we'll see i

have

i have seven or eight stops i want to

hit before we go under the golden gate

and you know you never know any more

wine i know

we're gonna well i would like to go up

in the

sacramento delta maybe play up there i

want to trickle down the california

coast and

hit all the stops and anchorages and

cities on the way down

catalina i want to start diving yes

yes fishing the whole way it's going we

have a lot

to do that will i think

emma will get a kick out of it we'll get

a kick out of it and

you know we're going to make the best of

the situation yeah we can't complain

i mean the fact that we have the

opportunity to do this we've worked so

hard for this

we're not gonna just give up now no no

way

so stick with us

we're gonna we're gonna have some fun

get that hard top done it's coming

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