"I Sea Blues" ~ Tripp & Grayce Cruise North: Half Moon Bay - Oct 23

The cruise up the coast was not so bad… five hours of smooth rolling seas and an easy 47 nautical miles. No engines problems to bother us, however it is not an easy harbor to enter or exit. Waves hit us on the beam and the boat really rocked.

Pillar Point Harbor

These are Wave Dynamics…

Waves are really just large circles of energy…almost perfect circles when in deep water…and you only see the tops. However, as waves come into shore and the bottom of the “circle of energy” touches the rising ocean floor the circle drags and the lower part of the circle slows down. But the energy behind tries to stay at the same speed and it has nowhere to go but up. And some point, the water can’t be held there and it falls over itself and a breaker is born.

Among the fishing boats

Pillar Point Harbor is home port to commercial fishing industry. We were assigned a space among the fishing boats, two boats side by each in a slip. As we pulled in the current was strong and we were pushed toward the boat on our port side. A little nerve wracking to say the least. People tramp up and down the docks in the morning hours looking to buy fish and crabs from the boats. It's an active place to be!

Pretty town

The quaint town of Half Moon Bay has a charming main street. The day we decided to Uber to town was the day the heavens decided to open and the rain came down. We spent a fun couple of hours ducking into shops to check things out and to stay dry. Perhaps there may have been a couple of wine tasting rooms involved. There were a few great restaurants to choose from but we elected to stay in Pillar Point, (El Granada) mostly and Sam’s Chowder House was a spot that Tripp and I latched onto. We met some varied personalities while perched on bar stools. Hippies, surfers, fishermen and tech people. Everything shuts down pretty early so there was not a lot to do after 9:00.