Leaving Port San Luis in sunshine and
having smooth seas and a short cruise made for a great day. It was a total of 22.2
nautical miles to Morro Bay and two and half hours.
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| Morro Rock |
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| Coho Anchorage to Morro |
Morro Bay is about half way
between San Francisco and Los Angeles near Hearst Castle and the Big Sur Coast.
It is a working fishing village. Morro Rock, its famous landmark, was named by
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo when he first charted this coast during his 16th Century
voyage of discovery. Morro Rock is the best known of the Nine Sisters of San Luis Obispo County, a series of ancient volcanic plugs that
line the Los Osos Valley between the cities of Morro Bay
and San Luis Obispo.
When we arrived there was no space on the Morro Bay Yacht Club dock and the mooring buoys had no lines, wand or float attached. Tripp had to attach our own lines via the dinghy and made a bridle after picking up the mooring lines with a boat hook. A little challenging but he got it done and we stayed on the buoy for three nights. The port captain reserved us space on their dock for our last
two nights. We managed to be 'unplugged' for 14 days in a row and only ran our generator for eight hours total and we were still at 95% power. The solar panels and generator keep us going!
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| Finally on the dock |
Our time in Morro Bay was quiet and we enjoyed walking around the town poking through little shops and finding restaurants with good food. The best was 75c happy hour oysters at Windows on the Water.
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| 75c oysters |
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| Fisherman capturing mermaid |
The frolicking sea otters were adorable and I enjoyed spotting them when we were out and about.
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| Sea Otters love crab |
Tripp worked hard at installing a new 110 volt plug on our fly bridge and a USB plug. Yeah, we can now power our devices while underway and plug in a heater when needed. A new propeller arrived at the yacht club on Monday and Tripp swapped that out with the one that he'd put on in Port San Luis. This new one was the right size and pitch. We'll keep the other as a spare.
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| Tripp working on 12V USB |
Starboard engine issues haunted us this time with a bad
connection on the starter. Tripp cleaned the connections up and got it
working again. As we pulled away from the dock on the morning of departure the port engine died again. Tripp bled the air out of the line and it started again. He can't figure out what the issues are with that engine.
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