Good food takes on a whole new level of importance during a cruise, and provides something special that’s hard to give a name to. Everyone knows and remembers the experience of eating well while accomplishing something important in a beautiful setting – the Northern Channel Islands. Here we are getting set up for breakfast burritos with posole and eggs, and I haven’t yet moved my SMB out of the way.
Since 2007, I’ve been leading this cruise up to 4 times a year thru the OCC School of Sailing and Seamanship. It’s all about how to enjoy Catalina without depending on the moorings – how to anchor out and enjoy the freedom that confident cruisers all over the world enjoy. My SMB is essential on these trips. My guidebook, my flashlight, my GPS, lunch and my handheld VHF are all inside when I need them.
On our Catalina 34, La Terza Vita, Chrissie motors through the glassy water on the north side of Catalina.
Sunset while anchored at Big Corona, just outside the Newport Beach Harbor. This was during an evening charter in May with Newport Beach Sailing Charters.
What a great community center this is, and the Lighthouse Cafe is pretty good too. I couldn’t resist this shot, after stopping for a docking under sail session on the Harbor 20 during and ASA 101 class with the Newport Beach Sailing School.
First day on an ASA 101 lesson. All my personal gear and lunch are in the bag!
Harbor 20 Level 1, at OCC, on a beautiful day in May. In the classroom and on the docks. I kept thinking that if the SMB got kicked into the water, my stuff would stay pretty dry.
Out for a day sail on the appropriately named Sails Call, a Jeanneau 45, this couple was enjoying the sights on the way out of the harbor, and down toward Emerald Bay.
On display in Mark Howe’s classroom, the incredible Santana Mariners Bag
My SMB was at Catalina this last weekend, on the Anchoring At Catalina trip through the OCC School of Sailing and Seamanship.
Eric poses on a windless morning, after anchoring bow and stern at Willow Cove on Catalina. Life is good.
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