Great job Brian and welcome to the West Coast with your newly rehomed boat.
I will be coming down there in the months ahead to help my friend take his Oyster 56 from San Diego down to Ensenada for a long Pacific Ocean boy’s sailing weekend away…
I’ll be sure to let you know and would love to see your vessel. If you’re ever up NorCal way, please let me know as well.
Rode out the storm up here on Thursday night. 2 1/2 inches of rain in 24 hours.
I turned the instruments on and clocked 35 knots at midnight in the protected harbor of San Rafael Creek. What a wild night!
Popcorn:
In Connecticut it snows in the winter, and sometimes the Connecticut River freezes. I have the mast taken out and stored-and then reinstalled in the spring. For what-ever-reason it is at least $1,200 for this work. 1/2 hour to remove, and 1/2 hour to reinstall. OK, it is a ripoff but that is what happens here. I check the mast when it is out and sometimes touch up paint it, and replace parts on the mast. I even store the boat in a building which probably cost another $ 1,200 above the cost of storing it in the elements with a cover. We have high winds here. We had 80 mile/hr winds the other day during a storm. Another one is coming on Monday. So, boats that are outside in the elements with their mast up really get stressed. My girlfriend has a Nonsuch 30 and the poor boat almost was blown off of its jackstands the other night. The boat ended up being supported by 2 jack stands-one on the starboard and one on the port, and we had to replace the fallen jack stands in a windstorm while the boat was teetering back and forth. OK, I have lots of life insurance, but my girl loves her boat. So, I’m glad to help her. I am also happy to learn that people do not attend to major components of their boat in California for decades on end.