35 21.723 N, 120 51.190 W
We left Monterey Bay at noon, motorsailing south. Winds were light and variable, 2.3 to 7.0 knots most of the time, reaching 12 knots during the evening. We had a 2-3 ft swell with a cross swell of 1-2 ft under high overcast skies. Late in the afternoon on Sunday we saw a whale surface and then go down but did not see him/her again. We had some Dalh porpoises joins us for a while, as many as 5. Five sailboats passed us, all north bound and a few fishing boats.
This morning we saw the big rock marking the entrance to Morro Bay. It is quite distinctive. By 7:30 am we were in the harbor and tied to one of the mooring buoy of the Morro Bay Yacht Club. We settled the boat, took showers, had something to eat and then took a nap for a few hours. We did have time to rest during the passage, as we did 3 hours shifts, but it is just not the same as sleeping when the boat is tied up.
In the afternoon we untied the dingy from the foredeck, pumped it up, launched it and used our new outboard to get us over to the yacht club to sign in. Then off to explore the town. We found the chandlery, up on Market St, so Rich could buy some marine tinned wire. He is connecting the solar panel positive to the battery side of the isolator, to reduce the potential across the isolator. We believe this was the problem with the starter battery. We need the additional wire to do the same thing for the windlass battery and for connecting the wind generator. In the afternoon when we returned to the boat we started the engine without the problem we had before since Rich had made this change for the starter battery.
Tomorrow we plan to take the bus to Hearst Castle and take a tour.
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