Monterey - San Simeon, Oct 7-8

Motor-sailed the short hop to Monterey, seeing lots of dolphins, sea otters, and assorted jellies.  Not a good sign where the jellyfish outnumber all other sea life.

Most important, we picked up another crew member - Jan's old friend Brian Recht, a long-time sailor, engineer and doctor (great combo!)  He also cooked dinner for us after taking Jan to REI for headlamps and other assorted goodies.  The Canadian yams became a real hit, especially slow-cooked to bring out their nutty sweet flavor.

We leave at 4:30am on a long leg to an anchorage past Point Sur called San Simeon.  This time we had sun and even some wind to sail by, tried out the genoa poled out and it worked fine.  Arrived about 6:30PM and anchored, then dinner.  This is a very sweet spot, within sight of Hearst castle with a few buildings on shore.  Brian and Jan saw fluorescence on the swim ladder, and we had a nice quiet night with little movement.  Couldn't figure out the depth alarms, but set a GPS alarm, which never went off.

Next morning we had a lazy time to make up for the long trip in - biggest excitement was losing our earth beach ball, which necessitated either a swim for Tino or a ride in the dinghy.  Guess which path was taken...  At least we figured out a slightly easier way to get the dink in the water, one person lifting while others hoist on a halyard rather than lifting the whole weight on the halyard.