Love your voyage-from a fellow sailor. I've lived in Goleta for 40 years. The ocean floor near here is fractured near shore at geologic anticlines. It leaks hydrocarbons (mainly methane) along with tar all the time. It bites, but it comes with the territory. We all keep baby oil near the front door to clean our feet and our surfboards. The tar was used by Chumash people in the past to seal their boats. Odd local feature, right? Sail on!
At 18:50, in '64 Nothing you see existed. The marina was tiny and the WOOD pier was a straight out (only) pier ! All of the shops, etc were built in the 7o's. I saw "A Hard Days Night" at the theater there on the main street.
Wow to so many Dolphins. Friends on the ocean, their numbers suggest that local marine life is doing okay? Nice to know about the work with the oil rigs.
Such a fun adventure and a life time experience for the boys that a school could never teach. Thank-you for filming this, sharing with us and bringing us along on your trip. As I lay in my bed in beautiful, but ohhhh soooo cold, and snowy, Van Isle it is a welcome break from all the negative news we are bombarded with as of late. No covid restrictions on a boat....😆
Great Job! I lived in southern California for awhile. Living / visiting on boat would be great. Living on land fighting the traffic, pollution, and crazies not so much. When you put out the stern anchor do you have enough length on the bow anchor road to let it all the way out, drop the anchor from the stern, then pull in the bow anchor road to give you good scope on each end ?
Fair enough! We are totally getting a special experience of the SOCAL coast. But we just loved it. It reminded Mick of Aus and I think we were just SO thrilled to be in a bit of warmth. I hear what you’re saying about letting out more bow road and then dropping the stern anchor - I think we will try that next time 🤣 we have over 300 Ft of chain from being up in the PNW deep waters so I’m not sure what we were thinking 🤣😅😱
We first stepped on a sailboat in May of 2020, bought a wee little tanzer 7.5 the summer of 2020. Took our sailing certification course, sailed a ton, sold her and bought Meraki in January of 2021. We spent about 6 months refitting Meraki, moved aboard in June 2021 and now we can say we’ve sailed over 2200 NM from Canada to Mexico! We still have a ton to learn but we are loving the challenge.
I lived 5 blocks from the beach in Redondo for the summer of 1964. Lots of fun then but Now it is All different !
Love your voyage-from a fellow sailor. I've lived in Goleta for 40 years. The ocean floor near here is fractured near shore at geologic anticlines. It leaks hydrocarbons (mainly methane) along with tar all the time. It bites, but it comes with the territory. We all keep baby oil near the front door to clean our feet and our surfboards. The tar was used by Chumash people in the past to seal their boats. Odd local feature, right? Sail on!
At 18:50, in '64 Nothing you see existed. The marina was tiny and the WOOD pier was a straight out (only) pier ! All of the shops, etc were built in the 7o's. I saw "A Hard Days Night" at the theater there on the main street.
Wow to so many Dolphins. Friends on the ocean, their numbers suggest that local marine life is doing okay? Nice to know about the work with the oil rigs.
Redondo Beach is a hidden gem! Looks like you had fun!
We loved it!
Really enjoyed the video. Great to see sun and blue sky, the UK had a rainy grey Christmas so your fantastic weather is lovely to see.
Oh man that sun and blue skies just made life SO much better.
Such a fun adventure and a life time experience for the boys that a school could never teach.
Thank-you for filming this, sharing with us and bringing us along on your trip. As I lay in my bed in beautiful, but ohhhh soooo cold, and snowy, Van Isle it is a welcome break from all the negative news we are bombarded with as of late.
No covid restrictions on a boat....😆
I’m so glad we could bring you a little slice of joy. BC has been hit hard the last few months - thinking of everyone back home 💕
@@CruisingMeraki Thank-you for your kind words.
May you have fair winds and following seas. Love the dolphins!!!!
Dolphins mean NO Sharks ! You guys should swim with them. You'll Both dig it !!
And the oil flexor worse before they started drooling and pumping it out relieving the pressure that's just say
another great video as always..what i would give 2 b there with u all n what a wonderful way 2 grow up with those memories
Thanks Barbie for all your encouragement!
6:40 Hey!!! Wats' Up Doc?
Great Job! I lived in southern California for awhile. Living / visiting on boat would be great. Living on land fighting the traffic, pollution, and crazies not so much. When you put out the stern anchor do you have enough length on the bow anchor road to let it all the way out, drop the anchor from the stern, then pull in the bow anchor road to give you good scope on each end ?
Fair enough! We are totally getting a special experience of the SOCAL coast. But we just loved it. It reminded Mick of Aus and I think we were just SO thrilled to be in a bit of warmth.
I hear what you’re saying about letting out more bow road and then dropping the stern anchor - I think we will try that next time 🤣 we have over 300 Ft of chain from being up in the PNW deep waters so I’m not sure what we were thinking 🤣😅😱
whaaaat you passed right by us in Ventura! :(
I knooooow I realized that after the fact! Booo
We love your "California" song. What is it? Who is the artist? Keep up the fun videos. We love following you guys!
We love it too! It kind of became our California theme song haha. It’s “My California” by Pastis
Awesome Video and music. I think Florida is better but that just me!!
🙌 we can’t wait for the East coast (one day!!)
loved it.. How long have you been sailing for
We first stepped on a sailboat in May of 2020, bought a wee little tanzer 7.5 the summer of 2020. Took our sailing certification course, sailed a ton, sold her and bought Meraki in January of 2021. We spent about 6 months refitting Meraki, moved aboard in June 2021 and now we can say we’ve sailed over 2200 NM from Canada to Mexico!
We still have a ton to learn but we are loving the challenge.
@@CruisingMeraki my first time was July 19th 2021 boat Artemis on sep 11th
It's amazing how fast this call moves
@@Sailing.Artemis wahooo congrats! That’s awesome.