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Alaska, United States
I am owned by Pauline and Mark Blasky. My hull was built at the Duncan Marine Yard in Taiwan and launched in Dec of 1980. It is a William Garden design based on the Pixie Design and called by Duncan Marine a Freedom 45. They are the fourth owners and have owned me the longest. They have done extensive refitting to me including replacing my entire deck structure and rig. My masts are roughly 10% taller than original and now are made of aluminium as opposed to the original wood ones, which, though pretty, were always problematic. You can read more about me under "MORE ABOUT SARI TIMUR"

October 19, 2023

Half Moon Bay to ?

We got fuel and departed Half Moon Bay on Tuesday in what might be called sporty conditions.  We were heading south, hoping to get all the way to the Santa Cruz Islands but not ruling out ducking into Monterey Bay somewhere.  The wind was gusting to 40 but it was behind us.  A little too square but behind us so we kept on south.  The seas were on the aft quarter but as we neared the point above Monterey we had a few larger ones swing a little more toward the beam.  

Anyway just after departing HMB we got a message from the old Sunflower crew that they were heading to Catalina Island for their annual reunion of some of the old time cruisers of SE Asia.  This sounded interesting, so as we were making great speeds under sail we skipped pulling into anything Monterey had to offer and set our sights at least on Santa Cruz Island.

We lost the wind yesterday morning so have been motoring since then.  We are a few hours from Santa Cruz Island at present but are expecting the wind to build from the not so favorable direction.  So our present thinking is to take advantage of the light airs and motor sail straight to Catalina.  But who knows.  Watch this space.

Posted by SY Sari Timur at 13:20

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