Mosaic Family Voyage: Around Cape Mendocino
When we left off last month, we had successfully sailed our boat, Mosaic, from our protected home waters in the Puget Sound out the Strait of Juan de Fuca and south to Crescent City, California. There, we rented a car and drove back north to Vancouver to return our crew members home and pick up our kids from their grandparents’ home.
We said some very difficult goodbyes—we don’t know the next time that we will visit home. So, with a strange mix of sadness and excitement, we loaded our family into that rental car and drove south. Back to Mosaic, our sailboat, our home, and center of self-reliance and adventure.
Keeping the rental car for an extra day, we played tourist and drove through some of the oldest groves of Redwood Forest along Highway 101. There is truly magic in those trees, and I reveled in sharing that with our children. They were properly impressed.
After settling back into our cozy little floating home, we decided to make a quick ten hour jump from Crescent City down to Eureka, California. We left at 8 am in dense fog and chilly temperatures, but by midday we’d motored far enough off the coast to come out of the fog and enjoy some sunshine. We played cards in the cockpit and spotted some feeding whales as we approached our destination. Encountering whales while on the ocean will never get old. It was a great sighting and a wonderful way to end the day. We tied up at the public marina in Eureka. Little did we know that we would actually be stuck there for two weeks waiting for a proper weather window to continue our journey.
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