A beautiful sail down the coast.  Winds from behind almost all the way, and except for a short calm coming into Santa Cruz, between 8 and 20 knots the whole time.

Easy, fast downwind sailing…

The Breakwater Cove marina in Monterey is a great place to stop.  They are friendly and helpful.  The docks are near the downtown area, but not TOO near.  Sea otters play around the docks and sealions are everywhere.

Our plan is to spend two nights in Monterey and then take off…  But… now the question is take off for where?  After a relatively quiet time, the long range forecast for the eastern Pacific has a large nasty storm crossing the path between here and Hawaii.  We might hang out on the west coast for a few days until the forecast track is more clear.  Decision tomorrow.