This Summer is shaping up to be a lot like last Summer on the water here in Southern California. We are sailing under the spell of the 3 H’s…Hazy, Hot and Humid. Three words not usually used all together when sailing around the Channel Islands region. It’s very rare when one can be in shirt sleeves and bare feet on the water here. Oh, sure, we are blessed with the ability to sail twelve months out of the year when a good portion of the country gets buried under the snow and cold. But we usually are not hot, hot, hot ! Nearly every day in July has been mid-70’s !

Went out to Santa Cruz Island last weekend on our Big Girl. It was like taking a trip to the Caribbean. We even had some flat water sailing in moderate 15-20 knot winds. This picture was taken from our lunch stop at Little Scorpion anchorage looking towards Big Scorpion. We spent the night on the hook at Yellow Banks. It was calm enough to jump in the kayaks after dinner and we paddled around to the various other boats we knew anchored there. I counted over 30 boats in Yellow Banks that night !

SailTime sailors are allowed to explore Santa Cruz after they have been trained up. We require that they have completed ASA 105 “coastal navigation” and ASA 104 “bareboat chartering”. Our 104 consists of a 3-day circumnavigation of the island where we stick our nose into most of the anchorages to show members how and where to go. Santa Cruz is like going to some far away archipelago but you don’t have to buy an airline ticket to get there !

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