Category: California’s Channel Islands
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2025 Year in Review
Stats A quick recap In the summer of 2025 we managed to get Luna Moth into the realm of close enough and were able to (metaphorically) cut the dock lines and start cruising in earnest. For the last year we had been moored at Owl Harbor, which is located near the little town of Isleton…
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Avalon…Finally
We felt bad about cruising the California Channel Islands, but never making it to the storied destination that is Avalon, but northerly wind and swell, coupled with us not wanting to feel like a James Bond martini, kept us from wanting to moor there. Fortunately an easy, though touristy, solution existed: take the Newport Beach…
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Newport Beach Recess
After a draining stretch of hiding out from bad weather in Isthmus Cove, we took advantage of a nice day between gales and Santa Ana winds and departed for the mainland. For better or worse, we opted for Newport Beach, which was a relatively short 35 nautical miles away. This gave us a distance easily…
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Cruising Santa Catalina Island
After a week dodging gales and Space X rockets in the northern Channel Islands, we decided to sail on to Santa Catalina Island. Generally we like to both depart and arrive in the light, something that makes for a lot of night passages in short fall days. We do not love night passages, at least…
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Point Conception and Cruising the Northern Channel Islands
On October 18th we finally got a weather window for leaving Morro Bay that we liked. As the next stretch of the California Coast can be treacherous in even moderate weather, we picked a time when there was little wind and a relatively benign sea state forecast. The big hump to get over was what’s…
SV Luna Moth 