10 Apr 2013, Savannah set out from Santa Barbara Harbor bound for the East End of Santa Cruz Island at 15:30. Billy Bones and I, Bill Proctor, formed the crew. Light airs, a flat ocean and blue skys for the first ten miles. Delicious sailing the rest of the way. "Life is a reach" so they say and Windy Lane saw Savannah reaching, broad reaching and running wing and wing, making 7 knot steady according to the GPS. Anchored at Scorpion choosing best place to drop was easy since no other boats were present. The wind howled from the West until midnight. Rocks all around, and even some to leeward made me dislike this anchorage by contrast to Smugglers Cove just around the corner. At Smugglers, the coastline is sandy and the West Wind blows directly off shore. I laid down 90 feet of BBB chain in 20 feet of water and set the GPS anchor alarm for the night. Rock and roll BBQ in the dark.
Next AM, hauled anchor and got under way by 8:00 making SB by noon mostly thanks to the Atomic 4 Iron Spinnaker. Exciting rendezvous with Ninjin cargo ship. Even though it seem obvious we could cross her bow with great margin, Bones and I agreed it was wisest to delay our entry into the shipping lane until the ship has crossed our path.
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