Saturday April 5 2014
I woke up too late to want to go to the gym and battle with the weekend warrior crowd and my gym while the sun was out and the weather was so good already. The next best thing to do was surf, so I did, and Mia came along with me with beach blankets and coffee to sit and watch. We walked to the Redondo harbor break wall which had really fun, mostly good peaky waves. The water is filthy with trash that gathers there, I think from the current pushing it down the coast until it hits a wall, the break wall, and just spins around in the surf there waiting to get dried up on the beach or rocks with the tide change. It’s nasty. But decent waves are few in the South Bay. I’m glad Mia was able to watch, and it was easy to spot me because there were only 3 or 4 other surfers out. A couple times I felt a drag on my leash while paddling, like when I used to surf in kelp in Santa Cruz, except it was plastic bags twisted around my leash instead of something organic that belongs in the ocean.
After that, Mia applied coat 5 to the outside teak and coat 2 to the companionway stuff, it looked great and she does a better job at it than I do. After that we drove up to Burbank to the LA Equestrian center to meet her mom and sister and aunt at a horse show and grab lunch. It was fun and interesting to me to see the show and how these enormous animals are used in sport. It’s also impressive how tiny and young some of the riders are. The culture is so laid back at events like that, peoples dogs are off leash, there’s huge powerful horses just standing around waiting for orders. When we got back to the boat we had about an hour left of sun to snack and play cards in the cockpit, and admire some of the teak.