This was my first weekend back locally in a few weeks. Lots to try to do. I celebrated my friend, Lindsay’s birthday with a dozen or so close friends seeing some DJs in Hollywood. I nominated myself as the designated driver that night to keep myself in better order Saturday morning to tackle the rest of the weekend.
I think I went to sleep at 4am and woke up at 9:30am for the first order of business: pumpout dock. Yay. I wanted to get this done alone because I could tell it was full and was planning on taking friends out sailing the following day. Emptied the tank, tied back up, got breakfast, cleaned and organized the inside, re-oiled the exterior teak, went to the gym, met up with Mia and her friends - it was her birthday celebration and I’m lucky she has a good friend in Hermosa. However, the weather was cold and cloudy and actually raining while they were at the beach. Outlook not so good for Sunday either.
I got back to the boat and the real looked like crap, again, from the rain drops running the oil. This seems to happen whenever I do anything to the teak - good to know in case Southern California faces a drought anytime soon I will just oil the teak and it will automatically rain.
I hosed down and cleaned the cockpit and went to Mia’s birthday dinner with the group. Saki bombs, sushi, drinks at another bar, goldfish feast at 2am. It was fun, definitely a long Saturday.

Also a photo of the first time I’ve had to charge my hand-held VHF. The reason this is worth mentioning is because I bought this in May of last year, 2012, and never once needed to charge it until this week. That’s insane. I think it’s rated for 10 hours or something, but I used it probably a dozen sails on the catamaran, 4 hours each probably, and then every sail on the Catalina 30, more and more hours. The only reason the battery died is because I left it on for about 3 weeks until I noticed it was dead last time I went for a sail. 

There’s also a photo from 2 weekends ago when we went kayaking in Shell Beach. Wishing the weather was the repeated this past weekend, oh well.