San Diego Late Feb - March 2009

During this time Passage Maker's Trawler Fest was in San Diego. And although not as big as the Trawler Fest in Annacortes Washington, we still wanted to attend the sessions and of course, look at new boats! We were fortunate enough to stay at the municipal docks, that were less than 100 yards from the Kona Kai Hotel where the Trawler Fest was taking place. We ran into John and his parnter Susan who own the first Nordhavn 56' Motorsailer. Susan is a kick and she and John will have the thrill of a lifetime on their new boat. It truly is a beautiful boat with excellent ocean crossing capability.

We also met Darcy and Bob, who are wonderful folks that have a beautiful 55 Nordhavn named "Enterprise". While at Trawler Fest we also spent a great deal of time with Nordhavn broker Gerry and his wife. In fact, at the close of Trawler Fest they were taking a new 55 foot Nordhavn from San Diego back to Dana Point and asked if we would want to assist with the cruise back. Of course we quickly volunteered as this is truly our dreamboat if we ever have an extra $1.5 Million laying around.

So we left San Diego on the N55 and came back via the train on Amtrack. On March 10th we spent a last night at the San Diego Yacht Club, a wonderful full service club, as the next day we would head to Oceanside on the way to Catalina Island